and if i can get comfortable talking about this kiester, then you can get comfortable using preparation h. for any sort of discomfort in yours. preparation h. get comfortable with it. warm welcome. >> delicious. well good evening, and welcome to tucker carlson tonight.uc it's been an amazing couple of nights. last night as you know, new york city mayor rudy giuliani revealed on the sean hannity rud show that president trump did in fact reimburse michael calling for payments that he made to stormy daniels. that seemed like a major story at the time, but nbc news reported that federal law enforcement had wiretapped michael cohen's phone and reported one conversation that he had with the white house

presumably with the president of the united states. but then that storyy changed. nbc's new account said it simply recorded the numbers he dialed and not the call content that he made and that is where we are as of right now, 8:00 p.m. eastern time. one thing we know for sure is that nbc screwed up, but that's pretty much allha we can be certain of. if nbc's first story was wrong, why do we assume the second was right? we don't know the truth and we have no way of knowing. in the absence of honesty from our government, we are totally dependent upon leaks for our news and many of those are dishonest. michael cohen by the way stillly doesn't know why his office was rated why his phones and emails were reported to the government. no one in the government isic required to tell him nor will they tell him. imagine if that happened to you, one day men arrived at your home and seized your computers and files at gunpoint, and never explained why they were doing it, and the next thing you knew,

they were calling you a crimina criminal. michael: certainly seems like a shady character but, the fbi can't destroy your life because you talk like aca character from "the sopranos," those are felonies. basic norms were violated, attorney-client privilege is an ancient and vital concept, andli so is privacy. the fbi bulldozed all of that. let's hope they had a very good reason for doing it. they've better have good evidence that michael cohen was doing something awful in order to justify this. it turns out that all of this was a financial settlement with a star, and if that's all it's about then what we are watching is a grotesque violation of civil liberties, and that would be a real crime, one with actual victims. everyone who believed in democracy, for example. james carlstrom is a former executive director at the fbi.

you spent your life at the fbi, you were a great, obviously famous leader at the fbi. in the last years when he watched it unfold, how do you think the bureau is doing? >> the leadership of the bureau and the leadership of the department are not doing well at all. i look back at some records, and in the 80s and 90s, there were literally thousands of "snl"'s that went belly up. a lot of corruption and a lot of criminality. not one law firm in the united states, not one law firm was ever served with a search warrant. and yet and get this little four or five person law firm, which happens to be the law firm of the president of the united states, is attacked by pen registers, by surveillance, by search warrants. to get a search warrant from a

federal judge on the criminal side, you have to talk about a criminal act that is taking place. a criminal predicate. on the national security side, you have to talk about the threat to national security and talk about why it will be affected negatively in both cases, without these extraordinary measures. i think it is far-fetched, i will be corrected if i am wrong, to see what kind of predicate o they could have possibly had in this case. >> tucker: if it turns out that this is really all about a payment to a star, but to be honest, it's not a surprising story. nobody voting in 2016 will be surprised by this. if it turns out that iss really the predicate for this, nor is >> nor is it surprising that bob mueller would do something like this. look at history.

look at how we went into paul manafort 'house, and at 4:00 in the morning -- here is a potential, if by worse cases, white-collar crime stuff. you go into a house at four or five in the morning with weapons shown, you drag a woman out of bed and children are screaming around the house, that's what an outrage. we don't operate that in the united states. if i was head of the fbi, i would not let the agents participate. that came from mueller to the agency in new york. i guess the fbi was involved in that, and when you go into the office, you have to be really careful. you have two teams of people and one does a search and the other looks through the material to try to segment out anything that would be privileged.

and in this case, the federal judge who has control over this case has gone a step further and is turning all that material over to a senior federal judge, barbara jones who is a fantastic judge, good friend of mine over the years. she will decide what the u.s. government gets to see and what the u.s. government doesn't get to see. >> tucker: right. but you think, and i should clear it up for audiences who are clear, youres career, i wouldn't describe you as a soft on crime liberal at all. but you are saying that what you are watching now is out of line, there is no precedent for it? >> james: tucker, i don't believe in kicking in doors unless there is a reason for it. and i don't believe in having outrageous search warrantsts and i don't believe in having outrageous search warrants unless there is a real bona fide reason. is there a criminal predicate

