♪ >> mark: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." i am mark steyn. tucker is off celebrating boxing day, which is unamerican of him.yo we hope you enjoyed a christmas respite from politics, but it has not taken long for things to get back in full swing this morning.d motivated by his story he saw here on fox, president trump lashed out against the fbi overr the infamous salacious trump dossier, the president tweeted "wow, dossier bogus, clinton campaign, dnc funded dossier, fbi cannot after all this time verify claims in dossier of russian-trump

collusion, fbi tainted.. and they use this crooked hillary pile of garbage as the basis of going after the trump campaign."he the regional campaign director for barack obama's presidential campaign, robin, this agent cooked up the dossier in a couple of weeks, and the fbi have been investigating for a year and a half and have been unable to confirm anythingea except that one guy carter page did get on the plane to russia at some point. otherwise after 18 months, all uncorroborated, do you think that the fbi should take another two years, three years, four years, five? >> i sure hope not, mark, the taxpayers are funding the investigation. i want to remember that, but the fbi has a responsibility to go through anything that is presented as evidence, leave no stone unturned, that includesro the dossier.

true. the veracity that they say should be questioned just like any law enforcement official they have to follow the lead and they have done their due diligence and it is turning out not to be true. that's why hillary clinton did not use it. that's why the republican candidate who initially funded the dossier did not use it and eventually sold it to hillary clinton. >> mark: you are saying that there is a bit of oppo research that the people who paid for it did not bother using, but has somehow justified an 18 month investigation into the sittingdi president. if we flip this around, say the g.o.p. had found some french spy instead of an mi6 guy to come up with the salacious dossier saying the democratic candidate is up to all kinds of kinky shenanigans in eastern europe, would you be happy to i

have the fbi investigate obvious nonsense for 18 months? >> no, i would not, but like i said, they are doing their due diligence leaving no stone unturned, but i want to remind you that what led to this, the firing of director comey unceremoniously. and there were multiple instances of the russian government trying to hack into voting systems in several states.th so there were lots of things that triggered this. it was not just the dossier as donald trump himself tried to allude to this morning. >> mark: the russia investigation has been going on for longer, it predates the election, so why would thes russians be trying to hack into a voting machine in iowa in june of 2016? >> mark, because they have an agenda to fulfill, disrupting our way of democracy suits their agenda.

they are our adversary. make no mistake about it, i'm a veteran army ranger, i know that russia is our adversary, they are not looking out for our best interests. >> mark: we have a situation where the only thing that any concrete that anyone has been able to find is that putin paid for 100 grams worth of facebook ads. i never knew, speaking of someone who is not even eligible to run, i did not know that you could steal an election for he 100,000 in facebook ads when your candidate, mrs. clinton, spent two-thirds of a billion, you spend two-thirds of a billion, but somebody buys 100n grand of facebook ads, and steals the election away, is that interfering? >> no, like i said, i think the real problem is when we found evidence that they tried to actually affect to the voting machines in those states, thatro is a serious problem, and i am glad that the fbi is looking into it.

we should all do that. we should all want the fbi to make sure that our way of democracy is protected and defended. they have an oath to defend and protect our constitution against enemies foreign and domestic. we have to make sure that donald trump is not an enemy of the state by colluding with russia. >> mark: taking your line that russia is a geopolitical strategic enemy of the united states, they managed to get the election stealing racket, whatever it is, hacking into voting machines in new hampshire or florida, wherever, up and running, we have been investigating this now for 18 months. why can't the fbi wrap up an investigation into an election campaign in less than the two year period between elections? >> mark, we are not privy to that information just like we were not privy to all of the information into bill clinton and watergate which ended up

birthing the monica lewinsky scandal, we do not have all of that information. so it is impossible and preposterous for us to speculate on why it is taking this long. they are doing their jobs. they are public servants doing their jobs. and they are becoming -- they are under attack on the daily by donald trump who i think isd doing a psy-op campaign because he knows that there is more information, and he wants to plant a seed of doubt in the public. to me, that is reprehensible. >> mark: well, robin, thank you for framing it as a psy-ops campaign, if you are targeted by the fbi, i am not sure that you need psy-ops and protesting against it. tom fitton, the president of judicial watch, tom, robin was rather coy about that, but this totally worthless dossier has had an incredible life, it is

