>> martha: steve hilton has a special and former fbi director james comey is on trial. in the next evolution special, he'll welcome his expert legal panel to break down james comey's actions. that's our story for tonight, have a great weekend everybody. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." former fbi director james comey's book is such a release this week to come up with the that book is full of leaks. in the words of nate silver, and might be called the higher loyalty. comey says he has the important message that president trump is unethical and has waited a year to deliver that message to the rest of us. why? may be to maximize his financial benefit. >> the real headlines in comey's book may be there's not much, much new or damaging for president trump. legally, there could be

political damage paid the former fbi director takes pop charts that may backfire on him. comey charges the president is unethical and untethered to the truth and institutional values all which led the president to unload on the man he fired today on twitter calling him an untruthful slimeball and saying it was a great honor to fire james comey. sarah sanders called comey a disgraced hack. the book could also be trouble for former obama attorney general loretta lynch who felt the need earlier this week to do an interview expending her tarmac meeting before president bill clinton in the middle of the email probe. comey had to take more of a personal role because of something involving lynch that he writes in the book, a development is still unknown to the america people. andrew mccabe, a scathing

report came out today for the justice department, he lied four different times about the existence of the fbi's separate probe of the clinton foundation. the president tweeted about tha that. mccabe was totally controlled by comey, mccabe is comey. meanwhile, fox news has confirmed the president used a telephone to talk to michael cohen to "check-in." lawyers representing cohen and the president were in a manhattan courtroom today trying to stop the justice department from going through documents. prosecutors also revealed they had obtained search warrants before the raid to go through several of his email account spared the president has called this a witch hunt and the man in the cross hairs for approving the raids as rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. a source close to him tell fox tonight he does not believe

he'll be fired tonight, so he told confidence in recent days he's ready to accept any outcome from the president. >> tucker: oh, the drama. thank you. there's a lot going on, but what have we learned about jim call me from his book on the interviews he's done? comey ran the most powerful law enforcement agency in america. he was a central player in the last presidential election and the aftermath ever since. you would think he would be impressed when he speaks, even if you don't agree with him, but no. james comey is as conventional as they come. his interviews and so mike tells a doing a q&a with "us weekly." he says his literary hero is atticus finch because he couldn't think of any former cliche than that. he says he wishes trump would read "the new york times" op-ed page. he says he would like to have sandberg to a dinner party and so on and on.

this is america's top g-man or was? he sounds like every other sense of guilt ribbon liberal. not impressive at all. that's why he didn't hesitate before destroying any remaining public trust in the fbi in order to sell this book. the fbi director is not supposed to let emotions and political considerations influence investigations, but comey doesn't even hide it. he admits his behavior in the fall of 2016 may have been colored by his desire to make hillary clinton a "legitimate present." there is nobody and either party, republic and our democrat who will ever again think the clinton investigation was conducted fairly. when the russian investigation for that matter. here's what he told abc about that. watch. >> did you tell him that the dossier had been financed by his political and opponents? >> known. i think i just talked about additional material. >> did he have a right to know that question mexico that he had a rate? i don't think he had an answer to that.

i don't think it was my goal to alert him that we have this information. >> tucker: telling the truth wasn't necessary for my goal. apparently it wasn't. whatever else you think about donald trump or his administration or whatever, you might be happy that that guy, jim call comey is no longer rug the fbi. do the things that he said left consideration? >> it should have been done much, much earlier. it should have reflected itself and the fact that nobody should have ever appointed him to be the head of the fbi. this is a man who is revenge driven, who was prepared to leak through a law professor at columbia, who was prepared to disclose confidential conversations he had with the president-elect and the

president of the united states. he's exactly the wrong person to have headed the most important law enforcement agency in the united states. this sounds a horrible message to fbi agents about leaking and confidences and trying to keep emotion out of law enforcement and politics out of law enforcement. to me, the worst part of it is when he compares the president to a mob boss which proves my point that you can create crimes out of almost anything and call of mob boss of somebody who is running the presidency of the united states and the fact that he is willing to stay on television, that it's possible that the president was with in a hotel room, he's the head of the fbi. he knows the truth. he has seen all the secrets and for him to start speculating on that cut of nonsense and rubbish and not to disclose when he

spoke to the president as you said, though this information was paid for by political opponent, i used to have a good feeling about comey. i met him a few times when he was in boston i now have very strong negative feelings about him and it enhances the suspicion that so many americans now have against the law enforcement. nobody today would trust comey with secrets or confidences. >> tucker: if you are alleging that the president were acting like a mob boss, calling heads out on people, committing crimes. that would be one thing. he's criticizing the way the president talks. that's the point. should law enforcement officials be making comments like this at all? does it detract from the entire organization that they reportedly represented?

