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let the tweet storm from the president's toilet begin. >> none other than president trump called "get out" the best three quarters of the movie this year. we make movies to upset mike pence. if the last two years that taught us anything, it's thatt reality can be depressing. tonight's nominated documentaries show us where there is darkness, there's hope. except at the white house. hope quit on wednesday. >> mark: the stars joined in. >> if you do win and oscar tonight, speak from the heart. if you want to encourage others to join the amazing students at parkland on the march on the 24th, do that. >> a land where dreamers live and we'den freedom dwells.

immigrants get the benefits. we put up monuments for the feminist. tell they in god's way. > like everyone watching, we are dreamers. dreams are the foundation of hollywood, and dreams are the foundation of america. >> to all the dreamers out there, we stand with you. >> mark: the dreamer stand with them. don't make the mistake of standing too close. otherwise they'll have to call security. on "the view," ana navarro complained. there weren't enough left wing screens. >> we wanted more of that stuff. more trump jokes, more nra messages. i can't stand trump. i was actually disappointed. it let me down. >> mark: more trump jokes, more nra jokes. all those movie awards getting the way. joe concha writes about media. he joins us.s. joe, this was a rating disaster.

why did they think it would be otherwise? >> we hear year after year this is the lowest rating x event ever. it's been happening as a trend. people sort of point to cord cutting. that's usually the excuse. these numbers are devastating. think about it. when one out of five people that watched last year say i'm not going to watch this year. when you have a 20% drop. think about how many people, 5 million is. you could fill madison square garden 277 times. that's how many people didn't tune in.id i think in the past, maybe some who identify as republican, conservatives, would give the show a chance and watch before they turned off. now we're at a point, you talkeh to so many people who say, voted for president trump, they would say i wasn't going to give this a chance because i knew what to expect: virtue signaling.

>> mark: it's actually even more ridiculous this year. with harvey weinstein, we know however bad the world may be, they're own industry is in the toilet. they were walking kind of difficult tight rope between basically saying, we've cleaned up our act. and we're here to tell you howle cleaned up it is. >> it seems they lost the soap box at this point. i hollywood, we got a problem. we saw everything what happened with weinstein or kevin spacey. i don't know if i heard the name weinstein. down the list. we heard references to the me too movement. they were walking a very fine line last night. you can't put humpty dumpty back togetherne. in this case, i think many folks just knew what to expect when it came to a show like this. said, i'm not going to deal with it.

i'd rather watch something else. that's a problem for hollywood. box office this year, receipts were down to their lowest level in 25 years. i think honestly they're running out of ideas. how many prequels and sequels and remakes can we see? let's start to see couple more original types of movies. i loved "darkest hour." let's see some originality and stop the preaching. >> mark: we didn't hear a lot about the movies.. what was so weird about it, african-american actors would come out talking about being african americans and transgender actresses will talk about being transgender. billy wilder 1959. i can't imagine he would come out and say as a hungarian american, i know what it's like to be an immigrant.

in other words, why do they not do what acting is supposed to by about. great characters, great stories instead of just doing this kind of lame-o identity politics? >> identity politics sums it up nicely. we saw lot of diversity last night. everybody celebrates s diversity. and it's great. the only diversity that isn't accepted is diversity of thought. another kind of political opinion. if that happens, you get blacklisted. honestly from a political perspective, let's say you're president trump during the 2016 election, you didn't have almost any hollywood support. you had scott baio. chachi was great in happy days. it was him and maybe clint eastwood. >> mark: i love that the way the republican book of hollywood celebrities is a single sheet of paper, double spaced.

that's what's great about it. joe concha, thanks. wendy osefo is a democrat strategist and professor. wendy joins us. did you have a better time? >> i think i did. i came in and wear my oscar earrings just for you. >> mark: lovely. >> thank you. >> mark: do you want to name the designer?yo >> no thank you. i'll keep that to myself. >> mark: you can't seriously claim you enjoyed this show. there was no show in it. >> it was a show. i thought it was very entertaining. something that the oscars has to do is curtail the time. four hours. it's taking up a lot of time. we had lot of firsts here. we had jordan peele. he won an oscar for original screenplay. we saw guillermo del toro. he won for best movie.

