>> martha: and merry christmas to all of you and your families. thank you for sharing this story of 2017 with us. here is to a great story being told in the new year. tucker carlson is coming up. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. this evening we have brand new numbers, striking numbers that have never been seen before and they may reshape how you think about illegal immigration. so you have heard the same line a million times. it's repeated like a mantra by the left during every debate on the subject. all immigrants are hard-working and law abiding. they do jobs you wouldn't consider doing and they do them cheerfully. they sacrifice for their families in ways you probably don't. in fact, and this is always the last point, it's always delivered with the confident satisfaction of someone shutting down a debate with superior data. undocumented immigrants actually commit fewer crimes on average than native born

americans. not only are immigrants more virtuous than you are, they are safer to be around. in other words, stop complaining, they are your superiors. but, wait, are we sure that that is true? are people who are in this country precisely because they were willing to break our immigration laws really less likely to break other kinds of laws? it doesn't make a lot of sense. yet, until today, strangely enough, no one could say for sure whether it was true. because rival statistics didn't seem to exist. our government tracks pretty much every trend and every phenomenon you can think of from how many pounds of pistachio nuts are recalled every year to how many fifth graders are injured on swing sets and how many people die in bathtubs. we are overseen by bureaucrat numbers control our lives except on this subject. somehow the government went for years without honestly trying to track the volume

of crime committed by illegal immigrants in this country. maybe they were too incompetent to do it. more likely they didn't want you to know the answer or to think about it, even. in any case, we now for the first time have the actual numbers, and here they are. according to statistics from the u.s. sentencing commission, noncitizens are actually far more likely to commit serious crimes than americans are. noncitizens account for 22%, more than a fifth of all federal murder convictions. 18% of fraud convictions. 33% of money laundering convictions. 29% of drug trafficking convictions and 72% of convictions for drug possession. meanwhile, the noncitizen percentage of the american population? about 7%. so that is a massively disproportionate amount of time. not even close. no immigrants are not more law abiding and less dangerous than americans. that's totally untrue. indeed, it's the opposite of the truth. noncitizens are more likely to be arrested, convicted

and imprisoned for serious crimethan people who were born here. much more likely. why didn't we know this until now? why have so many people been lying to us about this for so long that's a question we plan to ask a whole bunch of people. well, we will start tonight with the executive director of the national immigration forum and he joins us in the studio. thanks a lot for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: this is a conversation i have had, i don't know, a dozen times in the past month on this show where people say well, actually, noncitizens are less likely to commit crimes. and they cite some kato study. now we have definitive numbers on this that shows noncitizens are not less likely to commit serious crimes like murder and fraud and drug trafficking but far more likely to commit those crimes. why are we just learning this now? >> the bigger question i think, tucker is, how do we make sure that we are keeping the nation secure in a way that's using our

valuable law enforcement resource in the best way. i will be the first to tell you that we are a nation of laws. and we are a nation that should be keeping americans safe. >> tucker: right. >> let's make sure that law enforcement are in a position to do their job and get those violent threats. those public safety threats off the streets. particularly if they are immigrants. the way do you that is that you make sure that the immigrants community can trust local law enforcement. so that's why i'm concerned about the direction of the administration. when it comes to immigration enforcement, because they are actually undermining the ability of law enforcement. >> tucker: this is like this weird al chemy where enforcing border laws makes us less safe. if 22% of murder convictions noncitizens but only 7% of the population noncitizen. that suggests we are letting in the wrong people. >> it suggests we should be doing a much better job in terms of local law enforcement. the way to do that is to make sure that the immigrant community is in a position to report crimes. at the end of the day, those individuals who are immigrants who are committing those crimes, do you know who the most likely

victim is in the immigrant. >> tucker: that's -- hold on, so you are saying, wait, hold on, let's just pause and let these numbers kind of settle. these are not been public until today. 22% of all federal murder convictions noncitizens. 33% of money laundering convictions noncitizen. 29% drug trafficking. 72% of all convictions for drug possession noncitizen. noncitizens are far more likely to commit serious crimes than native born. citizens. and foreign born citizens for that matter. why shouldn't this make us want to radical liqueur tail immigration int --radically cur. >> those crimes are being committed within the immigrant community. >> tucker: no. some are, some aren't. hold on, we got these numbers today so we actually don't really know where these crimes are being committed. we don't know anything about it other than. this this is the first hard data we have on this.