>> this is not 30 years later when he is writing for history, this is a gossip, revenge, make money quick, get even, hurt your political opponents, raise questions about the politicization of the justice department and the fbi. it's the worst possible book at the worst possible time for the worst possible reasons. we hear a lot about corrupt motives. talk about comey's motives. what is he you feel it's important for the american public to hear about information that he has no idea whether it's truthful or not. it's scandalous and shameful and i'm disappointed with him. >> tucker: he has a lot of friends in the fbi. we know that because we have access to them.

it shouldn't make us nervous because he's a political figure, he's chosen to become one. what about americans who like trump? should they be worried about getting equal treatment from fbi officials were so pathetic to james comey? >> it's not a problem. there are pro-trump people in the fbi and antitrust people. they've all taken on not to allow politics or personal views to get in the way of their job. here we see the former director writing his political and personal -- i don't think their partisan views. there even views. get in the way of their job. when you combine that with the disclosures, it may serve a good purpose because it tells us the fbi agents are not what we see in stereotypes in the movies. there are human beings with passions. we have to figure out a way of making it so clear of these civil servants who sacrificed their lives, they have to keep

their politics at home and their passions at home. this just moves the conversation in the wrong direction. >> tucker: professor, thanks for coming on. the book adds to a long list of reasons to question the integrity, but according to jim himes of connecticut, how dare you, how dare you question people of authority. in fact, you will burn in hell for doing that. watch. >> the idea that this man is dishonest, it's all part of the attempt that the white house is making to disparage robert mueller. a decorated war hero. let's have a conversation about whether jim colby made the right move amount but people will rot in hell for just merging the reputation integrity and history of these men.

>> tucker: if you are a war hero, nobody can criticize you. joel payne worked as an advertising director and joins us tonight. just as a general matter, do you think you burn in hell if you criticize people of authority? >> i don't think so. the big issue here is whether the president has the moral authority to call jim comey a liar. the president has a history of being honest. >> tucker: we don't have to rely on the president for that and the president's views are immaterial, from my perspective. i'm concerned that someone who ran the most powerful law enforcement agency probably in the world outside of china anyway with the power to kill people is also transparently partisan and political. even if you are on my side, i would be troubled by that. you are not? >> he took shots of the president, but the president has been take shots at him for the last six months. he's been running an opposition campaign out of the west wing. i think you have to give jim

comey a little bit of a pass. >> tucker: i understand why comey is annoyed. he got fired, he's been attacked, i get it. the difference is trump is an elected official. we put him there by voting for him whether you like it or not. comey is a bureaucrat, we don't have control over what he does or how long he stays. he's not supposed to be political. in fact, he can't be or else the system corrodes. what he's doing hurts the fbi's in the country. you will think that? >> i don't think so, what hurts the fbi in the country is the president running an opposition campaign for going on a year no now. he doesn't even like his current fbi director that he has. he's got problems with chris wray. >> tucker: what i care about is equal treatment under the law for all american citizens.

me, you, everyone. this comey thing calls that into question. when comey was canned, a bunch of fbi officials texted and emailed one another about that, expressing concerns, but also solidarity with jim comey. we can put some of those emails on the screen. the first are from renee mcdermott who wrote this. i know you all know our director, but what is right and what is true. he made us better when we need it most. the next is from david calio's. i hope this is an instance of fake news. the third from michael bailey own, the events, we all feel the pain. these are people who are on comey's aside, he's now a political figure. if i investigate and i don't like this before or trump or hilary, why would i be nervous? >> these are people who express

personal feelings with someone they worked closely with. let's go back to the watergate investigation. ken starr. let's look at people who are running investigation. all republicans. >> tucker: we weren't supposed be happy with that. these are not politicians. these are fbi agents -- comey has put them in an impossible position. they are now tied to comey. they are comey partisans. it's okay to think your bosses great, he was fired. now that he's made him soap into a political figure, it disparages their reputations and he puts into question the independence of the fbi. >> the president used him as a whipping boy. he wrote a book attacking him because the president spend the last six month attacking him.

