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surveillance for carter page? not only use it, but you lead with that, a bulk of that a fisa application deals with that dossier. why? >> that is not my recollection from a bret. i don't know that this a fisa application has been released. my recollection is that it was part of a broader mosaic of facts that were laid before the fisa judge to obtain a fisa warrant. >> there was a lot more than the dossier and a fisa application? >> my recollection is a was a significant amount of material about page. the dossier was part of that but was not all of it or a critical part of it. my recollection. >> tucker: i don't know that it's been -- hiding behind government secrecy once again. congressman trey gowdy represents south carolina in the house of representativesec and e joins us tonight. >> the two agents that were leading both the clinton and

trump investigations should have beenos canned. director comey's recollection is flawed. if he does not remember telling congress that his agents told him, they didn't think flynn was lying, that he needs to get his lawyers to go back and look at the transcript. we did not miss here. maybe he misspoke. that is in the transcript. the double standard that he's had for the last couple of weeks still exists. clinton can lie and she had to be president, mccabe can lie and he is a stand-up guy about trump, boy, if he tells any lies at all, then impeachment is too good of a remedy for him. >> tucker: the dangerous martha stewart to run for to prison for lying and he breaks about that in his book. he does not remember a lot. he does not remember when he first -- is that possible? >> no. he knew that republicans paid for it, even though it's inaccurate. if you learned about it in the fall of 2016, then it was already known that the democrats

had picked up on the network. so whoever briefed him, why would you just say the republicans it started it but not also include the democrats finished it? the part about it not being part of the fisa application, not a significant part, then, why did you use it at all? i have read the application, and he is just wrong. it was an indispensable part of the application. period. >> tucker: how can he claim otherwise? 's first reaction was, i don't think that iss been made public. in other words, you can't prove me wrong because you and the rest of the civilians asking these questions, the american citizens, don't have access to the relevant information. as he pointed out, you do, you've seen it. that's not true. this forms a central part of the request, correct? >> there are three parts of it. this is one of the parts. they lead with it. if my recollection is correct,

it occupied a disproportionately large part of that application. i go back and ask all those who say it wasn't important, then why did you use it? if you didn't need it, why did you use it and why did you lead withid it? >> tucker: let's strip away the politics and take trump out of this so we can see clearly. at the core is the allegation that carter page, the hapless carter page, was acting as the former director said tonight, as an agent of a former foreign p. is that a possible claim? any reasonable person, do you think they can reach that conclusion? >> it would be tough. i think most people that have any experience with carter page, which would include the fbi because they've interviewed him of occasions, you'das be more likely to call him a clown than a spy. i don't say that to be disparaging towards him. i spent a lot of time withsp th, if anyone needed his fifth

amendment right to counsel, if anyone needed a lawyer while he was talking to congress, it would have been carter page. i just don't -- she's not james bond. he's not jason bourne. it's sad, actually. >> tucker: if the top law-enforcement official can say with a straight face on live television that carter page is a foreign spy and represents a threat to american national security, he's lying sounds lik like. >> well, i don't quarrel with the fbi, i am probably biased -- i am biased toward law enforcement. go ahead and run out thear lead. the challenge is when you are going to find an american citizen, it needs to be more than a lead. you need to have probable cause and make all proper representations to the court. the only thingng i will tell yo, tucker, james comey has a definition of the word week that no one else has. what he says is elite is what the rest of us call itth felony.

leaking is disclosing a confidentialos conversation, whh is exactly what he did. >> tucker: he off as much oilier than i've ever seen. i'm glad you shared my reaction. thank you for coming on. >> thank you. >> tucker: during that interview, talking about comey, he had this to say about andrew mccabe. >> i still believe he stood tall. he represented himself under tremendous stress during that time after i was fired. i read the ig report as you did come at concluded that andy had not been candid. this is what accountability looks like. >> you set out in the clinton case. >> i was the director of the fb fbi. a private citizen should not be calling for the prosecution of people in a case they are not involved in. but i do believe, as it routinely happens, the ig will likely refer or has reverted to a a u.s. attorney's office to lookff at it. >> tucker: julian epstein as

