most trusted, most grateful that you spent the evening with us. good night from washington. i'm shannon bream. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: e well, good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we have exclusive, never before seen messages, text messages from inside the fbi. these texts are among a thousand sent between fbi agents peter strzok and lisa page between february andnd september of 201. a lot of them are interesting. here's a key text. the agents did exactly what you would hope agents would never do. they expressed concern about whetherr hillary clinton, if she was elected president, would take revenge against the fbi for the crime of investigating her. in exchange in and exchange, age

told agent strzok, "one more thing, she might be our next president. the last thing you need, is coming in there, you think she will remember or care that it was more doj than the fbi? "strzok told paige that he agreed. political concerns were at the top of mind as they investigated the politician. congressman trey gowdy chairs the oversight committee in the house and is a member of the intelligence committee and joins us to react. congressman, thanks for coming on. are we reading too deeply into the exchange we just put on the screen, do you think? >> i don't think so. you read that in isolation. if you read all the text, it is clear that they did not want her charged, they wanted her to be the president of the united states. they really, really did not want donald trump to be president of the united states and they concede throughout these texts that they did things differently in this investigation from any other investigation and they were a part of. >> tucker: what i don't

understand, even if you are watching this at homewa and do u think, i wanted hillary to win, too, i don't like donald trump, too, shouldn't you be concerned, may be terrified, that fbi agents conducting a criminal investigationce into a politicin were worried about the political elements. that is not supposed to happen, is it? >> you may remember jim coming telling us that the fbi doesn't give a wet about politics. he loved to tell us how apolitical the bureau was. here we have these texts. of course, our friends on the left sayen these are texts betwn two lovers. yeah, you are much more likely to tell the truth when you don't is watching. this, i think, is the unvarnished truth of how they viewed both her, him, and the investigation and how they wanted it to turn out. keep in mind, tucker, all of us was done before she was ever interviewed. the fix was in. unfortunately, before they even interviewed the target of the investigation.

>> tucker: what does that tell you about what they thought of hillary clinton? they believed that she became president, she would punish our chief law enforcement agency for investigating her. what does that say about their view of her or their understanding of her? >> it's either that -- i think another reasonable construction could be that she would reward the doj thinking it was more doj lawyers that concluded she should not be charged as opposed to the fbi. that is how i read it. she would give more credit to the department of justice, you know, keep in mind, reading these texts, it doesn't appear that anyone wanted her charged she washey knew what going to say. i read that to be, they were concerned doj would get the credit for taking care of her more than my bureau where. >> tucker: you've taken an enormous amount of abuse, as have your colleagues on the intelligence committee, as has this channel, for daring to report this news as if asking questions about the behavior of law enforcement officials is unpatriotic. how do you respond to that?

>> tucker, there is no one in congress that has more respect for law enforcement. i spent 18 years working with them, the past 18 years of my professional life and always will be. i love law enforcement, which is why these texts break my heart. bias is insidious. bias is the one thing in the courtroom, tucker, the judge will give you the broadest leeway because it infects and instructs every decision you make when you are biased for or against someone. so when i seet manifest bias -- think back to other important cases in our country's history. mark fuhrman got in trouble, not so much for working the crime scene but because of racial epithets that he had uttered earlier in his career. that is how seriously we take bias. i don't know why the left can concede that these two agents could never be a part of the investigation in this case. >> tucker: he would think that democrats come at some point it would occur to them that may be most fbi's are not liberal.

