from west virginia. morgantown, west virginia, tonight at the metropolitan theater. the site of many primary debates and tier two, we follow them across the country in the 2018 midterms. it next tuesday, may 8th bret and i will be covering the primary elections in four states. tucker is up in d.c. ♪ * * * * * * * * * * * * * *>>t ucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. why are you criticizing jim comey and andrew mccabe? if a friend asked you that question it wouldn't be hard to answer. comey was the shift he is, most political fbi director in memor memory. his deputy repeatedly a lied to federal investigators. if you tried that you would wind up in jail. why criticize these guys? because they deserve it. let's say a federal prosecutor asks you the very same question using this language. "what is the reason for your continued criticism of mr. comey and his former deputy, andrew jay mccabe? do you see how the tone is

different there? suddenly is ominous. it sounds more like a threat that a question. what's the point of asking that, you might wonder. since when is criticizing fbi officials a crime in his country? will apparently since robert mueller became special counsel. according to "the new york times," that's one of more than 40 questions mueller plans to ask the president under penalty of perjury. here's another one. "what would your opinion of mr. comey during the transition? whose business is that? aren't americans allowed to have any opinion they want without being grilled by law enforcement about it? and then there's this question. "what was the purpose of your july 2017 criticism of mr. sessions"? criticism of government official framed as a crime as if dissenting views aren't allowed or must be justified to a prosecutor. what country is this, anyway? in fact, the president is allowed to have any opinion he wants. of anyone who works for him. if that is true of all presidents. they get to hire and fire up their own appointees for their own reasons. if you don't like it, don't vote

for them. this is a democracy. trump got elected, mueller didn't. presidents also get to formulate their own policy. voters can decide whether they agree with those policies. again, that's why we have elections. here are two more mueller questions. "what discussions did you have during the campaign regarding russian sanctions" and "what involvement did you have during 2016 republican platform changes regarding arming ukraine"? let's review. trump ran for office promising to improve our relationship with russia. he said that frequently and in public. voters heard it come they agreed with it and he won. but washington hated the idea of getting closer to russia. they've been pushing a war with iran for years. that's obvious now. closer ties with russia would make in iran were far more complicate it. putin has to be the arch villain, the most evil villain in the world. it never mind china or mexico or other countries whose behavior is actually hurting america.

russia, the country with the economy the size of texas who can't make a working escalator. they need to be evil no matter what voters said they wanted. so that happen. the policies that trump ran on are now considered evidence of a crime. america is that much closer to a war with iran. mission accomplished. time fitness president of the judicial watch and they both join us tonight. you read these questions, your reaction was what? >> i have to wonder what mueller is up to here. is he acting as a special counsel? you read these questions, you might be curious as to the answers if you are a journalist or a politician trying to attack donald trump. for a prosecutor, pointing out like this and the demand that is an abuse of his power. mueller is wandering around bumping into walls, investigative lease speaking. there's not much here in the way of russia collusion. asking his opinions and questions about his tweets. to me it's a waste of time in the president's time.

and i can imagine a judge is going to allow him to force the president to have to answer many of these questions since they are so off-kilter from any legitimate legal analysis or legal prosecution. >> tucker: they are confusing at the very least two nonlawyers like me. do they suggest a direction? what did they tell us? >> first of all, it's not just a group of 40 something questions. it's a potentially unlimited number of questions. when did you first find out about the june 2016 meeting in trump tower? does not naturally lead to who told you? what did they say no matter what the purpose was? how many people were involved, did they tell you what happened? each question would seem kind of benign and open-ended can lead to all sorts of additional questions but i think what you were getting out in your introduction is a point that we've seen a lot, asking his motivations for perfectly normal actions of a president. it would seem that in other

court cases from the travel ban to daca, two other things in which the legitimate exercise the presidential power is question because the president apparently had some sort of unacceptable motive. that's what is involved. >> tucker: that the theological debate, not a political or policy debate. are you pure hearted? >> that's because everybody knows he has the power to fire the director of the fbi or he has the power to rake his attorney general over the coals. whether or not that's a good idea is completely separate. the question here with comey seems to be what was your state of mind when you were doing it? if you did that with a pure intention, okay by me. but if you did it with a bad intention, you could be in deep trouble. >> tucker: are you martin luther? it's bizarre for a secular government to pursue that kind line of questioning. because what was your reaction to my appointment? he's asking about himself. >> tucker: this is like the

