>> trish: this is a nice way to end the night, check out this picture posted by donald trump jr., showing his dad, president trump photobombing his son and brother they are added to christmas dinner. pretty cute. i will see you tomorrow night. ♪ >> good evening, everyone, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," i am brian kilmeade, and unless you know something different, i will be filling in the entire hour. more recent to be skeptical about robert mueller's so-called independent investigation, and a blog post posted tuesday. get this, new york attorney general the former state senator boasted about more than 100 different actions he has taken to resist the sabotage the trump administration paid why does it matter? snyderman has been colliding with the investigation. of trying to on the state level

if the federal level can't appear to and associates if mueller gets fired could get prosecuted by snyderman, perhaps, that could happen if he attempts to pardon individuals who have been indicted, maybe it will go the state way. he is an author and columnist, on the program last night, great contributor on "fox & friends," one of our great guests. why it is a big deal that the attorney general of new york has an interest in the investigation as a somatic and is providing documents? >> for start he is an exclusively political attorney general. >> brian: declared democrat. >> when i testified to ted cruz is committee and the senate a couple of years ago, i cited him for essentially doing an interim round around the first amendment and using the security flaw to go on exxonmobil for not agreeing with the democrats on climate change, this is a sleazy

guy who likes politically driven prosecution and investigations. and that is exactly what he did with exxonmobil, now what he is doing with trump. as you say, he has written a blog post claiming that what all of these acts he has taken as attorney general have in common is that they all go after trump. the attorney general in any system of cabinet governments, the attorney general is supposed to be the least partisan member of any cabinet or any administration because he is there to administer the law. which are a minister is not on the reliability whether you're left-wing or right wing, but the grounds that you are a citizen equal before the law. >> brian: we wanted to see as americans to find out what the russians did or did not do in the election. so if you are seeing how many declared democrats who aggressively went after republicans are part of the mueller team, you might raise an

eyebrow or two. then you find out the attorney general of new york who has more access to any trump documents and anybody else is playing a role, democrats who has actually been going back and forth with trump since 2010 after first asking for a campaign contribution. >> writes, as you said the point is to prevent trump being able o pardon these individuals. in other words, this is all about muscle. mueller's concerned because trump is a president when mueller goes after the trump cabinet officials like michael flynn, in the end he can say, im going to pardon the guy. he has gone to schneiderman to say, okay, i want to lean on them and they should know even if the president pardon see you at the federal level, you're still going to be screwed over at the state level. that is actually a form of double jeopardy, as it were for these guys. >> brian: it is gotten personal already, you want unbiased investigation, you

don't work with eric schneiderman if you are robert mueller, even if you think that trump is innocent or guilty, you do not want the appearance. the president has come back with some beauties, calling him a total loser and a lightweight, revlon eyes, because he accuses him of wearing eyeliner. he has two separate investigations going to the trump investigation. this is personal, this is not professional. and now he is president and the attorney general is trying to make a name for himself. >> it is everything that an independent investigation should not be. you have the guy, james comey who when he was removed as fbi director, then gets his mentor appointed special counsel, who then forms an alliance with a guy who has a history. an independent counsel is supposed to be independent. i don't want to be the unassimilated foreigner on you, brian, but in my colorful tradition, in northern ireland when they have to have an investigation for the decommissioning of arms, they

have a canadian general, because he is not connected to any other players. when the solomon islands was in danger of going belly up, they had an australian intelligence guide to go in there. they bring in an english judge, you do not bring in a so-called independent counsel who is tight and everybody who keeps on the team a bunch of hard-core democrats that have been to hillary's victory party who brings in possibly the most partisan state attorney general in the country. everything about their smells and everything about it suggests that the real issue here is not a foreign interference, but domestic interference. >> brian: think about the other probes and the other investigations. they sit back, and democrats did criticize ken starr, but you sit back and you keep your fingers crossed, you try to prove your innocence. karl rove, successful, scooter libby, not. they do not like the way that that went, they look back. this president is different, he