>> tucker: when i care about is protecting institutions whose employees carry guns and have the right to break my front door down. i'm very worried that this is politicizing and the eyes of the public discrediting our main law enforcement operation and jim comey didn't need to write this book. he did for the money. he should take a pass on the book and take a pass on the money because the effect is too damaging. >> we've talked here about 5 minutes, we haven't talked once about the mueller investigation which is very legitimate, which is not a witch hunt, what has already had three people plead guilty for wrongdoings on the president's campaign. more are coming. >> tucker: how do you know more are coming? do you have some inside source question what you know that we don't know of this legitimate

investigation? >> i'm doing what everybody else is doing and following the trai trail. >> tucker: their leaking details from the investigation to the press. >> if you don't like leaking, you know like scooter -- >> tucker: what i don't like is in a criminal investigation, leaking against the subject of the investigation -- >> i am not enjoying anything. >> tucker: i talked talked to e layers -- ask them what you think of breaking into his office? off i would say i hate trump, but that's too much. >> edward suggest to me that there is real stuff -- >> tucker: which of the rest of us taken on face? >> because he's been running an

opposition campaign against the fbi, now everybody is in doubt -- what happens when they're going out and trying to fight terrorism? >> tucker: now we are back to don't ever question authority. i don't want to see the former head of the fbi become a political figure to make fun of the president's hands. >> that's why i don't want the president to use mss whipping boy. i think those are personal observations he made. i'm more interested in what he's talking about the president being distressful and dishonest. spread think joining us, and appreciative. we don't agree, but keep coming back. mena principal jim comey took a shot of the presidents

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so what kind of marriage, what kind of man does your wife think there's a 90% chance you didn't do that? >> tucker: jim comey as a very good man, he's a very good marriage. he reminded us of that and to weigh in on the presidents marriage because that's what principal neutral law enforcement officers are sworn to do. dan, the former fbi director went on to comment on the size of the president's hands which he checked when he worked for him. are these kind of categories appropriate? >> and tan lines. that's fascinating. we're talking about the director of the most powerful law enforcement agency possibly in the history of the planet, to

have the power to take your freedom and take your life, decisions that can change the world and he's commenting on president trump's townline, the size of his hands, and the quality of our marriage he knows nothing about. he has entirely clowned himself. he plays off of this big innocent fight night. meanwhile behind the scenes, he was the guy who single-handedly was responsible for some of the worst debacles in fbi history and regards to this obama gate fiasco. >> tucker: i try to be honest. it's hard because it's such a partisan moment, but i think you agree, i think he hurt hillary clinton's campaign. he behaved in an irresponsible way with hillary. where are the honest democrats to point that out in this moment? >> politics have clouded this

entire conversation. i think that's crystal clear. the case against jim comey is a clear one. let's just remind people what happened. when he was brought up to the hill and was questioned about the quarterly briefings, he was supposed to give congress for practice and protocol about sensitive cia investigation. do you think spying on trump was sensitive? when he was asked why he didn't notify congress, fees were quarterly briefings meeting for the liberals every three months, he said we didn't notify you because of the sensitivity in the matter. that's the whole point of congressional oversight because of checks and balances that he was running a rogue agency. the case against him is crystal clear. >> tucker: what a shame to see this reduced to they attacked each other. there are irreplaceable principles at stake.

it has to do with the ability of citizens to trump law enforcement. >> the mechanics of how it happened we can argue. jim comey was the fbi director when that happened and the information they used to do it has been debunked by every single credible person looked at. is that being lost in this whole story? it's embarrassing. >> tucker: if you told me this 30 years ago, i would say that can't happen and it wouldn't happen. thanks for reminding us of what's at stake. the left is upset at something new. it's 1998 again. that's why there's ocuvite. ocuvite helps replenish nutrients your eyes can lose as you age.

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not much except about how he hid dossier information from the president meanwhile, the doj investigator report on andrew mccabe explain how he misled investigators and that's why he got canned. the view is obsessed, by the way with trumps sex life. they didn't talk about this. they talked about what he was doing his private time. >> if someone told you that you had who on each other, would you think for a minute that there was a possibility, even a 1% chance? i can't even imagine. i would say, what are you nuts? >> tucker: joy behar has a much more normal personal life than you do. chris, that's the resistance right there.