we have f heard the pervasive narrative of mexican immigrants. we see that mexican immigrants are not rapists and criminals.. they're oscar winners. >> mark: come on, wendy. the great director, he said to me, great movies stars are what he called sports. they're fabulous freaks. you can have a great mexican director and you can have a great french composer. you can have a great canadian editor and have a great chilean transgender actress. that doesn't tell you why you have transgender immigration to the united states. all those things, if you're in the movie business, you're exceptional.ex that doesn't tell you anything about anything. >> it does tell us that america is a beautiful melting pot. we are not monolithic.

we come from diverse backgrounds. we are diversese people. that's what the oscar shows us. just to speak about the trends, we cannot put forth this commentary that says the trends are low. trends tie with box office hits. when you have a movie that is nominated that is not necessarily a hit in the theaters, we see a downward trend in those people watch the oscars. t we saw same thing in 2008. >> mark: that's not true. >> it is true. >> mark: this fish movie where the chick dates the fish. that actually was a hit. it was a hit movie. don't ask me why. >> that's not true. it only made $57.4 million. when we put that comparison to "black panther," it made $900 million. no, it's not a, blockbuster. people want to go to wakanda.

>> mark: no, the wakanda guy was on the show. here's the problem,wa wendy. frances mcdormand wins best actress. she says the word inclusion riders. the band plays "that's entertainment." we had no entertainment. we've had people talking about intersectionality and inclusion riders. where is the entertainment? >> the entertainment lies in t making sure the actors get the right to say what they want, like any other american citizen. we cannot say we do not want you guys to talk about inclusion and being immigrants. that's not fair. they are taxpayers just like us. >> mark: wait a minute.

i'm a taxpayer. >> you have your platform. you choose not to. you get to talk about things like this. you get to voice your opinion. everyone has that right. whether they make millions or dollars or act on tv. it's their right. >> mark: you remember a couple of years ago, all one billion people watching around the world. have you noticed they're not using that line anymore. >> because at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter per se the number. they know as far as the academy is concerned, it's direct reflection of lack of blockbusters when it comes to nomination. in 1998, 44 million people watched the oscars. "the titanic" was nominated. that was a blockbuster. hopefully next year we will see blockbusters. >> mark: you sound like that "this is spinal tap" movie.

you say the audience is becoming more selective. the audience becoming selective of the academy awards. >> they are becoming selective. it's not for reasons you think. the oscars have to do a better job with the timing and putting. blockbusters up. they have do a better job putting forth awards people want to see people achieve those awards. >> mark: don't you think people are bored by all of this first transgender, then first woman and first -- we had all the firsts. why don't we celebrate rare, exceptional talent? >> we have not had all the firsts. the fact that in 2018, we're still celebrating firsts is a shame. there's no reason we should be celebrating the first in 2018, the year of our lord.. that makes no sense. >> mark: wendy, i'll bee interested to see what firsts they come up with next year.

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going to refuse to appear. on msnbc, he ridiculed the entire idea of the investigation. >> i'm not going to answer questions in front of a grandhe jury if they do not explain to me why i have to go in there. because the idea that, once again, that donald trump colluded with russia is a joke.c vladimir putin is too smart to collude with donald trump. donald trump couldn't keep his mouth shut if putin colluded with him. >> mark: yeah, he's letting it all hang out. that was a clip from his cnn interview. the great deroy murdoch is with us. nobody has heard of this mr. nunberg. he's a guy, he's about half the age of donald trump who was briefly involved in the campaign. and has now had a subpoena and has decided he's not going to play along. >> well, just so you know, it's nunberg as in catholic nun,

not "noon-berg" like high noon. it's all so confusing. he's a guy in town here in new york. he's got a law degree. he practices as an attorney. he happens to be a friend of mine. we're not very close. but i would describe sam nunberg as a friend of mine.e. >> mark: so you're next for the big subpoena. >> well, i thought about calling him today. literally thought, if i call him who knows if i will get sucked in this bob mueller whirlpool. it's getting bigger and bigger. >> mark: he's got a point here. i regard federal justice as essentially a racket. they convict 97% of the people they drag into court, which is a percentage saddam hussein and kim jong un would envy. they're saying to you, roll over for us or we're going to destroy your life. this guy is either looking at 120 years in jail or he'll be sleeping in a dumpster.s there's something actually admiral in telling mueller to