says, i have a problem with the upper echelon in the fbi. i have a problem with the types of attorneys and investigators letter going off after this. don't do that, well, i did it. now it is proven correct, for those out there that think that the president is getting this the right way, i have to point out that people since a different way, on politico saying that it out probes the witch hunt phase, the probe was such a rapid conclusion which attorneys say, it is fanciful, going to continue. mueller and his team are proceeding new leads, seeing new witnesses and collecting a mountain of new evidence including subpoenaed bank records and emails. if this is true, what is he doing? what does that have to do with russia? >> it has nothing to do with russia! he has guys on things that were years before trump ever ran for president and a a couple of guys on the mail order us prospect of

the fbi powers. we know that if we want to talk to the fbi for 40 minutes that they could mail us on something or other that we must remember. that crime should not exist. it is particularly ludicrous in this investigation the people are pleading guilty to lying to the fbi when you have things like an associate, whatever he is, associate deputy, deputy associates of justice who does not tell the attorney general that he is being meeting with christopher steele and the fusion gps guys and his wife works for -- >> brian: bruce ohr. >> he is not being fully forthcoming in the investigation. the department of justice can lie to us, but if michael flynn lies, that is it. >> brian: mark steyn, thank you so much. more elements to this, we will talk about it. in the house, a drama over the infamous trump dossier, but the house intelligence committee has

subpoenaed john mccain's associate. seeking more information on the sources behind the dossier, kramer met with the dossiers author, christopher steele, the investigator with a great reputation, happened at mccain's word quest. and handed over to the fbi, at which time they said, we got this already, mollie hemingway is a senior editor. cofounder of real clear politics, they join us. when we talk about this dossier, why is that of interest to figure out how mccain got it and by his associate gave it to him? >> there is a lot of interest in the role that john mccain played to getting the dossier to the fbi. we know that the fbi had the dossier prior to that and handed over in installments as it was being collected, that's pretty interesting if not scandalous information in its self. this guy came in, the mccain aide came in and was not willing to tell who the sources were coming he knows who the sources

were in some cases, but not willing to say who they were. that is interesting, in some cases we already know who some of the sources were and what is the harm in sharing it? why is he protecting the sources? it is absolutely true that americans have every right to know who the sources are for each and every unfounded or salacious allegation in the boundless investigation. americans have a right to know. i hope that he will share that information and that everybody would be forthright and honest when they are talking to investigators. >> brian: david kramer works at the institute, he handed us off. we know that there was an analyst between mccain and president trump because of the shot that president trump took at him and other things. having said that, david kramer really has nothing to hide. if you just got handed the dossier, did not write it and handed it in, what is the mystery here? >> that is a great question, i agree with molly, he should testify, there's no reason that he should not be able to tell

the house intel committee who though sources were, and we need to be able to who know who the sources were to make assessments and value judgments about the veracity of the information, that is what critics of this dossier say that it is unfounded, all of these salacious arguments, allegations were unfounded, and critics of trump say, this thing may be true, and they believe that a lot of it is, we need to know where they sources are and who they were and where the information is coming from. it is interesting when you go back to the feud between mccain and trump, he sent david kramer over to meet with chris over steel after the election, mid-to-late november and then proceeded to pass the dossier over to james comey, so that in and of itself is pretty interesting. he would do this after trump was elected. >> brian: we are about to find out with the inspector general, preventing all of this from coming over in and saying, the world at the dossier plate and

the unmasking of some level with president trump, overall investigation, the fbi perhaps is about to be extremely embarrassed at the high level with this investigation, maybe we are about to find that out ay had for the exits including andrew mccabe in 2015. >> what is really important is for the fbi and the department of justice to answer congress' questions about the dossier and its use in securing a wiretap against their trump campaign affiliate. they have been really, really not forthright about their role. and that it's causing a lot of problems for investigators, devin nunes, the chairman of the house oversight committee sent a letter to rod rosenstein saying that all of the information needs to be turned over by january 3rd, they previously claimed that they did not have documents that they do have. all of this is very important. people are growing tired of that obstruction that they are seein seeing. >> brian: tonk, very quick, 35

pages long, cultivating president trump, the host of "the apprentice for ten years at the request of vladimir putin, they wanted to control the country, it sounds plausible. >> some of the allegations in the dossier are just coming you know, so wild and beyond belief. but to the overall point, right, this document is the one that spun the entire investigation. we have spent a year arguing over these cries of collusion between the trump campaign in russia, not russian interference in the election, but collusion, we have not seen anything to verify that and we are a year into this and it will go on much longer. >> brian: great job, thank you so much, have a great new year. coming up straight ahead we have shocking states to enact stats on chain migration, how people enter the united states but we will review the numbers and try to get over it when we come back. don't go anywhere. ♪

