>> martha: that was the beginning of the wall come down. so that is our story for tonight. we will see you back here tomorrow night at 7:00. hope you join us. tucker carlson is next. >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the russia investigation, if you can remember that far back, was created to expose collusion between american politicians and operatives from foreign governments. instead, so far the investigation has simply exposed itself as corrupt and mismanaged. newly released texts from peter strzok suggested high level fbi operatives were not on the level about the investigation from the very beginning. fox chief intelligence corr responsibili -- correspondent catherine herridge has more. >> one senior investigator was

skeptical the russia probe would uncover wrong doing. after robert mueller took over the probe in may, now agent strzok and lisa page discuss the merits. he says i have a concern there's no big there there. in another more cryptic text, strzok writes i personally have a sense of unfinished business. unleashed it with mye, the code mane for the clinton e-mail case. now i need to fix it and finish it. another republican that read the text said the fbi officials talk about a secret society within days of president trump's victory. >> there was a society of at least two people to include peter strzok and lisa page that had a desire to keep donald trump from becoming president and then an expressed intent to

work against him after he was elected president. >> if fbi blames a technical for a five-month gap in texts from the fbi and don't know if they can be covered. >> tucker: thanks, catherine. joe, thanks for coming on. >> my pleasure. >> tucker: on special report a little over an hour ago, ron johnson, the head of senator -- who is head of the homeland security committee, suggested the secret society may have met off site away from the fbi secretly. what more is this? >> i suggests that there was a brazen plot to illegally exonerate hillary clinton, and if she didn't win the election, to frame donald trump with a

falsely-created crime. everything we've seen from the texts and from all of the facts developing shows that the fbi and senior doj officials conspired to violate the law and to deny donald trump his civil rights. >> tucker: what would be the motive for that? >> the motive is that i didn't like donald trump. they didn't think he was fit to be president and they were going to do everything in their power to exonerate hillary clinton and if she lost to frame donald trump with a false crime because they didn't think he should be president. >> tucker: what do you make of the claim that five months of text messages between strzok and page have disappeared as hillary clinton's e-mails did? >> as an old united states attorney, that explanation from the bureau is ludicrous. those texts were purposely destroyed, period. they were purposely destroyed. moreover, they exist somewhere. i can assure you the nsa has

them. other companies have them. verizon has them. at&t. if the bureau can't figure out how to get them, they're in worse shape than i thought they were. >> tucker: so you don't buy it at all? >> absolutely not. those texts exist. if they don't exist, that i were destroyed. >> tucker: so you use obstruction of justice. how do we proceed if the country's chief law enforcement is guilty of that? >> the attorney general needs to appoint a special counsel. if he doesn't want to do that, he needs to make sure the criminal division empanels a grand jury immediately and starts putting in that grand juriry under oath, comey, strzok, page, baker, mccabe and senior justice department officials, sally yet, bruce ohr and others. all of these people need to be in front of a federal grand jury. we have long since passed the time when we need just

congressional investigations for this. make no mistake about it. a group of people were trying to frame donald trump of a falsely-created crime. >> tucker: is there any possibility the justice department has already empanelled that investigation? >> i certainly hope so. i hope they have. we're long passed that time. if they haven't, i can't imagine they're not about to do so shortly. >> tucker: why is it so hard for the fbi to le respond to legitimate and lawful requests from congress which provides oversight oversight oversighted? >> it shouldn't be. christopher wray's performance has not been good. how to carry out your duties, respond to congress. it's been an abysmal performance by director wray. >> tucker: and does it strike you odd? >> very odd. i cannot conceive of circumstances under which agents in these conditions with the

kind of text messages that they exchanged, knowing what we know now about the criminal activity involving the compromising of national security agency intercepts of 702 data involving private american citizens, i can't imagine how they would still be on the premises. >> tucker: would that be cleared for classified information? >> i can't see how. >> tucker: but they have present colleagues in the building. >> members of the secret society no doubt talk to each other. >> tucker: how can that be at this point? >> i'm afraid only christopher wray knows why they're being a loued to stay in the building. >> tucker: last question since you've been here a long time and worked in the world a long time. are we right to have real questions about the integrity of our justice system watching this? >> regrettably we're at a point now where the fbi has lost almost all of its credibility and regrettably its integrity as a result of the conduct of james comey who remains america's most