i would bet money on that. if you allow the fbi to let their agents make decisions on the basis of their political beliefs, maybe that will hurt democrats at some point. maybe all of us have an interest in clean and ethical government but they don't seem to have an interest in that right now. why? >> i don't know. i don't like bias. i don't like political bias manifesting itself in an embezzlement case, a bank robbery case. this was an incredibly politically charged case, as was and is the russia investigation. so politics and political bias is even more important in a case like this. i don't know why the left is straining to minimize the manifest bias that was exhibited by these agents. i don't get it. >> tucker: i'm sorry to say, there are totally unprincipled people up there. i'm sorry. thank you.u. >> thank you. >> tucker: one of congressman gowdy's colleagues in the house intelligence

committee is adam schiff. we've had a long-running dispute on the issue of russia. us of being agents ofa vladimir putin. >> tucker: can you look into the camera and say that i know for the fact that the government of vladimir putin was behind the hack? >> absolutely. the government was behind the hack of -- >> tucker: of john podesta's email? >> also in europe -- >> tucker: you know what, you are dodging -- >> tucker -- >> tucker: look at me and say that. >> i think ronald reagan would be rolling in his grave -- >> tucker: >> you are carrying r the kremlin. >> tucker:y you can't say they hacked -- >> you have to move your show to rt russian television. >> tucker: that is so beneath your office because it is so dumb and you are being duplicitous. i'm asking you, did they hacked the emails? look at my camera and say they hacked john podesta's emails,

you can't, and you know you can't, and you are hiding behind weasel words. >> tucker:ha that guy is a liar at the demagogue in case you didn't notice. i call -- a columnist at "the wall street journal" asks why adam schiff doesn't care if the facts are true in the trump dossier. thank you for coming on. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: obviously i'm annoyed by adam schiff because in the face of a sincere question, he accused me of being a kremlin agent.t. you have emotional distance from us. tell us your concerns about his behavior as a member of the intel committee. >> at a basic level, the intelligence committee is an oversight committee, right? oversight committees are charged with getting information, keeping tabs on the government. this man just seems determined not to geton information. certainly, not to get it to the american people. when the republicans put together their memo outlining

some of the information they foundpp from a fisa application and so forth, you know, he was asked on cnn, shouldn't the american people see this? he opted for the nathan jessup response in "a few good men." you can't handle the truth. he't does not trust to the american people. the bias should be toward disclosure. i think there are legitimate things that should not be disclosed but we make unclassified summaries of classified information all the time. remember, he fought the subpoenas of justice, he fought the subpoenas for the fbi, he fought the subpoena for fusion that eventually led to the news that the hillary campaign had funded the christopher steele dossier. >> tucker: you are old enough to remember when the sides were inverted and it was democrats, frank church of idaho, that were arguing that the public has the right to know of what the intel agencies are doing, law

enforcement, it is our government, our country. democrats used to say that. when did they stop saying that and why?p >> to me, there are two big issues. i want to know whether people on the trump campaign colluded with russia to affect the election. that is something i want to know. i also want to know of people at justice and the fbi are putting their fingers on my scale for political reasons. remember, both candidates were under investigation of some sort by the fbi. it's extraordinary. important thing is finding out the truth and we have a whole lot of people. when this memo was produced and it came out, it had the hashtag "release the memo, congressman adam schiff was blaming it onia russian boss nomadic bots, what does it tell you when bots are more for disclosure than a congressman on the house until committee? >> we've invited him many times to explain how he found himself

basically practicing mccarthyism. >> he's always on my tv shows and sake he found more than circumstantial evidence that donald trump at colluded but we haven't seen any of the evidence. it sounds like o.j.'s promises to find the real killer. >> tucker: december 7th, we are keeping track of last year. thank you very much for that. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: the white house released an immigration plan tonight. it's distractors immediately called it "a white supremacy ransom note." a leader of a left-wing group supportse amnesty but does not support the president's proposal. a new picture could have changed the 2008 election but nobody was allowed to see it. for real. for the first time, we'll see it and meet the man who took it and who's been holding it all these years. that's ahead. ♪

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♪ 's people in the white house released immigration proposal tonight, that would grant amnesty for about 2 million people who came to this country illegally in exchange for a new border security measures, changes to chain migration, and an end to the diversity visa lottery. the plan still lacks detail on what they mean by a border security or how much it would reduce chain migration. it was immediately attacked by almost everyone, especially the left. they claimed it was "a white supremacist ransom letter," that according to the largest daca group. at "the new york times," a reporters piled on, noting that