for this? i would be surprised if there was. if there is it's probably some concoction from some stupid intelligence contact. or is it a national security predicate? i find that would be preposterous. i just think these people are out of control. from the very time that of the republican party, there has been a conspiracy, donald trump was the enormity a fifth column, call it what you want to come up that has tried to stop him from getting elected and, number two, stop his effective work for the people of this country. and look at the magnificent job he has done in the economic front, the foreign relations front, in a year and a half. in my view, more than the last three presidents combined. >> tucker: i am awestruck that you are saying this because you are not a cable news talking head, and any of our viewersck that are not familiar with your career should go to google and look it up. you speak with authority on this subject, and i'm shocked by what you said but i am believing you. because you are believable on the subject.

mr. carlstrom, thank you for joining usngng tonight. >> james: my pleasure, i don't have the facts but that is my position on the situation.as >> tucker: will you have perspective. danny colson is the former assistant to the fbi and he deputy director joins us now. a let me ask you about richmond. james comey hired a friend of his called daniel richmond who is a professor at columbia lawyer. and a kind and a crypto government employee of gray area job. basically to do p.r. for him and to leak information that he thought would be helpful to his information. you spent a long time at the fbi. have you seen anything like that before?io >> i have never seen anything like that, and i've talked to a number of former executives in the fbi and neither have they. this is not the junior membership in the garden club, this is giving a man who really has no job, except just gives advice and publicity for the director. again, giving security clearance

to the fbi. that's really significant to me. and i think there is another issue here in the fact that this individual is the one that comey linked to, and that didn't come up in the hearings. that is troubling to me and the fact that they did that. i would want an inquiry done, if i were back there i would be looking at that. how this happened, who generated it and, was it an fbi background or name check or database check? or did they go out and clear this guy? there is a lot of unanswered questions here. it kind of reflects the way the director of the fbi then, james comey, ran it. >> tucker: since you served in the fbi under other directors, things were not done this way before? >> i've never seen this. we hired contractors. they are essential and needed and paid and vetted. they participate in lots of important things, but i've never seen anything like this where it's an unpaid crony of the director of the fbi, that doesn't make any sense to me.

i just wish there was somebody back there that, during that regime would say, director, this is not the way to go.ha somebody that is not owing to him for a promotion or transfer says, don't do this. this violates at least the lookt bad rule, and the fbi has an image. i don't think he promoted that. bringing this man on board i think was foolhardy. >> tucker: speaking of the way the public perceives the fbi, what do you make of comey's book tour, where he has taken a series of very political positions? how does that affect the way citizens feel about your agency? >> it's troubling. i think the book itself reflects what he was not a successful director of the fbi. the book is entitled, in part, "higher authority." n he didn't respect our constitution and i think that came out loud and clear when he goes out and makes those outrageous statements.

that wasn't a lake, and justified what he did. he ran the most weak, feckless investigation and the fbi. and that reflects on him, not us. >> tucker: thank you for that, i appreciate your perspective on this. >> i enjoy it, it's always fun. >> tucker: mark penn for many years was one of the highest advisors of hillary clinton. mark, thank you for coming on. >> mark: thank you. >> tucker: you wrote an o amazing piece the other day and the hill, titled something like, questions i have for robert mueller. tell us some of the questions that you have. >> mark: remember i spent a year working for president clinton against ken starr and that.

compared to what's going on here. i found mueller has some questions about what the president was thinking when he fired have questions about what he was comey, but i certainly thinking when he first went to apply for the fbi job in the first place with rosenstein, and then turns around the next day. when he put that team together, and there wasn't a single trump owner, what was he thinking then? when he looked at these dossiers and discovered there was noy foundation there, how did he deal with that, and how does he justify these kinds of really stormtrooper tactics, which is perhaps not an exaggeration when you go guns drawn to political consultants, wiretaps all over and payments to pornography stars. while he wants to question the president, it seems that no one could really question either mueller or call me or rosenstein, which is precisely the problem. >> i hate to admit it since i supported the ken starr independent counsel

investigation, and i look back and shame because of that. but that was the case thee clinton people made at the time, there is no oversight there. that's a huge problem, and it. turns out you were right about that. in your piece you made reference to his behavior in boston when he worked there. briefly summarize that if you would, i thought it was very interesting. >> mark: really the question,ze and i think professor dershowitz has been out on this thing, but in that case there were four innocent people in jail due to prosecutorial misconduct. and he was head of the office. and, you don't really find him in the legal cases but he waited until the courts overturned things to release the people. so what was he thinking when that was happening? how did he permit that, how did he permit those kind of gross abuses, and how does he then supervise an investigation now that seems to be filled with them.

