most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us. good evening from washington. i'm shannon bream. we'll see you tomorrow night, 11:00 p.m. eastern, four "fox news @ night." ♪ ♪ >> tucker: all ofuc a sudden out of nowhere, kanye west says that bob can't "make him not to love donald trump." the internet is melting down. what is going on? it is a realignment or something weird or? first, good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."." we want to start with joy reid, you may know who she is, she's an icon on the progressive left. there was not a single fashionable opinion that joy reid doesn't have ours and tapley did announce you for not having. she's a total start in brooklyn of course. she wasn't always this way incident always have these beliefs. back in 2006, joy reid sounded

like a very different person. on her blog at the time, she opposed gay marriage, marked gay andse people who she thought wee gay. these are embarrassing opinions to have. she could have apologized. people change their opinions of the time. why wouldn't they change their opinions? america is changing. an honest explanation would have been just fine. we would have defended her in that of course. that is not what joy reid did. instead she lied about it. she claims she never wrote those blog posts in the first place, someone else did.e she said she had been hacked, sinister agents employed by vladimir putin broke into her blog retroactively to add to the remarks. it sounds like an msnbc segment. part of what they run every night. she said it was a disinformation campaign raged by whom? b shadowy forces.th it was a crock, a total crock. a we know it was a crock because

her blog posts were archived by other websites, including the library of congress in washington, all the way back to 2006. that means in order for herea claims to be true, which they are not, the secret hacking plot mustlo have begun at least 12 years ago before anyone knew or cared who joy reid was. that's a lie. it's a trout socialite. you have to be a moron to believe it. here's the interesting part. nbc news iser enjoys endorsings is truth. yesterday, the network circulated a bigger part by an odd person called jonathan nichols who said he's an independent security consultant, in which he affirms joy reid's ludicrous fantasy. obviouslyhe he offers no eviden. keep in mind, nbc, which is passing this out to other news organizations, claims itself to be a news organization. news organizations are not supposed to live. that is rule one.

yet nbc executives make a habit of lying. they lied about the "access hollywood" tape a couple of years ago. you remember that was leaked by nbc to david fair halt at "the washington post," a college friend of nbc knows chief norma oppenheimer. the goal in that leak was to help hillary clinton, two days before presidential debates. it helped. nbc promised to reveal how the tape was leaked but of course we haven't heard because he never told us. they lied. instead, they are still lying about that. nbc also lied when it ran interference for sex attacker harvey weinstein. they killed ronan farrow's investigation into harvey h weinstein. he had the goods and yet nbc claimed that he hadn't nailed down the story. he sold the story to "the new yorker." nbc said it wasn't ready yet. another lie. now nbcbc is helping joy reid le once again. almost nobody else in the media saying anything about it except graham, a columnist for "the boston globe" and he joins us now. he will tell us what is going

on. in. want to be completely clear. i am okay with people changing their views.. my views on almost everything have changed. i don't think there is a sin and that. to say, i think that and i don't -- why would nbc endorse and ratify and disseminate what is so clearly a false explanation from joy reid? >> maybe they are just suckers. look at how they fell for the russia gate story, every single week, "we got him now!" they know nothing about how the internet works apparently.y. w i think when hillary clinton said that she cleaned her server with a cloth, i think they want, with a cloth. there is something -- you make a good point, tucker. there is something odd about the willingness of nbc to stand by a story that is so ludicrous. it reminds me of a time in the past when the other networks stood by dan rather and when "the new york times" said that that bogus story was a fake but

accurate. what's happened i think is there are people who are in the "newss business" who realized they are not really in the news businesss they are in the political business, and joy reid is an amazing political advocate. she is a lot of fans, she's very powerful. i want to read a tweet. i don't want to get the words wrong. this is from a clinton staffer who tweeted out today and then blocked me. "make sureoc you are evaluating the joy reid story through an intersectional lens. she is one of the most important black female voices on tv. thanks." >> tucker: [laughs] >> she's just lying! obviously no one went in the way back machine to 2006 to go, "one day, i know this person will be on cable tv, i'll get them now." it is nonsense! intersection malady, really? is it so bad? >> tucker: i wonder why --