dirty cop. >> tucker: terrifying. thanks very much. >> thank you. >> tucker: and richard goodsy advised hillary clinton during her campaigns. thanks for coming on. the way things unfold between you and me, can i say you believe this happened? you say hillary clinton did not wrong. right wing crazies making up stories again. we're going to do the revulsion test. i'm going to read you a series of statements that are true and you tell me if they bother you. >> try it. >> tucker: does it bother you the justice department decided not to charge hillary clinton before completing the investigation 2000 her or interviewing her personally? does that bother you? >> doesn't bother me the fact that every good later and every good job decide what the fact of the case are and the law would be and basically because they have a deadline, they're not going to write the morning of. so they want to write a scholarly document that is

well-received. so of course, they know what the evidence is going to be. they knew what hillary would say. this was no surprise. the suggestion that what she was going to tell them was going to be different when they had all the evidence in -- >> tucker: that's striking. they knew the evidence before they gathered it all. so i guess the question is, why have an investigation at all? why interview anybody? we know what we know. so why don't we charge people that we believe are guilty and exonerate those innocent? >> they had access to the e-mai e-mails. they had big fish last. you know by that point what that person is going to say because you have the documents to support it. >> tucker: how would you know what he was going to say unless you're clairvoyant. i interview people for a living, i don't know what they're going to say. >> they have the documentary evidence. she had it. she prepared herself for it.

can i say one thing? donald trump said he wants the hillary clinton test. so when he's questioned, he wants to have it. i agree, the hillary clinton test should be 11 1/2 hours under cameras, under the east like she had from benghazi -- >> tucker: but benghazi is different. >> 11 1/2 hours -- >> tucker: hold on. i'm not arguing that hillary should go to jail. i'm concerned about the integrity of our justice system. if we're decided people are innocent or guilty before interviewing or an investigation, i have concerned, don't you? >> the suggestion that the fbi was in her hip pocket is so twisted that most people would say no. comey broke the rules on july 5. >> tucker: that's a separate thing. >> and he broke the rules by not telling the public -- >> tucker: so you're not going to defend him. talk about the process. you're not bothered by that. second question. this comes from an fbi agent investigating donald trump. i'm quoting.

i want to believe he can't get elected, but i can't take that risk. does it bother you that peter strzok, the fbi agent, official that wrote that, was investigating trump at the time? >> he said awfully bad things about bernie sanders and chelsea clinton. does it bother me -- >> tucker: i can't take that risk. what do you think that means? >> he said -- >> tucker: i get it. i live here. he's involved at the highest level of the investigation -- >> tucker: no. robert mueller who is a life-long republican is at the highest level. peter strzok was with the fbi. >> tucker: you're making my point. he's not running it. i didn't say he was. but at the level below the guy running it, which is mueller and he's peter strzok. i can't take the risk. we don't know what that means. if that was written by someone investigating hillary clinton, i

would join you in denouncing that as terrifying. >> i guarantee you if the facts were the russians offered help, the clinton campaign said love it, the rushes offered help and hillary clinton used that a hundred times on the campaign trail, we would have impeachment proceedings, i agree. >> i can't to believe he can't get elected but i can't take that risk, this is a person that is able to influence the outcome with the federal government behind it. he is influencing the president presidency. he is one of the -- >> the trump presidency will rise or fall on the facts that robert mueller -- >> so it doesn't bother you that he said i can't take the risk that trump will get elected says the guy investigating trump on behalf of the fbi? doesn't bother you? >> he sent 10,000 texts -- >> tucker: where are they? that's my third question. we've been told by the federal government they lost five months