playboy questionnaire. what are your greatest strengths, what are your turnoffs? go ahead. >> but doesn't tell us -- i think the key question is is this investigation moving in the direction from which it started, the investigation into collusion reportedly with the russian government in the campaign. >> the fantasy list, fusion gps adam schiff type questions. they are pushing that narrative that has been out there and you look at this, you got to wonder -- forget about the fisa being led to misuse the dossier. it looks to me as mueller is using this as a basis for a lot of these questions on russia, his business dealings in russia and he's just taking this anti-trump media narrative and bringing it into the prosecutorial function of the justice department. it's a real abuse and rod rosenstein need to be held accountable for unleashing this on the american people, the presidency and the justice department. >> tucker: i haven't checked,

you are very current with the law, is it a crime to say sympathetic things towards russia? >> as far as i know, absolutely not. this list of questions -- i have to say i completely lost my train of thought on this. >> tucker: doesn't seem like this is moving toward what we were promised at the outset which is an examination of whether russia played a significant role in our election? >> the thing to remember about this is there's not a whole lot new in these questions. when you look at some of the areas michael flynn, comey and sessions collusion, it doesn't indicate that mueller has come up with some completely new area of inquiry that we didn't know about before. actually this is pretty much what we have been talking about for the last year or so. from that point it seems to me that the trump people should be somewhat relieved in the sense that we seem to know everything he is talking about. >> tucker: i totally lost

interest. carter page was not subverting democracy. if if you haven't convinced me. >> with the house intelligence committee found the other day that there was no evidence of collusion and there's nothing to suggest that mueller has info. >> tucker: covering up for vladimir putin. thank you. longtime advisor of hillary clinton both at the department of state and on various campaign trails, he joins us tonight. here are the questions, why are you criticizing jim comey and andy mccabe? that an appropriate line of questioning for a federal prosecutor who can put you in jail? >> my question is imagine if you, byron and tom were sitting here talking about the fbi giving hillary clinton all the questions they were going to ask before they interviewed her. i have a feeling you would not say that's great.

>> tucker: can i just be clear? i defended on the show repeatedly or on this box air, repeatedly hillary clinton's campaign against jim comey because i thought it was unfair to her. i think the abuse of law enforcement power is really scary and i think he abused it. i said so at the time. what world as it were a federal prosecutor asks any politician why are you criticizing a federal official so much? >> it's a world where we have laws. >> tucker: [laughs] are we not allowed to criticize our superiors now? >> a president can't do anything he wants. a president cannot obstruct justice. if they could burn files, fire people, if they just stop things it would never end. >> tucker: what is the reason for your continued criticism of mr. comey and has former deputy andrew g mccabe? a scenario for me where that would be a legitimate question. if we are starting with the supposition -- you are allowed under the first amendment to criticize public officials, i think you are. why would he ask something like that? >> a lot of it is trying to

figure what was on his mind when he fired jim comey? you are right, if he shows up late to work or if he doesn't do a good job, fire him. but you don't fire him when he's investigating you. that is not a legitimate reason to do so. >> tucker: that's not the question. >> if he had done that we wouldn't be talking about this. >> tucker: what is your reason for the continued criticism? if we had a functioning left in america that cared about, they'd be having a heart attack over that, and they should be. >> the heart attack they are having is the rule of law being trampled over. obstruction of justice is all about what you intended. that's why they are asking. this is in the playboy turn on, turn off. robert mueller's turnoffs are obstruction of justice and mine. >> tucker: i'm totally opposed to sanctuary cities and everything else the left is pushing right now. i would just say in this case why are you criticizing a federal official does not lead us toward obstruction of justice, it leads us towards the

chilling of public expression of opinion, a bigger principle i think. >> president hasn't been chilled or in any way reluctant. >> tucker: he doesn't care. >> he should talk to mueller. >> tucker: but like this is not an area that a prosecutor should ever wait into. >> two hours out of his day where he can't watch television. let him talk to mueller. >> tucker: i just think it's terrifying. >> how about this, why did you change the republican platform in 2016? that's nobody's business. if the republican platform. >> that's not true. if that was done because it was made favorable to russia -- if that was done because of some larger reason. >> tucker: that's all allowed. >> is not allowed. spill that's where you are wrong. the democratic life form is filled with data points that are there because the foreign

governments want them there. republican platform, same thing. republican platform calls for puerto rico. what you think that there? >> the puerto ricans aren't walking into don jr.'s office and say here's email on hillary clinton. >> but lots of other foreign representatives are. it shows in our foreign policy. it shows all kinds of decisions and it definitely shows and party platforms. it's not illegal. i think it's wrong, it's not illegal. why is he asking about that? >> again, because there are illegal elements to this. >> if you have a quid pro quo between changing -- you don't know what other elements. >> it could be money. it could be -- >> tucker: why doesn't he ask about that? >> maybe he will. >> tucker: will you say it's still illegal for lifting sanctions? >> absolutely. >> tucker: that's not true at all. >> i had really don't. again, i sit here a lot of these times and i think what would you be saying if it were hillary clinton? >> tucker: i can tell you once again i would defend.