most people if they work in the news organization, got caught doing something, they went to the boss and said come on let's make up a patently ludicrous fly that is provably untrue, the boss would say, no, concede you did it, and most people would forgive you and move on. why would nbc further press markets all by tying itself to something so obviously false and stupid and insulting to the rest of us? >> because there is a hard core group of people who tune in, she's on the weekends, kind of like bonus revenue. they are they are once again, not for news, to have their biases affirmed. it's a problem across the left and right media, it happens a lot. my twitter feed today was full of people who said, i am gay, i'm liberal, i don't care what she said, she hates trump. she's really good at hating. if you hate dropping off, you can do whatever you want and all sins will be forgiven. >> tucker: i am not a joy reid fan, to put it mildly, she's

attacked me, i think she's a race baiter. i t would have given her, and ay honest person, a pass, if she was honest. i should tell our viewers, "the daily beast," and online blog, and announced it is putting a pause on joy reid's columns. apparently she writes for them. michaelre graham, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: according to a new report, one of the country's top left-wing organizations, a think tank called the center for market progress, spent years protecting harassers while retaliating against their victims. amazing. according to documents obtained by buzzfeed, 19 former staffers claimed they were victims of the harassment. tammy bruce has been following the story.ig great to see you, tammy. when i find so striking is that neera tanden, who runs a center for american progress, an outspoken feminist, a hard partisan, kind of ignored, from

this account, these claims of sexual harassment. i was surprised by that. i thought she would beit exquisitely sensitive to sexual harassment claims. >> this really started to bubble over in 2016. of course that was an election year. i enjoyed your segment previously that just came up in the sense that this intersection malady. when i was on the left, of course, my first book actually, "the new thought police," which came out in 2001, which is how racism, sexism, and homophobia live on thee left. they are swathed in this sauce. their argument always is, if we face this or if it comes public or if we act on it, it will harm the larger picture, it will harm our goals, ourl narrative, all the good work that we do in the world. we saw this in hollywood with weinstein, if you say no or if you push back, he will do damage

to too many people. most liberals are brought up with this kind of mentality, so they are silenced. i think it becomes a habit after a period of time, and of course it was the election year, they were accusing president trump of all kinds of things. wouldn't it be embarrassing if it came out that in fact, they had had years, and currently were dealing with sexual harassment and, as we learned with taylor crichton campaign, sexual harass her that she had effectively protected and moved to the victim different job, after this moment right now, they still point a finger at donald trump when it's becoming apparent that is their issue exclusively. >> tucker: it's so interesting. people know how flawed they are in they proceed with that knowledge foremost in mind. i am screwed up, before a judge, keep that in mind. i feel like a lot of people, the activists, not all of these, the activists proceed in the certainty that they are morally superior and that no evidence changes their mind about that.

>> correct. this is the problem of malignant narcissism, you're projecting all of your issues onto someone else, it becomes an existential issue. they can't admit it because identity is based in being superior. when that is threatened, then it ruins their entire foundation. for the left of course, they use it to manipulate people. if youe. are a woman or a gay m, they are you your champion. those others, they want to get rid of you, they are building a camp for you. again, the heartbreaking reality is, for me as a feminist and a gay woman, the damage is being done by those people who say they are our champions while they continue to try to align and besmirch the people whose policies in particular, of course, president trump's policies, the conservative policies, that allow individuals to be personally empowered and individually free, and financially independent, those are the people that get was

merged, when those are theth policies that improve people's lives. >> tucker: youou are very deep person. it's great to see you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: rapper kanye west did something kind of amazing on twitter and articulated his support for president trump. what ifs tweets read, he is still tweeting right now, "you h trump but the mob cannot make me not to love him. we are both dragon energy. he is my brother. i love everyone. i don't agree with everything everyone does. that's was makes as individuals and we have the right independent thought." the president responded to this by tweeting, "thank you, kanye, very cool." after the tweets, west's twitter following plunged by more than 9 million followers. what do wewe make of all of thi? jason whitlock as an anchor with fox sports 1 and he joins us tonight. so, jason, i'm not sure i understand what is going on here. it seems may be kanye west decided that he is allowed, as a

