we'll see you tomorrow night, tucker is up next. his musical ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." you may remember that robert mueller's investigation was created with a clear purpose, finding evidence of rushing and meddling in the u.s. elections. putin hacked our democracy. this investigation was going to look into possible collusionoo between russians and americans. they are supposed to be a lot of evidence of that. instead, the investigation has continued and it's evolved. just as somelv of us warned it would a year ago. just like all of these investigations do. it has like all of them become an endless, all-purpose investigation of the president. his life, business, friends, his sex life.

is this a good idea? is it a president we want to set? congressman, thank you for coming on. would you be comfortable with a permanent investigation into your life and dealings? >> no. >> tucker: i understand that people don't like trump and theo object to the way he conducts his business and the way he makes decisions. but this is notot the way to del with it. is it? >> if you are referring to the investigation that relates to the there presidents sex life, don't care about that. >> tucker: that is what the investigation has become. i've agreed with you to this extent. is there evidence that someone colluded with a foreign government, i would like to know if that is true. >> luckily, we have a way to do that. allow bob mueller to do his job. >> tucker: the question is what job is he doing? based on the behavior we have seen in the last week, not an argument against this be mueller investigation. >> luckily, wisely, the special counsel hand of that

investigation to someone else. his focus remains on what he was charged to do. >> tucker: distinction without a difference category. >> check it out. less than a year on this thing. 22 indictments, 100 felonies, 13 russians, by the way, and five guilty pleas. pretty good day's. >> tucker: are all guilty pleas the same? is pleading guilty to lying to a federal agent the same as pleading guilty to colluding with a foreign government? >> some of them might be going lightly to get their cooperation. time will tell. i think it is fair to say this special counsel ought to deliver or wind up his work. i don't want her to go on forever. then ghazi took two years, that is too long. i will tell you what, indicting 13 russians for interfering with the election is exactly what he was charged to do. i'm glad they were indicted. i hope you are. i would like to find out -- >> tucker: yeah, i guess -- whatever. let's be totally real. none of these people are going to trial. it's not even clear to me what

they did that threaten our democracy. that's not the point. the point is that we saw this week federal agents basically break into the office of the president's lawyer in search of facts about the "access hollywood" tape and a porn star. >> i think you mean execute a legal warrant. they executed a search warrant. it's called due process, by the way. >> tucker: i'm aware of that. i'm not for this. >> let me make it easy on you. i don't care about the president's sex life. you can put me on the record of not wanting to know about that. >> tucker: it's not whether you care about his sex life, it is whether you are comfortable with federal agents doing that. >> i don't care about stormy daniels, cable news trying to get ratings. i do care about -- and you should care about russians interfere with her elections, and i think it is really important to point out that unlike ken starr, who made his

whole investigation about sex, bob mueller has ended that off appointee. >> tucker: no. it's a distinction -- i just want to press you on whether you are specifically comfortable with the fbi going in with a warrant into the president's lawyer's office in search of materials related to his sex life. >> what i have said several times as i don't care about that. >> tucker: that's not an answer. are you comfortable with at the fbi did? >> i hope we both agree that in my course of the mueller investigation, he finds evidence of other crimes unrelated to his investigation, that it would be wrong to ignore them and so i think the proper thing to do was to handed off to someone else. inne this case, a trump appoint. it is not fair to say that is a distinction without a difference.ce that stance focused. >> tucker: right. i want to ask you the same question for the fifth time because you want to answerot it. this isth not what we were lookg for when we appointed a special

counsel. this looks very much like what democrats complained about. >> if you can't understand that bob mueller faced a choice, do it himself, handed off to somebody else, or ignore it, i think it would have been wrong to do it himself, wrong to ignore it. he handed it off. >> tucker: what do you imagine the crime would be? i am watching liberals, who for generations have defended civil liberties, say a payoff to a porn star is a violation of campaign finance law. what would be the crime, the potential crime -- >> i just told you i wouldn't care. >> tucker: why but i do care about what the fbi is doing to the personal lawyer? >> i'm focused on what robert mueller is charged to do and that is to tell us whether the russians interfered with our election. we know they did. and whether anybody in this administration was playing footsie with them. i'mwi glad he is staying focused on that. should become too. t let me answer your question. i think it is disturbing when the federal government is going

