can breast-feed their babies. most-watched, most grateful that you spent the evening with us. good night from washington. i am shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." today, as you doubtless heard during immigration talk, president trump said something that almost every single person actually agrees with. an awful lot of immigrants come to this country from other places that are not very nice. they are dangerous, dirty, corrupt, and poor and that's the main reason those immigrants are trying to come here and you would, there. you live president trump asked why america doesn't receive immigrants from places you want to visit on why not norway? which by the u.n.'s measures is the most developed and richest country in the world. while saying this, trump used an explicative, not surprising either, because he uses them all the time and was speaking privately.

for some reason virtually everyone in new york and l.a. considered this a major, major event. why is that? to find out, we are joinedy by jose, communications director for barack obama's 2012 campaign and he joins us in studio. thanks for coming on. >> thank you for the s opportunity, tucker.or >> tucker: of course you can have a debate over what countries we should admit immigrants from and we are having that debate. what bothers me about the explosion this afternoon is the dishonesty in it. i will give you one example. joan walsh on cnn an annual list over there was asked a moment ago, would you rather live in haiti or norway. she said with a straight face, i can't say. now, that's lying. if we have gotten to the point where we all have to pretend every country is as exactly as nice as every other country then we are being dishonest. >> basically they are talking about -- i think the outrage here is about the insult on the people who come from these countries, making a living in the united

states. contributing fully to the u.s. talking specifically aboutut el salvador and haiti where tps was revoked by the trump administration. between these countries we are talking, people from those countries they are contributing close tore $170 billion in g.d.p. a year and they are making a full contribution to the economy. >> tucker: it's a complicated picture but i agree with you, if you are saying that a lot of people coming from those countries are good people, of course i agree.ely the idea that you are not allowed to say that they are pretty crummy countries haiti, for example, or el salvador, i have been to both of them. that's why people are leaving them to come here. i don't understand what the sin is, you are not allowed to point out other countries aren't as good places to live as america? what is the problem? >> there is definitely an issue here because what is happening here the president is articulating the same vision we saw in charlottesville. when they are talking about we won't replace you what the

chanters and the marchers talking about. >> tucker: be rational here. >> it looks the same. >> tucker: slow down. >> whole masses on the statue of liberty that we are talking about. >> tucker: stay on track with me here, okay? the president from what we know and maybe other things we don't know about. what we know these countries are crummy places, holes, whatever, he used profanity, the people who left those road trains or hid in a wheel well, they would agree with that, why the outrage? is it you have to lie and pretend as joan walsh does, i don't know i would live in norway or haiti, like, we have gotten to a place where nobody can be honest about anything. do you see the point? >> first of all, one of the things that is that, do we apply the same metric to eastern europe? we are talking about countries that are not doing too well right now? crime measures? economic measures and other issues. we seem to be applying this only to countries where there are brown people such as haiti and el salvador and

talking about norway like e said yesterday, which again ties back to the social engineering that they're trying to. >> tucker: i don't want to get all fact based on you. norway according to the united nations, the most developed country in the world. its sovereign wealth is the biggest in the world because of the oil discoveries offshore there as you know. richest place in the world, okay? haiti is the poorest place in the hemisphere and has been for a long time. people are actually staying in this country right now legally because haiti is so bad we don't think they should have to return. if you say norway is a better place toet live and haiti is a hole, anyone who has been in those countries or lived in them would agree. you are jumping up and down and saying you can't say that. >> most people norway don't want to live in trump's america right now. >> tucker: you are missing the point. >> it's a question about values. you are attaching this label from people who come from

predominantly brown h countries that is a problem. o and that's how decisions on tps are being made. when you take away legal status because if people were here legally? -- >> tucker: can i ask you a question? >> contributing to this country then, are you using the statute or are you using prejudice to make those decisions? >> tucker: prejudice, racism. white supremacy, fine.ai >> norway, haiti. >> tucker: one is the richest country in the world and the other is one of the poorest countries in the world. you think that's immoral to ith point it out? it's a statement of values. i'm asking you a very simple question.'t if haiti isn't such a bad place, why don't we say to the people who are here temporarily, in refuge from haiti, go back, it's great. we don't say that because it's not great. actually, it'sit everything the president said it was. it's not an attack on haitians, it's an acknowledgment that their country is not as nice as other countries. if you can't even say that out loud without being called a racist by people like you and the morons at msnbc -- >> you are calling me a moron. >> tucker: i'm not calling m you a moron. anyone who says it's a