>> the research shows that the immigrant community is the victim -- is the disproportionate. >> tucker: it doesn't matter. why are we letting in people who are many times more likely to commit murder, fraud, drug trafficking than people who are born here? why don't we think through who we let in? doesn't it suggest that to you? >> it suggests to me that our immigration system is fundamentally broken. we need to make sure that those individuals who are here who are undocumented are registering for legal status. passing a criminal background check, learning english and coming. >> tucker: i get you have your preexisting priorities. you do it for a living. i respect that these are brand new numbers. we didn't know them when we woke up this morning. now we do. the debate is over. noncitizens are far more likely to commit crime than citizens. with that in mind, does that shock you. >> it shocks me we haven't been addressing the problem the correct way. >> tucker: why have we been saying the opposite. you know according to kato or think tank can we pause

and say we were totally wrong about what we have been saying? >> the problem here is we want to get violent criminals off the street, correct? >> tucker: we don't want them in here in the first place. why are we making law enforcement deal with these people? why don't we stop it at the border and then we don't have to put our police and citizens at risk? >> i think that's a great idea. the way do you that is that you make sure you have a functioning legal immigration system and a process for people to go through. the only people who are hiding from law enforcement. >> tucker: don't we bring in more than a million people legally every year? >> it's clearly out of whack. we are also a much bigger country. >> tucker: no we are actually not a bigger country. >> our workforce is actually much more dynamic. >> tucker: maybe. leaving the economics aside. that's another show, another debate. i just want to acknowledge that one of the core operating assumptions that we have had for years, and i have been at the center of this, was wrong. not just wrong but totally wrong. it was a lie does that make

you reassess what you thought a little bit. >> what i want to assess is how do we solve the problem? if you want to quibble about statistics you should bring somebody from kato. >> it's not quibbling ling. what we claim is the very opposite of the truth. >> i want to focus on solving problems. that problem is criminals here public safety threats. i want them off the streets, tucker. only way you can do that is to make sure that the crimes they commit is being reported by the victims. if the victim is an immigrant we need to make sure. >> tucker: clearly someone is reporting these crimes. we don't have a problem with that because, again, the -- i mean, we have disproportionately big numbers here. my question is why do you think noncitizens are committing crimes at far greater rate than americans are? >> i think we have got to make sure that individuals coming to the country dry properly vetted. they are going through the process they need to. >> tucker: you admit they haven't been properly vetted. >> folks here undocumented we need to require they pass a criminal background check. that is our biggest problem

right now. undocumented immigrant violent threat to our public safety, they are the ones hiding. >> tucker: why wouldn't we just build a wall like the public kind of wants that what's your argue. against that exactly? >> if you actually want to solve a problem at the border. you want to focus where the problem is the majority of drugs money, smuggled ports of entry. >> tucker: these are not drugs and guns thoovment rest people committing crimes. >> those individuals committing those crimes. >> tucker: you think a wall wouldn't help at all because why? >> i want to put money where the risk is on the border. where the majority. >> tucker: we didn't know there was this risk until about two hours ago. maybe we should pause and think about these numbers because they are shocking. you will concede that? thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: mark steyn is an author and columnist, he joins us. mark, are you surprised by these numbers. >> no, i'm not. i think it accords with most people's experience of the transformative effect of immigration and it's logical, too. that when a first world country imports continuously

a large, unskilled population into its country illegally, that is -- that is an act of law breaking at the conception. and there is no reason why they would then have any other respect for other laws. and, to be honest, i found that last five minutes surreal where, you know, your guest's main concern is certain illegal immigrants are getting crimes committed against them by other illegal immigrants and they are scared to go to the police. that's not what these statistics show. these statistics, which for political correctness reasons we were prevented from knowing in recent years show that this country is in effect importing a criminal class. and it does not check any aspect of the criminal class it imports. now, the few of us who have the misfortune to go through

the legal immigration system, i went to see neil at homeland security in manchester, new hampshire a couple years ago and he asked me whether i committed any crimes and i said i had been pulled over by a traffic cop in vermont for passing a little old lady at 17 miles per hour but i got the case dismissed. neil from homeland security in manchester, new hampshire, wanted to see proof that the state of vermont had actually dismissed that complaint against me. so, we have a bifurcated system here in which law abiding people have to dot every i and cross every t and every single day we import drug gangs, money launder errorers, drunk drivers, the lobbyist group your previous guest represented somehow thinks this is in the interest of the united states. it's not at all.