>> she's got a very nice life, trust me. >> tucker: i know her too. i would say that's the face of the resistance. for the last year, we've been hearing he's degrading the country and i get what you're saying, but the same time, the left has degraded itself to the point that russian collusion has somehow morphed into a conversation about and sex lives in all this stuff i can't describe on tv. are you proud of that? is that what you want the conversation to be? >> this is fun to talk about -- >> tucker: what's the point of talking about it? >> i think people love the salacious details, but i don't care what the president does with his personal life even if that is true. i care about the russians may have compromised on him. i care how he paid for it just

like we care about eliot spitzer paying for it. that's what's going on. >> tucker: i did not care how we paid for it and the u.s. government shafted him using laws from the war on terror and the patriot act. i despise eliot spitzer paid what they did to him was horrible. it was a total abuse of power, just like this. you may not care about the details of trumps personal life, but how do you feel about robert mueller dispatching fbi's to break into his lawyer's office? how do you defend that? >> i do not think it was just about that. ed might have some thing to do with michael cohen's trip to prague which is part of a dossier which we are now hearing isn't something that actually happened in 2016. i think a special counsel is investigating and follow the evidence where it goes. >> tucker: the last thing i care about is the party

identification of anybody. categories have gotten so scrambled. what i care about is whether you believe in democracy, due process, the right to the individual against the group or if you support the kind of fast scission that were right now >> you are simplifying why they broke in there. i do not believe that was the only reason why they did it. i don't like they would have broken into his office for that. there are other criminal enterprises. >> tucker: how do you know this? >> i'm a lawyer and i understand attorney-client privilege and i understand what it would take for a prosecutor to get a warrant like that. it is not something to be taken lightly. especially if it's the president of the united states. >> tucker: you have total faith like all liberals. you have total faith in the

authorities. if they say something, how dear you as congressman himes said, how dare you. >> i am not loyal to authority, but how can we assume that's nefarious and political? i think the president is protesting too much. >> tucker: if you're innocent, why do you need attorney-client privilege in the first place? >> you so make every conservative who've i've debated over the last few years. >> tucker: as a someone who has been falsely accused of a crime, i have not one time in my life said if you're innocent, why do you need to be supported? i'm a civil libertarian, i've always been one.

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will bring it to you the second we hear. many people would believe that is likely to happen. it is almost universally assumed that attack will take place with minimal risk, but is that true? are there possible hazards to a syria strike? colonel, thanks very much for coming on. assuming that this does happen and many people think that it will, what are the risks? >> it depends on the option that he selects. i'm one of those people that voted for the trump nationalist who believes america first and avoiding conflict and avoiding prosperity at home. he seems to be in the grip of the globalists, the global nannies that want to run around and punish evildoers for recent photo make any sense to me since we have no real interest in syria. i think he's looking at three

possibilities right now. one is nothing, which is probably not going to happen. two is another strike like the one last year. you'll recall that last year we fired 60 something cruise missiles, they landed in the dirt and exploded nicely, everyone congratulated themselves and he walked away and nothing happened. the third option is a serious air and sea-based assault with missiles, aircraft against a number of very sensitive targets where eventually be could end up killing russians, iranians, as well as syrian government forces and potentially civilians. >> tucker: it sounds like the likability of killing nationals in syria is very high. what will be the consequences of that were to happen? >> assuming he doesn't call the russians would tell them what is going to head which is what he did, i think will probably lose potentially some aircraft, we could lose some ships at sea. the russians have made it very clear that if they are attacked,

they will respond. they have the capability to do that and they could respond from russia. russia is less than 500 miles away from syria. we forget that sort of thing. they have missiles and capabilities precision guided strike weapons that they can re superset c. the real potential for collision is very high. >> tucker: most americans watching us whether they supported the idea of a strike if indeed it happens want there to be an upside for the united states. >> the only upside i see is intervention. if we do something along the third option i described, we lose people and people will say why? what's the rationale for this? trump used to say over and over, what's in it for us and he pointed to the last 15 years and spend trillions of trillions of dollars lost. what are we trying to achieve?