racist statement how. you said it's like charlottesville. >> talking about a predominantly white country and predominantly african countryhi or people of african descent. >> tucker: so you are not allowed to say that? how about crime measures? corruption? what are you talking about? >> the president just said a few weeks ago that everybody in haiti has aids and that's one of the reasons why he wanted to cancel tps even though people are here and have been vetted time and time again. >> tucker: i mean, look -- >> you do know. when you are attachingn, labels to an entire population of people, that is problematic, especially coming from the leader of the free world. >> tucker: i will speak for myself here, again, i think there are plenty of great people from haiti. >> do you know any? >> tucker: i have met a ton of haitians, there are a lot in miami.ny a lot of them have donean well. the truth is when people ntom poor countries, not a measure of moral stature, when you come from a poor country, much more likely to be poor when you are here. there is a lot of poverty

already here, in case you haven't driven across the country. real question how much. >> i come from a working do know.ily so i >> tucker: you can't look at me and say that's racist. i have the numbers where immigrants come from. last year we had 23,000 immigrants from el salvador.m i'm sure great people. we had 404 from norway. so we overwhelmingly give advantage to very poor countries and it's an honest question. not a racial one. what effect does that have on the poverty rate in this country? >> i can tell you that while this is a free market network and i would imagine that you follow the basic laws of economics. when you have people creating demand and you have people paying into the tax system, like the 23,000 number that you justu mentioned -- >> tucker: from elel salvador. >> or 200,000 who have tps and the status was just revoked by the administration lastt week, you are taking that

contribution away from the economy and these people are going to wal-mart. they are buying gas. they are buying clothes. they are going to supermarkets and they aree stimulating local and national economy. >> tucker: so you are speaking in generalizations and, again, i actually >> the president is also speaking and generalization. >> tucker: here are some specifics. these are the rates of welfare use by country. these are families that are using at least one welfare program in the united states from central and south american immigrants it's 73%. >> can you tell me where that is? >> tucker: center for immigration studies. the people who keep the numbers on this and from south asia, a nonwhite region it's 17%. >> by the way coming from the network.ay >> tucker: i'm not say saying that people from south asia have better than people from south america there is economic cost in bringing people over who are more likely to go on public services and who are poorer. that's not a racial attack. it's an economic observation in a country that has a ton of poor people already and have you no answer for that other than, oh, it's

charlottesville. >> you are talking about social engineering. the whole worry here and -- that's why they want to do away with family based migration. family migration what they consider is leading to the browning of america. >> tucker: that is your fever dream. i'm throwing actual statistics at you and you are getting back to the brown, black, white thing. >> i gave you number on the gdp impact from people from el salvador and people from haiti right now. >> tucker: if people from poor countries are much more likely to go on welfare and make less, doesn't mean they are bad people but the cost of having them here is higher than people from other regions. that's reality. >> i have seen other studies that actually say immigrants are no more likely to go on welfare. >> tucker: i would be fascinated to see that study because it doesn't exist. >> it does exist. >> tucker: no, it doesn't. the rate of american programs using at least one program is 30%. that's higher than immigrants from south asia.

but the preponderance of immigrants aren't coming from south asia, they are coming from latin america, those rates are really high and i think we have a right to ask questions about that but you say it's racist. >> can i tell you something, b have you heard of the five year bar? >> tucker: i don't know what the five year bar is. >> a five year bar is a law that congress passed that doesn't allow an immigrant once they regularize their status to access welfare. how is it that you are coming up from those numbers prevents people, unless you are considering when you get a scholarship for public education and public education is actually an investment into the country. if you are considering that, if that's what you are factoring on welfare, that's really problematic. >> tucker: okay. so about half of all >> five yeabar in the >> you can look up the five year bar in the library of congress. >> tucker: let me speak to the reality rather than the law -- r >> the law is reality by the

way. >> tucker: actually the law is not reality. if the law was reality we wouldn't be having this debate right now. >> i can tell you right now because i know a lot of people who are not able to access medicare because of five year bar. >> tucker: about half of all immigrants from el salvador right now are living at or below the poverty line. t not bad people. not an attack on them. that's not true from immigrants from other regions of the world. again, why is it immoral for americans to make the calculation what makes us more prosperous? >> most people living below the poverty line are undocumented and that is because they are not allowed to participate. >> tucker: why does that benefit america? >> the people who have been regularized through a program like tps, there are studies by construction around the country, how they have moved to supervisory roles they are well-trained and producing jobs for other people and generating -- >> tucker: there are plenty of immigrants who are well trained. >> daca students are contributing to 280 billion to the g.d.p. of the country. >> tucker: you don't know about these numbers. >> oh, yes i do.