>> if you had heard that she had changed position in the dnc. >> tucker: i know that she has. >> you assume the worst. it would assume that because saudi arabia gave him some kind of comp your vision that it was some kind of quid pro quo and that was horrible. >> tucker: i think that happens all the time. unfortunately it's not illegal. that's the point. >> these are questions, not accusations. if he goes in there and he says look, i just don't believe we should be sanctioning russia, that's the only reason eidetic. >> tucker: he said that on the campaign and now he's treated as a criminal, a suck up to putin. criminals don't get the questions ahead of time. the attacks on -- related to -- can we be honest? >> multiple geopolitical -- take it to china. >> tucker: you know i'm right, actually. it's great to see you. >> you too. thank you for having me.

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investigations investigation's current approach to the story? we turned to brit hume and he joins us tonight. if this is really a procedural question but it's been the obsession of the press. do we know there where these questions came from? >> i don't think we do, but i do know that our senior white house correspondent john roberts has confirmed their authenticity so we can trust that these questions reflect what robert mueller's line of questioning to mr. trump would be and i think there are two ways to look at it. one is can you believe that these are the questions and don't they trespass on the president's obvious rights and duties as president? and the other question i would have, agreeing with byron york is is that all there is? we've been told by so many for so long that we don't know what we don't know, which is sort of obvious if you think about it, but that mueller may have things we haven't heard about. he may have uncovered things we never heard about.

nothing in these questions relates to anything we haven't yet heard about. we would certainly set up and take notice if among these questions were ones that asked about the president's conversations with a certain russian representative that we never heard of before. we would say it looks as if mr. mueller is onto something. it may be, tucker, that lurking and potential follow questions to those that are listed here that there will be some sort of new information. but on the face of it there's really not much here. >> tucker: i totally agree. you expect a question, what about that night in '85, but this sounds like a cable news segment, these questions. totally general and airy. i was confused by reading them. do you have any idea where they are going? >> i just think that it looks to me like they relate to everything that has been discussed and uncovered so far. and then the question has been raised about whether when he asked about some of these business deals, whether they are getting into his red flag area

that he said would lead him possibly to fire the investigator. i'm not sure that's true and i think one of the things that trump might end up having to say to mueller's why did you fire comey? remember, rod rosenstein sent a letter telling comey he was out and it listed a bunch of things that dated back to the hillary clinton investigation in which he said there was improper use of the justice department's rightful functions. and then trump was later asked on nbc about the reasons for firing comey and he said i was going to fire him anyway and indicated that it was about the russia investigation. that's a valid line of questioning obviously. if you are firing the guy to try to stomp on the investigation, that's a serious matter. there is an alternative explanation for that which i think is quite possibly valid, which is comey had said to him,

to trump, three times that he, trump, was not under investigation. he asked them to say that publicly and comey and the fbi wouldn't do it. if you were trump or if i were me in that situation it would infuriate me. i think there's information out there that would be exculpatory and they won't allow it to go out leaving this cloud over the presidency. these are all things that trump could say. i think properly prepared by lawyers and disciplined in his approach, the president probably could handle all these questions. i didn't see anything in there that looked particularly scary. we will not make it your very quick response for the story i keep reading, series of attacks on general kelly, the chief of staff, over at the white house suggesting he's about to be replaced. are these stories are real, they planted by his enemies? is that going to happen? >> they have come into me, at least the earmarks of stories planted by his enemies because if you're trying to bring down

kelly, right, how would you do that? he would make trump furious with him. he put the word out that he has from time to time referred to him as an idiot. i can kind of understand how a disciplined military-minded organization men like john kelly dealing with trump -- trump is a manchild. he does what he wants a lot of the time. sometimes to his own detriment. he might infuriate you and you might under your breath or maybe in a room full of aids the guys being an idiot about this. we would leak that not to hurt trump. you would leak that to hurt kelly, which is how it looks to me. i don't know, of course. only people know that are the people who know who the sources are. >> tucker: he seems like a very decent man and an effective chief of staff. that's my impression. thank you. >> and someone that trump respected, which was important. >> tucker: barry.