>> tucker: mark penn, you have authority on the subject, it's good to hear from you. >> mark: i went through it once, i hope i never go through it again. >> tucker: hillary wouldn't let you, she's too smart for this..t china has a plan in place to displace this country as the world's strongest power. a top expert on the subject, we will explain how that's working, and unfortunately it is working. we will talk to marco rubio, who has taken a profound interest in all of this. it's an interesting conversation, stay with us. >> tucker carlson is brought to you by pacific life. families, and 150 years of strength and stability.

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news or read "the washington post" yo >> tucker: if you watch cable news or read "the washington post" you know america has only one enemy in the world called russia. but the truth may be more complicated than that. the biggest threat to the country is not vladimir putin, that's ludicrous. the biggest threat is china. china spies on us more than any other country and is under the massive opm hack from 2012 through 2015, and it will soon have the world's largest economy. it's military is growing rapidly in strength and it even manufactures most of the fentanyl that is killing tens of thousands of american every year. americans assume that this country is on top and will be forever but, could we find ourselves overtaken before we know it? michael pillsbury is at the center for train strategies and he is the author of "the 100 year marathon." china's secret strategy to replace america and the global superpower. thanks for coming on.

>> thank you. >> tucker: so you have written i think the central book on this question.hi so we will stipulate what you say is true because i think it's obviously true. china wants to displace the united states is the most powerful nation in the world. why isn't our leadership political, media, cultural, sounding the alarm on this? because it's happening. >> there are lots of pretty good reasons. >> lots of companies and individuals have made large amounts of money in china. i hate to be so crass about it, but i have a colleague that invested $200 million, six years later he had to bring in return. that can be a pretty big motivator. second, you have inertia. you have the opening by kissinger and nixon and the bush family being proud of their connections with china. you have almost a strong effort ten years ago to set up g2, and that was backed by kissinger, brezinski, paulson and quite a few people that felt very strongly about u.s. and china

together can kind of control the world. i've had admirals and generals tell me that. that they want to cooperate with the chinese military. so this goodwill feeling of cooperation with china is the way to go, and that is still very strong. i think that explains also why president trump president trump has a lot of pressure on him from the bureaucracy from some in congress, but not all. chuck schumer represents it but the momentum is still there. the third thing is what i call intelligence failure. the u.s. intelligence committee has been wrong about severalut major things from 1950 on, and it looks like understanding just how sophisticated china was going to be in ripping off our technology, jobs, influence of our political system, that seems to have been gotten wrong. community is back on track now, they are doing very well. but that has also caused kind of a sluggishness in our response

to china, i would say. now we are much faster, but over the last few months or so a great deal of change has taken place. >> i hope that's right. back to something you said a and i've heard people say that. that we could kind of share of the world stage with china. but does china have any interesd in sharing that with us? >> you know they turned us down. they had this so-called g2 plan, and chinese scholars are allowed to talk about it in articles and books. they said it, we don't really want to be number two as a junior partner with america. so they are waiting for later when i think we will be number one, unless we take a lot of steps to make it not happen. we have to deny them technological supremacy. that's the first thing. the second thing is we have to understand how deeply embedded they are in our companies, our social life and our academic

world. we had the luxury with the russians, the soviet union was way over there and we didn't have much to do with them. they certainly didn't have any massive business enterprises with us. china is deeply inside of us.pl so we don't want to demonize them totally, we cause problems in our own political system. but we have to be more aware of just how sophisticated they are. >> tucker: we are spending the next month on a special series on china, and i hope you will come back, michael pillsbury, for that. i can't think of a more important topic. i appreciate you coming on tonight. >> tucker: china is clearly a threat to our economy, if nothing else, and becoming more threatening. what can our congress do about it? senator marco rubio is a representative of florida, republican. thank you for coming on. you just talked about a really interesting hotbed about china and you have this line in here that i think all of our viewers should be familiar with. " chinese theft cost the u.s. nearly $600 billion annually,

eclipsing the combined profits of the top 50 companies in last year's fortune 500 list. " that is a remarkable number. why is no one doing anything about that? >> marco: you know, for the same reason that this is anoi issue that surprised me. for years i have been a traditionalist on it, thinking like most people did, it would all work out and being democratic. then that led me to understand the broader plan that they had in place. and this is not an economic plan, this is a plan tos undermine not just our competitiveness but the competitiveness of every country in the world, to become the dominant nation, and they are using multiple tools including intellectual property theft to do that. not only are they undermining our industrial base, but our technological base through something called "made in china