go stuff it. >> i do believe if you're subpoenaed, you should show up.. that's part of the justice system. s when you talk about a 97% conviction rate, that's not a nicely balanced scale of justice. they are like so. that's one problem. another is, these folks who get brought in for these discussions brought up to the capitol hill for hearings, they bring lawyers in. it costs lot of money. if sam nunberg has any sense, he'll go down there with an attorney. it's going to cost him a lot of money. i've got a friend of mine. he literally is tapping into his children's college fund in order for him to pay the legal bills and go and testify on capitol hill on all this. we talk on the phone. he's quite distraught about this. huge expense he's faced just to testify. >> mark: isn't that what's outrageous about this. let's say you have one lawyer or two or five lawyers. the federal government, bob mueller, has 105 lawyers. you can't compete. >> if they run out of money, they can print more money. i don't know any law firm in america that prints its own cash.an the department of justice does.

you're talking aboutut infinite resources. >> mark: we've heard today in the last couple of hours, mueller is investigating not just trump's collusion with russia but apparently potentially with other countries too. he's apparently met with a guy from lebanon and united emirates. he may have been colluding with belgium and using collusion with russia as a front. >> that's right. i'm american, and you're canadian. i guess we are colluding. maybe we should leave the studio now while we can. this is insane. >> mark: you're not allowed to collude with canadians. in canada, we can collude with you. you can't collude with me. >> this all started off as an investigation of trump and russian collusion. they found no evidence of this.e what amazes me, mueller so busy trying to find something that doesn't exist. yet, you have massive collusion on the part of the democrats and the russians. he's not interested in looking at that.

>> mark: you put it this way.nt you say here's mueller and the fire department, they broken down the front door. they're looking for a tipped over candle in the trump house. next door the democrat house is aflame with russia. >> just a couple of examples, the russian reset.>> that's a collusion of a sort. hillary clinton had the uranium one deal which she approved in exchange for 20% of u.s. uranium supply to the kremlin. donation of $145 million to the clinton foundation. >> mark: why don't any of hillary's aides have to turn over all their e-mails? >> it strikes me as amazing. not only are there no indictments, mueller is not even asking the question. you have a boeing deal where hillary got involved brokering a deal to get 50 737s sold. boeing gives $900,000 to the clinton foundation.

you have something like a silicon valley of moscow. she helped all these american companies take a look. those companies signed up, they in turn gave at least $6.5 million to the clinton foundation. later we find out from the pentagon that whole thing was a scam designed to engage in espionage and steal american technology. no questions, no discussion, no nothing. the woman should be locked up. >> mark: hopefully help the russians. lock her up, says deroy murdoch. always great to see you. thanks a lot. delta just did some virtue signaling by the attacking the nra. now they're paying an eight figure price courtesy of the government of georgia. georgia's lieutenant governor joins us next on "tucker carlson tonight." ndkids every minute counts.

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>> mark: delta airlines is learning the hard way that virtue signaling can have consequences.ay following the parkland shooting, delta abolished an nra discount that had only been use on 13 air tickets. in response, georgia's legislature killed a $40 million tax break the company had enjoyed. georgia lieutenant governor casey cagle is running for governor and helped lead the charge to strip the tax break. he joins us tonight. lieutenant governor, you said

you're sick of conservatives getting kicked around by companies. >> well, mark, it's good to be with you tonight. and you're exactly right. this was in the context of a much larger tax cut that georgia citizens were going to receive,a both individuals, but companies and corporations of our state.th delta was part of that. but because they chose to target and be a part of the boycott that really targeted nra and law-abiding citizens across our state, that particular tax cut that was specific to them which was an exemption on the jet fuel, was removed from the legislation. >> mark: now, i take it they saw a couple of tweets or whatever it was, that said you need to disassociate yourself from the nra. in a sense, something really unpleasant going on here. these are law-abiding citizens who are members of the nra.