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over at nbc, talking head suggests the statue of liberty, the poem at the bottom somehow with no vote being taken has become federal law and commands us to let them in, no questions asked. a watch. >> the very public test of american resolve over immigration policy as well as the limits of american compassion. >> these are the faces of the desperate locked out on the doorstep of the united states waiting. >> the president said have you seen this caravan? have you seen the caravan? i ask you, mr. president, have you? what you think the statue of liberty would say? >> come and, let me help you ou out. >> tucker: how do people that don't get tv jobs? i guess they're just passing them out. over at cnn, meanwhile, has gone even farther than that. he says that all borders everywhere are immoral. >> this idea of borders and walls is ridiculous. we are too good for this. the point is walls suck.

it's made of concrete barriers, steel beams, double layered fencing and barriers for the beaches of normandy. welcome to america's got talent but is wasting it on building this wall. >> tucker: there's a guy -- do you lock your door? to a password on your email? just a manifestation of fear i guess. operating out of america, they cover american news, americans worked there, but they are not interested in the interests of americans obviously. california radio host joins us tonight. i assume like every good progressive you are for letting the members of the caravan. i just want to be clear i'm not against the members. i would want to come here too. i understand completely, but it raises the question since they are not the only people who want to come here. where do you draw the line? what's the limit for people seeking a better life coming to this country? >> we have great capacity to accept people into our country and it follows judeo-christian

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by the way, this caravan -- >> tucker: before you make generalizations i want to get specific. you are right with those numbers. those are basically the numbers and various people come in under other programs. we've done this for a long time. but the left is saying that's way too restrictive. so what's the number? let's stipulate a billion people want to move here next week, probably all to san diego. how many should we let in under the ethic that you are citing? >> this is also part of the judeo-christian ethic, to help their governments become better functioning. this is where foreign aid comes into play. >> tucker: there is no evidence that our foreign aid has ever made any government better. i wish it were true. life expectancy had a lot of africa is lower than it was in 1965. it doesn't necessarily work that way, as you know. what's the number? how many? this is going to keep happening. with every wave incites more waves. when are we allowed to say that too many?

>> first thing is first, i will answer your question as well, which i think is that 1.5 million number. but trump administration has dramatically cut back on the number of illegal immigration. syrian refugees, we let 11 and so far this year as opposed to 15,000. 750,000 people. those are examples of how helping refugees. >> tucker: these are on the margins. again, is there a number, or just talking about it scared the crap out of the country. to overwhelm and change the country, that really is what it's about as you know. you don't want to be honest about what the limit is? it's as long as our compassion last? it's a sincere question. >> i did answer that. i think that 1.5 million is pretty fair. >> tucker: so that will make the country totally unrecognizable not in 30 years but five years. i don't think that's what the left is arguing for hearing

>> the country is unrecognizable from what it was in 1900 from 1800. we are all strangers in a strange land and we have to remember that, that we are a country of immigrants, people who were refugees and asylum seekers. >> tucker: we are not. that's where you are wrong. we are a country of americans. we are a country of americans. none of immigrants, not a foreign nationals pledging allegiance to multiple countries at the same time. many different colors, many religions but we are american. when you stop acknowledging that, that's when things fall apart into this mosaic of tribal warfare, as you know. why does no one ever say that? >> let's be honest. i don't know if that's norwegian or german, but we didn't allow germans to teach german to their kids. a supreme court case had to be settled in the early 20th century because we have this issue were we don't like people or different from us. >> tucker: we are racist, we deserve it. this is our punishment.

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♪ >> tucker: the israeli government unveiled a huge proof of intelligence on iran on monday night. the prime minister made the case that iran lied when it negotiated a 2015 nuclear deal. it sounds right. revelations appear to increase the chances that the trump administration will repudiate the iran deal which president trump ran against. it could but the u.s. on a path to yet another military venture in that region. is that in our strategic interest? retired army colonel joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. let's start with a simple question first. i'm assuming that all this intel is real and it certainly never assume good faith on the part of iran. is it in our strategic interest to have a conflict with iran? >> i think the answer is pretty clearly no.

