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government. jonathan turley will explain the applications of that in just a minute, but first, the fox chief national correspondent ed henry who's been following this all day. >> initially, democrats like adam shift laughed off these allegations, but some of the obama inner circle as well as a former top officials may be sweating a bit because this is heating up now with the justice department inspector general michael horowitz saying he's going to take a close look at it. remember, attorney general jeff sessions had said he wanted horwitz to handle this and sessions got a lot of heat from supporters of president trump who said the inspector general would bury this and that this was sessions passing the buck again. this is a sign that he is moving full speed ahead. devin nunes first revealed with his memo, laying out how top fbi and justice officials and the obama administration got a warrant from the fisa court to spy on carter page. most importantly, comey,

mccabe, and other officials allegedly used the anti-trump dossier to get that initial warrant without telling the judge that the dnc and hillary clinton's campaign had paid for the dirt in that dossier. horwitz is also working on two other major reports including comey's conduct, peter starks tough messages in the unauthorized leaks the media. this week, there have been criminal charges filed in minnesota and a separate case involving a former fbi agent who allegedly leaked classified sensitive information, so the bottom line is this is part of jeff sessions cracked down on the leaking of sensitive information, a big development tonight. >> tucker: it sure is, thanks for that. jonathan turley is a law professor and he draws us tonight. thanks for coming on. it's the greatest of all charges, the federal government potentially spying illegally on american citizens. why only now as us being looked

at? >> it's an interesting phenomenon. a lot of people who have rightly criticized those and want to shutdown the the special counsel investigation, those same people often belittle these allegations about what happened in the secret court. it's a dangerous combination to have a secret court that is based on a standard lower than the fourth amendment that is totally secret and insulated from public review. that court is also used for political agenda. we don't know if that's true, but we have worrisome facts that should be looked at. what i think is missing in washington is this sense of balance. both sides should be investigated. these are troubling issues that are raised by both republicans and democrats. what happened today is that we are going to be guaranteed that there will be an independent investigation and horowitz is the perfect guy to do it. he knows the doj, he's very well respected and i think what we're going to learn from this process could help us in the future. >> tucker: what would he be

looking at? >> specifically at that application with carter page. many people made fun of president trump when he said that his campaign was under surveillance and people like former director clapper said i would have known if there was an order of surveillance. it turns out there were multiple orders of surveillance. >> tucker: he said that mocks the idea, he's been caught lying to the public reform. is there any other reason for the dishonesty? >> what we know as there is not just one, but a renewal of these orders. that's a very serious question to look at. when you have someone who is associated with the opposing party as a candidate. the judge looked at this and said it warranted a renewal, but that application, while it says that one of these sources was political in nature, didn't reveal everything that the fbi knew about the dossier, that it was funded by the clinton campaign, that it found that

much of the dossier was not cooperated, there were serious questions about the motivation and the fact that he tried to stop this to the media in he told someone of the media that he didn't like trump. those are material facts. does that mean that the court became an adjunct of the dnc or was caught up in a political agenda? we don't know. the point is that the american people have a right to know if there is very powerful court was used for inappropriate or abusive reasons. >> tucker: have you noticed briefly since you've covered and talked the law in this city for a long time, the decline in the concern over civil liberties? >> i have been with almost become numb. people have really low expectations of the government now and that's a real shame. the fisa court has been a concern for libertarians because of its standard.

when this scandal focused on the fisa court, it was a huge concern because abuses in that court can be magnified and terms of their damage because it is so insulated, it is so secret and it's capable of doing a lot more without people seeing at that a normal court. >> tucker: i think it's terrifying. thank you for that, i appreciate it. in california, we've redefined who the criminals are and as of yesterday, criminals are those who seek to enforce the law, at least in orange county. the sheriff and that county is trying to assist i.c.e. by publishing release times of immigrants who are in custody and i want to buy the feds come up that puts her in conflict with state law. javier becerra has suggested that she should be sued or even arrested for her efforts.