2,025" where they plan to with aircraft and quantum computing and artificial intelligence, they have laid out the entire agency and are slowly and surely carrying out this plan. >> tucker: so this is a threat obviously not simply to our a economy but to our predominance: around the world to our power n and our values. why are industries not saying more about this? >> marco: some of them are starting to make some money over there, and these ceos, they considers themselves to be citizens of the world. these ceos will be gone in eight years, they don't feel any special obligation to the united states, they feel obligation to maximize return for shareholders. as a result, they have a good thing going over there, making money, who cares if they are us stealing technology and in tenoi years the company won't be able to compete with them? they are working out short term and that makes them look good. others are beginning to complain but they don't want to say so because they don't want to get kicked out.ca just the other day we heard a

united and american airlines are being told that unless they stop defining taiwan as a country, they will no longer be able to fly there. they are threatening them with billions of dollars in revenue. the marriott fired an american worker because he liked a tweet about tibet, they fired him over a tweet that the guy put up by mistake. we have a bill that addresses it, so if i could briefly walk through the five points, number one we would prohibit the c transfer of any and all technologies that are sensitive. things like quantumro computing and biosciences and artificial intelligence, and the like. the second thing we would do is place a tax basically on excess chinese investment in the united states. how that works, a company buys $10 billion of fortune stocks, that would raise the price of the stock. t that would issue revenues, dividends. they then take that dividend money and use it to buy u.s. treasuries which increases the price of the dollar of the value

of the dollar, thereby making american exports more expensivec than a chinese export, thereby destroying our capacity. so this is not economic development on their part, is the strategic use of investment 500 as a weapon to undermine our production capacity. they would also put a tax on american companies entering joint ventures with chinese is they make you partner with companies because what they do them and then they steal your technology, your intellectuall property, and all of a sudden they become your global competitor and kick you out and put our companies out of business. o these are the kinds of things that we are going to be looking at and putting in place, even the playing field. this is not an economic issue, this is not a trade issue, this is not a tariff issue. this is the single most important geopolitical issue of the last hundred years. it will define what the 21st century and what it turns out to be. >> i am grateful you are saying this and i'm baffled why not

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well, you have heard the line about a million times at this point, no one wants to take your guns away.

settle down nutcase tinfoil hatt alex jones guy. gun control advocates simply want common sense and control to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. ordinary citizens have nothing to fear from their government. so they always tell you, and you knew this but now it is confirmed, they were lying. in an op-ed published today, congressman ericgu seizing those weapons from swalwel called for millions of gun owners by force. so the cat is out of the bag. john summers is in communications with senator harry reid and he joins us tonight. john, i've been saying this for a couple years ago and have been dismissed as a paranoid lunatic, which by the way, i'm not. i always assume the best. but this is the only way.

caused by guns, you have to get if you believe crime is rid of the guns. you are wrong, but you wind up where he believes he is. so let's just be honest about this debate. >> john: this is one of the more extreme examples but the reality is the vast majority of democrats and the vast majority of people who are in the gun prevention movement don't feel that way. what they want to actually do is meet the rest of the american public where we already are. men 90% of americans believe in expanding background checks to all gun sales, and other common sense reforms. i think most americans also believe the notions that we shouldn't have weapons of war on our streets.ve now i think when you lose the discussion is when you start a talk about taking weapons out of people's homes. >> tucker: if you believe that guns cause crime, you are not familiar with the data which show the opposite. but if you believe that, if

that's the premise of your procession then you have to tell me what position you're going to do with the hundreds of millions of guns g currently in possession of law-abiding americans. those guns are not going away, they left virtually forever. you have to get rid of them if that's what you believe. >> i think that is what he is proposing, but -- people are horrified when you tell the truth, and swalwel is not an extremist. he's just being honest. >> people are horrified by the 86 gun deaths that happen every day. and the majority are not caused by assault weapons. we have 96 of these tragedies that play out every single day. we could reduce that gun violence by demanding background checks for all gun sales.