of texts between lisa page and peter strzok. do you believe that? does it bother you? i'm not sure how you lose a text. i was told they defer forever. if you cheat the irs, they're there. they lost them and we're supposed to accept that. does that bother you? >> i hope they find them. >> tucker: what do you make of it that they lost them? >> there's all these conspiracy theories as a distraction from what it is that we're finding out with each passing day, each passing plea of guilt. that's what this is about. >> tucker: no. we can have multiple conversations simultaneously. when they find the texts from vladimir putin to donald trump saying i pledge to get you elected, i'll be the first to denounce trump. at the same time, you would hate to think a by product of this investigation is the corruption of our justice system. i'm beginning to think based on data points whose accuracy you have not contested that we have a real problem with the way we

investigate political crimes of hillary clinton and donald trump. >> in the run up to the election when rudy guliani talked about agents in brooklyn, he was getting inside information that was information helpful to donald trump. so i agree there's a problem. >> tucker: okay. >> it's not a problem that cuts in trump's favor. >> tucker: so one out of three bothers you. you're a tolerant man, richard. thanks for joining us. illegal immigrants blockaded disneyland to demand citizenship. why aren't they being deported immediately? we have details next. ♪ when you have a cold, stuff happens. ♪ { sneezing ] shut down cold symptoms fast [ coughing ] with maximum strength alka seltzer plus liquid gels. hey, what are you guys doing here? we're voya. we stay with you to and through retirement.

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>> tucker: well, a small mob of daca beneficiaries showed up outside disneyland and chanted logans that prevented people from entering until law enforcement removed them. watch. >> no dream, no deal! >> can you tell my why you guys chose disneyland? >> this is where dreams come true, right? this is where your dreams come true. we want our dreams the come true. >> tucker: so at least one group of illegal aliens is not hiding in the shadows. instead, they're screaming at tourists in an amusement park. imagine what it takes to act this way. you show up in a country better than the one you left. they think they're entitled. they have no right to be here and full of demands and not just at disneyland.

we've seen demonstrations all over the country. people demanding free citizenship and the stuff going with it. the question is, would any other country on earth put up with this? even sensitive canada would probably draw the line at this. try sneaking over their border illegally and blocking access to niagara falls. they would deport you. just remembering that a lot of our immigrants are not like these people you see on the screen. they're grateful to be here. they work hard, mind their own business and add a lot to this country. let's find more people like that. the people on the tape, we should track them down tonight and boot them out for good. they're the people that we don't want here. the protesters won't be deported. nobody is. the current democratic party believes enforcing borders is a human rights violation. they have been all over chuck schumer for allowing the government to reopen. >> you said senate democrats are getting their butts kicked on the shutdown debate.

is that true? >> i'm not sure the exact words, but the sentiment that we did a poor job in messaging is correct. >> i'm disillusioned. i think they're caving. you know, democrats are pretty good at articulating values. but a little weak on defending them. >> tucker: we have the mayor of albany here. she joins us tonight. mrs. mayor, thank you for being here. >> good to see you. >> tucker: we showed the video. people blocking entrance of americans because they're demanding citizenship and free stuff. what country should put up with that other than ours? >> this is a country that values free speech and the right to protest. these are young people that feel that they were given a promise and that daca was a way for them -- these are young people brought here as children, not by

their choice. >> tucker: so it doesn't -- >> this is a great country and we allow people freedom -- >> tucker: why would -- by the way, why would you want someone in your country that is not grateful to be here that is demanding of american citizens the right to vote and get benefits? don't you want people that are grateful to be here and add? >> every immigrant that i've ever met is grateful to be here. that doesn't mean they're not going to stand up for their rights. i joined -- >> tucker: why do they have -- >> i joined thousands of people in protests that happened on saturday from people that who were born and raised in this country and have been here for generations that is one of the hallmarks of our great society. >> tucker: but they're not americans, these people. >> but they have a voice. they have a right to a voice. just because you're not from here doesn't mean the constitution -- that is well settled law. >> tucker: if you broke our law to get here, you don't have the