this seems like the moment where legitimate concerns about what happens to people here illegally become something grotesque in the state starts to act against the interests of its citizens. here you have a sheriff saying you have potentially dangerous criminals were wanted to buy the feds, they're going to be released, i'm going to post the times the release publicly so the feds can do their job and attain them in the attorney general, the chief law enforcement officer of her state is saying she should be arrested. how could you take his side and this against the safety of citizens in california? >> two points here, as far as the sheriff posting the names, not just undocumented, but all people who are being released from our jails, as far as my reading of this law goes, that complies with california sanctuary law. it would be a different situation if she were singling out people who were on detainers

or undocumented people, she's not doing that. in this instance, i disagree with the attorney general because i think if you look at an interpretation of the law, she is in compliance with what she's doing. however, we have to remember it when we talk about what they're doing in california, with the sheriff is doing, the people of california do support these so-called sanctuary members mea. >> tucker: what percentage -- when we speak in general terms, it's easy to make generalizations. let's be specific. let me finish my question, if you don't mind. what percentage of californians to think support the mayor of oakland warning wanted criminals that they may be apprehended and then watching as of four of them went and committed felonies during the period they escaped apprehension by federal

authorities? do you support that? >> and reference to those four individuals were apprehended, i.c.e. officials and department of homeland security officials were not able to tie any of them to oakland. they apprehended them, but there was no direct link for them. remember that what the mayor did -- >> tucker: i wonder at what point -- is there anything you want make an excuse for? you have guys who got out and committed actual crimes with firearms. one guy gravely injured his wife by beating her. they should have been in federal custody, there want to buy federal authorities in the state of california made it harder for them to apprehended. can you say that's appalling? >> i hear your emotion and this is my answer. when the department of homeland security arrives and wants to

after these violent criminals, they need to issue a warrant. in 2015, i issued something like 95,000 of these immigration detainers. 62% of them were not even followed up on in any way and only 50% resulted in actual deportations. >> tucker: for debate is not whether i.c.e. is issuing the appropriate detainers or warrants. the debate is over whether the mayor of oakland should be warning criminals that the feds are out to get them. >> what she did was direct people to know their rights based on what she heard and -- >> tucker: is there any normal person who would support that? even people who are sympathetic to the dreamers. it's a country, i get it, we feel compassion, but if you have someone standing up for political reasons and saying you wanted for a serious crime, the feds are coming, that's the beginning of the end.

you don't see that? >> i don't have that cynical take. what i do have is that they've been celebrated because many appreciate what she's doing. although it's controversial because not everyone likes with the idea is, they do appreciate that she's directing not necessarily criminals to know their rights and that's what we deal with them on enforcement. >> tucker: good luck to the communities who are supporting her. thank you. chris cuomo says nobody is trying to repeal the second amendment, nobody has been reading the paper. we'll tell you who is actually coming up. plus the democratic party has been utterly transformed in the last few years. that's not an attack, merely an observation. with the barack obama of 2012 be welcomed in the democratic part party? joining us next is clinton and obama confident jennifer palmieri edge. she will join us in just a

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just wrote a "new york times" piece 24 hours ago with the hard to interpret title repeal the second amendment. brad stevens agrees. >> you are not going to get a handle on the problem of america's gun culture while there is a constitutional right to own a weapon. most of the guns in the country isn't done with ar-15s. i suspect most of us would like to see a band. they're done with handguns. so you at least address the principle that there is a right to bear an arm, you will not deal with the problem that we've had. >> tucker: even two years ago, "rolling stone" magazine called for repealing the second amendment. this is totally real. it's not a fever dream unfortunately. dan, as you know, democratic party strategists are concerned

about saying any of us out loud because they don't want to scare conservatives into voting and the midterms, but i think it's kind of out in the open now. this is not a conspiracy theory, this really is the agenda. what you make of it? >> a couple things here. number one, let me tell you something, democrats. you're going to repeal the second amendment, go for it. good luck. in the 1994 midterms after the clinton "assault weapons ban," liberals change the definition, democrats lost 53 seats in rural america. knock yourselves out. here's the problem i see. i read an interesting op-ed piece and i'm getting a lot of feedback from my audience on this as well. the problem with liberals like chris cuomo and others, they don't understand us. liberalism is easy to understand. it's everywhere. it's on tv, it's in the media,