"some described it as nothing but a heartless attempt to bread the country of immigrants and slam shut the nation's borders." [laughs] that was in a new story. whether the white house passes this, tech overlords like mark zuckerberg are pushing hard for amnesty for people here illegally. facebook ceo made a feast on his website yesterday, urging everybody to call members of congress and demand a deal on daca and protect the recipients from being deported. "dreamers are members of our communities, and they are 800,000 living in fear was no ability to plan for the future." the president of forward.u.s., a zuckerberg 400 group that promotes citizenship for a lot of people here. thank you for coming on. the response is amazing. the white house is willing to accept a little more than 2 million amnesties for people here illegally, that is more than the dream population we have been talking about. d here is theti response. the dreamer advocacy group, "a

white nationalist ransom note. aclu, according to bloomberg, called it "a nativist screed to benefit whites and premises." how is it that a plan to lead in 2 million, almost exclusively nonwhite immigrants, is aal feature of white supremacy? that seems insane. >> i think it's important to talk about what we know is in the plan. we don't know what -- >> tucker: can you respond to my point? they said they wanted amnesty for the dreamers, they just got it, and they are calling it white supremacy. >> it's a whole package of immigration reform. i think the salient facts, the people that -- what people are responding to, a 50% cut to legal immigration. >> tucker: i think i'm familiar with the numbers. i don't think that's right. >> i'm happy to explain. by cutting 5 of 7 of the family-based immigration categories and cutting the diversity visa, that is a 50% cut to legal immigration, the biggest cut to legal

immigration -- >> tucker: now you don't know what you're talking about or you are misleading. under this proposal, which i just read and talked to the guy who wrote it, it ends diversity lottery but it re-allocates those green cards to people who were in the backlog of people applying to come here. >> that is tricky. i'm glad this came up. it re-allocates 50,000 visas a year for the family-based immigration cut. a permanently and so's categories. for year one are two, -- >> tucker: that is not true. there is no net loss. we are getting into the weeds on the plan -- >> where did the visas go? >> tucker: they are relocated to the massive backlog of people waiting to get here. you are missing the point and dodging my question. the point is this is a plan that gives amnesty to more people than we thought the daca representatives were asking for, andhe they are calling it white supremacy. do you think it is a fair

criticism? >> i think we should talk about the policy. i don't want to respond to other people's words. this is a path put forward by the white house.ot i think what they acknowledge, 87% of americans believe that dreamers should be protected by congress, they should be able to earn citizenship. to the e daca population -- >> tucker: that's what i gave, isn't it? >> this is the point. you talked about it. you call that chain migration, family-based immigration system. i don't understand why, if you and i agree that dreamers should be able to stay, why should dreamers only be able to be protected if we cut legal immigration? >> tucker: oh oh, you are wrong, most americans don't believe that you ought to let the people who just got amnesty bread and other relatives in.es in fact, there was a harvard poll, a couple of days ago, that showed overwhelmingly that people are against that. youlm know who is really against it? african-american voters. >> you have a poll? >> tucker: i'm quoting from it.

85% of black voters think immigration policy out to be based on merit, not on having relatives in the u.s. >> can i respond? i think it's important to talk about, when we say merit, what does it mean? itth doesn't add anything to tht merit-based -- >> tucker: you are not answering my question. you are upset. you just said americans support keeping it and i am showing you poll numbers that show, theynd don't, actually, actually. >> what i ask you was -- >> tucker: you acknowledged that most americans -- >> if we let dreamer stay, dreamers should be able to earn citizenship. why does that have to come with a 50% cut to legal immigration? that doesn't help me or middle-class americans. >> tucker: actually we can debate that. you don't have numbers that show that the current system helps them because it doesn't. you are missing the point. americans don't want a system that lets people in purely because they are related to someone who lives here already. that is called chain migration. they don't want that. overwhelmingly. you and t your tech overlords ae pushing it. my point is, want to acknowledge