like a zombie, you cannot drivea a stake through this piece ofke garbage thing that they cooked up for the democrats, it is running around like a mechanical hare across town. >> according to the reporting on the testimony of andrew mccabe, the number two at the fbi, they could not confirm anything, he refers to confirm any beyond that carter page adviser to the trump campaign, may have traveled to russia. other than that, there is nothing they have been able to confirm, but we have been able to confirm that the authors ofee the trump dossier were clinton campaign vendors, and they were working with the obama justice department and the obama fbi and the fbi of the obama administration was the leadership there was vehemently anti-trump as has now been evidenced, and they laundered this campaign document into the

justice department and it may have been used to spy on the trump campaign. it still may be being used by robert mueller. so to the degree the dossier is still being used by mueller is a real ethical concern, because of where it came from. >> mark: no, i agree with you on that. it is a little bit to like in hollywood, alfred hitchcock used to call it to the macguffin, used as their pretext to set the game afoot. in other words, it had no value, as oppo research to hillary clinton, but it had value to the government, the outgoing government in getting them into a position where they could survey all their political opponents. that is the conspiracy theory. >> it gets even worse for mrs. clinton. she used her law firm, her campaign's law firm, as

a cut out to spend on the gps dossier effort who went, to russia supposedly to talk to intelligence people and -- intelligence horses in russia. you had the clinton campaign spending people to russia to find out information on donald trump, and he is the one under investigation on collusion, and this is a political investigation, it was designed by never-trumpers, anti-trumpers, james comey obviously did not like president trump and leaked information to get the appointment of robert mueller, and it's gone downhill from there. we found out that the top fbi agent in terms of counterintelligence was a never-trumper, and the number number two on his team attended hillary clinton's election night party and was sending friendly emails to sally yates as she

thwarted the law at the justice department. >> mark: that is actually incredible, tom, thank you for that, it is the revenge of jimim comey, and the former fbi official says that the fired director's behavior has sabotaged the credibility of the mueller investigation, that fbis official joins us next on "tucker carlson tonight." "tucker carlson tonight." i love to eat. i love hanging out with my friends. i have a great fit with my dentures. i love kiwis. i've always had that issue with the seeds getting under my denture. super poligrip free. it creates a seal of the dentures in my mouth. even well fitting dentures let in food particles just a few dabs of super poligrip free is clinically proven to seal out more food particles so you're more comfortable and confident while you eat. super poligrip free made even the kiwi an enjoyable experience try super poligrip free. ♪

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politics, but that is not the only doj investigation going on, inspector general michael horwitz has spent a year investigating how jim comey and the fbi handled their investigation into hillary clinton's email server. horwitz is the one that found peter strzok's text messages to his paramore bashing donald trump. chris swecker is a former assistant director at the fbi, he says jim comey's conduct last year has become a trap for mueller's own investigation. chris, i guess to use the president's words, whether or not the fbi is tainted, mueller's investigation has been tainted by the revelations about these never-trumpers in the previous investigation. >> director mueller is living with some of the bad decisions

of former director comey who is in the position for four years, before director mueller was appointed special counsel. what is happening with strzok and his paramore is not helpful to the investigation wherever the investigation is going. with 38 years of experience around criminal investigations, i can tell you that a good defense attorney can make something out of this alleged bias. >> mark: yeah, that is critical if any of this stuff ever winds up before a jury. you laid the blame on comey, his behavior since being removed he from the bureau, and indeed, during the last couple of years before that seems like a man temperamentally unsuited for the job that he held. is that a fair estimation? >> frankly i was surprised at his judgment and behavior, he had a good reputation.