academia, we're surrounded by i it. it's the normal position for society. to absolutely understand conservatives and why gun owners would want to own a gun to defend themselves, you have to do some hard work. you have to go to kentucky and go to some areas of florida outside of miami and talk to people and liberals have zero interest in doing that and that's why they'll never understand american government. >> tucker: what they're calling for is a transfer of firearms from a country to the ruling class. they are saying only we should have guns. no one is seriously saying that the bodyguard protects the hosts you just saw, piercing everyone else should be. it's a power transfer. >> absolutely it's a power transfer. one thing that's frequently sided with the founders is there obvious fight against the monarchy and tyranny which led to the second amendment. the other thing if you read a lot of the federalist papers as you can sense a theme of what

they want. they want a sense of individuality. they didn't want the people to defend exclusively to be surgically attached to the government for the one thing that matters more than anything. the safety and security. they didn't want that. they wanted people to have an independent spirit and this is what i believe, not all democrats because some are naive and frankly being useful idiots on this, but the radical left entirely understands that this isn't about guns, it's about power. it's about removing that symbol of individuality, removing financial power, the power over your own security from people's lives. this is bigger than just firearms and i wish people on our side, these so-called moderate republicans would get hit with this quick, that this is a bigger agenda for the radical left. >> tucker: i appreciate the radical left for being honest about it. what i'm shocked by is the willingness of people in the media to become a handmaidens. they're supposed to be challenging, but instead their foot soldiers guard down,

thank you for putting that in perspective for us. the world has changed a lot in the last couple of years, but the biggest changes have taken place in the democratic party. the core positions are almost unrecognizable to the ones they held five years ago. at an attack, just an observation. it's fascinating. we'll leave you out -- we'll lay it out for you. also, new ways facebook is invading your life. in ways you never thought of, but you should start thinking about. we'll bring that to your next.

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>> tucker: facebook's business practices get more disturbing the more you learn about them and we learn more every day. now we have new evidence the company may be spying on users at work and in their homes in ways they never imagined. brad larsen is a fox news tech reporter and anchor for fox news headline 24/7 and he joins us tonight. >> we're getting some very troubling information about just what facebook is learning about their users. they're listening in on our conversations, how would they do that? it's pretty simple. if you've got the facebook app on your phone, there's a microphone right here. most of our smartphones have multiple microphones on them so they can hear your voice clearly in a loud room. facebook denies they are doing this saying they have never listened in and for the purpose of advertising, but many users have gone online and folks have even queried me in person with anecdotal evidence that usually goes a little something like so

i was having this conversation with a friend of mine and we opened up facebook and found out about something we were just discussing. this news also comes as christopher wiley, he's the whistle-blower here. he appeared before the british house of representatives and he said facebook has the ability to listen in so they know if you are walking around, if you are in allowed bar, at home watching tv. we already know that facebook tracks our every move online, every site you visit, things you like, friends you have, also they can build this increasingly accurate profile about you to solute targeted advertising. mark zuckerberg has been invited to speak to a congressional panel about the problems uncovered with facebook and just today, the social media giant rolling out a new security page, you'll start to see this where you can access all your settings, you can even download all of your facebook data in one

massive download. all your pictures, posts, you'll start to see that in the next coming days and weeks. also today, apple ceo tim cook says it's time to look into what can be done to ensure that when we are online, or privacy is protected. very troubling information out of facebook. >> tucker: thank you very much for that. joan kern is -- just so much information google and facebook collect about you and the rest of their users. he does us tonight. thanks a lot for coming on. you do this stuff for a living, you know a lot about the collection by facebook, you learn things you didn't know. tell us what you learned. >> i feel like a lot of people are in the industry and have a general idea what's going on. when i looked at the information, i found a lot of things that were totally unexpected. they were recording us and

record your textbook records. apart from that, i went to google and they were storing a lot more information than i had previously expected. there were storing search history. they had my location maps back as far as 2014 showing pretty much every location i've been in for the last four years every day and with the time-stamp. they have also shown all of those files and images i've ever downloaded, all the apps have ever used and searched for, they also showed my google statistic statistics, all the ads that i've clicked on, my youtube history and the most disturbing thing was they actually show your google incognito history. so they kept the information, it was in the archive when he went to re-download it. that means that when you think