what's the end state that we're looking for? if all we're doing is expressing our righteous indignation at the alleged use of a chemical weapon, we're kidding ourselves. there are no good guys on the ground in syria. any number of people could have done this. >> tucker: who are the figures in the president's orbit encouraging this? >> who wouldn't? it's back to the globalists versus the nationals. he seems to have lots of globalists around him. i'm sure john bolton is excited at the prospect of bombing somebody somewhere. i'm sure he's being supported from the pentagon as well. who's going to push back against us? i don't know. i've never seen any evidence for serious pushback's. the president seems to be on his own if he is still the nationalist that he says he is. >> tucker: you make a pretty strong case for not doing this,

what would be the case for the president for doing this? >> i think he's being told that he has no choice which is wrong. he's the president of the united states. he does not have to intervene on any circumstances, but the globalists are saying it's a matter of global leadership, you have to be seen as being on the moral high ground. remember, hypocrisy is -- we have a lot of hypocrisy about what is right and what is wrong and what is moral and what is not. i think he's going to be presented with this moral argument. there's nothing moral about coming into a war where 250,000 people have already been killed. >> tucker: you've been around this sort of thing your whole life, for many decades. are you surprised by the support that this decision is getting from the left, from liberals on other channels question >> not at all. i think the left to right dichotomy very misleading.

you have nationalists and globalists. it's about what's on the interest of the united states. they're living and madeleine albright's world and the president is in danger of joining the likes of lbj and george w. bush. filled presidents, field administrations involved in failed wars by listening to these people. he should not act. if he doesn't act, then he should feel quite comfortable because he the company of george washington, john adams, and the man who said we don't want to be a part of other people's wars. >> tucker: thank you for that. we are following white house all night for any news on syria obviously. hillary clinton meanwhile says america is racist and the solution is calling maxine waters. that story is next. >> racist and white supremacist news is listed in the media and in the white house. [ doorbell rings ]

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>> tucker: we've been waiting for news on syria and the american response and apparently, we have some. we want to go to bret baier who has that information and us standing by. >> seconds ago, we have word that the president of the united states will address the nation tonight, sometime this evening. this obviously is a decision about possible u.s. military retaliation for the chemical weapons attack in syria on apri. we do know that the vice president who is in lima, peru, was hurried out of banquet there and has returned it to his hotel in peru and we have breaking news at the pentagon. jennifer griffin is a standing by their with what she's hearing from officials. >> i am hearing from a senior

administrative official that the white house a stake in the position to strike syria and response to its use of chemical weapons. that is from two administrative sources, we spoke to them tonight. we do expect that the president will address the nation this evening. we've been on standby here at the pentagon. we've been reporting all evening that u.s. military has been a position for several days. we expect certain naval assets that we have mentioned to be involved in that strike including the uss donald cook. we have been reporting that the british prime minister has authorized the use of submarine submarines. we know that the president spoke again to the french prime minister today and that he called the russian president vladimir putin earlier

today to offer an opportunity to return to some sort of peace negotiations in syria to end the seven year civil war, but we can report from a administration officials that the u.s. has taken the decision to strike syria and response to its use for chemical weapons. tucker? >> tucker: thank you. >> just a follow-up come out this is one year after the u.s. struck in syria. april 7th, 2017. 59 tomahawk cruise missiles and retaliation for the syrian nerve gas attacks then, so we are now one year later and it appears that the decision has been made to move forward with a strike. what exactly that looks like and how different it may be from the 59 tomahawk cruise missiles, we do not know.

john roberts is on the north one of the white house with what he's hearing there. john? >> where a little less than 10 minutes away now from what we are expecting to be a presidential statement out of the diplomatic reception room which is an area here at the white house that the president has been favoring lately in terms of making official statements, that's where he was when he held his nose and signed the spending bill and it looks like were going back to the dippel medic reception room tonight. i can tell you over the last three or four days at the white house, it's been a hype of activity as the president's national security team has met repeatedly here. most recently, the deputies meeting about 5:00 this afternoon. it looks like they were just putting the final eyes and crossing the final t's. >> bret: we want to bring tucker back in, it's been interesting to watch the decision-making process. you just had a guest on talking about that and how the president