to somebody sex life. but if he is evidence of crimes than it is wrong to ignore them and he has handed them off to a separate office. >> tucker: i just want you to concede you are uncomfortable with it. we sent martha stewart to prison for lying to a federal investigator about an investigation of something completely different. that is a crime. it's wrong to do that. >> so tucker, all i'm saying, why don't we let them do their job -- >> tucker: we are letting them do our their job. >> you are comfortable with them investigating michael cohen. >> what i'm comfortable with -- >> tucker: stress or partisanship doesn't team to this process or t investigation, let's have a permanent office of special counsel who flows about the justice system on a permanent basis with no timetable and budget limit, who can investigate every sitting lawmaker or executive. why not do that?

>> terrible idea.ve >> tucker: not against trump? >> you've'v got a bunch of republican senators, as recently as today -- >> tucker: guess who cares so republican senators think? not me. i'm asking you about principle. >> excuse me. you just asked me for bipartisanship. you have a bunch of republican senators, senator grassley -- >> tucker: i literally could not care. >> why would you ask for a bipartisan process, you are getting one. what they are saying is, let this guy do his job. >> tucker: why not let him continue to do. his job into the administration? focuses attention on congress, lawmakers like yourself, who knows what you are doing? why don't we have somewhat independent looking into your activities? if you are not guilty, why would you worry? >> tucker, what i said -- >> tucker: you would like that? >> he would see a lot of investigations and a lot of people getting whacked. good. we have too much deadwood in congress and a bunch of corrupt people. amen. i live under the same scrutiny

every day. let mey tell you something, i think. you are right you shouldn't have an open-ended special counsel investigations, i'm trying to agree with you. when you have critical evidence of serious wrongdoing, 13 -- 22 indictments, 13 russians, 100 felonies, tucker, and a, bipartisan consensus on letting this investigation simply dort s work -- >> tucker: look, i'm with that. let's roll it up i get to the business of running the country. >> less than a year and he is a bunch of indictments. lot safer i feel a now that paul manafort is in jail. thank you very much. mark steyn is an author and columnist and he joins us tonight. i actually kind of --dash i love the idea of a permanent indepent counsel who investigates everybody in power. why not -- why stop with lawmakers? why wouldn't he get into the guys who were in google, facebook? somebody who isn't encumbered by the corruption of the doj, and who has an endless budget?

what's wrong with that? >> that's right. there is millions and millions of people and there's laws against everything and if you happen to be that guy that they decide to look into, they can find something or they can turn your associates, or in this case, they can put the squeeze on your lawyer, which, i don't care with the congressman says, ico find what happened with michael, and absolutely repulsive. lawyer client privilege is something that was established by elizabethan times as a basic principle of common law. the idea that you cook the theh kick the guys door down, and you are supposed to be reassured bee the prosecutor's colleague, whos not working on the case, we'll go through everything and decide what is or isn't covered by attorney-client privilege, is ludicrous. >> tucker: weights. to interrupt you there. you are not from this country so you may not read