>> tucker: okay. i'm every bit as upset people dying as you are. my question is not who has a bigger heart, my question is, why is this happening? if you are have guns then 50 years ago. they are not more effective than the guns haven't changed. it used to be, the calibers are the same, and yet we have mass m shootings. it's not the guns shooting, it's insane. >> john: you can think background checks for reducing gun violence because background checks have blocked 3 million sales of guns to people who shouldn't have them in the first place. >> tucker: are not arguing against background. we have background checksn: actually. >> john: and the majority of people want to expand those background checks into online gun sales and most of them aren't in the area where swalwel

is. >> tucker: you know i'm right, but the goal in the end is to take the guns away. you have to believe what you believe, but you don't want to say it because most americans find it terrifying. law-abiding people would be punished. >> john: you having worked with many are wrong, tucker. influential democrats and having worked directly in the gun violence prevention movement, i can tell you you are absolutely wrong, that we want to see a smart, common sense -- >> tucker: stop with the propaganda language or the smart common sense or whatever, that's just i want to know actual solutions. poll tested junk. so you leave the hundreds of millions of guns and people's households. want to change any of that?? >> i think we have talked about making lots of changes including expanding background checks to online gun sales. in terms of what happens with --

>> tucker: that's negligible. very few guns are sold online. let's be adults here, that's silly. it's true, i know the numbers. i know a lot about this. speak to people that can't pass a background check, where do you think they go to buy their guns? gun shows and online. they don't have to have a background check. it doesn't matter whether they are domestic abusers or -- >> tucker: just answer my question which is, these guns exist, these so-called assault rifles, these scary guns. what do we do with them? we just let them remain in circulation, is that your plan? >> john: that's certainly not my plan. >> tucker: i think you actually agree with swalwell, you just don't know that you do. so when you are ready to be honest, come on back. thanksks john. the boy scouts have changed their name, and it's part of a national attack on masculinity. we will discuss the implications of that, up next.

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>> tucker: well, the boy scouts as the boy scouts ceased to exist yesterday, the new group is scouts bsa. the gender-neutral name is signed to reflect the group's new openness to admitting girls. the boy scouts were one of the less healthy groups open to young men, and given that young men are struggling in this country, what are the implications of that? we wanted to ask her view. >> tucker: so i got a bunch of girls and i love them and want what's best for them. so if joining the boy scouts is best for them, i'm all for that. but i worry there aren't many places where boys can be boys where they are not under attack for being boys. and i thought, i always thought of the boy scouts is one of those places, and now it isn't that. but, should i be worried?

>> i think this does not indicate that this is the case, but also this is about declinind membership. in the 70s, boy scouts had about 5 million members and they have gone down about 12% and are out about 2.3 million now. so we want the boy scouts to survive. they have been instrumental in the strength of the country, creating leaders in government and science and space travel. we need them. i think what's happening now certainly in the 21st century, and may be the boy scouts can show us the way.pe this can still be categories and events and projects, and ansh overarching view about the strengths of boys, and the importance of those relationships of boys with boys and the nature in the strength of what young men do will also be able to weave in young women. in their plans, what i have read is this will be separate programs. while it's changing to scouts, the overarching name remains

boy scouts of america. and look, i think this is also part of the boy scout frameworka about being able to help the nation in general. and i think we are at a stage where the young women who want to have this kind of great experience, keep in mind thee girl scouts really are not offering that now. it's more about a social justice warrior framework. and they are missing out on this dynamic. i think that if the parents stay involved, the volunteers are involved, and americans make itr clear that girls probably want to join, because they want the same experience and at least the character building certainly that the boy scouts offered. >> tucker: interesting. so you are more optimistic than i am. so in 2018 could you have an all male group that wasn't derided as antifemale, and it wasn't in fact antifemale? you could have a single-sex organization that is not angry at the female.

do we have room for that in our society? >> what we should, and just because the left doesn't like it doesn't mean that we have to adapt and accept the point of view. and this is my worry about the slippery slope, i think it's good and it can be managed but you know what the left will do, they will then argue that, you are not treating the girls equally. these are separate projects, separate experiences and they are going to start to sue to change the principal base of the boy scouts. now look, if you want social justice loring, but we already have 3,000 girls join the girl scouts. who join the cub scouts because that is what is interesting these young women and their parents. so we have to stay in touch with this. there is nothing we can do that will stop the left from complaining, and we have to make sure that we push back and stand up for groups like there boy scouts that make a difference in this country. >> tucker: interesting, isc hadn't thought of it that way. you made me feel better.