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♪ >> we had the discussion about the wall with an illegal immigration problem. you cannot forget that it is traffickers, smugglers, special interest aliens, and terrorists, all the same pathways. turning the organizations having to sell their services to anyone. so we really need to stop their ability to cross. >> brian: that was me, i had the privilege of going to the border two weeks to go to the rio grande sector. homeland secretary, immigration legal and illegal, new issue in this country in 2017 and 2018,

one year into the trump administration still a big deal, how big? according to a new research study analyzing census bureau figures, a record 1.8 million people entered the u.s. legally or illegally in 2016. that is up 700,000 from 2011. since 2006, the u.s. has over 14 million immigrants because of a lot of it through chain migration. director of the research for a center of immigration studies, earl ray as an attorney and, lemaster. we will start with you, do those numbers bother you? >> i think that the whole system runs on autopilot, that is we are just keep taking folks, people sponsor, we hand out recess through the lottery, employers want somebody bringing in mn, but nobody steps back and says, what does this 1.8 million make sense? what is the capacity for our schools and our hospitals, our roads, our infrastructure, how

many people can we assimilate? these are important questions. nobody is asking them. >> brian: i tell you, you have australia, new zealand, canada, they have an immigration system, 1965, we changed ours. don't you think we should reevaluate what we are doing? >> in 1965, one of the reasons that we changed ours under the immigration and nationality act was because the old system tended to give reference to people for western europe and northern europe, congress back then decided that they wanted a more a an egalitarian approach, and what some people referred to as chain migration, which actually the american immigration lawyers association considers a term also known as the family unity principal. and that has been a bedrock of our immigration system since 1965. i do not dispute the numbers,

the difference that i have with mr. is our interpretation. i say, we are admitting a large number of people through legal channels and some people are coming undocumented, so meanwhile we have a 4.1 unemployment rate at 17 year low, this is a historic low under the administration, that shows to me in my view that our economy does have the capacity to integrate to these workers. >> brian: we also have an american culture to perpetuate, we should not be embarrassed, we should embrace it, and unique background and history, we might be running from it, what i found stunning is new york 28%, los angeles 23%, texas, same thing. what am i saying? 30% of these households speaking spanish, not english, english is our national language, is that something for america to worry

about? >> we recognize, not only they have the ability to speak spanish, but only in their households. we can talk about the economics, but maybe the questions are the things that you raised, once immigration get so big it tends to overwhelm the assimilation process, because one of the ways assimilation works is immigrants and their kids basically get submerged in a sea of natives and their kids, but many school systems in the united states, the majority of the kids come from a foreign language background. often spanish, but other languages. what we have is a situation about 67 million people who speak a language other than english at home. this does not create challenges for the schools, but it does in many parts of the country represent a real challenge to english as the dominant form of communication coming we know that english is one of the glues that holds the country together. >> brian: of course, so we

agree on that. >> absolutely, and you know who else agrees with that is when you talk to recent immigrants, people have been here a long time, and this has been going on from studies for the nonpartisan pew center, the number one concern for undocumented and legal immigrants in this country is to learn english quickly, because they understand that if you do not know english, you cannot get a job, you cannot function, you cannot be a part of society. we see that in our latino population. the first generation that gets here, they speak mostly spanish, but second-generation maybe they are bilingual, by the third generation the spanish is gone, they are english dominated pride that has happened in my family, my family background is mexican-american. they do not know any spanish, that's the pattern we are seeing again and again, it is not a threat to american values are assimilation, it is just a different way of contributing to

the -- >> brian: chain migration is an immigration reform over the past month prior to the bipartisan committee already meeting, if they do not something to do something bipartisan, we have to do something together at some point, steve, that they are going to go ahead, and she migration is being looked at. not just a nuclear family that is coming here, it is the extended family, and after a while most of the immigrants coming here are all chain migration. or now the lottery system is under scrutiny because a couple of these guys come over, and they turn out to be terrorists, so do you believe that we are doing the right thing and re-examining all of the processes of immigration? >> absolutely, that makes a lot of sense, remind your listeners that if somebody comes here and is a citizen, an immigrant, he can sponsor a brother or sister or a parent and any adult children they have, then after those years, they can sponsor. if you broaden your brother and his wife and children, then your brother or sister can sponsor her siblings and it goes on and