citizen of a free country to, just ate what he wants to say. whatat is your read on this? why did he write this? >> i think he wrote it because it is what he authentically believes and i think he is probably trying to inspire african-americans to have a more open mind about politics and to be less demonizing of people we disagree with and understand that we are all flawed. our president is flawed. that doesn't mean it's an effective strategy to write that person offer to write to that of politics off, and so i think kas being true to himself and tryinn mind, and allans things, competition is good. my background is sports. competitionn is what takes youo a higher level. there is no competition for the black vote right now. there has been on for 50 or 60 years. i think we should look around at other ethnic groups and other

groups of people. they make people compete for their vote and politics tend ton help them and move them forward while we are notor experiencing the same thing. >> tucker: any group that feels under attack tends to kind of retreated to a defensive posture and you see this, not just african-american voters, other groups. the same phenomenon. i agree it's not helpful. what is the risk that he runs in saying this? it seems like, even for a famous pilot kanye west, it seems like a fraud position to take. will he not be punished? can you say this? >> he will be punished in social media and it does not surprise me that he's lost a bunch of twitter followers or ig followers are social media followers because much of social media is rigged to support far left-wing thought and if you stray, particularly as an african-american, from theca talking points that the left wing, far left wing side, wants you to, they will extract a

penalty for you having thoughts that they have not approved. again, kanye is a free thinker. he always has been. his music has always been open to a lot of different interpretation and ideas. i think he is being consistent and true to himself and again, trying to inspire people. >> tucker: reallyy quickly, we are hearing from twitter that he did not lose 9 million followers, it was some glitch. i don't understand it. quickly, you are hearing people say, he must have a mental illness. what do you think of that explanation? >> i think it's ridiculous. i think it again goes to us as african-americans and social media has so convinced us that liberal means pro-black and conservative means antiblack, that that's how we interpret things.nd oh, my god, kanye hasn't said things that ared conservative or conservative values, he expressed support for candace wins over social social media

and we have been trained, anything conservative, that means antiblack. again, if we just looked critically and really understood our history, that is just not the case. aa lot of our values are conservative. a lot of the people in our communities that have made great strides and -- martin luther king, very conservative values. the entire movement was very conservative, but somehow we changed that and you would think it was the most far left-wing movement in the world and that is how we got here, through liberalism. again, i'm not a political partisan. i don't participate in politics. i'm a journalist and observer. observing, speaking as a journalist, not an african-american, our strategy is flawed by just giving away our allegiance to one side. i think kanye, out of concern for african-americans, is trying to say, this is a flawed strategy that is actually making

us go backwards, rather than forwards. >> tucker: a pretty bold move. jason, thank you. we'll talk to jason later in the show about new evidence about how the nfl tried to avoid taking a stand during the national anthem protest. interesting story. plus campaign records suggest hillary clinton's presidentialnt campaign may have illegally wandered more than 80 million bucks for real. details i had. ♪ hotel, car and activity all in one place. ♪

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exposed a massive money laundering by hillary clinton's campaign. filings with the fec suggested democrats may have elevated the limit, gone around them by directing donors to state-level democratic parties, that then directly funneled the cash to the clinton campaign. if that is true, that's tough. an expert on campaign finance law joins us tonight. if this is true, is that it? >> yes. it's true. and yes, it is a crime. essentially what they did was they took a perfectly legal apparatus, which is a joint fund-raising committee, in this case, called the hillary victory committee, and participating in that, the dnc, hillary clinton campaign, and 38 state parties. what they did that was wrong is that they used the higher limits

of the dnc and all the state party committees to be able to funnel money back through the dnc, which was controlled by the hillary clinton campaign. he went i have talked about this last fall, november, december, something like that. what has happened since then is that the committee to defend the president, a hybrid pac, their lawyer went through the records of the fec and went to the reportsds that the dnc had file, look at the reports that the hillary coat the campaign had filed, the hillary clinton victory campaign and the state parties. what they had discovered by going through these documents, they are all public records, mind you, and i think of "the new york times" or "washington post" could not get, andg they had documented a complaint to the fec with pages and pages of spreadsheets,