>> tucker: the rector of my church spent better part of a year waiting for a visa. they didn't want any more scottish anglicans in this country. you are a bigot if you are not for people coming illegally. the key argument has always been immigrants are better than we are. isn't that the argument you hear every day? they commit fewer crimes and work harder. they are just better people. how dare you complain about them. now that we know these crime rates are way higher than they are for american native born. what's their argument now? >> well, nancy pelosi has said that we ought to thank the parents of the dreamers for bringing them here because as you say, they are better than us. if you listen to people like your previous guest, every single dreamer is a high school value particulavaledictop third tour of afghanistan.

they are way better than us. the only way to get depravity down in the united states is to import more and more low skilled immigrants illegally across the rio grande. oh, no, you are much safer being in a town of illegal immigrants than you are in a town whose population got off the mayflower. and the fact of the that's right is this is absolutely the inverls of the truth. the statistics you cited. even taking as a whole, 94% of these noncitizen criminals in federal custody and by the way this is just the tip of the iceberg. 90% of incarceration is at the state and local level. but the proportion show that about 94% of these noncitizen criminals in u.s. federal prison are illegal immigrants. why does any country need to import a criminal class? if that is one of the jobs that americans will do? americans are happy to

murder and rape and sell drugs to each other, you don't need to import other people to do that. >> tucker: one job that americans are less interested in is voting democrat. these are people who will do that. that's kind of the point of the whole thing. mark steyn, thank you. >> that's right. thanks a lot, tucker. merry christmas to you. >> tucker: merry christmas. thank you. it's a scandal that won't die, joined by another that is brand new. new information tonight on the investigation into uranium one and obama administration soft treatment of the terror group hezbollah. stay tuned. ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> tucker: the obama administration has been out of power for almost a year, but we are still finding little easer eggs of scandal scattered around the front lawn of washington. doj officials are interviewing fbi agents about the uranium one deal in an attempt to determine if another special counsel is warranted to keep investigating that. meanwhile, congress is asking the department of justice to turn over all documents and communications related to an alleged multi-year effort under the last administration to basically give some space to hezbollah to sell drugs internationally including in this country, in order to make sure the iran deal went through. fleet reigns is a former deputy secretary of state he was an advisor to hillary clinton. fleet, both of these stories, i think it's possible to overstate their significance. at the core both have important elements. uranium one. i don't think she is

necessarily the villain of the story. >> thank you for the concession. >> tucker: she is the villain of the story. buff the obama administration allowed russia a russian controlled company, control over some large percentage of our uranium reserves. that's beyond disputed. why was that ever a good idea and why is no one in the press asking a really simple question like why did you allow that to happen. >> i think they did. there is a process for that it's called cfius. any time any asset of the united states that has a national security implication is to be sold to a foreign element it has to go through a very rigorous review. the secretary of state and the state department are a part of that there are nine departments and ultimately the president. now, in this case we can get into the real nitty gritty of it but we were not turning over the keys to the uranium kingdom. it passed abu ayyub al-masri ter and we were. >> tucker: responsibility walls diffuse. i will concede. >> not diffuse. always in the same administration. the macroquestion remains unanswered which is the

russian government wound up with control over uranium deposits in wyoming, in the united states. if you consider russia, our chief geo strategic rival, then why would you ever allow that? why is that a good idea? i don't understand. >> they were buying into a canadian company. >> tucker: correct. obama would have stopped. >> it we could have and obviously the people who looked at this who have nothing at stake other than what's been in the best interest of our national security determined that this did not in any way impede that. >> tucker: given that we know there has never been an adversary more terrifying or dangerous to a democracy than vladimir putin who let teller live haunts the dreams of 50% of the people in washington. >> no disagreement here. >> tucker: i'm saying that sarcastically because i don't think he is the gravest threat to national security. every democrat thinks that they allowed him control over our uranium. why haven't they apologized? >> there is nothing to apologize for. >> tucker: okay. so how can he simultaneously. >> the person who owes an apology at large is vladimir putin to all of us for what