on, that's why people use the term chain migration, but none of that is clear, does not make sense for the united states, because those people are not entering based on their skills on the need for the u.s. economy or anything like that, they are entering because they have a relative here who sponsors them, and that is really the big question, does that make sense for the country? >> brian: i will take this moment to say have a great new year, this is a great debate. number one debate in january, we will have you both back. >> we will put in a good word with tucker, i don't have the power to bring you back. lashing out at hillary clinton, now backpedaling while president trump watches, laughs and tweets. at that next. ♪

♪ >> it is time to start working on your sequel to "what happened." >> disable auto fill so that typing in f does not become for an exploratory committee. >> you were telling him about for a nostril breathing, it seems really in-depth. to take more photos in the woods, how are you going to meet unexpected vipers. >> pick up a new hobby in the new year, volunteer work, knitting, improv comedy, literally anything that will keep you from running again. >> finally put away your james comey voodoo doll, we know that

you think he cost you the election, but it is a year later, time to move on. >> so cheers to you, hillary clinton. >> cheers to you, hilary. >> cheers to you, hillary clinton. >> brian: kind of funny, that was vanity fair begging hillary clinton not to run again, it is called comedy. go quietly away. now huge backlash with the subscribers attacking them and burning the magazine, president trump is taking delight in the magazine supplied, tweeting today, vanity fair which looks as if it is on its last leg is bending over backwards and apologizing for the minor hit that they took at crooked hillary and the tour which is all said to be ambassador to the court of st. james and a think fund-raiser for crooked hillary is beside herself begging for forgiveness. the president getting involved. a radio liberal radio host in california wants to ray in on this.

do you side with "vanity fair" and their attempt at comedy? or the hillary supporters who are mad that they would try to bring up something funny about hillary clinton? >> i think that there is a little bit of both going on in there, "vanity fair," light humor, this is what they do, this is there audience, some of it was upset, that's why they apologize. but they have a right to still be upset, she won by 2.9 million votes, furthermore, we have to grab in chief, the mede to movement happening, every right to be upset, but they do not war to run in 2020, we need to look for younger and more diverse members of the party to step forward. but they have the issuing of the policy by the american company. >> brian: they took a political statement and they dated sarcastic comedy on it. you might not think it is funny, but it is free game, you have to admit, her husband, they went after everybody on late night,

nobody is beaten up by president trump on a regular basis, why isn't she open season? even though she sold a lot of books, the whining for three months is not a source of comedy, usually. >> here's the deal, if you own a business, brian and your customers are mad at something that you just did, you do an easy apology, of course that "vanity fair" is going to apologize, they have to keep their subscriber base, the president was factually incorrect in his tweet, "vanity fair" is doing just fine, the latest numbers i saw were 2% year-over-year increase because of his attack on them last year bringing a lot of attention and people added subscription and support of hillary clinton in opposition to president trump. i don't know why he is attacking them, because well, his attacks did not work, give them more business. >> brian: greeting card or resign from his post, we know that they laid off whole bunch of people last year as well, the magazine industry has taken a pounding, but my feeling is this coming magazine is supposed to

have an opinion and stand for something, i don't know "vanity fair," not something that i subscribe to or download, but i think to apologize when you really did not make a mistake or spelling error is something -- do you see stephen colbert apologizing to donald trump because he went over the top or alec baldwin apologizing for is over the top impression, he is selling a book that is on the bestsellers list that just mocks the president. magazine takes some subtle swipes at hillary clinton and his supporters go crazy. one of the sarah jones, who is a writer for a magazine for new republic observed that criticizing hillary clinton is a guarantee that you are going to get days of really vile abuse directed at you online. and it sucks. really? >> look, let's be clear here, you are picking out very specific people, alec baldwin is making money because of his impersonation of president trum