incomplete -- rights. >> when you're here, you have constitutionally protected rights. when we look to polarize this conversation by pointing these people who are here, brought here by their parents, without their choice and demonizing them. we have -- >> tucker: they blocked the entrance to disneyland. whoa, whoa, whoa. slow down. they blocked the entrance to disneyland. okay? i didn't do that. they did that. do they bear any responsibility for doing that? >> and there are americans that use their right to free speech to block entrances, to shut down roads and to protest things in this country. whether you're born here -- >> tucker: do you see the difference -- it's not a matter of being born here. it's a matter of citizenship. citizenship is meaningful to most americans. >> and they want to be on a path to citizenship. these are young people washing hard and have -- >> tucker: no. these are people that on middle of weekday blocking disneyland.

don't tell me they're working hard. a new harvard poll shows four out of five americans, 81% of americans want less legal immigration. a lot less. where were their interests? where are their interests in the modern democratic party? four out of five americans of all political parties want less legal immigration. are you aware of that? >> that is a really stunning number. it demonstrates that we need to do a better job of communicating how important immigration is to our cities and to our country. you know, you look at a city like albany, new york. we have an aging population. a lot of the growth happening in our city is happening because of immigration. the number 1 complaint i get from employers is that they can't find people to work. so we've got a real work force development challenge in the city of albany and the capitol region. immigration is helping to fuel that work force. >> tucker: i wonder though, for example -- i was just looking at stats provided by the albany

school district. i think you've said before that your city is 40% foreign born. >> no, no. it's about 11% foreign born. we have about 40 longs -- >> tucker: my mistake, a high number. in 2017 of eighth graders in albany schools 0% qualified in math. so that seems to me like a crisis much larger than anything you're describing. i'm wondering where the outrage is here. >> the challenge in our school district existed before we had the immigration that we have now. >> tucker: i'm not saying that. i'm just saying i wonder why i have never heard you as outraged about that as you are about enforcing federal immigration law. isn't that a crisis? 0% of eighth graders. >> that's exactly right. that's another conversation that

we can have about the work that we're doing to partner with our school district and to ensure that we're turning that around. by bringing together our institutions of higher education, our business community, you know, healthcare so that we and we are addressing those issues -- >> tucker: you think bringing in more students that don't have english as a first language helps or hurts that? >> when you look at what we're doing with our new language learners, we're making -- having interventions that are helping them to -- >> tucker: so it's a problem that you need to solve. you concede it's a problem. you're trying to make the problem better but it's a problem when you import people that don't speak english as a first language. why would you add that burden to schools where 0% of eighth graders are proficient? math? >> that number is misleading. when you look at the challenges that exist in any school

district, in any urban district, it's incumbent upon the school district and the stakeholders in the community to ensure that we're doing what we can so that these children are successful. we are seeing incredible success. >> tucker: it's really simple. i'm not arguing against all immigrants. does importing more immigrants make it better? you conceded it doesn't. >> i don't see it as making it better or worse. it's an asset to the city, to see that we have the opportunity to continue to grow, to continue to have economic development -- >> tucker: so what is the right number then? if bringing in more people from third world countries makes albany a better city, is good for your schools, good for your economy, what is the right number? how many people do you think need to come from foreign countries to albany for you to get really rich? >> so this is where the federal

government needs to step up and decide what immigration policy is going to be. that happens at the federal level. >> tucker: as the mayor, what is a good number? >> i would advocate to ensure that we have enough people on h 1b visas. we have one of the largest semi conductor manufacturing facilities in the capitol region. ge's r&d center is there. i worked for a medical device manufacturer. we used -- >> tucker: we're not talking about h1b visas. we're talking about the poor daca people. my question was, if more poor people makes your city richer what is the good number -- >> i'm not talking about statistics and numbers. i'm talking about the people that are there and i'm talking about people are there and we need to be welcoming --

>> tucker: it's helping us -- definitely helping to us grow and to fill a work force need that exists. >> tucker: thank you, mayor. nice to see you. russia, fisa, mueller. a week of confusion in washington. brit hume has more. stay tuned.