showing the transaction. let me give o you a couple of examples. what they would do is they would get -- say a toner would write a check for $400,000, to be splite state party, clinton campaign, $5400, the max she could get, and the money to the dnc. what would happen, the donation may have been legal, but what they did with the money is what was illegal. they pretended to send it to the state democratic party and they didn't. in some cases, they were never any transfers made to the state parties. and the state party report show that they never got the money. instead, that money all went to brooklyn. remember, we talked about this earlier, the dnc bank account was moved from washington, where it had been for decades, and moved to the same bank in new york that the hillary clinton campaign, where it had its bank account and

remember also, all this money that is supposed to go to the state parties never went to the state parties, it went to the dnc account in new york, which hillary clinton's campaign controlled! that is the part that gets to be illegal! remember this, a wrinkle i don't know we would have paid that much attention to last fall, but the person who negotiated this agreement between the dnc and the hillary clinton campaign was marco elias, the lawyer for the hillary clinton campaign, who negotiated with mark elias, who was the lawyer for the democratic national committee. >> tucker: pretty brazen. >> is a really brazen scheme and it's all in the public record. >> tucker: the irony is they lost anyway. [laughs] >> all, of course they sued russia. the dnc should tell mike sued

russia because it was their fault. >> tucker: [laughs] irony that makes life bearable. cleta, thank you. the left is using violent, let's just call it but it is, violent targets to target supporters of gun rights. ♪ but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do? drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had liberty mutual new car replacement™, you'd get your whole car back. i guess they don't want you driving around on three wheels. smart. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, we'll replace the full value of your car. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance.

>> tucker: it turns out this been hard for gun control advocates to change the public's mind on their issue, gun control doesn't work and most people know that. activists have turned increasingly to targeting personally targeting, and harassing supporters of gun rights and their families at home. two weeks ago, nra lobbyist chris cox had his house, where he lives, vandalized by anti-gun demonstrators. his wife's business was targeted astr well, they scared his children. a congressman who represents lincoln, nebraska, says his home was targeted as well by anti-gun campaigners. the protest group betsy riot. the congressman joined us tonight. thank you for coming on. speak a pleasure to see you. >> tucker: tell us what happened. >> would happen to me twice. about a year ago, i happen to not be home, one of those unusual evenings were my wife was away, so one of my older daughters was taking care of the young children. my child comes out to go to school -- >> tucker: how many children do you have? >> five children, five daughters. my younger child comes out,

there is a sign in my yard, we live in nebraska. nebraska is a wonderful place to live, work, and raise a family. that is the heart of our values. it's not only shocking to me but it violates a fundamental principle of civility that we have and it scared my child. the protest -- protest me, be angry at me come but don't scare my children. christmas morning,t i pull the curtains open, snow is all over the outcomew i thought i saw something unusual by my mailbox, again, two more vulgar signs of thee yard. i called the police and all that, there is a basic violation of the standards. you have differences, people have the right to protest if they like but when you attack or vandalized somebody's home, it violates a sacred space. >> tucker: you have a wife and five daughters at home and you are a public figure. you've got an office in washington, district office, people can confront you with their differences whenever they want. you did this? >> it was on the sign, i don't

know if that one has it, it probably says betsy riot, somets kind of cult group that is in nebraska. i don't know if they are nationwide. it seems to be related to this incident that happened up here in washington, d.c., as well. one of the two people identified our university of nebraska faculty members, which is even more bizarre. they are guardians of a trust to create a university environment, which is liberating and the reat sense of the word, pursuit of intellectual truth, inviting, creative, imaginative. imagine a young person coming off a farm who wants to study agriculture and go back to the farm and help the mother and father, expanded operation and comes to the university of nebraska and gets faced with this kind of hostility and hate because in the university setting, they are insulated unable to t propose or impose their ideology upon students. it's very jarring to our set of values. nebraska is a great place in the university is generally