the former chief counsel of the house judiciary committee and he comes on tonight. i know you don't like trump, fine. this is really about comey. it concerns all americans, regardless of your political point of view. i don't think you can watch his interview and not come away with grave concerns about his commitment to basic civil liberties for all americans. >> look, i think bret at a phenomenal job. it was tim russert quality interview. really, really good interview. the two criticisms, i watch the coverage on the network, he wasn't fully revealing about the steele dossier with the fisa application. he wasn't clear when that started. i think the facts are relatively clear that it was an investigation with fusion gps, democrats took it over three of the fisa application for carter page, who had been under investigation since 2013-'14 -- >> tucker: that doesn't mean that he did anything wrong.

>> he said he was in regular communication with russian intelligence. >> tucker: martin luther king was under investigation. it's not a signifier of guilt. >> they believed -- >> tucker: where is it? >> i don't expect that to be public. >> tucker: i do at this point. i expect to know if you destroy a man's reputation, his livelihood, has capacity to support his family going forward, as a general carter page, you better tell mee' how e support to american national security. >> the intelligence agencies believe he was a dupe of russian intelligence for many years, going back to '13 and the '14. the point of the matter -- >> tucker: do you think he was? >>h i don't have the informatio. >> tucker: does it bother you that an american citizen has been destroyed by our intel on the basis of no available evidence of wrongdoing? why wouldn'tvi come as a civil libertarian, you would think, that could happen to you? >> i'm not sure that his or her predatione. has been destroyed. >> tucker: carter page! >> he's done a fair amount to destroy his habitation himself.

a lot of it does come out is because of the investigation. >> tucker: whatever, look them up before used by an american citizen, you better have really good reason. these are questions that liberals used to worry about. they've stopped because they hate trump and everything is okay in light of that. you should care about carter page regardless of his iq, -- >> b agree on that. >> tucker: this guy has been destroyed. no one will stand up for him. for what? there is no evidence? >> you were telling me if the intelligence agencies believe that the russian agencies are using him as a dupe, they have co-opted him, and they have had that information since 2014, based in t part in the public statements he's made himself, yous are saying the intelligene agency should give somebody a pass? >> tucker: that's not what i'm saying. once you have investigated them and let the rest of us know that you are investigating him and was even pie that he's working for russia, and like that creep comey did, you better.

we did something wrong. >> i think paige said as much himself. >> tucker: that he was working for the russian government? >> page, and 2013 and 14 indicated that he was in contact with russian intelligence. >> tucker: i've been in contact with all kinds of intelligence -- i live in d.c. >> why would an american citizen be in touch with russian intelligence? if c they weren't trying to -- >> tucker: you must be kidding i expect the number of foreign intel operatives in the city dealing with american citizens, including you and me and everyone else who lives here from lots of different countries, it's overwhelming. the idea that you talk to someone from a foreign country, you are guilty? >> you will tell me, tucker, an interesting conversation, you tell me that upper russian intelligence agent comes to you and starts having regular conversations -- >> tucker: i don't know. >>e you want to report that to the fbi? what if you know if it's russian intelligence agent? >> tucker: its case by case. i'm a loyal american. i'm not nothing to betray my country.

my point is, before you suggest something someone has betrayed their country, you better prove it. this is mccarthyism. we are destroying people for political ends on the left is letting it happen because they hate trump. i'm telling you where you're losing something really important, which of the presumption of innocence. >> i agree with you on the principle. what we are talking about here is intelligence agencies getting a warrant or from an article three judge, a fisa court judge, four different occasions, he believed there was probable cause to believe that he was involved -- >> tucker: julian, this is all crap and you know what. 90% of requests are granted. none of them were turned down. let's see if the application. let's judge for ourselves. people like comey and the destroyers of civil liberties like him, and all the people are saying it's a secret, why can't we know? >> i'm all for the disclosure. i'm all for it. >> tucker: dude, what if this was being used against democrats will! you would be as upset as you should be right now.