there's no benefit to the united states from going to war with iran. >> tucker: that's not the impression you get from listening to, for example, nikki haley, many republicans in the congress. a lot of democrats seem to believe it's essential to go to war. >> i think we have a case here on the proverbial tail wagging the dog. we have two smaller allies, one is tel aviv, the other is re-audit, both of them clearly would like to see everyone and up as a smoking ruin at some point and whatever they can do to persuade us to abandon this joint comprehensive plan of action they will do in the hopes that that will clear away the obstacle to direct military confrontation. >> tucker: again -- let me just say i understand why both of them would want that. i don't begrudge them that. i would want that too if i were them. but what does that effect doest have on the united states? >> if you go to war you are in

territory that's very hard to predict. iran is not isolated. iran is not alone and we don't have china, for instance, telling the leader of north korea shut up and do business with the united states, which is effectively what happened with president xi. that's an achievement by the president. i hope he focuses on that and not this particular issue right now. we don't have anything like that and the iranians and the russians have gone very closely together. the chinese are in the background but they are doing a land office business with iran in oil and gas. europeans look at us and are dismayed because from their vantage point is not iran, it's the islamist, arab and turks, stupid. that's we should be focusing. >> tucker: why wouldn't that be true for us as well? i don't remember a lot of shiit shiite-inspired terrorist attacks on our soil. i hate hearing they are the greatest threat to americans but it seems like all the terror

attacks in this country are sunni. >> there's no question about that. if you are interested in securing your country against that kind of thing you defend your borders, get control of immigration. we forget the 9/11 crew came here legally, was able to do what they did -- >> tucker: where the agents of iran? >> they were sunni arab islamists largely from saudi arabia and north africa. >> tucker: so why wouldn't we see that as the threat? consistently over the time it has been. why is everyone saying exactly the opposite of what is so clearly through? >> i think it's clear that our two allies in tel aviv and saudi arabia are absolutely determined to halt what they consider to be the onward march of iranian influence. that influence is confined right now largely, not exclusively, but largely to syria and iraq. we forgot, of course, that we installed iran in power in iraq. we created conditions conducive to that.

that was not something iran gave. when it comes to syria, the iranians have worked closely with russia and a side to the opposition to them. they've been successful. that war is effectively over. the bottom line is they want us to effectively reverse the strategic outcomes of the last, what, 15, 16 years. that's not possible, frankly, without a major war. i don't think that president trump is interested remotely under any circumstances in going to war. but this joint comprehensive plan of action is the last obstacle on on the road to war. that proves that we can achieve our strategic aims without going to war. >> tucker: i just hope that we keep american interests foremost in mind. that's the point of the u.s. government. thanks for coming on. >> sure. >> tucker: the state of california is lavishly falling apart. it's sad to watch. crime is rising, junket shooting up in public. parts of california look like those countries that

president trump once described with a foul word. we will talk to a major california politician next. ♪

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♪ >> tucker: san francisco is one of the richest cities in the world and it's got to be one of the two or three prettiest. it's really, really pretty, but you can't really live there anymore. we are to video last night that showed people passed out on their own vomit in the middle of a train station right downtown, two blocks from twitter headquarters. local supporters have found needles and human species on every single block in downtown san francisco.

the city spends 30 million a year just cleaning up needles and human waste. as an added bonus to this effort the city suffering from an epidemic of car break-ins. more than 30,000 of those just last year. running for d.a. of san francisco joins us tonight. you are a lifelong resident of that city, of course. i sort of wonder how the people in charge, the commute on bay area rapid transit don't notice the junkies shooting up in the station. what do they think when they passed those people doing that? >> we've reached a point in san francisco i think it's really a threshold point where it's not just in bart. you can walk down market street and the new district down there that was nonexistent about ten years ago but because of the tax break brought all of the twitter people in at higher incomes and pushed a lot of people out onto the street. 70% of the people that are homeless in san francisco were not almost five years ago, but what we did was we abandoned the homeless. policy that was actually working

when the new administration came in. under gavin newsom there was a very effective homeless policy but when the new administration came in, many of those people got pushed to the streets, especially with those larger income jobs. the last time you and i spoke we talked about focusing on the middle income. the middle income in san francisco and the lower income people, there's a very small delta between those people because the lower income people are living in lower rent apartments because they've been there for a longer time and they are protected and then you get the sweater people that are coming in and making 150-$200,000 a year were also living paycheck to paycheck because they are paying for the same apartments, they are paying five or $6,000. >> tucker: everything you are saying is clearly right. the housing shortage and the geography of the city makes it always a tight housing market, but i also am asking a basic question about what the leaders of the city care about. if you walk to work and you see people degrading themselves, on