"the new york times." they assured us two years k daf you are not guilty, you shouldn't worry about attorney-client privilege. there is no cause to hold onto that right if he is a criminal. >> i saw that in "the new york times." what was also interesting to me is that the story began by announcing that they had been briefed by three people involved with the investigation. so we've already got three people leaking to "the new york times" that there's nothing to worry about, that if this other guy who goes through all the stuff doeses happen to come across something interesting, he's not going to leak it like the three guys who already leaked it. federal justice. i'll get annoyed because that congressman was far too sanguin sanguine, tucker. federal justice of the toilet in this country. it operates on blackmail because everybody knows, michael cohen knows that if you get dragged

into court, they have a 97% conviction rate. >> tucker: that is a soviet level. is it really 97%? >> that's right.ke if they take you into court, it is 97%. and so these guys, they say, we lean on him and you are looking at 30 years in jail. they are looking at michael cohen because he had a new york taxi medallion business. he ran a fleet of new york taxicabs. nobody -- you are not telling me that in whatever hotel room he was sitting at that he had his new york taxi cab documents from a decade ago and was shredding them on the 37th floor of the comfort and or whatever the hell he was in, this is corrupt and if donald trump is looking for a replacement for the useless jeff sessions, i will gladly volunteer because federal justice is a disgrace and somebody -- at the same time, tucker, while i'm getting annoyed here, the fbi won't hand

over the unredacted communication to congress that started all this thing. so we have an out-of-control federal prosecutor who can seize everything he wants from his subjectsaw lawyer and the fbi, o works for you and the american people, but won't even hand over the congress, the on redacted documents that started this. federal justice is corrupt and we need someone serious cleaning it up and if jeff sessions want to wish, he should get out of the way and to make way for someone who would. >> tucker: i don't know why the president would need a lawyerwo if he is innocent. why do we need lawyers if we are innocent. >> that's true. that's true. i wonder if that applies to "new york times" editors and "new york times" journalists. let's all go and poke around in their stuff. if they are innocent, they have nothing to fear. >> tucker: give me your password to your gmail if you are innocent. mark steyn will be back with us to discuss the new plan out ofnt california to fix homelessness by building homeless shelters in

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under 21. news accounts describe these as victories for gun control and they are but they are not victories for america. even if you hate guns, you hate gun owners, you want to repeal the second amendment entirely, you should not be celebrating this development. you should be worried. there is a threat to you and the country and here's why. bank of america is the second-largest american bank by assets. a lot of nice people work there. it's huge. it holds more than 10% of all bank deposits in america. the company is big enough that if aligned with other companies and took direction from progressive groups, as it is in this case, it could make sweeping changes to america without a single vote being cast. this is a change. it used to be that the political activists lobbied lawmakers in congress when they wanted something changed.g they gave money, those donations will work order, the rest of us good to see it happen. that is happening less and less. now, they lobby big companies and the lobbying is done in secret. there is no transparency at all. you might not even know what is happening and yet it can affect

your life immensely, as much as any federal law. today it is gun makers. you might be celebrating that. but what if tomorrow it is someone you agree with? or anyone who holds ideas that our leaders find frightening? pro-life are you? suspicious of wall street? corporate america isn't comfortable with those views. suddenly you can't get a car loan or a mortgage or fill in the blank. a version of this is happening in china on a very large scale. citizens there are rated on the basis of their obedience to the prevailing orthodoxy. those who disagree are punished in the marketplace. this is significant because our corporate elites love china. it's a model for them. there is no messy democracy to contend with and people get rich. in china, corporate power is the same as political power. ideologues. and companies work together.r ordinary people obeyed because they have no choice. suddenly america is moving in that direction. it is d ominous. bank of america autistic to banking. it isrt a good job that ended a saver for everybody when they

stay in their land. the founder and ceo of blueprint strategy and a gun-control supporter joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. >> thanks, tucker, for having me. always a pleasure. >> tucker: i understand that you agree with the aims of this, progressive groups applying pressure to corporate america hadly people get in line or they are punished. i get to like the outcome. but can you see that democracy dies a little bit when this is how we solve our political differences? why wouldn't you, and full view of the rest of the country, go to congress and make your case? you are not doing that, are you? >> what i agree with is what the majority of this country agrees with, and that is the fact that we need to do something about this issue of guns in this country to prevent another massa shooting from happening. i agree with 75%, or somewhere north of that agree with that. >> tucker: i'm sorry. i don't want to interrupt you. those numbers don't meanan