>> there's lots of investigations in the world that have occurred against republicans and democrats, sometimes they have been legitimate, sometimes illegitimate. no one said the investigation into carter page is a legit event. the question thatn bret was asking comey was, when did you know that there was -- that the democrats were sponsoring the christopher steele investigation? >> tucker: and then comey looked right in the camera and said "he's an agent of a foreign government." how dare you say that. >> that's the basis -- >> tucker: if they have evidence, indict him, then if they don't, say, carter page did nothing wrong. >>nd i'm not saying that he is, i'm not saying -- >> tucker: it so irresponsible. irresponsible. >> i think we are losing a lot of viewers in this conversation. >> tucker: we probably are. civil liberties matter. the left used to defend them and they don't and it's getting scary. >> if the intelligence agencies have a evidence that a u.s.

citizen is cooperating with russian intelligence, they get a fisa warrant, you don't think that that is -- >> tucker: prove it or move on! >> the fisa warrant needs some level of proof. proof. >> tucker: julian, thank you. we live in a fallen world so the opinions of rap stars carry a lot of weight. mark steyn joins us to discuss kanye west's twitter rampage. want to miss that. ♪ okay. [ buttons clicking ] [ camera shutter clicks ] so, now that you have a house, you can use homequote explorer. quiet. i'm blasting my quads. janice, look. i'm in a meeting. -janice, look. -[ chuckles ] -look, look. -i'm looking. it's easy. you just answer some simple questions online, and you get coverage options to choose from. you're ruining my workout. cycling is my passion.

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company -- >> to a certain extent, i am not only sympathetic to that. some people mocking us conservatives because we are such squares, when some groovy

groovy -- >> someone of them are democrat democrats, whichever it was worth supporting george w. bush. there was something terribly refreshing and having no

purchase on pop culture. but the fact is, we are not really excited. it's not so much the excitement from our end, it's the fact that kanye, at his hand, is sick of being told what to think. the box at the left has built for at celebrity supporters, like this guy is, he doesn't want to be put in that box. oddly enough, it's strange to me because we are always going on how transgressive they are. we need transgressive artists to press the bounce and then they demand that all the transgressive artists march in lockstep with the approved ideology. now i will say this, tucker, i think this is, and away, a sort

of obvious correction. trump is a showbiz figure. he did beauty pageants and he did a reality show. he's on the regis philbin christmas album firing blitzen and hiring rudolph the red nose reindeer. now i would have voted for president regis philbin if i could but the guy is on the regis philbin christmas album, pretty good second place. if you think of it from kanye's point of view, if he walks into a room, there's chuck schumer and elizabeth warren, over any other corner, donald trump, who is kanye going to go and talk to? he will go and talk to trump. this innocence is a natural correction to the insanity the y left has maintained since november 2016. >> tucker: one of the reasons they have hated trump is because he is so off grid for good and bad, he represented the possibility of a real realignment and they hate that. that is the threat to their

business. that is why they shut down all dissent or any affinityy for him needs to be frontage immediately because of the vices could happen. >> i think -- the rolling stone piece is interesting because the guy sounds as if he is really scared. pop culture acts as the great enforcer in america and everyone knows that culture is upstream and of politics. if you control pop o culture, te politics will follow. it's not the supreme court. when anthony kennedy licenses gay marriage, he's just saying the pop culture has told him to get on side, and effect. it's bigger than anything. when shania twain a couple of days ago, gives an interview to "the guardian" is saying that if she'd been an american, she'd have voted for donald trump, he immediately shania is clubbed into a pulp and is made to apologize and back down.

you know, that's pathetic for shania. "man, i feel like a woman," man, i feel like a celebrity who has the guts to stand up to this and i'm embarrassed for for my countryy that shania twain from ontario, god bless her, i didn't have the guts to do with kanye did and said, get lost, i think for myself. >> tucker: i still like her. mark steyn, a man who thinks for himself. i always learn something. i'm grateful to you for that. >> even if it's only shania's hometown. there you go. >> tucker: [laughs] good to go. see you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: the disaster over at nbc with joy reid is getting worse and worse and now the fbi isoe involved. we'll invest to get the latest developments coming up on that next. ♪ 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™,