the streets, shooting up, why wouldn't that horrify you to the point where you would drop what you're doing and fix it? instead they are lecturing the rest of us about how we are immoral because we don't want more illegal aliens in the state of california. it just seems like their priority is totally backward. they don't care about their own people. why wouldn't you reach that conclusion? >> i don't think it's that they don't care. i think the problem is that they don't know how to fix it. some of the progressive values in san francisco is that what they do with some of these politicians is they create new institutions, new entitlements around problems they see because all departments and new departments as well, but old departments are it's all thanks specific problems. that was the entire city budget not 15 or 20 years ago and now we are up to $10 billion, actually probably just over $10 billion. but the mayor last week, what he did was he said okay we've got this legal problem so we are going to hire ten new people and we will get san francisco aids

foundation the budget for ten new people. those ten people aren't going to go away. instead of hiring ten new people, because you can imagine what that would look like, right? firing ten people from the san francisco aids foundation that were hired to pick up needles. instead of hiring ten new people and creating a new institution around it like they did with the new homeless department in san francisco, why aren't we looking at the department of health and saying these are people on the street with opioid problems. these are people in the street with mental health problems. this should be within your budget. that's not what we are doing. >> tucker: i actually agree with you on that. think about it in terms of her own children. if you sent to your kids you can't do that, you are not allowed to shoot heroin on the streets. i don't care. maybe go to someone else's county to put up with it, but we are not putting up with it. everyone here on market street, you are gone. you would do that with your own children, why are you doing it with your own people? >> two things, my child will never be on the street doing

opioids and shooting into his arms and legs or whatever. that will never happen because in my family i grew up in a family where you support your own family, you would do anything for your family and that's very true to catholics and italians on stuff like that, which is why you would never see that scene. >> tucker: shouldn't the city of san francisco care about its own people? that's the point, they don't care. they are so walled off in a fantasy world, they just don't care about actual people who are dying. >> it absolutely should. it stuck in these institutions that last for years and years and years that don't solve problems. >> tucker: we are out of time. give me the one line. >> the department of health and san francisco's other group of individuals that hand needles to people. instead of hiring people to pick them up let's take care of those people actually giving them out. more countability in san francisco is what we need, especially on the crime. >> tucker: thank you for that. i appreciate it.

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that pocahontas is a racial slu slur? pocahontas is a real person. >> tucker: it sounds like a compliment, when people point out that you are related to pocahontas, do you take offense? >> no, i don't. i was in a restaurant the other day in palm beach and i was leaving with someone and the person said, oh, you are with pocahontas, it was not offensive to me at all. i was proud that they said that. >> tucker: how do you view senator warren's claim that she is an american indian, do you believe her? >> well, i respect senator warren as a u.s. senator, but i wish she would take the dna test. if she took the dna test, then that would end a lot of the controversy. if she was part american indian, i would be the first to welcome her into our heritage. >> tucker: maybe she is related to pocahontas too. weirder things have happen.

why do you think she will not take the dna test? it does not cost much. >> i know, maybe she is afraid that she is not. it is not right and is a little bit offensive that she does not take it. but you cannot make somebody take something if they do not want to. >> tucker: no, of course you cannot. but if she were here, you would encourage her to take the test. >> yes, yes i would. >> tucker: she may run for president and you may have other opportunities to encourage her to do that. we will have you on just remind her if she runs and she made. it is great to see you. >> good to see you too, tucker. >> tucker: have a great night. we have had a great night, 59 minutes of it. total fund. thank you for joining us every night at 8:00 for the show that is a sworn enemy of line, pump possibly, smugness, and groupthink. and both of those are in over above overabundance right now.

our small part to fight back. back from washington, guess who is next? >> sean: hey, tucker. >> tucker: there he is! [laughs] >> sean: thank you, welcome to "hannity," so much out in the news, robert mueller's witch hunt in toad trump-russia collusion on day 349. so after 50 weeks of investigation we still have zero evidence that donald trump did anything wrong, absolutely zero. now breaking just moments ago, this is huge from "the washington post" ." robert mueller threatened to subpoena the president of the united states and take the president before a grand jury. this witch hunt is way out of control. ed henry has a full report coming up tonight. plus, according to information, the first leak to "the new york times" ," mueller has dozens of questions that he wants the president to answer. okay, coming up we will reveal the special counsel's most insane and ridiculous questions and why this report is full