the agents liked him. he was very personable. i've dealt with him in myy capacity, but the judgment that he displayed and the rules that he broke when he made a prosecutive decision as the fbi director and then announced in great detail to the american public, instead of handing the investigation off to loretta lynch, who, if he thought was conflicted, could recuse herself and passed it down one notch was monumental bad judgment. i think a series of cascading events, that is what has drawn the fbi into politics. >> mark: let me ask you about that, because of the crime winds up in the county courthouse, a policeman investigates it and the county attorney decides whether to prosecute it. in this case, the policeman andn the county attorney were the same person, jim comey. is that unusual in the bureau's history? >> very unusual. if you look at the justice

department procedures and the fbi's procedures in the code of federal regulations, there is au separation between investigations and prosecutions. the fbi will predicate in investigation with facts, they will open it up and conduct the investigation. they will consult with the u.s. attorney, but the final prosecutive decisions are always made by the u.s. attorney or somebody in the main justice department. that's the way it works. >> mark: let me ask you this, because as i understand it there are 35,000 employees at the fbi, yet the same handful of people investigating one presidential candidate, hillary clinton, then seemed to transfer seamlessly to investigate the other presidential candidate, donald trump. do you think that that is best practice, as it were? >> no, i don't. former director comey thought that that was the a-team, so we had them transition to the russian investigation after what i thought was a very

half-hearted noninvestigation of hillary clinton's emails. so that investigation runs out supposedly and then it seems like a good percentage of thatat team was assigned to the russian investigation with all of the baggage that they brought with them. >> mark: yeah, you'd almost think of it as one reputation, investigation, get hillary off the hook and if that does not work, get trump onto it. chris, thank you very much. interesting to hear from a former number three g-man during these recent years. the united nations got a fat lump of coal in its christmas stocking this year, courtesy of the trump administration.ni u.n. ambassador nikki haley has announced a $285 million cut to the u.n.'s budget for 2018. the u.s. pays 22% of the u.n.'s overall operating costs. dr. alan mendoza, executive director of the henry jackson

society, a british think tank, dr. mendoza, how are these cuts to america's u.n. largesse playing in london and elsewhere in europe? >> not well, playing about as well as the american decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. this is not the most popular policy in europe. but i think that the americans have done the right thing here. you are looking after your ownul financial responsibilities and making it clear that it will not be business as usual at the u.n., things have to change. >> mark: well, to go back to the jerusalem vote that you just mentioned, isn't that part of the problem with the u.n.? that it is a very lavish body for striking attitudes, and that does not matter whether it is the organization for islamic cooperation or the union. u

are they all swarm into the general assembly and strike an attitude on israel and then stick u.s. taxpayers with the tab on it. >> i think that the generalye assembly is a waste of space. if you look at what you see you see that democracies are outnumbered by nondemocracies, which i don't think was the goal of the u.n. when it was set up, and as you say, you have every hobbyhorse being flogged, and the results are that frequently democracies do not get their way in terms of what you might think would be sensible international policy, you do get crazy things passed through. fortunately, of course, it has no sort of standing failure. then you have a question, as you suggest, what is the point of an organization or a body that has no influence on things and gets hijacked? >> mark: meanwhile, back in the real world, the islamic state has lost 98% off its territory, and yet, that has barely made the papers, because nobody wants to give donald trump the credit for it.,

>> well, i think that this is the big story of 2017, it has been the defeat of the so-called everlasting caliphate, and i donald trump and the american military must take a lot of responsibility and praise, it does not come across as terms of public understanding, but we will feel the impact of this going forward and the terrorist attacks going forward, and other such matters, so i think that the world does owe a great debt to donald trump and those who have prosecuted the war to its ultimate end point. >> mark: what is your solution to the u.n.? w because it is basically the world war ii victory parade. it is america, britain, france, russia plus china. if you want to reform anything, various of those parties object, is it something that should be left to die, every 200 million by 200 million cut, or can it be

reformed? >> well, i think that you have hit upon something there, the way to reform it is not to get consensus, because it is impossible.. which power fail those five alone will give up their veto power and look at that? i cannot work that way, but the way has been shown in the budget cut, you bring the policy to reform, we do not think that this works. we are not funding it anymore. if you do not fund it, it will not go forward in that way anymore. the power is there, do we have the confidence to use it? >> mark: they like their money, dr. mendoza, the u.n. t diplomats. california governor jerry brown, has good news for the immigrants of his state. you can commit a felony, and hef will still try to keep you from being deported. we will debate that story next on "tucker carlson tonight." to" ♪