you're privately browsing google, it's still collecting that data. >> tucker: they included things you thought you deleted? >> i had my google drive which is cloud storage and i had a lot of files on there that i wanted to delete because there are items such as my monthly budget, a couple of codes and an encryption key. i had explicitly deleted so there would be no threat of those being stolen in the future. when i go into my archives, it's still there. >> tucker: we reached out to google today about this and their response essentially was everyone knows this. it's in the terms of use. do you think everyone does know this? >> absolutely not. my tweets never received such unbelievable attention if that was the case. assaying everyone he knows this is a copout because they're saying everybody knows this because when you accept the

terms and conditions of the app, you are technically signing away your rights to that information. realistically, nobody does read the terms and conditions because not everybody has the time to read those terms and conditions and not everybody has a great lawyer. >> tucker: it's inherently dishonest for they tell you you're deleting something and they keep a record. it's a lie and they should be held accountable. thank you for that. it's terrifying. democratic party has changed dramatically in the last couple of years. the rest of us are recovering, stormy daniels. this would all be foreign to bill clinton or even barack obama. the finale of our month-long man in america series just ahead. (nadia white) the moment a fish is pulled out from the water,

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>> tucker: the most remarkable fact about the decline of men in america is most leaders pretending it's not happening at all. the patriarchy is thriving they tell us, men are in charge and they succeed equal to women. this is wrong and we must rectify it. that's the message. it also happens to be the core assumptions of second wave feminism which became popular 40 years ago when the baby boom leaders were becoming of age. none of those assumptions are true today. america has changed completely. the patriarchy is gone, women are winning, men are failing. men in america are now far more likely to die of a drug overdose, drop out of the workforce because of an addiction, commit a felony, and go to prison. they fail in school much more often than women do. they kill themselves at many times the rate, overall they died eight years younger. those numbers are not

speculative, they are hard data gathered over decades of nonpartisan researchers. you have to ignore a huge amount of settled science or to repeat the pieties of 1970s era feminism and that's exactly what are leaders intended to do. in march of 2009, almost immediately after arriving in washington, barack obama greeted the white house council on women and girls. he taps a divisor to run it. "when our daughters don't have the same education and career opportunities as our sons, obama said in his announcement, that affects our economy and our future as a nation. at the very moment, obama was lamenting the lack of educational opportunities for women, more girls than boys were gradually from high school and far more from college. 62% of women are owning associates degrees, 60% of masters degrees, and 52% of doctorates. that gap is even wider and nonwhite neighborhoods. for example, in 2007 among black

and hispanic graduates of public schools in boston, for every 100 black men who had a college degree, there were 230 black women who got one. for every 100 hispanic men who got a college degree, there were 211 hispanic women who got one. the 70% of all masters degrees awarded to black students nationally went to black women, just 30% went to black men. the reasons the obama administration never explained, though school performance of black and hispanic girls was deemed a higher priority than boys. under obama, the white house solicited millions of dollars from corporations to encourage female achievement and higher education. at the time this was happening, one study showed that there was already at least four times as many privately funded college scholarships available for girls as for boys, four times. the administration of her knowledge the instead, it sought new ways to close a gender gap that no longer exists. one idea was "breaking down gender stereotypes and toys."

to that end, the white house pressured manufacturers, retailers, and media outlets to eliminate gender distinction and children's toys. this would allow kids to explore, learn, and dream without limits. while educators of all levels took this idea seriously. in 2015, one kindergarten teacher in washington state banned her male students from playing with legos. a fitting together plastic blocks has been found by researchers to help children develop important cognitive skills. boys have enough advantages, the teacher explained. she intentionally prevented them from learning. her girls thrive when boys fail. this is the underlying assumption of much of america's gender policy and education. there is no credible research to suggest that is true. it is purely an ideological belief and yet that assumption is pervasive, especially on college campuses. that's ironic because there are more than 2 million more women than men enrolled in college

this year. on most campuses, men are a distinct minority. at a university in pittsburgh, women are a number men by more than 6-1. almost every campus has a women's studies department. many of them, the stated goal is to fight expressions of masculinity and disempower men. at ohio state ohio state, a force is underway this spring called be a man come out masculinity's race, and nation. the syllabus for that course explicit masculinity is used to justify certain kinds of violence by men. on the first day of class, students were required to consult a male privilege checklist. at duke university and north carolina, a nine week workshop meant to devise ways to undermine "masculinity and maleness" as well to destabilize spaces with privilege, meeting men. similar projects have sprung up colleges over the country. under the obama administration, the department of justice credit something called the healthy masculinity campus athletics