>> tucker: let me ask you a theoretical question then -- >> do you know where it comes from? cato institute. and "forbes magazine" which i'm sure you consider that a leftist publication. >> tucker: let's get to a philosophical question. do you think it's fair for american citizens who live here to decide who comes on the basis of who will potentially help our country more? >> in 1965, we changed the laws in this country to be closer to family based migration because -- >> tucker: please answer my question. >> we were using quotas. >> tucker: we are using quote now. >> 8 to 1ta want dreamers to stay in the country. if you are asking about how many americans are looking for, most support daca and to regularize the status of dreamers. >> tucker: if you can't answer a question, it's counterproductive just to filibuster.er do you think, at least theoretically allowed for -- hold on let me finish. let's figure out who is most likely to add to our

economy? who is most likely to assimilate? is that okay or racist like everything else i have brought up? is that okay to bring up that question? >> immigrants do assimilate. >> tucker: is it fair tore americans to ask that question? what's good for us? are we allowed to ask that question or is that racist? >> who is we when we say americans? right now, 86 -- >> tucker: i don't know. >> you have americans. >> tucker: how about the majority of the electorate? >> the latest poll that came out today says that 80% of americans want dreamers tof assimilate. including two thirds of republicans. >> tucker: we are arguing apples and oranges. >> no we are not. we are arguing about a immigrants. >> tucker: does a country have a right to decide who comes in and who doesn't come in? >> most americans want immigration reform in 2013 by every poll. >> tucker: youm won't answer because you can't. >> by every poll and you guys passed that in the house of representatives. it's not like you guys want to fix the system. >> tucker: i think our viewers can determine where you are coming from, jose. thank you. >> thank you for your time. >> tucker: mark steyn is a

columnist and by the way an immigrant, we will let him say whether his land was any sort of hole. he joins us tonight. mark, maybe i'm misreading this and maybe the president said some things i didn't hear i'm sure there were. from what i could hear he is saying look, what why would we give preference to poor countries over rich ones? that doesn't seem like a crazy thing to say. >> i think is he actually saying why should we give preference to dysfunctional societies over others? i will say it if jose won't. until 50 years ago, every nation thought it had the right to discriminate when it came to immigration among those countries and those people who would find it easier to assimilate and contribute to the country they were moving to. if jose thinks you don't like black people or brown. people, let's keep it all black.

i think it's -- i agree with the president, i wish he would have formed it more elegantly. haiti is a [bleep] hole. grenade isn't. st. lucia isn't. there are distinctions one can make even within small groups of countries. as to joan walsh refusing to say whether she would rather move to haiti or norway, let's not wait for joan. let's look at the existing traffic. there are immigrants all over the world who move to norway. no one voluntarily moves to haiti. why is that? it's a dysfunctional society and so are many of the others from which america's present ludicrous system takes newcomers from. >> tucker: so china is the most aggressive colonial power in the world right now and it's investing all over

africa and all over latin america and all over the caribbean. spending $30 billion in haiti, for example. there is no pressure from joan walsh or the american left for the chinese to absorb immigration from any of those regions at all. they are not denounced as racist for keeping their borders totally closed to everybody.ou why is that? i wonder. >> well, because china is allowed to advance its own interests. so it's bought, for example, f a big box industry in jamaica. it doesn't feel along with that it has to import a big bunch of jamaicans to its a country. people can object to what president trump says. but it actually makes far more sense than if you look at what pat leahy said, who just sent out this tweet in response, bleating that's not who we are. it's not enough to actually say "that's not who we are." and, in fact, that's the response to everyone of

these so-called problems. "that's not who we are." they never actually say "who we are." that's that's not who we are. who we are seems to be devolving into the people who say that's not who we are. everybody else, china, haiti, norway is allowed too be "who we are" and act asho a nation in its own national interests. including on immigration policy. >> tucker: yeah. i think china could use a little more diversity. we will be pushing for that in future weeks. thanks a lot, mark. we appreciate it.. >> exactly., thanks, tucker. >> tucker: senator lindsey graham had some uncharitable words for this show and anyone who believes in borders. of course he refused to join us but will respond next. ♪ to fetch a pail of water. all because of a burst water pipe in their house that ruined the hardwood floors in their kitchen. luckily the geico insurance agency had helped them with homeowners insurance and the inside of their house was repaired and floors replaced.