>> mark: governor jerry brown has a message for his constituents, noncitizens do not just have rights in the u.s., they may have more rights than you do. just before christmas, brown pardoned two immigrants scheduled to be deported for committing felonies here in the u.s. one of the two was a gang member convicted of a illegal weapons charge. h brown's hope is that the pardons will allow both immigrants to

stay in america. evidently he believes that they will greatly strengthen americae jose magana is an attorney and immigration advocate, he joins us. jose, this is a strategy by guys like you to use pardons to do an end run around the deportation process, correct? >> well, mark, there is a littl, bit of confusion. we may be looking at two different versions of the constitution, mine has the tenth amendment in it.. and under the tenth amendment, governors are expected to looknt at their state including part -- pardons. they went through an incredibly rigorous process to be eligible for these pardons including ten years of being crime free, obtaining a certificate of rehabilitation and paying their debt to society. >> mark: wait a minute before we get to that, because in 20 years from 1991, arnold schwarzenegger, gray davis, and

pete wilson pardoned a grand total of 15 criminals, 15 pardons, that is three quarters of a pardon per year, and six years, governor brown has done i think it is around 1500 pardons, so clearly the nature of a presidential pardon in the tenth amendment and the power of the pardon is changing. and to go back to my question, that is because you guys have figured that the immigration lobby, the illegal lobby has figured this is a great way to do an end run around the national government's power to deport. >> it is a great way to help individuals who have been here for 30, 40, 50 years who emigrated to the united states legally as both of these individuals did who have deep legal connections in u.s. citizen families to essentially present their case in front of an immigration judge.on these pardons do not guarantee their ability to stay in the country. now, mark, you are canadian, you had a green card.

if this had to happened to you, i would be fighting for your opportunity to fight and show that you are a contributing member to this country. which you are. you are doing the jobs that americans do not want to dog lie hosting the show for tucker. >> i will take you up on that, because some twit tried to deport my little daughter. there is no sentimentality about legal immigration in some respects. you know as well as i do that when a citizen commits a crime, you are stuck with the citizen. when a noncitizen commits a crime, he is at the risk of deportation. so why is the immigration lobby so eager to not even deport criminals? if you want to change people's minds on immigration, wouldn't it help to show a willingness to deport gang members with thend kind of conviction that one of these pardon recipients has?

>> generally this administration is not prioritizing gang members and criminal aliens, most of the people that it is going after little girls with cerebral palsy in texas, dreamers too close to the border, women seeking protective orders and court houses, when you say that conservatives are arguing for the deportation of criminals and other individuals, that is not what the administration is doing. it is waving gang affiliation at a magic wand to try to turn america against the broader immigrant population. i'm sure that you would agree that we should not demonize all immigrants. >> mark: we can demonize gang members! there are communities a long way from the mexican border that have been hollowed out by ms-13 for example, communities that were peaceful, boring, picket fence suburbs where they are now having ritual initiation murders committed by ms-13 members, why should this gang member be given a pardon?

and more to the point, how does the american gang member in the cell next door feel when he sees governors prioritizing -- m immigrants over the native born criminal class? >> in this case governor brown pardoned a wide list of u.s. citizens.. as long as you meet the criteria, you can apply. i argue our country has been committed to the process of rehabilitation and paying your debt to society, which both of these individuals have done, by asking to be deported, these individuals are essentially being double punished. >> mark: wait, a world war ii veteran from the united kingdom whose wife got sick and died in hospital, and he is in america and he stayed with her to die in america, to watch her die in america, he was kicked out and banned from entering the country for ten years for no crime other than staying with his sick wife.