he has done to our democracy in the last year. >> tucker: he is evil you say. simultaneously it's okay that the obama people allowed him controlling over our premium. >make sure we are in no way turning over assets that should not be in foreign hands. the reason why it's such a rigorous process. it was determined that this canadian company. >> tucker: right. it was the wrong decision, obviously. >> why shouldn't the people who made it apologize and say, yes, i imperiled american national security by my lack of wisdom. by my foolishness and shortsightedness. i didn't understand how dangerous russia was. i apologize. they do that in japan. why don't they do that here. >> i don't know who that would be. that's not me. secretary clinton didn't roll up her sleeves and get into. >> tucker: her agency signed off on it she should apologize, no. >> no. not on uranium one. >> tucker: i kind of sensed

you were going to say. this not on uranium one, no. >> tucker: what about the other question this evening, and that is the politico piece that pretty much demonstrates that treasury department and dea officials were stemmed me in their efforts to control hezbollah's international money laundering and drug dealing operations? these are not partisan right wingers. these are people who work for the obama administration. they are saying our goals were sum mated because of the iran deal. i don't see why that's not a scandal it seems like a scandal to me. >> well, i think first up most people including the obama administration didn't know where this came from. if you look at these storie stories, there are two people may not be crazy out there right wing whatever you want to call them. they have been vociferously against the iran deal from the beginning. >> tucker: dozens of people author says dozens of people. democrats obama employees.

>> there are four on the record sources today in the "the washington post" for the cia, the nsc, the white house and for the state department saying you would never in a million years do anything to impede. >> tucker: okay. people who obviously, you know, they may be right. let's look into it? >> i'm okay with that. >> tucker: allegation is made by obama staffers, former obama staffers that cocaine was sold in this country, knack particulars because the obama people allowed it to be. >> i really doubt that. >> tucker: all right. but have you no problem with an investigation to get to the boat of it. >> i have no problem with investigating. i have a problem with interference and intimidation. i think what we are seeing. it's one thing you have new sources, i have minus sources. we go back at night and we have our separate corners. but we have to share -- but with something like investigations we can't fight over the fbi. >> tucker: i agree. >> that's what's happening now. >> tucker: they shouldn't be partisan.

do you know what i mean? >> what's happening and i think the common ground here is that comey definitely did a number on the fbi. but they are caught in some kind of divorced parents tug-of-war. >> tucker: i am being told we have to go. i agree with that you on that. fleet, thank you. is she a left wing activists. congress wants to investigate jill stein of the green party for possible collusion with the democratic party. she joins us next.

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>> tucker: deputy fbi director the newly famous andy mccabe testified before the congress more than seven hours tuesday. his testimony was hidden behind closed doors. fox can reported that he appeared to contradict himself at least once during his testimony. he also failed to offer support for the infamous trump dossier. fox chief news correspondent ed henry has details in that story. >> he just wrapped up another seven or eight hours of testimony before another committee tonight. bottom line is simple. you got into it a moment ago. the fbi which is supposed to be nonpartisan was a pro-clinton bias that led people like andrew mccabe to let hillary clinton off the hook not just on the email server but uranium one as well? and what's interesting is when you look at those two investigations, they were overseen by three key fbi figures, james comey, who has been tweeting a lot lately about truth and justice, mccabe as his deputy, a job he still holds today and the agent who led the clinton server

investigation peter strzok who sent all those pro-clinton text messages. most important text refer to a meeting in andrew mccabe's office where fbi agents discussed insurance policy in case donald trump was elected. hinting at a plan to investigate him. after all that questioning by the house intel panel we still have little clarity on what they meant. mccabe testified he could not recall when he learned the clinton camp and the dnc paid for that unverified anti-trump dossier that was funneled to the fbi in the summer of 2016 and may have been the basis for the obama administration's surveillance of general michael flynn and possibly others. that has led republicans to charge material from wiretaps was used to weaponize the investigation of president-elect trump that morphed into the special counsel probe. and what you ask could possibly be affecting andrew mccabe's memory about all of this? it turns out his wife ran for state senate in virginia in 2015. she received several hundred thousand dollars of campaign cash from an organization controlled by virginia's democratic governor terry mcauliff who is obviously very, very close to the

clintons. doesn't prove there was corruption. but this is one of the things that really infewer united states people about these investigations, tucker. someone at the center of all of this. and at the center of investigating hillary clinton. around 2015-2016. his wife was receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions. >> tucker: did he not recuse himself. >> not at all. he is the deputy director. >> tucker: running the d.c. office. shocking. ed, thank you for that. >> thank you. >> tucker: last year jill stein was carrying the banner of the left in the election. she was green party candidate. now she has been exposed. she was a russian spy all along. that's the claim, believe it or not. two senate committees are investigating her as a possible crony of the kremlin. her sins include appearing on rt, that's the russian television channel russia today and attend ago dinner in 2015 where she sat at the same table as vladimir putin. all of which makes her a modern mad harry.