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>> tucker: couple nights ago this show's was critical of summit with >> tucker: a couple nights ago this show's was critical of summit with congressionalng leaders where the president indicated he was willing to step back from daca negotiations personally and sign whatever deal thatt lawmakers agreed on. senator lindsey graham was pleased with it though. watch. >> i think the president did a fabulous job of talking about this problem. he did it in a smart way and compassionate way and you know, his job is not to sell books. his job is not to carry a tver show. his job is to solve problems and he has got to work with democrats. i was proud of my president yesterday. >> tucker: selling books. as if we could ever rival senator lindsey graham for cynicism. we never could. and for the record, we never say anything on this program we don't sincerely believe. can lindsey graham say the same?

chris cobach is secretary of state for kansas and he joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. >> tucker: i'm concerned because what we thought was never going to happen again appears to be happening and that's the leadership of the republican party ignoring what its voters want party in favor of a deal that again fails to t seal the border and give us actual security in the right to choose who comes here. am i imagining that? >> no, you are not imagining that. the worst, the most troubling thing about that meeting on tuesday that i saw was you had multiple republicans repeating the mantra "we have got to do daca." we have got to do daca. we have got to give amnesty for these people. look, tucker, you pointed this out. the daca amnesty is bad for americans. it's granting amnesty to a million people 20's andnt

30's, average age 24, who are going to compete against young americans who have a 9% unemployment rate in that age group and for young americans who don't have a college degree, it's a whopping 34% underemployment rate. so we're legalizing foreign nationals who have broken our laws to compete against americans who can't get a job. so that's bad policy. in addition it's going to cause another surge in illegal immigration. the idea that we have to dogr this is ludicrous and we should only consider doing that if there are law enforcement end chain migration and mandate everify. if we don't get everything we want to secure our borders, including the wall, then we walk away from the deal. we don't need to do daca. >> tucker: not only do it but put it right to the very top of the list of priorities of the u.s. congress before everything. before the opioid crisis literally shortening the life expectancy of middle america. we need to do.or this i feel sorry for some of the daca recipients for

sure. i'm not attacking them.i' it's not clear why, if you have any questions about it, you should take a moral lecture from a republican senator who suggests that you are the cynical heartless one when you say raise questions about the effect on american citizens. how do we get to place where republican senators are lecturing us how they are far better people than we are because they are for amnesty. how did that happen exactly? >> that's a great question. as i'm sure you know, tucker,, lindsey graham and this group of six senators came up with a even more a generous mega amnesty, much bigger than daca, that they announced they favor. the point is, he seems to be giving away the store.ce he doesn't seem to care that much about all the damage that amnesty does to hard-working americans. you are absolutely right. one other thing, the false urgency about this is ludicrous, too. the march 5th deadline that president trump set.th all that happens on march 5th is that some of the daca work permits start

to expire, day after day some more expire. there is nobody showing up at their home with armed i.c.e. agents to escort them out of the country. the notion we have to grant rushed am necessary is i is false. >> tucker: i am amazed that senator graham has taken time out of advocating for war with iran to talk about this position but heou has. mr. secretary, thank you. >> thank you. take care. >> tucker: a vermont newspaper editor has lost his job for raising questions about genderer politics. that editor joins us next. ♪ 'sup, world? it's the box with 30% savings for safe drivers. coming at you with my brand-new vlog. just making some ice in my freezer here. so check back for that follow-up vid. this is my cashew guy bruno. holler at 'em, brun. kicking it live and direct here at the fountain. should i go habanero or maui onion? should i buy a chinchilla? comment below.