what people are worried about iw there is a bifurcation between a cosseting of the professional criminal class and the ruthlessness that you describe with cerebral palsy victims. >> they have also deported mexican veterans, i would like them to return. i would like the specific case that you mentioned to return. if you want to be mad about pardons, be mad about the -- for commutation for a meat-packer who transfered undocumented immigrants including children.. we are saying, we are fine with pardons for people exploiting immigrants but not for the immigrants themselves? come on. >> mark: that is not where this stops, jose, as you know there is a strategy behind this. and that has the cooperation of many governors and the immigration lobby. thank you for coming on the show. last week, tucker reported on the biggest story of the year. the biggest story. liberals have run out of racists statues to take down, so they

have now moved on to racistt trees. in the california desert, the city of palm springs wants to chop down a grove of the 60-year-old tamarisk trees that stands between a golf crop and a black residential neighborhood. if you are thinking, aren'tt liberals supposed to be tree huggers? well, yes, unless you are planting a racist tree. the city believes that these trees were planted with racist intent. others say that it was to prevent people chipping that golf ball straight through your window. but that is always the cover for racism, isn't it? >> people don't go out and say that we are doing this for racist reasons, they say, we are going to do landscaping, we are going to landscape you right out of existence. and oh, by the way, these trees will protect you from golf balls. >> mark: just like race, golf balls flying through your kitchen window is a social construct. don't worry about it.

the tamarisk is now thee robert e. lee of trees. it is robert e. tree. and liberals suddenly have no desire to hug that tree than they do to hug charlie rose or matt lauer. the tamarisk is not just racist, it is nasty. >> the african-american, theus black families whose properties are adjacent to those trees, if you had done any research on thi tree, you know that that is one of the nastiest trees around and it's also been declared an environmental disaster by the federal government. >> what? wait a minute, slow down, now hold on, because that tree is a foreign tree, you are calling it nasty?y? >> mark: so to invert barbara walters, if this tree were ali celebrity, what celebrity would it be? >> i am a nasty woman! >> mark: the tamarisk is nasty and foreign. as we just heard, in california

everything is foreign. an illegal immigrant can get a driver's license, free health care, and an unlawful immigrant can practice law in california. the one thing you cannot do is stand on the edge of a golf course covered in foliage. on that, everyone is a nativist. >> okay, so are you a nativist now? >> when it comes to vegetation, absolutely. trees and have a problem of them tipping over in the storm. >> mark: liberals are in favor of open borders for people, but not for trees. they are found all over the muslim world, but this is onere muslim ban they are willing to support. when you come to america, you can bring your prayer rooms, your hijab, your sharia law, but you better leave here tamarisk in tamariskstan. not in my stan, says california. you can have your choice of female head cover, but not tree cover. because just like some excitable

young men of an extremist persuasion, the tamarisk is prone to self combust. >> tamarisk trees themselves have been explosive during these fires that have been happening, so not only do we have the aspect of the traditional origin the planting of the trees separating the black people of color around their street, after their homes were ruined by the city of palm springs under racist consideration. >> mark: just like a klansman, the tamarisk stands on your lawn sets everything alight.. as the christmas carol says, oh tamarisk, oh tamarisk, how racist are those branches. what can we replace the tamarisk with? a eucalyptus?. >> we mention eucalyptus, so your guest tonight is saying no eucalyptus.s, >> mark: democrats a decade ago, more trees, less bush.

now less trees, more open space to keep an eye on harvey weinstein and kevin spacey. you might think that liberals have flown the coop, they are literally out of their tree. but what if they are right? what if this really is the root cause?e? what if trees are racist? here are the three most forested states in the union. and here are the whitest states in the union. coincidence? americans are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to attend college, but is it worth it? tucker will be back after the break to talk to a professor who says sending everyone to college is a huge mistake. mistake. years ago hey, man. oh!

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>> tucker: if americans believe in anything, it is higher education. every year millions of people borrow tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to get degrees from colleges, when policymakers talk about improving the well-being of americans, their ideas almost always including providing education and upping graduation rates, whatever the cost. he has a phd in economics, a professor at george mason university, but despitefe all of that, not entirely sold on the ability of sending everybody to college. he has published a book called "the case against education" and he joins us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: what is so striking are not just your views, but the fact that as a college professor you are making this case, if i am an ac repairman and argue against air-conditioning, i am arguing against my own interest, why are you arguing that college is not for everyone? >> i think of myself as a whistle-blower, i am somebody