reflective of that. there is a group of people who are violating this most basic human standard. >> tucker: why should taxpayers subsidize harassment? >> i don't think they should. >> tucker: it's a public university sustained with state and federal dollars. speak of the universities in a difficult position. i think they should do what they can within the limits of the law to try to stop this vandalism. there is something that is b deeper here, and intellectual vandalism if you will, robbing thet' university, student experience, of the joy of creative imagination and an intellectual environment in which youl debate your way through, a diversity of ideas, try to come to some conclusion for good. when g you have a threatening, harassing environment, it is inconsistent with the great trust that a university should have. >> tucker: is so nicely put. you are not trying to win someone over, you are trying to bully and intimidate someone, trying to force someone to agree within you, which is fascists. thank you for coming on.

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♪ ♪ higher education in america is crushingly expensive, college tuition rates are rising far yaster than family income is. colleges are also politically monochromatic. once in school, your kids will submit to brainwashing or they will suffer what may come home, they may have learned to hate the values you raised them with. they may be addicted to drugs and alcohol. obviously because of college are extraordinarily high. but it's worth it, we tell ourselves, for the education. education isat key, our kids ned to learn. the question is, are they learning? several years ago, a pair of academic researchers decided to

find out. they study data from a group of more than 2,000 students enrolled in four-year colleges who have been tracked over a period of years. the book that resulted from this research was called "academically adrift." b among its many findings, 45% of students "did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning over the first two years of college. close to 40 percent didn't learn anything at all over four years." how do students learn so little? many of them never study period of 35% of students reported spending no more than five hours a week and academic preparation. overall, the study found a 50% decline in the number of hours students spend studying compared to several decades ago. the average full-time college student now spends only 2.76 hours a day on all education related activities, going to class, studying, all of it. more than twice as much time shopping, eating, and partying.

multiply this by an entire country and youn wind up with a deeply ignorant population. there has been a consistent decline in adult literacy in america over the past 25 years, despite the fact that more kids than ever are going to college. two separate studies by the national assessment of adult literacy found that most college graduates fall below proficiency in verbal and quantitative literacy. the majority could not compete simple cognitive tasks like comparing thee viewpoints a new newspaper editorials or calculating the cost of food items in a grocery t store. in 2005 study found that only 31% of college graduates could read and understand a complex book. 31%. surveys of american college graduates show they are far more ignorant than their counterparts in virtually every other developed nation. in some cases, college graduates in thises country got the same test scores as high school graduates and other countries. as the educational testing service at sparta, "a decade ago, the skill levels of american adults was judged to be

mediocre. now it is below even that." this is a crisis. he would think that colleges would respond by increasing academic rigor. the opposite has happened. a survey of the top public universities in america found that only nine schools required an economics course for graduation. only five required a survey course in americanon history. as one researcher noted, despite lips lip service, fewer than haf required even intermediate study of a foreign language. meanwhile, the number of degrees awarded in women's and gender studies increased by more than 300% since 1990. college classes are getting flimsy. collegee graduates are getting dumb. you would never know it from theirhe grades, which are gettig higher. in 1983, the average college gpa in this country was 2.8. it is now over 3.1. grade inflation is everywhere but its most profound at private schools. at wake forest for example in

north carolina, the cumulative gpa for graduating seniors in 1988 was 2.84. in 2014, it was 3.4. nationally, the most common grade given and college courses right now is in a. according to "the new york times," about 43% of all letter grades given are as. only about 10% are d and fs. in other words, more students are failing at almost nobody fails.ee kids know less but their kids are dumb i can assure them they know more. every year they increase their fees. try that at a private business. you might get indicted for fraud. do it at an american university, and you get to billions taxpayer subsidies. mark roosevelt as the president of st. john's college in santa fe. st. john'sn' is one of the only colleges in america that is still trying to provide a traditional liberal arts education centered on the study of great books. mark roosevelt joins us today. president roosevelt, thanks for

coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: i want to talk to you specifically because i think, this is not to promote your school, but i think st. john's is different from most universities. you've got a different advantage on this. looking at the country, how has it happened that when more people are going to college than ever before, there is a consistentnt decline and adult literacy? how did that happen? >> first of all, thank you for allowing st. john's to join his conversation. we believe in conversation and civil discourse, which is another thing that, as you have pointed out, is unfortunately absent. >> tucker: i agree. >> you noted we were different, mr. carlson, we are so different. we may be the most rigorous college in america. our freshmen must learn ancient greek. our seniors struggle with quantum physics, along the way they have to take calculus, they have to learn how to do differential equations, and they haveve to study hegel and adam

smith. we are against every prevailing wind in american higher education. i agree there has been slippage, slippage and rigor, slippage in the demands academically made of students. we think that is a mistake. we have no intention of joining that particular parade. >> tucker: good for you. i wonder what you make of this phenomenon. maybe i missed reading it. as the outcomes decline, become less impressive, kids know less whenen i graduate, rigor declin. you would think colleges, if they are turning ank people who don't know very much, 30% can read a complex book, maybe we ought to teach them more. the opposite seems to be happening. why? >> i'm not sure i know the answer to why. the movement towards allowing students to shape their own curriculum and to be able to determine their own education as part of it. a lack of expectations is another part of it. again, not to return to

st. john's, but that's what i know best, our students read 200 books. i mean 200 serious books over the course of theirn education. mr. carlson, we are, for a very free a folks. we have about 800 students between the two campuses. our students are very self-selecting. they know what they are getting into, they know how hard it's going to be. that is a very serious challenge for a lot of students. most colleges are not like that. >> tucker: maybe you've put y your finger on it. what you are offering is a traditional liberal arts education that would have been familiar to a lot of well-educated americans 100 years ago. now you got 800 students. the question is, what percentage of the american population is suited for or interested in, should participate in a liberal arts education? >> i honestly believe that there ought to be a lot of diversity in our educational offerings. you've talked in the previous shows about careerd preparatio,

and there is a place for that. there's a place for people who want to get trained to do a job. even though we also know from colleges, only about 20% of students will actually work and something they majored in. as you may know, mr. carlson, we don't have majors at st. john's. we don't think that life breaks down into majors. again, we are just very different. the liberal arts education can be described as very different things in very different places. at st. john's, it's an all required work worked curriculum. everyone is taking all the same courses and theyam are all of equal rigor and equal demands. they are in very small classes. an average of about 15 students in a class. there is no place for them to hide. the rigor is very real. >> tucker: i hope it stays that way. mark roosevelt, thanks a lot for joining us. i appreciate it. >> you are most welcome.

>> tucker: new audiotape exposes how the nfl, the owners and key players, tried to handle the national anthem protests. we will tell you exactly what they said coming up. ♪ i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. but as it grew bigger and bigger,ness. it took a whole lot more. that's why i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. everything. and that 2% cash back adds up

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: the nfl suffered a big ratings drop and a loss of public support after dozens of players protest at national anthem. the president last of the league and in response, commissioner roger goodell suggested it was somehow wrong toho disrespect a pro sports league. now leaked audiotape reveals the secret meeting between nfl owners and players where they discussed how to mitigate the impact of the protests. missing from the agenda, any notion that they should stand up for the dignity of the anthem our country. jason whitlock rejoins us tonight.

jason, i'vely only seen "the new york times" version of this, i have not heard all three hours of the tape. you really get a picture from the times story of a group of people pretty out of touch with what is happening in the rest of the country. >> yeah, i think so. we got to remember, this is "the new york times" reporting the story, a three hour meeting, they have the entire audiotape.h i'm a little bit reluctant to rely on "the new york times" representation of what happened here. "the new york times" as a part of the attack on football. i'm not surprised, reading the story, that no one looked good, no one looks like they have a real clue about what they should do because i think "the new york times" is invested in tearing down football, the nfl in particular. >> tucker: interesting. that no one's went over my head. the story describes the owner of the miami dolphins adjusting a march on washington with nfl owners and players. what with that look like? >> i'm not sure.