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>> tucker: the joy reid saga continues. last week, internet sleuths discovered a series of highly embarrassingsa blog posts that e wrote more than ten years ago. these days, you know, joy reid is a a progressive. she used to be aggressively anti-gay. she could have apologized and moved on. instead, she and nbc, her employer, decided tost lie and pretend her blog had somehow been hacked to buy secret provocateurs of some kind. aeu ludicrously laughable thing. but now they've doubled down on it. they called it the fbi to investigate this imaginary

hacking. not a good idea. nbc is playing with fire here. her story is a hoax and now nbc and joy reid are using the fbi to perpetuate that hoax. how is not going to end? obviously will keep you posted. in the meantime, some are calling for her to be fired for all of this.d we are not among them. t why? because we are not joy reid. joy reid can push a button and yank this show off the air forever, is there any doubt she would do that? of course not. she would do it in a second and she would feel virtuous, as everyone works on the show lost her job. that's not how we feel. we are not progressives. silencing people we disagree with is not our goal, it never has been our goal. we don't share her views on pretty much anything but we don't want her personally destroyed and we don't want to show boycotted and canceled. in some ways we are rooting for her amazingly, since we know what it's like to be on the wrong side of a howlingwe twittr mob. it's a lonely place and increasingly it's a commonplace

in modern america, unfortunately. still, we wish joy reid and nbc would stop lying and not just lying but lying in the most insultingly obvious way. ayyour 8-year-old could tell moe convincing lies in nbc news does and probably feel more guilty about it than they do.. buck sexton has watched us from the beginning, a radio host who used to work for the cia and he joins us tonight. if you are raking up a fake story like this and pretending that unseen saboteurs had put words in your mouth on your blog 12 years ago, and people all of a suddenen come aside, buck sexton, you're lying, would you double down to get the fbi invo? >> no, i think it will create more problems for her possibly. as you pointed out, a lot of folks would have accepted an apologyap from her, instead, she may have created legal trouble, which clearly no one was adjusting was the case from the get-go. it is a crime to lie to federal agents, and even filing a false report as a crime.

whether or not the fbi would choose to go forward without charge charge, how quickly they move on this, tucker, also another thing. you've got thousands of packs actually happening every day across the country. just because joy reid sounds like she's upset about this hoax hacked doesn't mean he goes to the top of the list. >> tucker: it seems like you could wind up stuck in this, it's almost like when the lie gets out of control, and you could wind up punished for it. we know that her blog was not hacked. no one hacked it 12 years ago and waited like a sleeper cell to surprises with us. the fbi comes in, they decide it's a hoax, what do they do then? with a punisher? >> i think it's unlikely. a lot of false statements, you will see someone who was the target of the false allegations, and that is why they want to punish the person who levels that come in this case, joy reid

is accusing these unknown, mysterious cyber entities, she might as well say it's the russians while she's athi it. she's making it up as she goes along. theoe fbi has more important things, legitimately, more important things to do thann this. but i will say this, tucker, think about it from her perspective. now that she has this cover, the fbi is investigating coming may be a few weeks passes, the fbi could track it down if they wanted to but i don't think they will. they might have one agent to take a look at it and say, okay, nothing here, and therefore she can run out the clock with this innocent, in effect. if she lives to fight another day as a result of a delay, it's a tactic. >> tucker: when the chinese military text on the new york stock exchange, i'm going to ask the fbi, were you too busy investigating joy reid's fake twitter conspiracy to be on actual threats to the country?

a fair question. buck sexton, thank you for that. i hope you will come back to follow this breaking story. great to see you. a question tonight to a story we brought you yesterday about allegedut harassment of the cenr for american progress, a left-wing nonprofit. we said that 19 people had accused multiple 1 individuals t cap of harassment. currently, one has been accused. buzzfeed did interview 19 people for their story but not all of them claimed abuse. we don't know how many did actually. the piece says there were several incidents of harassment at cap, no exact number given. a we will learn more of this story and we will bringing updates as we get them. an internal document that google reveals the company tried to suppress concepts like individual achievement and objectivity on the grounds that they were facets of white culture. whatever thatt is. that story is amazing and it's next. ♪