what does she say in her defense? she joins us tonight. dr. stein, thanks for coming on. >> great to be with you. >> tucker: have you ever been a agent of russia. do you speak russian. are you a friends of vladimir putin. >> not at all. even when briefly he sat at the head table at a conference i was in moscow for a conference, attended actually by the bbc, by the canadian broadcast system. by the state tv network for china, india, et cetera. this was an actual legitimate conference. it's all up on the web. there is nothing secret about it. we were posting information, putting out press releases. no backroom deals. no secret meetings in oligarchy towers or anything like that. all very transparent and public. the dinner at the end of the conference was really a

nonevent. at one point putin came in with a couple of guys that i assumed were his body guards. turns out they were actually his inner circle, but you would have never known it nobody was introduced to anybody. there walls no translator. actually, no -- not a word exchanged. at one point putin made a very rapid turn around the table and shook everybody's hand but without any exchange of names. so that's about as significant as this was. >> tucker: sounds like collusion to me. so, wait, can we get to your real crime which was running for president as the third party candidate. in the view of a lot of people in washington you got donald trump elected. do you see this as punishment for the crime of running for president? >> >> yes. in many ways. many of the articles like the "new york times" three days ago in announcing this investigation began with a quote from a spokesperson of

the campaign saying isn't this great because so many clinton democrats are furious at me. they are outraged that i dared in so many words, you know, dared to think that we get to make up our own minds that our votes don't belong to hillary clinton or anybody else. i have got to say it's not just democrats. this is a bipartisan commission. >> tucker: i know. >> led by republicans. >> tucker: i'm aware. >> yeah. they have it in as well because it's very inconvenient to have an opposition political party that's not -- >> tucker: look, if they disagree with what you are saying, and for the record i disagree with almost everything you say. but if you disagree with what you say, why not argue against it? why try to pretend that you are an agent of a foreign government? that seems like mccarthyism to me. >> you know, you are not the only person to suggest that. i think this is, you know, let me say i think there are legitimate aims here. in the investigation.

interference in our election is much bigger than the russians. and we have yet to seat proof. i would like to seat evidence of russian culpability here when john kennedy, you know, was facing the cuban missile crisis, he declassified the evidence to show the photographs of the missiles in cuba. you know, aren't we owed that as the american public? we didn't get to really see the evidence before the run-up to the iraq war. we are still paying that price. $5.5 trillion and counting. you know fool me once shame on you. fool me a gazillion times shame on all of us. >> tucker: let me revise what i said i actually do agree with you on something. good luck. i hope you get that done and good luck on the hill. thank you. >> thank you so much. take care. >> tucker: it's full-time for more racist trees. apparently they exist out in palm springs. golf course architect tells us where trees near a golf course can engage in ethnic oppression. that segment is next. don't miss it.

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city officials are planning to clear cut a grove of trees because they're racist. locals say they were planted more than 50 years ago to separate golf course from african-american neighborhood. last time we spoke to a local resident about their sinister presence. >> if you have done any research on the tree, you will know one of the nsaest trees around and known it's been declared a disaster by the federal government. >> tucker: wait, slow down, now, hold on. because that tree is a foreign tree, you're calling it nasty? >> absolutely. >> tucker: the question is could palm springs be overreacting at all to the

racist trees in its midst? aptly named richardson golf course architect. a radio show host join us tonight. first of all, ethan, you have been following. this you are from california. clearly this is the definition of structural racism. i wonder if it couldn't be worse. these are tamarist trees. >> the trees themselves aren't racist. the action of putting them there in the first place. also really important to note these trees in particular have been a fire hazard this year. fox halls done a great job covering like the thomas fire. the trees themselves have been explosive during these fires that have been happening. so not only do we have the aspect of the traditional, the origin of the planting of these trees being to separate the black and people of color community across the street, after their homes were demolished by the way by the city of palm springs, under racist conditions, this is one of those times, let's set the