anything. there is no national movement to get to bank of america or citibank to punish people for violating liberal orthodoxy on guns. this is a result of lobbying. >> tucker, this is not about to the left or the right, this is about common sense, this is about common sense gun reform measures. in washington, d.c., dysfunctional city, it does not step up to the plate and do what needs to be done in this country, i commend corporations for having a corporate responsibility to do things -- >> tucker: oh, i get it. i understand. >> tucker -- >> tucker: let me ask you this. i want to take what you just said and extended to the future. when companies decide that black lives matter has incited riots and said racist things, which it has, all has, all of a sudden if you are affiliated

with black lives matters, you can't get a car loan because why would we do that? how would you feel about that? >> keep in mind, there's been a period of history were corporations and businesses have denied and done similar things to certain groups of people who live in this country. >> tucker: that's why i'm against it. >> tucker, i've learned to take battles one fight at a time. guess what, you as a private citizen have a right to not shop with bank of america -- >> tucker: the left lecturing me on the free market. i love it. >> tucker, let me give you a thought to consider. we can't look to government to solve all of our problems. i commend the private sector for stepping up to the plate. >> tucker: it's very clever. of course we both know you don't believe a part of it. it's purely transactional. you get what you want. >> i believe it in this case, tucker. >> tucker: if it whipped

around and back to you, you'd be totally against it, what'd you? >> why can't you agree with me that it takes the private sector and government to get things done in this country. why can't you agree with that? >> tucker: where did you get these talking points? where you are an intern for paul ryan? what is so orwellian about this is that you don't mean what you are saying. >> common sense gun reform measures that make sense. i commend the private sector. >> tucker: just for fun, try to utter a sentence that is straightforward and actually means what it sounds like. let's take all of the propagand propaganda, out of it and see what we mean. what you mean clearly is whatever we need to do to make people obey, including using banks or whatever instrument, we are happy to do because the ends justify the means. if you just say that, i will genuflect before you in gratitude for your honesty. will you say that? >> tucker, bless your heart. i know you want to put things in your mouth that makes something sound a certain way.

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>> tucker: is kamali harris likes to say, california represents thehe future of the country. what does it mean if it breaks apart? petition just got enough signatures to go on the ballot this far. it could happen. c tim draper is one of the most famous venture m capitalists in the world. he helped start a lot of famous tech companies. he wrote a petition and he joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. >> thank you for being here, thanks for having me on your show. >> tucker: i'm not really sure what to i think it is. it seems like if possible, seems like it will be voted on, could pass in california, may be the congress will approve it. i can understand why californiae wants to break into three states because it is too big, unmanageable, not working. why is that good for the rest of the country? >> that's a good question. we know that at least 600,000 californians want to make sure that we've got -- cal 3 passes.

and so i think the rest of the country will just want to do what is right for california. it takes up the same landmass as 15 states on the east coast. the population is the equivalent of an average of six or seven states. so i think it's appropriate to have california represented by at least three states. >> tucker: right. i wouldn't be surprised of a lot ofe americans don't want to do what's best for california because -- [laughs] we've got a map on the screen here so the top would be no call, the bottom socal, and then cal would be los angeles. how would this break up politically? each state would have two senators and the representative numbers of members of congress. what do you think the political

division would be? republican-democrat?e >> what we are really looking at here is we are trying to create estates for the next millennium. the block chain is changing everything. government is going to be completely different. this isn't a part partisan thie way or another. it is something that the world really needs.t and to get a fresh start, i believe that california has the opportunity to now get a better representation and get a fresh start. so three new states can be created. they can take on whatever kind of governance that they think is appropriate for the next millennium. >> tucker: is a partisan system, though. it's a partisan system. the rest of us are affected by