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>> tucker: time now for "final exam" where news experts compete to see who is best at recalling events that they covered just this week.ou this week's players, griff jenkins who has been gravely injured in pursuit of his duties somehow. we are not going to ask questions but we hope you are okay. great to see you both, i'm hosting from an undisclosed location with the judge isst present, so if there is any question at all they are right here outside of camera shot to advise me. you know the rules, but if the viewers are at home, they may not so we will remind them. the first one to buzz and gets to answer thean question and you

have to finish asking it before you get the answer. every correct answer is worth one point, and it distracts a point from your total. are you ready? >> let's go. >> tucker: question one. which swedish pop supergroup announced they are getting backg together after 35 years to make new music, but they say they are unsure whether their songs are any good? be nine >> griff: avenue. >> tucker: did the swedish supergroup give it away? let's check the tape. >> abba is making a comeback. ♪ the swedish bandit announcing their decision to release new songs and a virtual tour after 35 years. [bell dings] >> tucker: they are filled with self-doubt, i love that.t.

we aren't sure if our music is any good. good job. question two, this is multiple-choice. hillary clinton found yet a new group to blame for her loss and the 2016 election. which group is it, a, the socialists, b, the vegans, or c, they satanic to temple. >> griff: those are good choices. >> i'm going with the socialist socialists. >> tucker: you think she's blaming the socialists. let's see if you are right. >> if you are in the iowa caucuses, and 41% of democrats are socialists or self-described socialists, and i answer i'm a capitalist, that probably gets lost in, oh, my gosh, she's a capitalist. >> tucker: she's definitely a capitalist, that's for sure. nice job, it's 1-1.

you versus the injured griff jenkins. question three. nearly ten years ago george w. bush was making his farewell visit to iraq when a man took off his shoes and threw them at president bush. the man who threw the shoes is now embarking on a brand-new career, what is it? >> griff: i could guess thatch one but i would be afraid to do so. >> tucker: you have toay the buzzer before guessing. >> tucker: a new career for the shoe thrower. >> brie: i'm going to guess where he is a p/e coach or baseball little league, something with children. >> tucker: something for the sporting world where you have to throw things. to the tape we go.

>> this is the man that took nine months in prison for taking time to pick up his shoes, take them off his feet and throw them at the president. the throwing to president showing great reactions. he is now running for office. in case you wondered he is running for house of representatives. >> griff: i love that you have an arm-throwing question in there, by the way. >> tucker: of course, not to make you feel bad, griff. the guy has no self-control, and he's badly dressed. a politician, of course.ou question number four. at any event this week, the french president had some trouble with his english, being french. which word did he accidentally use, or the claim was accidental, to describe the wife of the australian prime ministe prime minister?

>> griff: delicious. >> tucker: come on now, that's vulgar. is that really your guess? let's roll the tape. >> i wanted to thank you and your delicious wife for the perfect organization of this. >> griff: he's looking at me like, did he just say that? it's true. >> tucker: there was nothing accidental about that, he's just french. he means it. final exam, question. the video going around the internet this week shows an australian man knocked off of his paddleboard vigorously by what variety of sea animal? [bell dings] >> brie: a dolphin. >> tucker: a dolphin? they. are too nice for that, let's see if the tape proves you right. >> dolphin danger. an unsuspecting paddleboard or gets the surprise of a lifetime when it often leaps out of the

waves and knocks him into the water. >> griff: how did i lose on a surfing question? that really hurts. >> tucker: he is exactly right. and as you know, dolphins don't do anything by accident, they didn't like that guy. griff jenkins, you win 2-1. but we know you let him have it for sympathy's sake. y i will give you the victory mug when i see you next week. that's it for this week's "final exam." tune in carefullyin to the news each and every day, until next thursday. then we will see if you've accumulated enough knowledge to be the experts. we will be right back. totaled,l will pay the entire value plus depreciation. liberty stands with you. liberty mutual insurance. you wouldn't accept from any one else. so why accept it from your allergy pills?

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