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>> tucker: this just broke during our show. the leaders of north and south korea have madeus history tonight. kim jong un has crossed the demilitarized zone to meet his counterpart in south korea. the south korean president did the same, briefly crossing into the north. that hasn't happened since 1953. we are not sure where this is going but we'll follow it all night. in recent years, the digital visual monopoly you to become a part of the digital search monopoly, google, has been accused of trying to silence conservative viewpoints. prager u, and other content makers, have found themselves censored. they say it was accidental, they have no political agenda. it turns out that's a lie. this show has exclusively

obtained an internal youtube ♪ ♪ from april of 2017, last year, that lays out in detail how youtube sensors videos. one of the reasons the extent of youtube's center ship isn't obvious to most people is because the company is smart enough not to scrub every video it wants tony censor. instead, many videos wind up in what the memo describes as limited state. it sounds like out of scientology. videos and limited state are intentionally pushed down on the site so they are harder to find. they are also demonetized, meaning the people who post them count to make money no matter how often they are viewed. you think that isn't a big deal? what would happen if you couldn't find "the new york times" in a newsstand. what would happen if its publishers weren't allowed to make money? with that qualify censorship? what are the criteria for censoringhe videos on youtube? according to the memo, "controversial, religious, or supremacist content qualifies, so it is highly controversial,

inflammatory content. what does that mean? none of it is defined, it is totally subjective. youtube makes the call and does so with maximum political intent. for example, youtube decided to as inflammatory for prager u to question the notion that all cops are racist. if you don't think they are, you are in trouble, according to youtube. prager u's video is the monetized and declared hate speech. videos that suggest that white peoplear are inherently evil remain on youtube without any restrictions. it's clearly political. the memo makes it clear where youtube sensors are coming from, it explains how the company is committed to "the freedom to belong including the resulting benefits of diversity and inclusion." okay, sounds good. what exactly does that mean? again, it's entirely subjective and intentionally so. at one point, the memo declares that any "demeaning language or against a protected group may result in a video being removed from the site."

who are these protective groups? according to youtube, refugees are a protected group.ro so let's say you don't like the fact that refugees are being resettled in your tt neighborh, for example. you assumed it was your right as a citizen to disagree with government policy. ynope. not according to youtube. they will censor your complaints about what your government is doing and call you a bigot in the process, if you don't like refugee resettlement policy for example. it's not surprising that one of the trusted flaggers youtube has deputized to censor extremist content is the southern poverty law center, which is itself in an extremist group. they have a long history of inciting hatred and division for political ends. it was the splc that will enter the family research council as "a hate group" and labeled a pulse nightclub shooting, "a right-wing attack," which it was not. the splc is totally discredited and anyone who spends 5 minutes reading about it comes to that

conclusion. yet youtube trusts the southern poverty law center to censor your videos. that tells you a lot. we contacted youtube for a statement on all this and we asked whether the company had revised its policies since the memo was written last year. the company barely responded. we were linked to a blog post written by don my google lawyer last june, and which he vowed the company would be more aggressive in censoring videos it doesn't like. it's worth noting that almost nobody in power is fighting back against this censorship. here youou have an american company incubated in america by americans under the protection of american law and court, which is now working to undermine the most sacred of american rights, which is the freedom of expression. yet the congress, which is run by republicans right now, is doing precisely nothing about this. when you ask them, they mumble something about free markets and get back to deciding another tax cut for companies like youtube. the rest of us who live here, the one to care about free speech, are left to fend

for ourselves. the big digital monopolies demand that we conform to their worldviews and they shut us down when we dissent. they have too much power. they are a threat to this country. it is time to complain while we still can. youtube isn't the only politicized part of google. internal memo written by google revealed by a lawsuit, managers are told to avoid rewarding people for following the white male culture of america, aspects included the meritocracy, belief and objectivity, individual achievement. ideas that nobody thought were re-specific until now. it's hard to believe this is even real. tell us what the memo says. >> the memo says part of a google program for managers, inclusiveed performance, they ae coached and sometimes forced to evaluate people on the feedback they give to their employees. this memo is about when you give