the balance of the senate and it would be interesting to know what balance we get if it happened. let me ask you, finally, one of the many things california -- >> i actually think that these three new states are going to empower people to realize what is possible and government and then all these governments will realize that they can do a better job and they can potentially compete with one another down the road for citizens. which is what they kind of do now but california is kind of a monopoly. no one wants to leave but we are still stuck with the same government we have had for all of these years. it's failing our kids, it's failing our -- it's not safe here,av many homeless people, a lot of big problems. the education system is just about the worst in all 50 states and it's the biggest stage. so it really does need to sort

of a revamp and ad restart andi think this is a good start to doing that because people can say, let's start from first principles. how do we empower these people? how do we create these new states? how do we make these estates really important and relevant for the next millennial and how do we set a good example for all the other states in the country? >> tucker: it can't be worse than it is now. i think you make a fair point. tim draper, thank you very much for that. a possible breakup wasn't the only news from california tonight. mark steyn will rejoin us to talk about how they will try to pay residents to build homeless shelters in their backyard. not in your backyard, oh, yeah, in your backyard. america remains on the brink of military action in syria. could bombing them spark a conflict with russia, leading to a global war? that's next.

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♪ >> tucker: mark zuckerberg took all the attention on capitol hill but he wasn't the only one testifying, his remarks weren't even the most worrisome. several counterintelligence experts were also in the house yesterday, and they testified about a massive ongoing effort by the government of china to infiltrate america with spies and steal the technology. it sounds like a novel but it's happening.g. american universities for example want more than 350,000 chinese students plus about 100 confucius centers, bankrolled by the chinese government. this web of students and professors is stealing ourso secrets on robotics, the experts say, artificial intelligence, aerospace engineering, and other fields critical to our national defense. does anyone inis washington car? they only care when they speak russian. why? they will be the future of many shows on this hour.

in the meantime, the white house as it will soon reach a decision about how to respond to a chemical attack in syria they say was instigated by the government of bashar al-assad. they will reach that decision even though so far we do not have proof that assad was behind it. if the u.s. does intervene in syria, however, i could rapidly put thisid country in direct conflict with russia, which were many years has back to the assad regime. russia has a vast backlog of nuclear weapons. one of the most famous professors of russian studies there is a joins us tonight. professor, thank you for coming on. how worrisome -- you follow the relationship between u.s. and russia for decades, how worrisome is this moment? >> i'm more worried than i have ever been for nearly 50 years of studying and participating in u.s.-russian relations. i think the situation your

generation was born after the cuban missile crisis. you were taught in school as were my children that the cuban missile crisis of 1962, was the moment we came closest ever to nuclear war with russia. and the lesson was supposed to be, we should never get there again, and we are very close. here's why. if trump or somebody sends these missiles against syria, there are russian soldiers invented and almost all syrian army units, even in dormitories. in this i know because moscow has said so. if russians die, if damascus is attacked him of the capital of syria, russia will retaliate with his excellent weapons, evey bit as good as ours, some people say the missile technology is better. russia will strike. americans in syria will die. we will be where we have never, ever, ever, been with russia, each other, bearing in

mind that both nations are laden with nuclear weapons. i am more worried than i have ever been in my life at least since the cuban missile cuban . >> tucker: u.s. forces have killed over 200 russian citizens in syria in recent weeks. you heard american officials boasting about that the other day. is there some reason to think that helps the united states? do we benefit in some way by killing russians in syria? >> not that i can think of, any more than russians would benefit from killing americans. that's always been a no-no, tucker. that's been unknown all throughout the first 40 year cold war. why would anybody think of it? if you ask a really good questi. after that happened, we don't know how many russians died. the russians let itt pass. but they said if it ever happens again, we will retaliate because those russians were killed with american operated missiles, and

they have said, and by day, i mean allll the way up to the kremlin, we will retaliate. since americans are still there manning those syrian units, that is why what happened the first time when the russians let it pass, get the killing of russians won't happen again. let me add something that may not be known to you or your viewers. itita is a deeply held beliefs, whether they are right or wrong, it's a belief in the kremlin, and the russian political class, that the united states, our country, has waged political, diplomatic, economic war against russia for at least ten years. and to the attitude in moscow expressed daily is we've had enough. yount can interpret that for wht you want. >> tucker: i am totally confused asti to how this helpss in any way at all but i appreciate the warning and i think warnings from you should be taken seriously. thank you for this.