record straight. let's clear the trees are fire hazard. let's not waste the water. >> tucker: so everybody wins. the trees are just not bigoted but they are flammable. forest, here is my concern, if we take down the racist trees could the homes behind them be hit by racist golf balls? >> well, i don't know, i would like to think that nothing is racist. especially in today's world. >> tucker: i would do but my eyes are open now. >> reality is i don't know why these trees were planted. i don't think that there is any clear indication of why they were planted. one reason that we plant trees on golf courses, especially a narrow corridors which this happens to be. whereas today we would generally get 350 to almost 400 is to protect adjacent homes and property, whether it be a school or houses and in my opinion, you know, i think the win-win would be

to get everybody on board and say what's good for the homeowners and what's good for the golf course and the other homeowners. >> tucker: 2017 compromise modern era. as a land escape guy, are there other reasons other than simply bigotry that they might have been planted? >> you know, i did as much research as i could. when i worked briefly on a study for this golf course, we got a lot of historical data. i was able to find what we think is an early 1960's image that actually shows that this hedge of tamaris trees was probably there before many of the houses were built. not all of them. the hedge was probably predated many of the homes being built there. >> tucker: oh. but obviously that doesn't mean they are not racist trees. i mean, because, you know, sometimes it's not obvious if a tree is racist or not. ethan, let me get and i sort of buy your point that they are both big gouted and a fire hazard.

i wonder if this isn't a teaching moment, right? a time where we can all learn. instead of cutting them down maybe we could make them better trees somehow. prune them. is that not a possibility? >> no. let's just get them out of there. let's get back to some native trees that we have in california. pure desert. >> tucker: slow down. native. for a guy who is in california. i'm serious. palm trees are not native. eucalyptus are not native. should you expel everything from california. >> it's a big problem, too. >> tucker: are you a nativist now? >> when it comes to vegetation, absolutely. eucalyptus trees are a problem tipping over in the storms. >> tucker: they weren't originally from california therefore we have to kill them. >> come on, tucker. we have a severe water problem in california. we have a lack of leadership in sacramento. we have a lack of leadership in d.c. when it comes to the water issue in california. we're diverting water to water trees. why are we doing this?

>> tucker: i agree. >> so many layers here. >> tucker: forest, let me clear out. is it possible that if we cut these down you don't always know what you have got until it's gone. if you were to pave it and to put in a parking lot, do you think you might regret that? >> well, the trees are serving a purpose. i can tell you that they could maybe be replaced by better trees. >> tucker: yeah. >> i think your guest last night mentioned eucalyptus. interesting your guest tonight is saying no eucalyptus. >> tucker: i have got to go. they are foreign trees. we are against foreigners now. forest and ethan thank you for that. >> merry christmas, tucker. >> tucker: merry christmas. it's finals week. who will triumph in the final final exam before christmas? can shannon bream be knocked from her perch of victory. that's next. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> tucker: it's thursday, time final exam. which fox employees and contributor have been paying attention to their jobs covering the news. this week's correspondent griff jenkins and fox news at night host shannon bream. shannon has been a buzz saw as you know in this competition defeating all six opponents she has faced. here are her opponents from weeks' past. wow that is just a murderous row. perhaps griff is up to the challenge. to switch things up and to give you a fighting chance, we have put shannon in a different seat thinking maybe it's the seat that's been doing it. >> i have been put in the thunder dome. >> i know, all of my good mojo is on that chair and that buzzer. >> tucker: our producer alex mccass skill who wrote these questions said these questions are tough.

the first one to buzz in has to answer. wait until i finish asking the question to do that. each correct answer worth one point. if you get it wrong you lose a point. best of five wins. winner will be award add prize i will keep secret for the moment. okay, first up. one of donald trump's celebrity arch enemies possibly facing jail time tonight for bribery that is because she offered millions of dollars to republican senators to reject the tax bill. [buzzer] >> you have to wait until i'm finished. which celebrity was it? shannon bream? >> rosie o'donnell. >> tucker: rosie o'donnell. all right. tricked by the rules. we will see if she is right to the tape. is it rosie o'donnell? >> rosie o'donnell going off the rails trying to stop the tax bill on a twitter tirade tweeting in part, quote: how about this? i promise to give $2 million to senator susan collins and 2 million to senator jeff flake if they vote no. many on twitter kick to point out those bribes would