in a meeting like this, i don't blame people for split bowling ideas. at the first timer having a meeting about this issue, again, i'm a bit sympathetic with nfl owners. they have a successful television show that they have been running for 50, 60 years. they have a curve ball thrown to them by colin kaepernick. not surprised they did not know how to handle it. they can't believe the way the media is all rigged against them because you can't inject common sense i into this discussion. the nfl as a television show. you have a television show. if you decided, hey, i will talk about cooking every day on this show rather than politics, your bosses would have a right to say, no, that's not what we do on our television show. the nfl owners have a right to say, no, on our television show, we are very patriotic, we don't

have protests right before kickoff of r our football game. that is not the way we conduct our tv show. our viewers don't wantt that. the people in the stands don't want it. we get it. you want to talk about these issues. we'll give you money, we'll pay you for playing these games, you can talk about these issues on your time. not during my television show. the media needs to explain that to people. everybody has to abide by rules in television and in other employment issues. if i worked at the post office or anywhere, there's rules i have tohe follow, we are actings if these players are making their own rules, and anyone that objects is a racist. that is ridiculous. i wish the nfl would take this issue by the horns. the nfl has a great story to tell. football has a great story to tell about its help of african-americans. it's 70% black! >> tucker: that's why you

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♪ >> tucker: we haven't done the frie ♪ a >> tucker: we haven't done "thee friend zone" in a while but we have a lot of friends here at fox. chief among them is ainsley earhardt ong "fox & friends" who is here every morning. she has a new memoir out, "the light within me." we want to hear what it is. ainsley earhardt joins us. >> thank you for having me on. >> tucker: are you kidding? always. tell us about your book. >> they approached me about writing a book about my faith.ra i hear all the time you are not afraid to share your faith.in

i said -- they wanted me to write a memoir. aren't you 70 years old when you write a memoir? i don't have a life story. i don't want someone to think that i am so self-righteous that i feel like i have so much life experience. but then they said we want you to focus on your faith. that is like god saying talk about me, and you can't say no to god. so i was really excited about that point. i have journal entries. i have written a journal for years. a lot of my journal entries are in here, things i have gone through, ups and downs, how i got to fox news channel. u the things that inspired me, my parents. i talk about the death of my grandparents. i lost a baby through a miscarriage.gr i've had some downs but many more ups. it's just about how god has blessed my life and i can't believe i am this girl from south carolina who is on the national news talking to tucker carlson. >> tucker: [laughs] oh, that's big. w when you write a book, you

learn, the process of writing teaches you. what did you learn?wr >> i learned you can do anything you want to do. i remember when my friend said let's run a half marathon. i said, are you kidding? i can't even run around the block without tasting blood. she said, no, we can do it. let's do more of a walk with a little bit of shuffle. i was like, i can do that. so i ran a half marathon. write a book, write a children's book. no, i can't do that. i have two children's books and i have this book.ri i'm not saying that because i am anything special. my point is you can do anything you set your mind to and you have to be surrounded with good people. as you know. your staff is amazing. everyone who works at fox behind the scenes, they should get the glory, not us. because they do all the hard work. >> tucker: my mom said she got this book delivered by amazon today. i will join her.

>> tucker: tomorrow morning. thanks, great to see you. that's it for us tonight. tune in every night at 8:00. at 9:00, sean hannity, from new york city is on. b >> sean: i will say hi to both of you. the president is on i "fox & friends" tomorrow. i want the big interview. congratulations to both of you. i want to be in the friend zone, tucker. >> tucker: any time. >> sean: all right. welcome to "hannity." tonight the deep state is crumbling before our eyes. moments ago catherine herridge broke major news. sources claiming fired fbi director james comey may have now in fact leaked his private memos detailing meetings with president trump to multiple individuals. this is a new revelation that could land james comey in serious legal jeopardy. even cnn's chief legal analyst, a liberal, is saying the former career bureaucrat could be in major legal trouble. of course this does note stop comey from having a huge, big, boozy book party.