feedback to your employees, be careful not to give to positive feedback to white people or stuff that is white according to google, such as merit-based performance, and individual excellence and so forth, and when you are giving feedback to people of color, you should be sensitive to the fact that they are more likely to be in favor of group achievement and collective values, there some negative traits associated with whites, supposed to be that they talk about you instead of to you, so they are backstabbing. these girls, racial stereotypes on both sides that are deeply offensive. to say that the stereotype that whites care about meritocracy and accomplishment as to imply that other races don't. it's absurd. the most absurd thing is that dreams tomorrow, after the fact, was let go because of gender stereotyping, google perpetuates it every single day. it's shocking. >> tucker: they don't hold their programming staff to these

theme standards. they demand excellence when it comes to writing the code that is the basis of their business. >> of course they should. >> tucker: i agree with that. what is the response? this seems horrifying, divisive, inherently bigoted. are they conceding this is real? >> i don't think they get it. google is too big to fail, too powerful to be questioned. they've been getting away with this. in the face of our lawsuit, they simply describe all criticism of their race baiting and racial gerrymandering as alt-right criticism. >> tucker: you when i have had the same job 25 years ago, you've been a conservative your whole life, why are conservatives, republicans in washington, defending this, defending google? whyy are they doing something about this? >> i'm afraid one very crass reason is that google spreads the money around both sides. members of congress and the senate to have power to do it, these employment violations,

they don't care. it's hard to get their attentio attention. google very carefully spreads the money around in the media as well and in nonprofits. i mean, they are really ubiquitous and everywhere. as a result, people know which side their bread is buttered and are very few principled people who say, i will criticize you, and i will be objective. that is what we are running up against. there are a lot of patriots who are shocked by this. we've had the recent example of this week of google trying to seal our lawsuit, they have sealed it for a two month period, they call that the court and said, some of our employees are being harassed, at the court sealed it for two months. for two months, the public won't be able to go to the santa clara court and read it. where's the outrage? >> tucker: it's on this show. thank you for all you are doing. time for "final exam." can you beat our two expert at recalling what happened this week? also, the show has been implicated in a crouton scandal.

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♪ >> tucker: now it's time for "final exam," when the yapping stops on the testing begin, where the wheat is winnowed from the chaff with the help of beta, the two contestants we find out who has been paying closer attentionn to the news this wee. defending champion, her challenger, guy benson. he'll be teaming up with marie harf, db debuting monday, may . katie is a returning champion.

>> i'm nervous. >> tucker: guy, you've been through this before. you've got nerves of steel. you know the rules. for our readers who may not remember, hands on brothers, i asked the question, first one who buzzes in, gets to answer. you wait until i finish asking in order to answer. each correct answer is worth one point. each incorrect tracks a point from your total. best-of-five wins. are you ready? kanye west was not the only celebritynl criticized this week for supporting the president of the united states. which country music star has the temerity to say she s would have voted for donald trump? guy benson? >> shania twain. >> tucker: shania twain? we'll see. rose. -- roll tape. >> shania twain getting slammed by her fans were saying that she would have voted for president trump. the canadian singer telling "the guardian" he seemed honest. she's apologizing, saying she regrets answering thes questio.

>> tucker: are you a shania twain fan? >> i like some of her music. she was honest and pilloried for being honest, which is what happens. >> tucker: 2018 and a single sentence. question two, there was a state visit this week by the president of france but it was a piece of the first lady's wardrobe that createdd a huge distraction in the media and online. which item of clothing were people talking about? katie? her hat to. >> tucker: her hat? people don't wear hats. >> her big white hat. >> tucker: let see if the tape verifies the claim. >> lots of people talking about melania trump's hat, the buzz of the picture. >> i must ask you, according to eric, the hat. he wants more in the hatch. did you like the hat? we want to know more about the hat to. >> whenn you commit to a hat lim that, you got to wear it for the rest of the day. she committed to it. >> tucker: our judges are pointing out that the contact