the left is trying to settling --saddle them with the blame for the parkland shooting, and american companies seem to be going along with it. >> i don't think conservatives are to blame. if it's not the second amendment today, it might be the first amendment tomorrow. we do have to stand up and fight and push back and do it in a very respectfulk way. this was our opportunity. i want to put it in context. delta is the largest employer in our state. they are an economic asset. we see time and time again that companies are wanting to weigh in to the social discussion and listen, i've been a small businessman, both small and large, for 32 years. i always recognize, like warren buffett, i didn't lett my political views get in the way of my shareholders. i think it's best when companies get back to focusing on making money and selling seats. let's not forget, with the nra

in particular, delta negotiated a deal in selling seats. no different than hotels would negotiate with a convention to sell out an entire hotel, and you get a discount for that. this was very targeted. obviously it was not something that i appreciated. and i expressed that clearly. >> mark: have you heard from delta? >> i have. delta, as i said, they are a big piece of our economy.he we have the world's busiest airport, atlanta hartfield h jackson airport. delta has a tremendous presence there. we have seen some late news from delta as well. that has reaffirmed its commitment for the second amendment. i think that's very positive. i want to say, every family member has a disagreements. delta is family. family here in georgia. we'll continue to fight together. but on issues like the

constitution and law-abiding. citizens, we have to push back. that's what we did. i think it's having a tremendous impact.e >> mark: good for you for doing that, lieutenant governor. we'll see how that continues. mark glaze is cofounder of the gun control group guns down. he joins us. mark, we have seen some interesting news in regards to the parkland shooting. that in fact, this was not done with any rapid fire semiautomatic. in fact, this was done with a far more restricted form ofmi ammunition. >> he may not had highest capacity magazines. that may be true. that puts him in small minority of mass shooters. its high-capacity magazines.

even so, even if he had a 10 bullet ammunition magazine, he was able so slaughter 17 kids. that tells you assault weapons would not be in the hands of kids s. >> mark: don't you think what's been clear since this happened, is this gun control issue is actually going nowhere. people understand that in fact it was a failure of government. you had a sheriff's deputy stationed at the school who did nothing. who decided to stay outside until the gunman finished killing everybody. you have a federal government that incentivizes ignoring problem teenagers according to which preferred identity group they belong to. what appears to your group to be a gun control issue is a story of lavish government failure from federal to local. >> if you have a better idea

for how we can find every deeply troubled teen, i think almost everybody in the country would love to hear about it. >> mark: just wait a minute on this. the issue here is not whether there's a better idea. it's the fact that the failure of government. this is absurd. you got a sheriff's deputy in a schoolhouse which would be --seem nuts back when you or i were at school.l. he does nothing. why should people -- when you are paying for a guy, an armed sheriff's deputy to be at aut schoolhouse all day long and he does nothing.ho why would any prudent person want to mortgage their safety to the government? >> sure. i agree that guy should have been fired yesterday. i'm sorry he hasn't. that's not usually the case. whether there is security or isn't security, whether they do their jobs or not. mass shooters go into schools and public places, because they outarm whoever happens to be

there. that's how mass shootingss happen. >> mark: we're talking about the most recent run of mass shootings. the issue here is that when americans see the systemic failure that went on in parkland, when they see the sheriff has engaged in a campaign of disinformation designed to deflect his failures on peripherals like the nra, it's understandable. that they don't want to mortgage their personal security to an incompetent government. >> i don't.na what happened here was an exception. i agree this guy seems like bad guy. i will be happy to see him fired again. think about the newtown mass shooting. there was armed security there. they were in the school.l. they were unable to stop a guy who came in who radically over armed them and intended to die whatever happened next. it has nothing to do with government failure.

has to do with the fact that there are 300 million guns on the streets of america and the nra's only solution is to put 400 million out there. >> mark: what's your solution to get the 300 million -- i don't understand. when people talk about the australian example and other examples, there weren't 300 million guns australia. how do you propose to get it downn to 200 million? >> i think an excellent place to start is to stop putting new stock out there. probably the most effective because we've done it in places like colorado where there's lot of guns and hunters is to ban high capacity magazines.ad you will limit the damage so much of the shooters can do. second step is to ban civilian use of assault rifles. first step is to stop putting new ones out on the street. o you will wait for a long period of time until the ones out there degrade. >> mark: what about the most disturbing aspect of the shooter in florida though?