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tweets that i saw. but you asked questions to somebody else on twitter. i didn't understand how that was out of bounds. >> i believe, tucker, it was out of bounds because i didn't agree with it. i think it's as simple as that. there's a powerful contingent of speech police out there. this is an extremely liberal state, progressive state. i galvanized them unwittingly. it went on all through the weekend. they didn't want to stop until they had my head on the platter. they finally got it on monday evening. >> tucker: you say vermont is liberal. there is nothing liberal about taking a man's livelihood away because you disagree with him. that's not liberal. that's something else. >> you'd have to ask them. they think it's a feather in their cap any time they get rid of somebody who disagrees with them. i think that's what's going on

here. >> tucker: you're a journalist and have been for a long time. isn't a key tenet of journalism is you get to say what's true. the truth is a defense. >> truth is a defense.e. you get to say what is true. t but in the age we live, in our companies, lot of media companies say we are supposed to be objective, impartial, et cetera, et cetera. i want to ask questions. i want to raise questions and raise issues because i think there are a lot of things going on that we have to ask questions about and putting a third gender on apu driver's license was something that i thought we should ask a question about. >> tucker: someone on twitter said, "i think this is great and courageous" and you said "why is it great and courageous"? >> correct. i believe that if i had said, that is great and courageous, awesome, i don't think we would be having this conversation here today, tucker. >> tucker: the question is not

about objectivity. theyr: t are not asking you to e objective, they are asking you to dial a very specific line. >> they are asking me to tow the line, they are asking me to agree with them, and they are askingo me -- they are holding y feet to the fire to make sure that the orthodoxy wins out. this time, they held my feet to the fire until my company said that that's enough, you're fire fired. >> tucker: do you see this as a trend? it's is something i have notice. big companies have become the heavies for the cultural left. you think of big companies as conservatives, but all of a sudden, they are the ones enforcingox orthodoxies. is that my imagination? >> no, i don't think it is. i think big companies, a lot of big media companies are more or less encouraging the left. i don't think that they're objective. i don't think they want debate. i think they want us to conform and conform to the

prevailing ideology that's out there. the prevailing ideology that is out there as leftists. with the leftists take you on, they are big in number, and people are afraid to say anything against them. theyit often win. they won a little while ago here in vermont when they shouted charles murrayay off the stage in middlebury when he tried to give a speech. that was on your show. >> tucker: i know. >> it's hard to disagree with them. >> tucker: they take your job away, here you are in the middle of the winter, you are in vermont, and you have no job. our prayers are with you. we hope you find something. have you heard? ufos might actually be real, for real. the pentagon spent millions of dollars investigating them. we are not insane. these are facts. we're going to talk to an actual journalist who has been working on that for a while and exposed that secret program in

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>> tucker: well, you may not have heard about this since >> tucker: well, you may not have heard about this since apparently it's not a big news story somehow.n ufos turn out to be real, we are not kidding. recently the "new york times" revealed a secret 22-million-dollar program that investigated the unidentified flying object. doesn't mean they are from outer space. they're not identified and they are flying and they are objects. they found multiple aircraft encounters they could not explain and storing metal alloy recovered. leslie kane wrote about this in "the new york times," that piece in question, and she wrote a book called "ufos, generals, pilots, and government officials go on the record." she spent years investigating the ufos with the former chief of staff by the way john podesta. leslie joins us tonight. thanks for comele on. >> thanks for having me, tucker. >> tucker: that piece vindicated a lot of work that you have been doing for an awful lot of time.ic it got my attention and i stopped making fun of people like you and started paying

attention. it seems like a huge story.e i know it's vast and hard to sum up. if you could, just briskly tell us what we think we know about these sightings? >> well, we do know that there are objects in the sky and sometimes in the water that demonstrate extraordinary capabilities that experts say that we don't have on this planet.sa we don't have the ability of creating the kind of technology that -- or paired technology that has been observed by high-level officials for many, many decades, the pentagon is the most recent discovery but these things have been discovered in other countries and by our country for many years. >> tucker: what percentage of of the sightings are we sure are not w weather phenomena or experimental aircraft? >> that's a really good question. most sightings of ufos are identifiable. we are talking about maybe 5-10% of all sightings called in are not explainable. the ones that are really of interest are the ones reported by military pilots, commercial

pilots, trained observers, multiple witnesses, once caught on radar, events that have a lot of data to support them and involve very, very credible people. >> tucker: i guess what bothers me most about this story is how clearly people who should have been following up and paying attention haven't been and the case that sticks with me, november 7th, 2006, chicago o'hare airport, 4:15, the pilot waiting to depart to charlotte looks up and there is a saucer hovering not that far over the plane. people in the tower see it, other pilots, dozens of people see it. it's real and the faa refuses to investigate. how could that be? >> it's shocking. it's shocking to me. they refused to investigate, i think because -- who knows, the bigger reason probably is that they can't explain these things and ii don't want to deal with them, it might frighten people, they don't have enough information, they don't like to say that they are something hovering above an airport and we don't know what it is.