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♪ >> tucker: time now for "final exam" where we who ed fox has been paying attention to the news. it is our job. champion's defending is a tech breck larson. -- brett larson. one of the world's great experts on video games. thank you for keeping abreast of that burgeoning industry. i appreciate it. you know the rules, to our viewers who may not come here is what they are. hands on brothers, i will ask the questions.

the first one to buzz and gets to answer the question. we have to wait until we finish asking it. best of five wins. are you ready? >> ready as i'll ever be. >> tucker: question one, mark zuckerberg just got grilled on capitol hill and was asked repeatedly about the censorship of twoe conservative sisters. who are they? >> diamond and silk. >> tucker: these are people i'm asking about. >> the contributors. >> tucker: totally kidding. i know who they are. let's do if they are right. >> diamond and silk have a question for you. >> let me tell you something right now, diamond and silk is not terrorism. >> why is facebook censoring conservative bloggers such as diamond and silk? >> how are we allowing this one entity to control almost the whole world?. this is dangerous. >> i believe that diamond and

silk. >> tucker: everyone knows diamond and silk, including jef jeff. >> beginners luck again. >> a fraction of a second faster. >> tucker: he hired a coach. [laughter] which ufc fighter is out on bail tonight after grabbing a hand truck and throwing it through the window of a bus in brooklyn, new york, ? >> conor mcgregor. >> tucker: connor mcgregor? you were up on this. is it? that struck the tape. >> ufc champion conor mcgregor turned himself into authorities last night following his rampage at theac barclays center. >> [bleep]! >> [bleep]! [bleep]! >> tucker: wow. >> i got to give mad props for that one. >> tucker: i scoff at the idea of toxic masculinity, but if that exists, that might be at. that is impressive.

the mongols across the russian step, you are sleeping at. let's see if you can keep it going. which members of the royal family have the world in hysterics this week when hed or she jokingly compared a noisy helicopter to president trump and obama? katie? >> the queen. >> tucker: the queen. >> queen what's her face. >> tucker: of what country? >> of britain. >> tucker: is at the queen ? >> it's like president trump. or obama. >> tucker: we are not impressed. are our judges impressed? is the queen adequate? they are saying it is. katie, all right! >> you are on the board! >> tucker: question four. the city of los angeles is fighting global warming by taking an unusual approach.

won't be surprised to hear that. this approach involves paint. what is the city doing? paint. it involves paint. it's huffing paint until a problem goes away. kidding. it is not having paint. [laughter] >> they will hug a tree every time they paint a wall? >> tucker: it involves the streets, our judges are saying. >> is it something for, like -- >> tucker: you got to buzz. >> whatever. >> tucker: katie? >> i have no idea. something to do with the sun and the heat? >> tucker: presumably it would have to do something with this on. can you be more specific? >> is it something about reflecting the heat from the sun off the pain that they areha putting off the ground? >> tucker: wow. does it have to do with reflecting the sun off the street with the paint they are applying? to the tape we go.

speak of the city of los angeles is using taxpayer dollars to combat climate change by changing paintingli it streets wide. it will take 20 years to complete, costing the city nearly $40,000 per mile. >> tucker: dude. >> did i get it right? >> tucker: you just made that up on the fly. you should be a global warming engineer. >> that is the extent of my intelligence. >> tucker: that is revealing on many levels. i'm impressed he got that. >> i am now terrified. this is it weighed for the win. >> tucker: two to life into. maybe she'll make up this one, too. [laughter] final question. illinois senator just became the first sitting u.s. senator to do this while in office. >> you didn't wait for him to finish. >> she's pregnant and it's going to have a baby. first female senator to have a baby. >> tucker: katie gets to answer first. >> [laughs] brett said, she's having a baby?