president trump. no, of course "vanity fair" apologizes, that is saving their subscriber base, it is called a smart business. why would he apologize? >> brian: it is not a sincere apology? >> book, not enough people understand how easy an apology is. more people in our society including the president himself should learn to apologize when you are wrong or have done something to upset somebody else. >> brian: what did they do wrong? if you have a magazine that takes a position that offends people, you don't have to apologize. why do you have columnists? why do you have opinion people, in your opinion right now, you take people off, do you apologize? do you feel compelled to people apologize to people? >> these are different to target audiences, we speak about things that are controversial, "vanity fair" does not as much, they did satirical like humor that -- that is a smart business

decision. we talk about it, president business, president trump, we are talking about business in america, he is attacking an american business. why is he not focusing on russia, turkey, and around forming and access in the middle east instead of "vanity fair"? >> brian: that is him and what made him successful in business and now politics. ethan, always great to see you, have a great new year. the story you are not going to believe, mayor de blasio has never been one to take himself lightly, but this one takes the cake, in an interview with politico, he compared his political setbacks with those of mahatma gandhi, while he just won reelection in new york, he failed to provide the progressive vision. and democrats are not eager to be associated with him. usually he is napping, because he says things like decriminalize public. he says that these democrats were not going to him are screwing up by ignoring him. so every time somebody tries something and it does not work

and validate something else, they might be doing going forward, de blasio told politico, tell that to thomas edison, henry ford, two gandhi, there is no leader who has not had setbacks, underplaying his own setbacks coming up laid up hillary clinton, saying that if she had listened to him and run a left-wing campaign, she would be president. perhaps it is no surprise anonymous top democrat told politico the reason that he gets ignore is because they do not respect him. don't be surprised if he does run for president even though was governor of his own party hates him. coming up straight ahead, it is not just nuclear weapons, new fears that north korea could be developing biological weapons, yes, that story coming your way. don't go away. ♪ go slow.

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after it was found to have anthrax antibodies in her his blood. president trump claim to anticipated the nuclear threat to the nest, i've been sitting at a long time, #north koreaposthowshehasthevid eotoproveittoo. 's when that was on "meet the press" with tim russert, also criticized north korea saying, caught red handed, very disappointed that china is allowing oil and north korea, never a friendly solution to the problem, if this continues to happen, the director of defense studies at the center for national interest, that was satellite video showing oil rigs pulling into north korea. first off, biological weapons, that change anything? >> it is something that we have always suspected, brian for the longest time. north koreans we have been talking about this program for a while about them having potentially as many as 16 nuclear weapons, we know that

they have as many as 5000 tons of chemical weapons, probably about 130-160 chemicals to mess along. but it seems clear that they do have a biological weapons program. it has been rumored and studied for a long time perhaps as much as two decades, but with this north korean soldier having anti- -- anthrax antibodies in his bloodstream confirms 1 of 2 things, either it was a farmhand working on a form farm that got it, that's one way with anthrax or he came in contact with it and was inoculated ford in the military, so we had to be concerned. when they are soldiers they can buy, and a tapeworm a foot and half long inside of him, just a mess, we do not know what is happening, they are routing from the outside. but the oil in china, and still dealing with it, do you believe that these can be private companies doing something that the chinese government does not know about it? >> i don't think so, brian, the

chinese have cheated on u.n. security council resolutions. think about this for a second, brian, this is the tenth united nations security -- with north korean sections, it seems according to the video have cheated now on all all of them. and what president trump did was a bold step to go on twitter. and it is pretty clear, the bromance is over, and good riddance, i'm glad that it is done, because the chinese were only going to help us but only to a certain extent. >> brian: building up our military presence, but we know that there could be a fight there, we have to show a willing to fight at the very least. we will push on trade restrictions, and some type of sanctions on china, and we will get europe's involvement in it to try to press this thing to a peaceful conclusion. by the current situation of going on like this is not acceptable to president trump, nor his chief of staff, nor the