of the public doesn't want it? >> i don't think that's what the public wants. >> tucker: 85% of black voters don't want to come 80% of all voters don't. >> and emigrant comes in, they do this, that -- >> tucker: i don't see the ads. >> they are paying their bills, they are misleading. we should be clear. you talk about dreamers who go through this process, -- >> tucker:uc you won't acknowledge this poll. >> i read the poll. that's not what the poll says. >> tucker: you think the majority of american support chain migration. what poll are you referring to? >>ch i don't think -- you can throw poll terms at me -- >> tucker: 85% of african-american voters think immigration policy should be based on merit, not based on having relatives in the u.s. that is the definition, both colloquial and technical, of chain migration. >> are you suggesting we should shift to a skilled base or cut? all of the white house is doing is cutting the legal immigration. we should i think only let

people talk -- we should do it on a case-by-case basis. >> when we are clear, the government should be in the>> business of approving every immigrant one by one? >> tucker: are you joking? it's our country. in the way that harvard, where your prospect, screened as applicants. that is my view. it seems like a conservative approach. >> tucker: i live here and so to my kids. i want the best people to come. >> me, too. >> tucker: last week we welcomed chicago alderman george carton is on to the program to discuss whether chicago really ought to be a sanctuary city, wn it has come to put it mildly, a few other problems. we had aty spirited exchange. >> tucker: do you think you have an obligation to represent american citizens first above people who are here illegally? >> i represent my citizens very well, tucker. >> tucker: [laughs] let's try a second one. >> they have to be blue-eyed and

blonde? >> tucker: what a loathsome little demagogue you are to say something like that. what a loathsome little demagogue you are. >> tucker: so i lost my temper temper. nicholas passado is also an alderman in the city of chicago. he is not for the city's efforts to protect illegal immigrants from american law and thank you very much for coming out tonight. i didn't mean to get into such a bitter debate with your colic but i was asking a simple question, which is how does it help a the citizens, the the an citizens in chicago, to do this, andll he called me a bigot. let me ask you the same question. does it help chicagoans committees immigration policies? >> of course not, tucker. it doesn't help one pet. >> tucker: what is the point of it? ii thought the point of representing a constituency, holding elected office, is to look out for the people who voted for you, the citizens, the voters? >> that is the way i feel. we will present the people that

live at our community, our city, and the people that are here, i believe, you have to be here legally, and i certainly don't believe it's a story cities. >> tucker: i love chicago, and everyone who visits at, does. like all cities, it has problems. financial, crime. you can't convince me that all the political energy spent on catering to people who shouldn't be here, that's got to detract from making the city better for everyone else. >> right. i wish we could have a serious mental health issue in the city, we haveal a serious crime problem, i wish we could be concentrating on those type of things as opposed to illegals in our city. >> tucker: your mayor is all in, a bunch of aldermen are all in, why is that? what is the motive? >> i couldn't explain what their motive is. basically, the mayor and 48 alderman support sanctuary cities. two of us do not support

sexually cities. >> tucker: meanwhile, the mayor and the alderman have left the south side of your city become uninhabitable and people get killed every day. what did the people who live on the south side, what do they think about this? i bet they don't like it. >> you have to get one of my colleagues from the south side on, or the west side, but i'm not sure how they feel about it. i know it bothers me and i think money could be better spent and if we stick with our sanctuary city policies, we could be losing a billion dollars of federal funds, so i'm very concerned about that. >> tucker: you can't afford it. thanks a lot for coming on. thank you for what you do for your great city. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: more than 1,000 private jets have landed in davos, switzerland, to discuss how they can make you pay for global warming. mark steyn is here to assess the irony. ♪ next time, i want you on my bowling team.