be illegal. she also told her followers to call 911. >> tucker: it's like the hague. we have to follow the rules here. >> all right. well done. >> the other six go up. >> yeah they do. >> tucker: marist college is out with the poll most annoying words and phrases of 2017. there are lot in competition. almost the most annoying in human history. second place with the phrase fake news which annoying word won? griff jenkins? >> whatever. >> tucker: no, which annoying word won? >> whatever. >> tucker: to the tape is, whatever correct? >> the most annoying words. fake news, that's second. it got 23% of the vote. look at that number one, whatever. >> look at you. high five. >> whatever. >> it's the most annoying word for nine years in a row. >> yeah, whatever. >> she is good.

don't be fooled by the nice nicey. >> it's on. >> tucker: it's 1 to 1. apple, the company is in trouble with its customers after admitting it deliberately does what to its older iphones? shannon bream? >> slows them down. >> tucker: i don't believe that. >> apple confirming long-time conspiracy theory admitting it purposely slows down the performance of older iphones after some of the newer models are released it does this not to push people to buy the newer models that are more expensive but instead to keep the older phones from crashing. >> i have an old iphone i feel like it's slowing me down. >> i know it's slowing me down. i speak from experience. >> tucker: your answer was correct. i don't believe their explanation. it's really for your benefit that we're making the phone so bad you need to buy a new one. >> people mock me how slow this phone is. >> tucker: apple is here to help you, shannon. >> right, yes.

>> tucker: this week a former navy pilot revealed on this show, actually, that an object in the sky, he saw, was, quote, not from earth. he described this unidentified flying object as being in the shape of candy. which candy was it shaped like? was it a a tic-tacs? b a candy corn? c a skill, and i will throw in d butter finger. tic-tacs, candy corn, skittle or butter finger. >> this is throwing it out there because i have no idea. but i like tic-tacss. >> tucker: you like tic-tacss. griff likes tic-tacss he came across an aircraft that he says quote was not something from earth. it was shaped like a tic-tacs. it had no swings. >> shannon: look at you. you got to go all in against a very, very astute. >> tucker: we have actually been here before. people have been to the precipice of victory over shannon bream. in fact they are littered on

the valley floor their bodies. 2-2 this is the decisive question. are you ready? are you feeling good. >> no, i'm not. i'm like an old iphone you froze me. >> tucker: good hands on the buzzer. are you ready? >> no. >> tucker: disney unveiled new robot version of the president of the united states president trump. it's in the hall of the president's exhibit in the magic kingdom there is a problem though, many say the robot looks nothing like the president but like which actor instead? shannon bream. >> jo john voight. >> some on the internet say it looks like a bloated john voight. john voight is never going to speak to me again. >> tucker: look at that shannon bream, ladies and gentlemen. okay, so you win, this week we run out of prizes. this week very a small bottle of nonalcoholic champagne. >> i like it do i get to spray it. >> tucker: tastes like

bubbly water but it's delicious. it's from france. >> i do get to go to the super bowl? >> tucker: stage manager saying no. >> thank you for walking me to the precipice of being slaughtered by shannon bream. >> tucker: pay attention to the news every week you can play along. another edition of final exam on thursday right here. ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> tucker: big tax bill heads to the president for signing. fifth third bank announced. joined by at&t and comcast. that's all great news. the president might consider campaigning for more of these. the tax cuts are big for corporate america. might be worth making it clear that employees of corporate america should also get a boost not just ceos and shareholders, everyone would be happy about that. we bet.

that's it for us tonight. tune never night at 8:00 to the show that is the sworn enemy of lying pomposity, smugness and group think. good night from the nation's capital where there is full employment thanks to your tax dollars. we appreciate it that. kimberly guilfoyle in for sean hannity tonight. >> kimberly: well done, tucker. i'm kimberly guilfoyle in for sean tonight. several breaking news stories. nbc is reporting jeff sessions has ordered review of the highly controversial uranium one deal. according to nbc department of justice prosecutors are interviewing fbi agents about a russian bribery case that took place while uranium one was being approved. this is said to be part of an effort to determine if a special counsel is needed. plus, key officials face questioning on capitol hill. deputy fbi director andrew mccabe goes before lawmakers for nearly nine hours while controversy builds over anti-trump text messages sent by fbi agent peter strzok. and demoted doj