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>> tucker: it hasn't been a good

week for leak consensus in washington. most americans are not on the democrats side. they don't think illegal immigrants are worth closing the government for. robert mueller's investigation muddles ahead. more and more evidence suggested that the fbi is too idealogically compromised to reach trustworthy conclusions. are we reaching the right conclusions from these news stories? brit hume is here with us to add more. thanks for coming on. >> thanks, tucker. you want me to add some clarity? >> tucker: i know you will. that's implied. baked in the cake. i was shocked by this schumer story this week. i think schumer is start and he plays close attention to poll numbers as politicians ought to. yet they went way out on a limb, shut the government down on an issue that most americans don't consider a top priority. how did they do that?

>> i think, tucker, my guess is that schumer probably didn't think this was a good idea. probably resisted it. but there's a strength of the left branch of his caucus as such that reminded me in the end very much of what happened in 2013 with ted cruz and the group of house republicans that were in sufficient numbers that they forced john boehner that was reluctant, the then speaker, to let them go forward with the strategy to shut the government down to lever president obama to undoing a big piece of obamacare. it failed utterly. the measures went nowhere in the senate. the government shut down. the public did not like it and the history of the public's liking government shut downs is pretty thin. in the end, they had to back down. this was a mirror image of that. i don't think the leader liked it but he was a good soldier and participated in it. in the end, they got their butts handed to them and had to back down because it didn't go over

well. the members in their caucus could sense that. a hand of them voted no on the first go round last week. by the end of the weekend, i think it was clear to them at least that they were losing and it was hurting -- could hurt them back home. so they caved in and schumer and the filibustering democrats got practically nothing. >> tucker: it's just remarkable. republicans seem out of touch with public sentiment, too. the new harvard poll asked people do you think we need less or more immigration. the number of americans that want more people to come from foreign countries, 12% want more. i wonder why they're not aware of that? none of them seem aware of that. >> well, depends on how you -- which piece of the immigration issue you're looking at. the identify that we want more immigrant than we're getting is

not popular. but you say the daca piece of it, of course these are people that -- did you hear that voice? was that alexa. i managed to wake alexa up. >> tucker: are you saying amazon is monitoring this conversation? >> yeah. amazon. i ask her all the time, alexa, are you spying on me? listen. she didn't answer. i can understand that. anyway, you look at daca. this is a subset of the immigrants in this country illegally that came here as we all heard said through no fault of their own when they were young, when they were minors. and there's a case to be made that these people are worthy of some sympathy. to send them back to someplace they have never been seems unfair and most americans -- that issue polls well. seems that there's bipartisan support for that. and then there's the question of what you do about the illegals already here. their presence here is not

popular as you have suggested. but then the question comes is it practical to round them up and send them home. that's a bridge too far. so once you get passed the idea that, you know, the general idea that people don't want more immigration and they certainly don't want more illegal immigration, it gets complicated. of course, the president is standing on fairly solid ground from his point of view in wanting a series of border security measures to go with any measure to relieve the daca people of their situation here of their potential to be deported. so that's sort of where we are in this. you know, we have another negotiation coming up soon and we'll see how much the democrats are willing to give in order to get the daca repeal undone. >> tucker: i'm looking forward to it. brit hume, thanks for the clarity. good luck with alexa. >> you bet. thank you. >> tucker: and in california,

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>> tucker: in ohio, an abortion clinic is encouraging people to get abortions on the ground that it's a good parenting decision. the clinic preterm has started a campaign saying my abortion, my life. they set up 16 billboards around cleveland and extoll the term that saying abortion is right and it's a parenting decision. u.c. san francisco purportedly said that they're calling on tv shows to have more abortion related comedy to normalize the procedure. doctor, you agree. thanks for coming up. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: so abortion comedy.