basically they will come up with other explanations such as that it was a weather phenomenon, that is what the faa said about o'hare, that is an insult to the pilots on the observers who know that it wasn't weather, and metallic looking, disc-shaped object that hovered over a terminal, gate c17 for about 5 minutes and then i shot straight up through the clouds, and incredible aspect. it was hovering below a cloud bank and all of a sudden, he shot straight up, really fast through the cloud bank and cut a hole in it. there was a c cookie-cutter hole in the clouds, you could see the blue on the other side. as far as anybody knows, as far as i know and from what i've been told, we don't have machines in the sky that can do things like that. >> tucker: this is not a potato field in maine in the 1950s and 3:00 in the morning, this is chicago o'hare, one of the busiest airports in the world come in the middle of the day, in front of several witnesses, and the faa says we aree not that interested.

how could that be? >> i appreciate how baffled the marker, tucker. i am baffled, too. you can imagine the witnesses involved in this, it's an insult to them. there are many witnesses, we are talking about military people, high-level people in the air force and navy and other military commercial pilots who were just told that they were not interested in what they i sy it's very difficult for a lot of them because they are patriotic people. >> tucker: what if it's the chinese military? i believe you because you are the preeminent research on this question. but it begs belief that the government would let it go. i appreciate it. leslie, thank you for coming on. >> thanks. i appreciate your interest in this. >> tucker: time for "final exam." will shannon bream, winner of nine get to ten? next. his

♪ >> tucker: your prayersrs have been answered. it is time for "final exam" where we see which news professionals have been paying attention tohe the news. we put them against each other in a best-of-five news quiz. shannon bream, as he well now, has entrenched herself as the master. she completed a full brady bunch, beating chris stirewalt to run her record to 9-0. tonight, she goes for her tenth straight win against america's news headquarters host, leland vittert, a man famous for his news acuity. >> and hair. >> tucker: and general good temper. good luck to you, leland. >>i i have been studying tape. i know you rigged peter doocy's button. i get this. >> tucker: your more ferocious, leland. i will cut you off and tell you the rules. hands on browsers. the first one to buzz and gets

to answer. every correct answer is worth one point. if you get it wrong, you lose a point. best five wins. are you ready? >> came on. >> tucker: the first one is a multiple-choice question. democrats are entering oprah to run for president. donald trump was asked about this. his response was it a, she is no stable genius, b, she is a total, tremendous loser, sad! , or is it c, i like oprah, i don't think she is to run? leland vittert. >> see. >> tucker: to the tape. >> oprah would be a lot of fun. i like oprah. i don't think she's going to ru run. >> tucker: wow. >> it for the lead! >> tucker: [laughs] you join a long list of people who began -- >> we got it! >> tucker: congratulations. s.>> tucker: question two. the president just unveiled his

latest nickname, this time for senator dianne feinstein of california. what was that nickname? was at a, sleepy diane? b, sneaky diane? c thomas -- >> tucker: sneaky diane? not sloppy? roll tape. >> we do have this tweet to last hour, 20 minutes ago, the president, the fact of sneaky diane feinstein. sneaky diane feinstein. here we go. look out sloppy steve. sneaky dianne feinstein.. >> tucker: wow! this is without precedent. she is trying to enroll you, i agree with that. question three, ladies and gentlemen, we have some more dianne feinstein for you. gave an unusual reason for releasing that transcript on the trump dossier without consulting any of her peers, including the committee chairman. what was her excuse? >> this is where shannon asks

for hints. >> tucker: what was dianne feinstein's excuse? she did it unilaterally. she just did it and she said she did it because... >> i was off that day? >> tucker: it's a medical issue. that's her first hint. it is something you can catch on the subway. >> narcolepsy? >> i'm up by two. >> tucker: from a child. leland vittert? >> i'm guessing based on the hints. b a cold? >> tucker: a cold? >> cold, flu, some type of -- >> tucker: cold is the answer and we will see if the tape ratifies it. >> i don't make an excuse but i had a bad cold and maybe that slowed down my mental facilities a little bit. >> there you go. >> tucker: there you go. >> the lack of deductive reasoning paid off. >> tucker: the answer is not narcolepsy, though, close. >> you can catch it on the subway. i caught it on the subway.