project. that objective was summed up this way "as a country we need to do a better job of addressing issues around toxic masculinity masculinity." left on asked was the most basic question of all, it is masculinity itself really toxic and what happens to boys only tell them it is? it's why we understood that attacking people for their basic nature is unhealthy and it's wrong to read a government funded program designed to fight toxic femininity or toxic homosexuality probably would not escape the scrutiny of congress or the media. at the very least, the supporters would have to explain why our country needs a program like that. yet nobody has been forced to explain why boys who are already failing need to be held back further. so they are. christina hoff summers is the author of the war against boys, she's one of the very first people in america intellectual life to notice this trend and to sound the alarm. she was ignored, but we're grateful she did it anyway.

thank you. you wrote this original piece from which this whole series basically has been derived almost 20 years ago when you notice to the boys were falling behind. yet the assumption for the people have not changed much. why? >> there's a great deal of resistance to addressing the needs of boys. there are a lot of roman's groups, not all of them, but most of them call it backlash and they are unwilling to listen, so boys because we've thrown the gender switch and boys are on the wrong side of the gender gap. >> tucker: the core assumption is there is some arrangement where if you hold back boys, girls should ahead and it's great for them, but that's not really the nature of life. >> it's a fundamental fallacy. there's too many of the activist groups that think that there is a trophy and either venus is going to win or mars and their job is to root for venus.

men and women and boys and girls are in this together. if boys are in trouble, so are we all. these are the young men with whom our daughters and granddaughters are going to make the future. if boys are failing, what's going to happen to girls? >> tucker: that's a question of father of every daughter including myself thinks about a lot. you sort of wonder, how do we get to a place where colleges and which broadly speaking men are failing behind girls to have funded departments whose main course of study is why it masculinity maleness is bad. why doesn't anybody ever say anything about that? >> we try, but you get called names and demonized if you defend boys and their plight specifically in education. we have economists now come out larry summers projects that by

mid century, it may be a third of men in the full-time workforce are going to be out of the workforce. disengaged, not there, millions of men are simply not going to be looking for work, not in the workplace. we can address this. england, australia, canada, they are very worried because of the future of their economy and because it's a social confusion and their addressing the problem. they haven't sold it, but they're working on it. we haven't even acknowledged it. >> tucker: what does that say about our policymakers that they're acting from assumptions that were relevant in 1979 that are no longer? >> they're not paying attention. i think it's hard to know where to place the fault because simply what we have right now is vast numbers of organizations that have done a very good job supporting young women and helping young women, addressing their needs. girls were behind in math and science and thanks to many women's groups and activists, we

have strengthened young women. they have taken more advanced math classes in science classes. where were the efforts for boys? there was no lobby, there is no lobby. people say they don't need a lobby, it's a man's world. i'm not sure that's true. it's not a little boy's world. no one's paying attention. >> tucker: sad, thank you for all the work you've done on this. it's important. democratic party, not the party you remember, even from three years ago. new and radically different ideas, agendas, a whole new ideology. the former top official in the obama administration and hillary clinton campaign joins us next to discuss it. stay tuned. ♪ ber bed allows each of you to adjust to your ideal level of firmness, comfort and support... your sleep number setting... for your best. sleep. ever. in the morning, you'll discover the amazing effects the bed is having on your sleep quality... your sleepiq score.

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♪ >> tucker: here's a story that's received almost no media attention. it's been less than a year and a half since donald trump got elected come up the democratic party has changed pretty dramatically. six years ago for example since the 2012 state of the union, president obama said this about immigration. watch. >> i believe as strongly as ever that we should take on illegal immigration. that's why my administer agent has put more boots on the border than ever before. that's why if there are fewer illegal crossings to when i took office. >> tucker: that's unimaginable today, obama could not and would not say that. instead, democrats are calling for the abolition of federal immigration enforcement. isis was described as a strike force -- the state of california is threatening law enforcement officers with arrests if they cooperate with i.c.e. impoverished democratic cities like baltimore set aside tax