what would you say is the funny part about abortion? >> i don't think they're using it as a funny thing. they're using it to bring out -- to make it more of a real thing, a more of a -- i can't hear. >> tucker: can you hear me, doctor? >> one sec. i don't think they're using it as a comedy. i think they're trying to stigmatize it with women. >> tucker: and i think that sounds probably right. why do you think there's a stigma around abortion? >> i think in the world there's so much stigma around it. it's a very hard decision to make for a woman. it's a no-win situation if you're put -- >> tucker: why the stigma? why is it considered bad do you think? >> why is it considered a stigma? >> tucker: yeah. >> because it's ending a life for some people. >> tucker: okay.

so if you think -- but if you don't think it's ending a life, shouldn't be a stigma at all, right? >> it's not one way or the other. it's a traumatic thing that women can go through. i think in a way it's absolutely ending a life. in another way, you're put in a no-win situation because sometimes people have no other choice. >> tucker: okay. so why would you -- all of that -- you're probably in the mainstream of view on that. so why the impulse to make light of it or destigmatize it in comedy or put up billboards encouraging people to have abortions? isn't that making light of it, minimizing it? >> i don't think it's making light of it. i think it's bringing out the issue of abortion, that it's an option. >> tucker: is there anything about abortion that makes you personally uncomfortable? >> absolutely. it's a very hard thing for women to go through. i think it's an absolute no-win

situation for women. >> tucker: what does that mean "no-win situation". >> it means a woman with an unwanted pregnancy has to make a decision. the decision is a no-win situation. she has to end the life of an unborn baby. >> tucker: i think you're right. so why do you hear people say, you know, we should celebrate it, we should convince others there's nothing wrong with it, it's not a big deal. it's a positive thing. >> it's a huge deal and it's not a positive thing. i don't agree with that. i think it's a traumatic thing that sometimes there's no other option. that's why i do keep saying it's a no-win situation because it is. >> tucker: but i never hear -- i guess i disagree with your last point about there's no other option but i respect you for saying it's a big deal. but i keep hearing planned parenthood leaders saying you should wear a t-shirt announcing

it and it's a form of liberation and not acknowledging that there's a down side. >> well, that's their opinion. i can't speak for other people. personally i see so much trauma around it in my office and -- it's a hard decision. on the other happened, it's a hard decision to keep a baby that a mother doesn't -- can't take care of psychologically or physically. >> tucker: no, it's a tough situation. i think it's a first step to acknowledge that. i'm glad that you are. thank you, doctor bryman for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: the nfl had an ugly year. we'll tell you about their national anthem-related blunder and the making of what may be a scandal, sounds like, potentially one, about bob costas and his parent firing. details on that next.

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>> it's been a tough year for the nfl. the commissioner seems to be making more than effort. otherwise, it's bad. ratings are falling and games have seen tens of thousands of empty seats is. the league learning anything from it? the nfl rejected an add from a veterans group that would have asked people to stand during the anthem at the super bowl. and bob costas appears to be kicked off the super bowl pregame slow. he predicted a grim future for football due to concussions is. there a connection? grayson whitlock would know. he's from fs1 and hosts "speak for yourself." do you think there's a connection between costas mentioning the cte problem, the concussion problem and getting

booted off the show? >> yeah. i want to be clear. i have a great deal of respect for bob costas. he's one of the great broad casters of my lifetime. he stated that football kills your brain, and i think nbc has made this absolute right decision in removing him from the super bowl. and i think bob is a great broadcaster. but it's that platform, the super bowl, is for a celebration of a game that i think is great. it is high risk. it is a combat sport. no different than boxing, no different than usc or mixed martial arts. there's some risk to it. the players are very well compensated. it's a great game. it's not a platform for a guy who is clearly anti-football. >> tucker: so you think -- you can't be pro football and concerned about the brain damage? >> you can absolutely be concerned about it. i'm a former college football