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commercial air travel, meet kemal to offset their private jet use. mark steyn isan a friend of the show and he joins us. i like how this works. i fly in my private plane, you have to stop eating hamburgers and walk, and it balances out. >> that's right. this is the way these guys plan. somehow, they will still get to jet around, al gore, his private plane, going to world conferences, leonardo dicaprio, and you will be eating your laundry down on the rocks with the village women, getting your clothes drive because the washer and dryer are destroying the planet. the fact that they all meet in a remote luxury swiss ski resort -- you said that your view is -- your viewers weren't invited. it is government leaders and what they call stakeholders, and apparently, 90% of the shlubs on

this planet, but cate blanchett, his getting an award for raising awareness ofng refugees, she counts. they should have given the award for raising awareness of refugees to the mayor of sweden who told the women there that they had so many refugees, it wasn't safe for the ladies to go out at night. that is who -- i don't think we need cate blanchett to raise awareness. >> tucker: that is their problem. do you have at davos right now the leaders of the world's largest democracies, theac economic leaders, political leaders. how many of them do you think personally believe in democracy, for real? >> i don't think they do. i think that is what is fascinating about this. things like the trump election and brexit and the rise of marine le pen and france and the afd in germany, they regard these things as

aberrations and as proof that democracy has to be moderated by all the sensible, clever people, getting together in eight swiss ski resort, kind of like below fold during the specter roundtable in the pond film, "on her majesty's secret service," if you arere teaching in -- keeping in touch with your world conspiracists. they all meet on the top of amounted like in a james bond film and they decide the measures they can take to ameliorateas and moderate the voice of the people. because the voice of the people is vulgar and keeps voting for trump and brexit. >> tucker: don't you think if you will have a global leastracy of a lease, at they should be impressive and self-aware, smart? >> i think so. i think it's become a third-rate pseudo-celebrity celebrity event. as you say, this idea that they are the people with private

jets, a class thing, there's a lot of layabout saudi princes who fly in, there's a lot of trashy celebrities. there's a lot of powerful business leaders. at heart, it is an antidemocratic bias. you mentioned that hamburgers caused global warming. i did not believe it. it turns out that if you eat a breakfast sandwich from mcdonald's -- every time you eat a sausage and egg mcmuffin, a polar bear loses its art slow. apparently the sandwiches are responsible for global warming. as far as -- as bad as it is, leonardo dicaprio and al gore are there, if they all flew inn onba to egg mcmuffin's, the entire planet would be kaput. >> tucker: next january, we'll go there. >> and we will go there on your "tucker carlson tonight" official sausage and egg mcmuffin magic flying plane.

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♪ >> tucker: a photo of barack obama with the nation of islam leader louis farrakhan is not released until now because some believed it would have "made a difference" of the former president's political career. askia muhammad took that picture and he joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me played >> tucker: we just showed the photograph of former president barack obama before hi was president with louis farrakhan. you took that picture. where was it? >> it was the end the congressional black caucus meeting room.

i was looking at the picture and if you look closely, you can see on some of the people, they have a sticker that says hc nine, one of those caucus rooms in the basement of the capital where meetings are held and that is where it took place. >> tucker: why have we never seen this picture before? >> a couple of things. i was on around, immediately, the day it was taken, i was on capitol hill, i walked out -- i worked at the senate gallery at the time. a staff member called and said we have to have the picture back. i was taken aback. it was like, we would talk a couple of times on the phone and i said, okay, i will give the picture to minister farrakhan's chief of staff. i gave the original disk to him

and in a sense, soar myself to secrecy because i had quietly made a copy for myself, just it's my picture, my art, intellectual property. i owned it and i wanted to keep it and so it wasn't my place -- >> tucker: but why would people from the congressional black caucus or the nation of islam headquarters not want that picture to come out? i don't think it was so much te nation of islam but the black caucus. perhaps they sensed the future -- this is 2005. he had just been in office a few months. but the idea -- in fact, he had people from the nation of islam working on his staff and office in chicago. the members of the nation of islam helped him in the campaign on the south side of chicago. but i think as people considered the ambitions, the thought was, minister farrakhan and his or her rotation would trying to win