which is, the idea of government programs that incentivize, ignoring problem teenagers according to whether they happen to be hispanic or african-american or whatever fashionable identity group. >> if there was such a program, i'm not aware of it. if there was, there shouldn't be. there should be more government spending. there should be more private spending to track down kids who have legitimate emotional and mental disturbances and get them rooted in the treatment. >> mark: where do you stand on this boycotting the nra? >> i think it's a great thing. >> mark: there's 5 million members of the nra. how many members in your group? >> there's some debate about how many members the nra has. it's probably millions. the nra says often, i happen to agree, that politics is from culture.

when you have companies like dick's sporting goods --- >> mark: how can you marginal as extreme a group that is many million times bigger than yours? aren't you the fringe group? >> they been around since the 1800s. we'll take a while to catch up. >> mark: okay. let us know when you do. mark, thank you very much. google is silencing a conservative voice on youtube. tucker and dennis prager will discuss it. and-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. did i mention i save people $620 for switching? chinchilla update -- got that chinchilla after all.

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>> mark: tucker didn't skip town without leaving a something behind. >> tucker: the biggest threat of freedom of expression is not the federal government. it is powerful corporations,in particularly tech corporations. they can fire you for speaking your mind. they do do that. they can censor you online without you even knowing it. dennis prager is a radio show host who knows a lot about this. dennis prager founded prager u.

last year, he sued google saying youtube is restricting his videos for being conservative. they're not giving liberal videos the same treatment. that lawsuit is ongoing.ns dennis prager joins us. dennis, thanks for coming on.. >> always good to be with you. >> tucker: we've been following your suit. why is this important beyond the suit itself? >> the internet is largelyly controlled, in terms of information, by google, which also uses and runs youtube. if they don't allow a free flow of information, it would be as if, to make an odd analogy, your airports that only people on the left can fly airplanes, can be passengers on airplanes. that would be an equivalent. that is what is now happening. our lawsuit is so much biggeren than us. we had 600 million views last year. that's probably why youtube is not a big fan of ours.

we really are effective. we have four pulitzer prize winners. we have professors from stanford, harvard, yale giving courses. they are very effective. they present a side of life that is never heard or almost never heard on our campuses. they have decided they will put, in this case, 40 of our 300 videos on the restricted list. meaning it joins pornography and violence being restricted. for example, we had a video byoi victor davis hanson, who is the opposite of a flamethrower. he is as even tempered a professor as exists in the world. he gave a talk: why did we fight in korea. that was on the restricted list. alan dershowitz is a liberal. he gave a course titled "the legal founding of israel." that's on the restricted list. >> tucker: are you convinced after going through this long

process and digging into the suit that google's motives are ideological? >> there's no other possibility. we have videos on the same subject as liberal and left-wina videos. they are never censored. ours is. here's an amazing proof that is recent. not something that could have told you the last time i was on your show. i debated a man from left at a synagogue in san francisco. that was put on the internet. they have put that on the restricted list.t a debate in a synagogue known for pornography and violence. needless to say.y apparently they feel that i did better than the man on the left. they put that on the restricted list. it's transparently ideological. >> tucker: are you convinced that they're doing this to a greater extent to sites on the right than the left? >> there's no question about it. our lawsuit provides chapter and verse on precisely that. there's no question about that.c

>> tucker: this is frightening t then. this is the portal through which our information comes. google, youtube, these are the ways people understand reality. if someone's got his thumb on the scale, you're not getting all the information you need to make up your own mind. >> right. that's why this lawsuit is important in and of itself.. it's important for another equally important reason:f the court of public opinion. google needs to say the truth is, "we are not a conduit for free expression. we are here to promote our views that are on the left." so either we'll get a win or we'll get honesty. it's a win either way. >> tucker: it is a win. we're hoping for your victory. thanks a lot for explaining that to us. appreciate it.ry >> thanks, tucker. >> mark: i hope dennis has good