is getting to this point. obviously, he was out on a limb with what he tweeted directly earlier in the week and it seemed like as the week went on, we were getting closer and closer to this very decision that's been made tonight. >> tucker: tell us how, since you cover this closely and you know everyone involved, tell us how you think he got to this point. it's clearly not something we ran on and it's inconsistent with a lot of things he said over the years barring the information that's very different from what we know publicly. who in his orbit do you think was encouraging this decision? speak three to my stomach john bolton has criticized president obama for his lack of following up on the redline as has president trump and was largely seen as a successful deployment of those tomahawk cruise missiles a year ago. he felt good about it and talked about it. i think bolton was actively

involved here. the inside skinny that we get from officials around town is that there was a battle back and forth about the level of response. not that there was going to be no response, but what it would look like and whether it would include aircraft and what it looks like and what we are still trying to get tonight what that might be. >> tucker: we certainly are. interesting. your sources suggest that john bolton, would be an advocate for this. >> 100%. when the president said what he said on twitter and obviously he walked back saying it could happen at any time, it is in the same position as the president laying down a marker and saying something. if it had not been followed through based on the intelligence they had, they say that the syrian military is 100% behind this. i know what you've been talking about and talking through, but the officials we are talking to

save their confidence on the intelligence. >> tucker: face of that to me too. thank you, will be checking in with bret baier for the rest of the night as we follow this unfolding. the president is expected speak in about 4 minutes. we go back to colonel mcgregor who is back in the studio with us. the idea that the united states could know for certain that the chemical attack came from the syrian government with less than a week after the attack seems implausible, that's what they're saying. what's your take on that? >> i know the swedish government offered to conduct a thorough investigation and that was rejected by the u.s. and our allies. it would seem that we decided to strike on the basis of what we said we know. let's be frank. 250,000 people being killed in this war, this war is about over. the turks, the iranians, and the russians are going to divide up syria, that's inevitable. hopefully they'll be able to establish peace, but the idea

that they can reach an amoco solution. why are we doing this? >> tucker: isn't possible since we are doing it and you'll hear the details in about 3 minutes, is it possible to act in a way that helps us, that benefits the united states? >> frankly, no. this is over, the decision is being made. we have no role in syria for all intents and purposes. secondly, the targets, if they are only syrian targets and we are informing the russians ahead of time are irrelevant. >> tucker: do you think it's likely that we've alerted the russians who are aware of striking so we can move there? >> i think so. i would be surprised if we did not. again, do we want to risk a serious confrontation with the russians? i hope the president will tell us when he speaks, but i suspect

he will say yes, we have informed the russians because we are pinning this exclusively on the syrian government. >> tucker: the attack, the missile strike almost exactly a year ago has changed its policy. we know longer will try to take out the assad government. less than a week later, there was this chemical attack. this attack comes a little over a week after we announced another policy change which would be pulling our 2,000 troops out of syria. do you have to be a conspiracy not to see that maybe there's a connection between the changes in policy and these chemical attacks? >> no, i don't think you do. americans should be skeptical of what they're hearing. ed would have been better to have a thorough investigation by a third party. we went through this in the past with those who came in and considered to be reliable, uninvolved partners to settle these kinds of issues. i don't think we want to settle

the issue, i think we want to strike. i think there is an enormous amount of support and interest inside the united states in washington in the department of defense and the state department to keep us in syria, to keep that little 2,000 man force in the northeastern corner of the country. i think it's foolish, i think it's self-defeating and unnecessary. it actually raises the stakes down the line. i think we should get out, i agree. >> tucker: it also raises the question of who's in charge? you find out that the person you voted for is ultimately uncharged. of course, there's a lot going on and we are going to relinquish this show, but fox coverage will continue. bret baier, jennifer griffin, the entire fox news team will be here throughout the night for developments in syria. it looks like we are about 20 seconds away from what we think will be a live address from the

president of the united states from washington, d.c. you heard bret baier say the vice president is traveling in peru and he was pulled back to his hotel. we'll find out very soon. good night from washington. >> sean: welcome to hannity. this is a fox news alert. we are waiting for a statement from president trump. 90 seconds from now, we confirmed that the president approved military strikes in syria tonight. this comes after the suspected chemical attack that killed 40 men, women and children. joining us from washington is bret baier bear. the president is expected any minute. brett: that decision was made with national security team and that u.s. military strikes will go forward in syria.