chairman, nor the secretary of defense, all coming to a head in 2018, will this work? pressuring china would trade restrictions, because they could follow back retribution and it could be felt in the u.s. and in europe. >> it is true, brian, the president right now has the right approach. he calls what we called the python strategy, you squeeze the north korean economy as hard as you can. remember this, the north korean economy as a sweetness, one-third the size of my state of rhode island, if you make them feel the pain, it will work. with the chinese, lo, we have robust trade relations with china, $600 billion in terms of bilateral trade. but we also know that the chinese help them launder money through their banks, health and north koreans cheat on all kinds of security solution. if you are going to help the north koreans of jade sanctions and help them build nuclear relations, that is going to hurt

our relationship, that will make them back down. >> brian: harry, keep working your contacts, by all accounts this will be the number one national issue facing not only nikki haley at the u.n., but us in the u.s. and the pentagon. thank you so much. >> thank you, brian. >> brian: time for a special year in addition of final exam, how well do you remember the events of the past 12 months? that's contest, that chris would two find people straight ahead. ♪ ♪ with expedia, you can book a flight, then add a hotel, and save. ♪ everything you need to go. expedia

♪ >> brian: where does the time go, now time for "final exam" where we see which news professionals, and they are and contributors have been paying attention to current events, tonight we close the 2017 addition with a special year review. the questions will expand this past week, but all of 2017 is on the table. these contestants are really bright, lisa boothe playing herself as lisa boothe, and mark steyn, who once hosted the show earlier in the week. are you guys ready? >> i tried to get you to pool donna brazile, and he would not do it. >> brian: i would not give you the answers, you know why, lisa, they do not give me the questions ahead of time because they know that i would break.

our contestants have buzzers, and their hands are on the buzzers. i'm going to ask them questions, to review the rules, and the first one to buzz and gets to answer, you must wait until i finish the question before -- it is not like family feud. if you get it wrong, it is not okay. you lose a point, if you get it right, you get a point, and the best of the five questions gets winnings. >> what if we don't get any? >> like you did. when you were with shannon bream, they should have stopped that fight and scraped what was left with you off of the campus. so as long as it is not a brian kilmeade scenario. when i thought if i did the best i could it would be okay, mark. okay, you are off, so these guys are on, cast your mind back to the beginning of the year, you were children them. there was a big mess up at the oscars with the presenters for the best picture regarding -- i'm going to review the rules one more time.

wait until i finish the questio question. >> a technicality. >> brian: which two acting legends were left red-faced after reading the wrong card? before you answer, okay, give me your answer, mark. >> have you finished a question? faye dunaway and warren beatty? >> brian: let's watch. >> the most embarrassing mistake in award show history, everybody is talking about it. >> warren beatty, faye dunaway, bonnie and clyde coming out there and they robbed a bank of the titles, they were at wrong card. >> "moonlight" was the real winner, the presenters were given the wrong envelope by mistake. >> brian: you are correct, sir. 1-0 mark! >> i do not watch award shows. >> come shannon from now on. when excuses after you get it wrong make it all the worse. thank you for almost getting it

wrong, mark, playing and paying attention to the rules. dictator kim jong un trading a lot of insults, kim called trump a dotard and trump unveiled his new nickname for kim at the united nations, what is that nickname? >> rocket man. >> brian: let's watch. >> president trump said that the u.s. may have no choice but to quote totally destroy north korea, and he called out the dictator kim jong un. >> rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. >> rocket man obviously the elton john song, i don't know why anybody in the mainstream media is complaining, because he is calling, like you said a nickname. >> dotard is the song. >> brian: judges, 1-1. just to review the score, 1-1,

we are tied. we move to question number three, mark and lisa still playing themselves in this game. >> playing ourselves poorly. >> brian: donald trump send a mainstream media into a complete meltdown this year. [laughter] after tweeting that it could be the most famous typo of all time, what was that typo? >> brian: is a cove heavy? >> if you want me to say how to pronounce us, we have no idea. >> we are going to let you make the call this morning, that is the glitch, . >> brian: cuff fa, you speak fluent french. >> despite the press. >> this is the best one yet. you are hundred% right, lisa pulls her head to one, but without that typo. how could he not just say you made a mistake?