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the city has managed to set aside more than $7 million to give lawyers for illegal immigrants facing deportation. they plan to spend millions more. meanwhile today marks the expiration date that president trump set for daca. but the program remains in force thanks to activist judges who claim it's illegal to end the program that's illegal in the first place. you know it makes sense. ali noorani is executive director at the national immigration forum. he joins us. ali, why is this a priority for the government of san francisco? >> we do a lot of work with law enforcement across the country. whether it's san francisco, st. louis or spartanburg. the local cop wants to do their job and serve and protect. they don't want to be policing a sanctuary city. they would be policing a safe city. at the end of the day, that requires documented community must trust local police.

the tension between local police and i.c.e. is undermining what the local police like to do. >> mark: that's a familiar argument from immigration activist. if you enforce the law, it discourages illegal immigrants from cooperating with police departments. for example, in this hall in california, they rounded up 230 undocumented immigrants of which exactly half have beenp convicted of serious crimes including child sex crimes, assault, and weapons charges. why would anyone wish to keep these people illegally in the united states? >> you just talked about, there's the right way to spend valuable law enforcement resources: to go after themehe public safety threats. you said that was half the 232. i'm not a math major.

that means half the people they detained were not public safety threats. >> mark: they are illegal immigrants. >> it's a waste of public resources and pushes immigrants who are victims of crimes, witnesses to crimes, away from local law enforcement. >> mark: no, ali it pushes illegal immigrants. as a legal immigrant, i get concerned. >> there's another interesting fact with all this. the majority of immigrant families are mixed status. that means somebody in thee household is documented and somebody is undocumented. if that person who is documented does not trust local law enforcement. they're worried that the cop will ask their wife for immigration status. they're not going to report that crime. this is more complicated than just a pure black and white issue. that's why we need local law enforcement to do their job and serve and protect.

>> mark: you know as well as i do what that means is that democrat cities will become playgrounds for illegal immigrants. when immigration is -- we canhe argue about whether certain areas of government are the province of the federal or state or local government. one thing that's indisputable.ha the nation's borders and who is admitted to live among american citizens is the sole responsibility of the federal government. >> you have done a great jobe of reading and memorizing the constitution. you're correct. what's missing here, mark, is cooperation and collaboration between federal immigration enforcement and local law enforcement. i.c.e. comes in and knocks on the door and says police. that immigrant community thinks the local police is profiling the entire community. that's why we want immigration enforcement to prioritize their resources.

>> mark: you say cooperation. we now have subversion.. where mayors are tipping off criminal elements to the fact that federal authorities will be staging raids. do you have proof of that? >> what we need to be doing in a state like california which is the fifth largest economy in the world, we need to make sure that the state is safe and secure. >> mark: wait a minute. these are all great sounding words. safe and secure. >> do you have a problem with safe and security? >> mark: i do when there's euphemism for industrial scale law breaking. i do have a problem with the nice sounding words for criminality, which is what this is. >> i disagree. we should be prioritizing public safety threats such as child predators.

let's prioritize those public safety threats. ensure that the cities are safe and secure. >> mark: ali, stop saying safe and secure. it's driving me bonkers. still more on the show to come. do stay right here. we'll be back. no, please, please, oh! ♪ (shrieks in terror) (heavy breathing and snorting) no, no. the running of the bulldogs? surprising. what's not surprising? how much money aleia saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more.

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good night. the winner of the academy award for best breaking news opening monologue, sean hannity, is standing by! hooray for hannity! >> sean: mark, thank you. good job filling in for tucker. welcome to "hannity." a huge breaking news breaking news lightweight four major stories. holly was glaring hypocrisy on guns, sexual assault, and much more on full display at the oscars. it is by this year's award show was the least watched ever. tonight we will be calling out these hollywood left his hypocrites and also brand-new, a major development, all roads in the russia investigation lead directly back to hillary clinton and we've got that match, john solomon reporting that the russian who helped start the investigation has deep ties to the clintons and according to solomon, this diplomat actually helped secure $25 million