is -- >> i'm sorry i'm ignorant to. >> tucker: no, you are american. nothing to apologize for. you never apologize for being american. question three, which lawmaker presented a new job slam it would give a guaranteed $50 an hour government dropped every single american who wants one? guy benson? >> bernie sanders. >> tucker: bernie sanders, independent socialist of vermont, is that the correct answer? >> vermontnt senator bernie sanders is reportedly ready to roll out a new guarantee for every american, you get a government job. >> $15 an hour with benefits. notit only is his economic nonsense, it's also, in my opinion, grossly immoral. >> tucker: here's a quick bonus follow-up. if all 320 million americans worked at the dmv, would it be a better agency? >> no. >> tucker: okay, good. i can't give you a point but you are right. question four, multiple choice. a woman was just fined $500 by bureaucratic customs50 officials

for bringing what airplane? was that a filthy airplane blanket, and apple, or was it a cigar? katie? >> apple. >> tucker: apple? really? to the tape. >> u.s. customs and border patrol took a bite out of one travelers swallowed, finding her $500 for bringing an apple through customs. the violation is for one apple. it was an apple from delta. the most important part to take away from a story. >> tucker: that is the most important part. this is where we find ourselves when when we have high-level players, a varsity match, elite lineup, itch is 2-2, sudden death, question five will determine the winner. are you ready? >> yep. >> tucker: katie, you seem very calm. >> i just really like him. >> tucker: we like you. godspeed. we like you to come a guy. multiple-choice, president trump said he is celebrating his wife's birthday today. heif got her something to mark e occasion.

was it a beautiful card? a tremendous wristwatch or some killer heels? >> the greatest card. >> tucker: [laughs] the greatest card? that seems paltry. >> it does. >> tucker: that is what you are sticking with? roll tape, please. >> very, very special day because it's melania's birthday. >> do you want to tell us what you got her? >> maybe i didn't get her so much. i willid tell you what -- i got her a beautiful card. i'm very busy. i got her a beautiful card. >> tucker: [laughs] our judges are saying, though he said beautiful, you said greatest, that's okay. guy benson. katie, i'm not saying i was secretly rooting for you, though i was. you did such a good job, and in fact, we didn't even realize, you might not win, i will take my pens out of this mug and give it to guy benson. here is your victory mug. >> with the confused look.

>> tucker: yes, it reflects reality, trust me. thank you, katie. i hope you will come back. guy, congratulations. that is that for "final exam." pay find close attention to the news every weekend to noon every thursday to see if you can outwit our hearted experts. at next up, the onion just published a terribly inaccurate piece about our view on salad toppings. we will fact-check the onion, who's back triggers apparently are on vacation. that story is next. ♪ 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 to thousands of dollars each year... so i can keep growing my business in big leaps! what's in your wallet?

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sometimes you need an expert. i got it. and sometimes those experts need experts. on it. [ crash ] and sometimes the expert the expert needed needs insurance expertise. it's all good. steve, you're covered for general liability. and, paul, we got your back with workers' comp. wow, it's like a party in here. where are the hors d'oeuvres, right? [ clanking ] tartlets? we cover commercial vehicles, too. i think there's something wrong with your sink. >> i want to take a minute >> tucker: i want to take a minute to correct a story that ran in one of the country's few remaining reliable news outlets, "the onion." the story claims that this show has expressed hostility toward croutons. that is inaccurate. in fact, if they bothered to b check, they would've found that we strongly support croutons as well as various other nontraditionalto bread products and don't rest on caesar salads. we are not saying this country was built on croutons but it contributed a lot, at least as much as steak fajitas and cheese kurds. we should note, not complaining,

just noting, the "the onion" nr failed tried to contact us. unfortunately, they are getting sloppy. sad. that is it for us. sean hannity from new york. >> sean: tucker, thanks. as always, welcome to "hannity." breaking the second, a few hundred newly uncovered text messages, we have them here and. fea lovebirds peter strzok and lisa page, they have literally just been released. we will reveal that and just a moment. james comey was just grilled by bret baier. get this, the disgraced former fbi director just revealed a shocking new contradiction surrounding the departments fisa abuses. plus, earlier today, the president rightly blasting james comey, robert mueller, even the doj and of course, we will play you his remarks and reveal just how abusively biased and corrupt our two tier justice system h