acceptance in the broad cross-section. >> tucker: did he have contact with anyone as president? >> as i recall, there was a member of the nation of islam in chicago who worked on his staff, his office in chicago, the constituent service office in chicago but i never knew her name. at some point, she was no longer on his staff. i don't think it was acrimonious but she was not on the staff anymore. >> tucker: was louis farrakhan are members of islam, where they offended that president obama wanted to distance himself from them? >> some work, many were angry, many were hurt that not only did senator obama did announce minister farrakhan, he rejected him, and the same interview

appearing with senator clinton. when asked, he said that he rejected the support of some people that she considered unacceptable in new york when she was on the senate, and demanded that he do the same.id he said, okay, i will reject him come too. people in the nation have a sensitivity about this and feel that we've often been made -- minister farrakhan has been a litmus test for people, whether it was fair or not. people who want that acceptability in the crossover can't stand the inquisition that comes with being associated with minister farrakhan. >> tucker: i wish it had come out earlier.. i think it makes for an interesting conversation, wherever you fall along the conversation.

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♪ >> tucker: time now for "final exam" where we find out forwo certain which of two fox news professionals has been payingen more attention at work. who's been playing video games. our defending champion this week, charlie simkins, reporter for fox news headlines 24/7 pages being challenged by fox correspondent peter doocy, a veteran. we are glad to have both of you back. >> if i lose, don't tell my bosses. see what they may find out. hands on buzzers, i ask the

questions, the first want to buzz and gets to answer. you get to finish but you have to wait until i finish to buzz in. a wrong answer subtracts a point from your total, best-of-five wins. are you ready? >> ready. >> tucker: great. question one. a world leader stripped down to his trunks takes a refreshing andce religious ice bath. which leader was it? peter doocy. >> it was president putin. >> tucker: vladimir putin? out how dare you use those word. >>e. vladimir putin has taken hs shirt off again. why did you do this, mr. vlad? >> president putin made his way to the lake and a fur coat and her boots and then he stripped down to his bathing trunks. >> tucker: peter doocy, clearly a russian agent. >> i knew that abby huntsman's father, ambassador huntsman, also did that.

half point situation? >> tucker: [laughs] no. >> again? >> tucker: the judges are saying no. we have to stick to the rules despite that. he is fast. >> i've been practicing. >> tucker: former arm wrestling champ. a cable news host just released a folk rock ballad he says was inspired by the women's march. which cable news host was it? peter doocy? >> it was morning joe scarborough. >> tucker: are you sure? >> i've never seen the show. >> tucker: i think it's brian kilmeade. will find out. >> it's like when your boss comes in wearing an ugly shirt. you don't want to be the one telling him it sucks. a better example, when you are one of your most pompous talents thinks he's a pop star. >> you ♪ you may get the chanceo

stand ♪ ♪ against ae column of pink ♪ holding up your hands >> tucker: [laughs] he is ten times worse than nickelback. >> i didn't know they made it a saying. >> tucker: al sharpton also cuts an album with james brown. i have it. it's not bad. you got it right, peter doocy. question three. researchers in china just announced a terrifying scientific breakthrough, not surprisingly. they successfully cloned which animal? carley? >> a monkey. >> tucker: a monkey? i don't know the answer. let's roll the tape. >> and game of clones. a major breakthrough as trainee scientists clone monkeys for the first time ever, inching one step closer to human cloning. >> is a big "curious george"

fan, i am very disappointed. >> those are the two of the cutt monkeys. >> tucker: the chinese clone flunkies, this will be seen as a turning .30 years fromll now. question four, prior to last sunday's big football game, police in philadelphia used which food product on telephone poles to keep wild eagles bands from climbing them? >> crisco. >> tucker: that's disgusting? >> let's go to the tape. >> the cops in philly actually agrees to polls with crisco to try to keep people from climbing them after the game. that is the real thing. i didn't really work. the crisco cops, as they call them. >> and then it rains and there is just crisco all over the sidewalk in philly. >> tucker: not locale, though. >> tucker: we are in a weird place. we are in sudden death. each of you has two points.