who takes it seriously, you have to be a professor, you had to be somebody who has done a lot of research to say this with any credibility. >> tucker: we know that people that go to college have bachelor's degrees, making more than those that don't, isn't at the end of the argument? >> not at all, so just two years we have been talking about it, but the main thing that i pushes realizing that just because an individual is making more money does not mean that it is a goodn investment for society, the heart of my story is something called signaling model of education, and it just says, a lot of the reason why education pays is not because of job skills, you're showing off, jumping through hoops, you are impressing employers, but of course if everybody pushes through the hoops, you have to jump through more hoops than everybody else, otherwise the whole process is a waste. >> tucker: exactly, the cost of really high, not just to they individual but to society and a whole generation of younggh people, how do those match up against the benefits? >> again, for the individual, what i say is if you are a strong student, then college is a good deal for you.ga

especially if you do one of the higher earning majors. on the other hand, if you are a weaker student, somebody who struggles to get through high school, college will be a waste of money for you personally. but i always try to turn it around to not thinking about the individual, but through society. should we be encouraging people to go if they are acquiring a lot of useful skills in school, then it is an investment in the capital. on the other hand you are jumping through hoops and showing off, it is really a socially wasteful process to a large degree. that is what i say is that it is extremely wasteful for society. >> tucker: a lot of people are picking up addictions and mental illness in college.f >> sure, you can do that other places, but in a way you might say that there is an addiction to getting more education, which is fairly rampant. >> tucker: what percentage would you, and it's speculative, but of any society, or ours are to be going to college?ut >> 5%. >> tucker: 5%, that would make you an elitist and in a bad person because you are writing

off the other 95%? >> you would say than an elitist, you might think that you would have to be an elitist to think that you are not a good person if you do not go tois college. >> college is the kind of thing that people go through and punch the clock and get a degree in something or other. we do not see that it really improves them as a human being. it is a big burden on society and also it's a burden on the individual to feel like if i don't accomplish this, my whole life is a waste of time. i'm a big fan of vocational education, the kind you seen germany and switzerland. very notable how little of an underclass they have there. the kind of person who in the u.s. would say i hate school. i'm sick of being here. maybe i will gool and drop out d be a criminal. in switzerland or germany, you're getting trained to be an auto mechanic or a plumber. you learn independence, he learned skills.

you get a peer group of skilled craftsmen and set up a peer group of criminals in drop box. >> tucker: that seems like an obvious point, we have models in other countries that work quite well. do you think the effect of tens, hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying by higher education lobbies has obscured that truth? >> i think the problem is the american people, as you said, people love the idea of education.he if you look at the survey evidence, the share of americans that favor cutting education is almost minuscule. that is really the main thing that i am pushing is spending less on education, saving money on something that does not deliver the goods especiallyg from a social point of view.ca thinking about that and raising -- better ways of spending >> tucker: do you have tenure? >> oh, yes. >> tucker: that is why. i bet your bosses are not impressed with your argument. >> mark: tucker and brian, a lot of sense.

you cannot get a plumber on a sunday night, but you can get a transgender and colonial studies graduate. you probably wished a lot of people merry christmas over the weekend, but some professors are connecting seasonal cheer to white nationalism. we will discuss those claims next.

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♪ >> mark: "newsweek" magazine is delivering an important warning this christmas season on sunday "newsweek" published an article saying that the nazis and donald trump "stole christmas to promote white nationalism." several warned that phrases like merry christmaser have become a dog whistle showing support for whites and veiled hatred of muslims, jews, atheists, immigrants. doubtless painting easter eggs will soon be a hateful assault on vegans everywhere. nell daly a psychotherapist, and she joins us. nell, do you buy into this idea that merry christmas is a racist dog whistle? >> i wanted to talk about the article, not necessarily what i believe. as a journalist, i did research into this. i thought, is there actually

a war on christmas happening? nine out of every ten americans in the united states celebrate christmas, maybe there is not a war happening, but what is happening in the pew center, a bipartisan research organization coming out with a study yesterday saying that only 46% of the people who actually celebrates christmas view it as a religious holiday, which is down from 51% in 2013, so there is a changing of the tides, i don't want to say a war on christmas, but a change of the tides that people in america society are becoming less religious. >> mark: none of that justifies this comparison of trump and the nazis. for a start, the nazis basically secularized christmas, turned it into a pagan nature worship.he so if anybody is comparable to the nazis, it is the hippie dippy