>> tucker: i don't laugh about narcolepsy. >> it's best-of-five, right? >> tucker: but an incorrect answer puts you down a point. anything can happen. i wouldn't count your points until they are final. >> thank you, professor. >> tucker: and other multiple-choice. americans are thawing out from intense cold weather. one place in the united states was colder than the surface of the planet mars. was it a, and nebraska? b, new hampshire? or c, the northernmost date on the east coast, maine? leland vittert. >> i shouldn't have done that based on the rules but i will go as new hampshire. >> tucker: new hampshire. okay. new hampshire. it is the answer?e, >> mount washington, new hampshire. it is so cold they were blowing bubbles and they frozen you could see the guy actually holding those bubbles as if it was a baseball. it feels like minus 100. the second coldest place here on

earth. >> the benefit of working on the weekends. he was doing the live shot on my show. >> tucker: how could new hampshire be colder than maine? you are right. holy smokes. this is unprecedented. we still have a question to go. are you ready? >> i am ready. >> tucker: be careful. an iconic soda brand is making a desperate attempt to appeal to millennials, young people, by unveiling new flavors, ridiculous ones like feisty cherry, zesty blood orange, and twisted my ankle. brand is it? shannon bream. >> diet coke. >> tucker: i don't believe you. >> it might be. >> tucker: really? zesty blood orange? is a diet coke? >> diet coke is getting a n makeover. you may notice some swimmer cans, they are on your screen.. diet coke diet coke is unveiling some new flavors. >> tucker:ho holy smokes! this is a little bit like when winston churchill retired. [laughter] >> you are no neville

chamberlain, though. >> tucker: >> can i hand it over? >> tucker:u h this is the covetd mouth breather of malaga. >> i'm counting the new mr. america. >> i am gracious for you --dash go that's great. >> >> tucker: tucker said that i was going to lose. >> tucker: [laughs] congratulations to you, leland. shannon bream, you have been a fierce, n terrifying competitor. congratulations, nine in a row. >> i will retire now. >> you have to go for nine now. >> tucker:e pay attention to the news. we'll be back next week with another news quiz. we'll be right back. ♪ but we know a lot about drama. from scandalous romance, to ridiculous plot twists. (gasping) son? dad!

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seen us celebrate chris cuomo, the poet laureate of the cable news network. what began as gentle mocking quickly became admiration and then something like love. we watched chris emit a jasmine scented cloud of profound and haunting insights into the human condition. yes, we initially wrote them off as a w semi-illiterate buffoon, we'll admit that, but then we came to see the deeper truth. chris cuomo is an artist, ac year, a soul sherbrooke, leading his people from the screeching chaos of this world into o the blissful clarity of e next. he is a shaman. we are his acolytes. at least we thought we were. now comes the disturbing news that chris cuomo is claiming to be something else entirely. in a recent interview with the hollywood reporter, he described himself not as the eastern mystic we imagine, and we want to warn you, this may come as a shock, but merely a journalist. that's right. a fact man, a shoe leather reporter, someone who doesn't let his own opinions get in the way of the news, that is why i came to cnn, chris explained. imagine our horror, sadness,

bewilderment, just a journalist? we knew him as so much more. could this be true? or is it merely a veil meant to confuse unbelievers, one of the thousand names of vishnu? this is the chris cuomo we know. >> there is a sense of duty. >> chris cuomo was an 88-pound -- 40-kilo -- there you go, bro. excellent. make it look easy. keep the belly tight. slow down. >> hashtag stand firm. please use it. p >> sean: >> tucker: just a jourt indeed. you are so much more than that, chris, with abs like that, don't sell yourself short. that's it for us tonight. tune in every night at 8:00 to

the show that is a sworn enemy of line, come pomposity, smugness, and especially groupt. trying to tell the truth in ina worldll that demands lying. dvr it if you know how it works. more than anything, stay tuned for sean hannity. he's next. >> sean: tucker, thank you. welcome to "hannity." we have the most incredible developments tonight, it's complicated, we will break it all done for you, you've got to stay with us. sara carter breaking news tonight, andrew weissmann, the special counsel, to robert mueller's topal investigator, mt with reporters from the ap about paul manafort's case before joining the russia investigation. plus a big follow-up tonight on our exclusive reporting about how the clinton pot and paid for phony fake russian dossier was actually used to obtain fisa warrant to spy on then candidate and then president-elect donald trump and his campaign. this scandal is unprecedented in american history and we are only tonight scratching the surface. we'll explain. plus president