player. i'm concerned about the brain damage. but i do not think football kills your brain. i do not think that football is so dangerous that we need to be moving away from football. look, man, life is a game of risks. football has done many, many things for many, many people like myself. football is responsible -- partially special for moving me from poverty to a college campus to a successful life. again, i think we're so caught up in concussions and we're judging feel in a way that we're not judging other sports. you can go to a boxing match. when someone gets knocked out, you can stand and cheer. we have turned football, if someone hits hard, we say oh, my god, let's have a prayer vigil. let's quit enjoying the game. football is what it is. it has nothing to be ashamed of. again, i have a great deal of

respect for bob costas. i think he's part of arguing -- >> tucker: your changing my opinion -- >> i think it's unfair to football. >> tucker: i came in with a totally different view and you won me over. let's see if you can do it on the second topic. the veterans ad encouraging people to stand during the super bowl, the nfl turned it down. should they have? >> yeah, i think they should. i think the nfl has worked very hard to get the protests and the kneeling out of the nfl and away from they discussion as opposed to discussing football. again, i think everyone should stand for the national anthem. i think the nfl should pass a rule requiring their players to do that. but i also think the nfl has made the right decision here by running this ad, you risk making this the talking point rather than the game. you have worked very hard to calm the handful of players, the 1% of players that were

protesting, you fought all season to get that out of people's faces so we can get back to enjoying football and now these guys want to come back in and re-ignite that controver controversy. i think i the nfl is smart from moving it away from it. >> tucker: you're 2 to 2. i'm shocked that never happens to me. do you think that controversy is over? >> not over but simmering down and moving the right direction for football. the owners and players have come to an agreement. they're going to try to help the players that are legitimately concerned about social issues. they built a platform and financed some things that have seemed to calm the players down. that's the rights thing to do. protesting the police during the middle of the national anthem in football stadiums is not the right thing that does not promote a healthy discussion. does not promote healthy change. it has to be moved away from that arena and moved to a more appropriate place and they have

done that and should not risk re-igniting that controversy. >> tucker: are the patriots going to win the bowl? >> yes. >> tucker: i agree. >> i'm not going to bet against tom brady anymore. >> tucker: you shouldn't. that was great. >> thank you. >> tucker: talk show host conan o'brien says he understands haiti. he has a deep feeling for the people of haiti because he spent some time at an exclusive resort there once. we'll check out the parts he may have missed on his last visit. stay tuned. why suffer? stand up to chronic migraine with botox®. botox® is the only treatment for chronic migraine shown to actually prevent headaches and migraines before they even start. botox® is for adults with chronic migraine, 15 or more headache days a month each lasting 4 hours or more. it's injected by a doctor once every 12 weeks. and is covered by most insurance. effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing,

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racist, if not racist. >> tucker: he went further though. over the weekend he tweeted "haiti is truly a beautiful country, and where he was it was beautiful. it was relaxing at a plush resort. the place in haiti were most people actually live our less than beautiful, despite a lot of international aid. they're still not proper garbage disposal on the island. the biggest city has no sewer system. sewage is hauled away by hand. drinking water obviously contaminated. mass people are stationed in the environment, and you can see it from space it's so bad. o'brien didn't see any of that. the resort where he was will never be visited by any actual haitians, unless they are working a service they are, or maybe perhaps as part of the revolutionary model which will show up at some point and burn the place down. we hope that won't happen. that's about it for us. tune in every night at eight to a show that is the sworn enemy

of lying, pomposity, smugness, and especially groupthink. dvr it if you know how it works. more than anything, stay tuned. buckle your seat belt ladies and gentlemen. sean hannity is live from new york next. >> sean: great show as always. welcome to "hannity." we have massive new breaking developments tonight. the fbi agent peter struck make the stunning admission about the brush investigation in these latest newly released text messages. before even joining robert mueller's team, strzok said there was "no big they are-they are" proving that president trump has been right about the entire russian investigation from the start. it is a complete hoax, it is planning to shut down molars partisan and very corrupt witch hunt, and also tonight, i suspect what we are seeing happening is a special counsel and a team that are leaking information to "the new york times" and "washington post." why they want to distract the media and you the american people because the heat is now on. i will explain. also congressman