>> tucker: i just want to say that i am reflecting the judgment of the judges. i make no independent judges. i merely am a neutral arbiter here, a puppet controlled. so katie, your guess was the firstt senator to give birth, mirroring brett, who buzzed in early. let's see if you and him are right. >> senator tammy duckworth of illinois has given birth to a baby girl, making her the first senator to give birth while in office. our congratulations to her and little baby miley. >> and my congratulations to yo you. >> tucker: bittersweet. okay, wait. we have a technicality. we will throw in one bonus question. it always remains thest same. the judges told me to make it up on the fly. i don't know what they will do with the answer. what is the capital of

burkina faso? the country formerly known as upper volta has a capital called what? waga dugo? that was it. >> can i chime in for sexual pan does? >> tucker: no, you may not read you were great. i'm sorry it had to end this way. >> you're welcome. it worked out. >> tucker: katie, you did a remarkable job. you win were comforted the covu can drink or drink or coffee out of it. jeff, that was amazing. thank you for joining us. thank you. >> thinks arriving back, tucker. >> tucker: that is it for this

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: the city of los angeles has one of the nation's most visible homeless populations. now l.a. has a hit upon an idea of how to fix it. build homeless shelters in people's backyards. knocked in my backyard, oh, yeah, in your backyard. half million dollar pilot program will pay home owners to build shelters in their backyard but only if the guesthouses are occupied by the homeless.il not making this up. officials say they want to avoid "compromising the character of the regions single-family neighborhoods." w mark steyn has thought a lot about this. the question, mark, isha would letting the homeless move in tho backyard compromise the character of the neighborhood?

>> it would certainly add a bit of color and vibrancy to the neighborhood. these are apparently like little munchkin houses. in the hipster neighborhood of i think it's highland park, they are all done in bright colors. they're like miniature houses. then you move the homelesshe person in. i think it has certain public policy benefits. los angeles has notoriously choked traffic, and i think this would improve traffic flow because the homeless person would be able to squeegee your windshield while w the car is parked in your garage. so traffic would flow more smoothly because you wouldn't be held up at the intersection while he puts a gray smear of dirty water over the windshield. it has benefits. it's also a talking point in the hipster neighborhoods. there's a bit of competition about it.

i understand that barbra streisand had a beach house in malibu. just the other side of the kidney-shaped pool, she has moved in an ms-13 gang. and it's actually, it makes for an amusing talking point. conversation flag. you can always point across thei pool to the ms-13 gang. i think this is actually showinc how los angeles is able, even at this stage in california has decline, to think outside the box.n >> tucker: [laughs] the cardboard box. as long as they move into the west side of the l.a, in the neighborhoods that caused the problems in the first place, i'm totally for it. my favorite kind of virtue signaling. mark steyn, great to see you. thanks for sticking around. >> good to see you.un >> tucker: that's it for us tonight. tune in every night for the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. dvr us.

good night from washington. sean hannity waiting in new york. >> sean: lying, pomposity, smugness, groupthink. i got it. all right, you had a great show. thank you. welcome to hannity. the echo chamber is spiraling out of control. it's become so bad. you have some of these wannabe journalists. they are absolutely losing it from last night's opening monologue. all because i dared to use, oh, jim comey's standard in order to criticize some of the left's favorite champions, including the clintons, robert mueller, t and jim comey himself. since the media is having a really hard time understanding some very simple, basic, fundamental concepts and principles, we'll help them tonight, follow the bouncing ball in a few minutes. and we will correct the record on some of the fake news t "the washington post" and others are spreading about yours truly