winter solstice worshipers on december 21st, isn't that ridiculous just to compare the nazis and trump to the attitude of christmas? >> i think what the article was suggesting was that trump is using the language to embolden -- >> mark: wait, language like "merry christmas?" >> well, it is not just saying merry christmas, he is saying the war on christmas has ended. was there ever a war on christmas? and when you suggested that there was a war on christmas, you make people feel defensive, what people feel defensive when they are saying that there is a war on christmas. >> mark: people are not being made to be defensive when they go to the shopping mall and the clerk says "happy holidays" as if there is something dirty about saying merry christmas. >> it is interesting that you bring that up, because half of the people polled do not care

how they are addressed in stores during the holidays. they do not feel one way or the other, whether people say merry christmas or happy holidays.s. so i think, again, the culture is changing and people are becoming much more okay with how everyone wants to express in terms of the holidays. >> mark: except on one side, the southern poverty law center, the shakedown racket, centrally, the hate group tracker tags hashtag jesus is the reason of the season is a hate phrase? how come the hate group trackerc thinks hashtag jesus is the reason of the season is a hate phrase? >> that is really interesting, i do not know why. i really do not. i think again, that tides are

changing, the whole idea of saying that there was a war on christmas is a backlash against a political correctness movement that came out during the 1990s. the premise of the political correctness movement was from a psychotherapist point of view, being inclusive. so we want to have more room for people to express themselves. it does not mean that we take something away. >> mark: but something like bush has his happy ramadan and then all of it, and suddenly itk is christmas, the big mainstream thing that has to be happy hanukkah, all of that, thank you, we have to run, speaking of christmas, after a snowy christmas, the bitter cold has arrived. we will have the frigid forecast for you coming up next.

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>> mark: a patch of ice sends a jetblue plane skidding off the runway in boston. luckily, no one was hurt. but a dangerous deep-freeze is now gripping much of the country during this holiday week. fox 5 new york meteorologist nick gregory joins us with the freezing forecast. nick? >> hello, mark.t we are talking about that last not just for a day or two but this pattern we are in for thear next week is likely to stay in a very cold, arctic pattern. we talk about the polar vortex and it's become sort of a more common response to our cold weather over the last couple of years and that vortex again isor sending a couple of little disturbances down, so the result is the jet stream has made it much further to the south and it will likely stay. look at the source region for the temperatures as you go across southern canada. there you see the current temperatures, by the way, as you

go from winnipeg eastward. minus 17, minus 36 by hudson bay.y. very, very cold air making itsak way down. it will get recharged over the country as time goes along. a the only action in the country, areas of rain moving to the gulf coast, that will slide to thest south and east. rain and mountain snow. current temperatures, below zero in minneapolis, minus 1, ten below, rapid city, 8, kansas city, 25 in new york. the chill even making it into the deep south. 36, memphis. milder in southern california and arizona and warm in south florida but even florida and the east coast will get quite cold. winchell values currentlyui feeling like 17 below ing minneapolis. 11 below in chicago, and again, even a windchill factor is making it feel below the freezing mark as you move it through the southern states. once again, the southern part of the country kind of escaping that where there are advisories for wind chill advisories, they exist across much of the country from new england going into the northern plains states. we will be watching for that cold grip into the early part of next week. mark? >> mark: yeah, exposed skin, you can get frostbite in less

than 20 minutes. so if you are harvey weinstein, don't go outside with your bathrobe open. that's it for us. david webb gross hosting "hannity" tonight. >> david: thank you, mark. welcome to the special edition of "hannity," the trump agenda. i am david webb in for sean tonight. president trump with bias. we'll talk about that in a moment. the president tweeting earlier today, "wow at "fox & friends," dossier is bogus. clinton campaign, dnc funded dossier, fbi cannot, after all this time, verify claims of russia-trump collusion, and they used this crooked hillary pile of garbage as the basis for going after the trump campaign. president trump's tweet appears to be in reaction to reports that during his closed-door congressional testimony, fbi