>> it is a great word, the word of the year. >> brian: okay, mark steyn. >> he can probably do it, he is very smart. >> brian: you two are starting to bug me. question number four, a multiple-choice question, hillary clinton embarked on the world's longest book tour and she explained the great detail all of the things that she has been up to since losing the election, she also revealed that she has been drinking a lot of alcohol to deal with the stress. what is hillary's go to drink of choice? is it pina colada, but he married or chardonnay? mark steyn. >> chardonnay. >> brian: is it chardonnay and customer go to the tape. >> i will not live, chardonnay helped a little bit too. [cheers and applause] >> yes, i had my fair share of chardonnay. >> trying to calm myself down and you know, my share of

chardonnay, it was a very hard -- >> who does not like chardonnay? >> it is a very political tool. >> brian: you are 100% right, chardonnay, let's check the scores now, 2-2. we have gotten the right answer each and every time, so this will be the tiebreaker if i have this correct. let's go. final question. back in the summer, the espn faced a firestorm after it pulled an announcer from calling a university of virginia football game, the reason, espn did not like his name, what was the announcer's name? >> robert to lee. >> brian: lisa boothe says robert lee, announcer jot that down, i will roll the tape. >> a fox news alert, their reports tonight to that espn has pulled a football announcer from upcoming game because of his name. which is robert to leave.

the twist, lee is an asian man, not an unrestricted confederate. >> brian: i'm embarrassed. but i am not embarrassed that alisa has defeated mark steyn by a final score of 3-2! >> can i think people for this moment. i want to think my parents for believing in me? >> what about your agent? >> oh, yes, everyone. is this like the oscars, did you read out the wrong winner? >> no, the winner is lisa, you made shannon bream proud wherever she is. >> she can still beat anyone. >> and i still consider myself the second worst contestant after you. >> thank you very much, somehow it all comes back to me. thanks so much, that was "final exam," next week tucker carlson will be back and he will go back to the standard weekend review

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>> brian: here we go, a fox news alert, dangerously low temperatures gripping the country, most of the country as we head into the holiday weekend. meteorologist scott williams is freezing in philadelphia. one, he goes outside paired when is this ending? >> no time soon, brian, the arctic invasion continues across the country. look at the temperatures right now, 12 degrees in chicago, 13 degrees new york city central park. 12 below international falls, those are the air temperature is coming to factor in the wind, how your body reacts and how you should do grass, feels like tupelo and chicago, and looking at north dakota, feels like 23 degrees below zero. as we look at the national radar, we have a few light snow showers moving across the great lakes and in friday up coming

weekend, over the great lakes and into new york city and boston, your saturday. we are talking a couple of feet of snow in montana, several inches again around the great lakes, erie could see a another foot, new york city 1-3 inches. the times square, it is going to be cold ringing in the new year, 11 degrees at midnight, that could tie for the second coldest on record. and as we head into the new year, look at the long arctic blast into next weekend, we are looking at temperatures well below average for the time of year. brian, back over to you. >> brian: all right, thank you so much. let's keep it in philadelphia, this mysterious fire of a giant statue of rocky balboa has been revealed, are you ready? it is sylvester stallone, the statue is a replica of the one sitting outside of the philadelphia museum of arts and cost $4000, he revealed the purchase and instagram video remarking that it took 41 years

to get rocky to california. they later pose in front of the statue with arnold schwarzenegger saying this "look who drop by on christmas" always fills the room with positive energy. that is so cool and if anybody deserves it, it is him. that is about ace to make it for us tonight unless "hannity" does not show. you can catch me every morning on "fox & friends," and listen to the brian kilmeade show, the fastest growing show in the entire country on radio, and if you have some time, do what i do, check out my book "andrew jackson and the miracle of new your lens" number seven in the country, and joining ande week run on the bestsellers list. a book with the greatest american success story, so good for andrew jackson propelled him to be the most famous man in america and president of the united states. he won two terms. and just bring you up-to-date,

they are cutting back the trees that he planted in honor of his wife right in front of the white house, the magnolia tree, so they have pruned it back, but it is still there. history lives. david webb is in for hannity, please watch. >> david: thank you, brian, welcome, i am david webb in for sean, a lot of breaking news, president trump, this is brand-new and telling "the new york times" that he thinks special counsel robert mueller will treat him fairly, in the face of the narrative and the press, the president also saying that the investigation is making the country look bad and also tonight, house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes slamming the doj and the fbi for what he says is a failure to turn over documents related to the anti-trump dossier. plus a research study proves just how biased and unfair if the mainstream media has been to