dollars to help illegal immigrants fight deportation. how long before the national party calls for giving illegal immigrants the right to vote. yesterday on this show, we interviewed an immigration activist who said foreign nationals ought to be able to vote anywhere in the country. it used to be a french position. it's not anymore. the democratic party has mode for advocating gun-control and push for gun confiscation. here was hillary clinton's position on firearms two years ago. >> i'm not looking to repeal the second amendment, i'm not looking to take people's guns away, but i am looking for more support for the reasonable efforts that need to be undertaken to keep guns out of the wrong hands. >> tucker: those words could have been uttered any time in the last 30 years, but that was then. democrats have just spent the last month openly calling for gun confiscation. yesterday, former supreme court justice john paul stevens devoted the repeal of the second

amendment, others have followed. that would be unthinkable a few years ago. in the 1990s, you often heard bill and hillary clinton say abortion ought to be safe, legal, and rear. as recently as 2009, barack obama agreed. watch. >> lets us work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions. let's reduce unintended pregnancies. let's make adoptions more available. let's provide care and support for women who do carry their children to term. >> tucker: that was the position of the democratic party from roe v. wade until about yesterday. even though abortion should remain legal, it was undesirable, it was something to be avoided if possible. that's all most voters feel. democrats no longer say that. the party's base is for abortion. they want women to -- planned parenthood in colorado demanded a new disney princess

who has had an abortion to be a role model for girls. this is outside the mainstream. are they the topics, are they the issues that democrats are going to run on during the midterm elections question are joining us tonight is someone who has spent a long time in the democratic party, jennifer pulmonary. she spent years of the heart of it. she's got a brand-new book out and she's doing very well on amazon, it's called dear madam president. thanks for coming on. >> i'm happy to be here. a lot has been written about the changes in their party. the democratic party has changed as much if not more and it's gotten very little attention. do you acknowledge that president obama going out and saying i'm going to crackdown on illegal immigration, couldn't say that today? >> no because what happened is the problem got a lot worse in congress didn't do anything about it. president obama gave that speech

many years ago, that was when we were trying to pass comprehensive immigration reform and he got it through one body, he couldn't go through the other and congress is broken and it won't pass it. the problem has gotten a lot worse. the democrats are in the mainstream of views when it comes to guns and immigration and when it comes to abortion. there is no one that thinks abortion shouldn't be safe, legal, and rare. this is the part of the show where you set me up. >> tucker: let me ask you a couple quick questions. is there any circumstance when noncitizens should be allowed to vote? >> i think citizenship, voting comes with citizenship. what's happened is that despite,

congress is broken. it does not react to what the people want. >> tucker: i agree with that. >> people want more gun control. that is what they want. >> tucker: for details matter, suicide noncitizens should never vote in elections. i would argue that your party will overtake you on that question, but we'll see. >> it may be if congress never does anything to address immigration. you know what? i got the invitation to come on your show and immediately i thought there's no way i'm doing that. then i thought, i like tucker in he's a smart guy. and i am a woman with nothing to lose, so i said sure, i'm going on. you really believe that the democratic party thinks that

abortion shouldn't be rare? >> tucker: do you think the government should take guns from law-abiding people question rick that's not a trick question, it's sincere. >> i think there should be an assault weapons ban. i don't think people need to take their guns away, but there should be an assault weapons ban. you are setting the conversation up to purposefully put me in a box. >> tucker: i think everyone watching would acknowledge as a totally fair question. why is it not a fair question because you want to answer right? >> no, because it's not a sincere question. >> tucker: it's very much sincere. i can't tell you how sincere it is. speak out my husband has a number of guns. >> tucker: that's great, but should the government ever take the guns are people who have not misuse them? >> i've addressed it and we

should move on. add it to your list of things that are designed to set me up. >> tucker: if you think that's a set up, it tells you how sad our national conversation has become. my questions are sincere, their rate to the heart of the matter. >> a sincere question would be when it came to guns, do you know why people are taking to the streets? because children are dying in schools at outrageous numbers. >> tucker: we want to talk to jennifer about her book. more about the future of the democratic party, that will air tomorrow night. we'll be rightm back. i wanted to try something different. for me, chantix really worked. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking.

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>> tucker: that's about all the time we have tonight. more with former clinton communications director tomorrow night to find out what is inside her new book.

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