>> cage match? >> could be. this is the last question. are you ready? a dozen or so camels were disqualified from a major camel beauty pageant in saudi arabia, not a minor camel beauty major one, after judges discover the animals had been injected with what? peter doocy? >> hgh? >> tucker: the human growth hormone? >> are you guessing? >> tucker: whatever -- >> that would be a serious advantage for a camel. >> tucker: i think the point is they don't want them to look like people. they want them to look like camels. let'sl t roll the tape and see,s it hgh? >> the country has camel beauty pageants. but there is, we are said to tell you, scandal in the world of camel beauty. a dozen animals have been disqualified from a major contest after judges found theyi have received botox injections,

apparently botox can deceptively make a camels head look bigger and it's lips drew beer. >> didn't you just say you didn't know anythingou about th? >> tucker: that was a test to see who watches our show. peter doocy,or brave effort but carley shimkus remains. look at that, two-1, came over. carley, he win another. of course, the adulation's of our many fans. peter doocy, that was a valiant attempt. >> thank you. i'm going to not tell anybody that i did the quiz tonight. >> we can share the mug. >> tucker: pay attention to the news each and every week, especially the weird parts, so you can tune in every thursday to compete against our contestants. much more on the show, stay tuned. ♪ i'm also on a lot of medications that dry my mouth. i just drank tons of water all the time. it was never enough. i wasn't sure i was going to be able to continue singing.

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speech you want to bring up today and a fox news alert by "the new york times" is repeating that the new york thep ordered special counsel robert . a quick programming note, as the debate over immigration has risen to the top of the news in recent weeks, a number of figures on the left have denounced this show is racist. it is notable that not n a singe one of them has offered any evidence to support that slower or even bothered to rebut the arguments that we make every night.t. they just make loud noises about white supremacy and assume that's an argument. the rest of the media dutifully repeat that. the latest person to attack our show as amoral as bill kristol. there's an awfulul lot of ways e could respond to him from a former intellectual who exist primarily on twitter. we considered them. but why?

kristol discredited himself years ago, that is why he no longer has a full-time job. instead, we thought it would be more edifying to restate what we actually believe aboutho immigration and you can decide for yourself what you think of it. the point of our immigration the point of all of our policies, is to help americans. watching out for our citizens is the only reason we have a government in the first place. if people in other countries enjoy and benefit from what we do, that's great. an added bonus and we welcome out always. but it can never be the main point of what we do. americans are the main point. that is always true no matter what the issue is. with my concerns of her foreigners precedent over the needs of americans, our government is betraying us and has become a legit event. of course, that's exactly what's beengi happening. the voters understand this and they hated, that is why they like to trump. to permanent washington, election results from last year were a hard slap in the face, a

rebuke they could not accept and refuse to learn from. instead, they decided their own country was irredeemable and its population should be ignored. that is how we wound up with immigration policy that most americans do not support. the people making the policy don't care if you supported or not. immigration clearly has upsides and we try to not that. many immigrants are impressive people, really impressive, and add greatly to this country. we know a lot of immigrants like that. we also note some who should not be here. not all immigrants are the same, just like not all college applicants are the same. americans get to decide who makes the cut. it is our country, it is our call. that is the main point we are making. maybe you sincerely believe that importing millions of poor people from around the world will make america richer and more stable and maybe you are right. but before you do that, before you import them, you should explain how that will work. you are not allowed to change america profoundly and forever without showing the rest of us

how it is going to make our lives better. that's an honest question. we can't avoid it forever simply by shrieking "racist." that's it for us tonight. we had from washington to new york city, the beating heart, where sean hannity awaits. >> sean: bill kristol is not worth a second of your time, just saying. tucker, busy news night. breaking right now tonight on "hannity," the department of justice has found the five months of critical missing text messages between trump bashing fbi lovebirds peter struck at mesa page. we reported this right here last night on this show. also breaking on this hour, just released text messages, 21 from strzok and page commercial more evidence that in fact the fix was in as it relates to the clinton email investigation. also, they suggested that a special counsel be appointed to the client an email case and that is not alternates. with congressional r