we will always be fair and balanced. we will have a lot more on the huge breaking development on monday. have a great ♪ ve a great >> tucker: well, good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it's hard to remember now but robert mueller's special counsel investigation began as a probe into russian collusion. you will recall the story we were told then. foreign power influenced the outcome of our election. we have to figure out how exactly that happen and determine if any american citizens were involved in that plot. that is how the whole thing was sold to the rest of us. by the way, some republicans on capitol hill still seem to believe that's what it's about. nobody accused them of genius. but to the rest of us it's pretty obvious what is going on. and to make it clearer, robert mueller hired a new prosecutor the other day. once again, another hillary donor. it doesn't seem to be a single

republican on robert mueller's staff. in an evenly divided country, what are the odds of that? well, 100%, actually, once you understand the purpose of the whole exercise. what you are looking at is a political campaign waged with guns and subpoenas and the surveillance power of the u.s. got. in -- u.s. government. in convention politics the kind we used to have, the republican candidates and democrats candidates run against each other and one wins, one loses, sometimes someone retires. but now some are going bankrupt and others head to priss. today a federal judge tried to slam the brakes on this. district court t.s. ellis erupted in a way that federal judges rarely do. he accused mueller and his team of granting themselves "unfedered -- "unfedered power." he says you don't care about the bank fraud.

you really care about the information that manafort to give you to lead to mr. trump, impeachment or whatever." it was a striking moment because what he said was true. somehow the mueller investigation continues tonight leaving lives in the wake. the latest target is long-time republican political consultant roger stone. roger stone joins us right now rodger, thank you for coming on. according to nbc -- i want to read a quote you are familiar with -- you are one of the, "top subjects in investigation of potential collusion between moscow and the trump campaign." nbc says robert mueller is "focusing intensely on you." what about you triggered the scrutiny of muler? what crime is he suggesting you committed? >> perhaps it's my advocacy of the election of donald trump and my 40-year friendship for him. and my role in advocating and

working for his election. i like to call this the russian collusion delusion. so far he has turned up no evidence of collusion by the russians. i certainly am not involved in any conspiracy or coordination or collusion with the russian state. this is a fairy tale. a left wing conspiracy theory that is the basis for rogue operation to undo the result of the last election. >> tucker: but meanwhile it's an active criminal investigation. according to nbc, the cnbc story mueller is looking at you because of your long-time friendship it suggests with rick gates who was the associate of paul manafort who was indicted and pled to a number of felonies and said he was an intern in an office that you had 30 years ago and that you had repeated contact with him. it didn't say about what. to what extent is that true? >> well, our long-time

relationship. i think the first time i met him was in 2016. i don't believe he worked at black, manafort and stone in the '80s. he evidently was intern in the successor firm after i left. the cnbc specifically says that the special counsel is focused on our dinners, with an "s." i only know of one dinner, attended by many. the purpose of which was to discuss the apportionment of the new york delegates to the republican national convention to try to make sure there were a few trump supporters on the delegation after trump swept the new york primary. they are also according to cnbc focusing on my meeting with mr. gates at trump tower of which there were absolutely none. this whole thing is based on conjecture, speculation. supposition. but no facts. my contacts with rick gates in the campaign for minimal and innocuous.

i had to say this but i think the source for the cnbc story, i think they got hoodwinked. >> tucker: speaking of congressman adam schiff, the ranking of the house intelligence committee. he said before the congress and his remarks were echoed by hillary clinton that you knew ahead of time that hillary campaign chairman john podesta e-mail had been hacked and the content would be public. did you know that? how did you know that? why would he say that? >> that is categorically false. it's ashame that schiff can hide behind his congressional immunity. effect the report of the house intelligence committee truncates and quotes my iconic tweet. i said "the john podestas" referring to time and tony -- john and tony saying the time in barrel will come.

it was published in the panama papers early in 2016 that exposed the shading business dealers in russia. context, paul manafort's business dealings in the ukraine were being fed to the media at the time. i thought it facts that the podesta come forward. i never received any material from wikileaks or assange. i never passed anything on to donald trump. and i never had any contact with the russian state and i received nothing from them, including the allegedly hacked e-mails. this is a left wing conspiracy theory. propup gaited by roby mook, adam schiff, surfer boy eric swalwell. they hide behind the immunity and they run a campaign to

smear. >> this isn't just waged by the members of the congress against republicans. there is a criminal component to it. so news reports have said that you were the subject of a fisa warrant. in other words the federal government was reading your e-mail, tapping your phone, following you around, whatever, surveilling you using our intel in law enforcement agencies. do you believe that is true? >> the sometimes reported on january 20, 2017, that i was the subject of a fisa warrant. what their probable cause would be is hard to understand other than support of donald trump. i wish this were a public relations value. i have project for democracy, obama blessed front suing me in the district of columbia. what is their claim? that i worked with the russians to hack the d.n.c. e-mail. and gave information to wikileaks. they don't produce evidence or

proof. they produce a theory. now the democratic national committee filed a virtually mirror lawsuit in the courts in new york. it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars just to move to dismiss these suits. >> tucker: what is this investigation cost -- what does the investigation cost you? >> between the house intelligence committee, the project democracy -- project for democracy lawsuit, the early rumbling of the senate intelligence and the judiciary committee, a lawsuit in my miami from chinaman named miles kwok, a total kwok of schiff. and the probe by mr. mueller of the noncommunication with mr. gates i could look at legal fees up to $1 million. anybody wants to help the go to stonedefensefund.com. i have no choice to go on

infowars, do a daily show, come here and beg for money to protect the solvency and the college education of my grand children. >> tucker: you better be a russian agent. i mean it. i hope you are a russian agent or this is a miscarriage and assault of all of us. i wish the left agreed with me on that. roger stone, thank you. >> tucker, thanks for having me. >> tucker: the former deputy assistant attorney general joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. i want to talk to you because i think you have a perspective on this. we saw a federal judge today attack the mueller investigation, accuse of giving itself unfettered power and political motivations. have you ever seen anything like that from a federal judge? >> i can't think of a time i have seen something like this happen. this is extraordinary. judge ellis really dropped a little bit of a bombshell in the mueller camp this morning. he is questioning not simply

the merit of the substantive charges against manafort but mueller's power to begin this investigation and conduct this prosecution at all. now take everything a judge says in court from the bench with a grain of salt. i have been in cases where you leave the courtroom thinking the judge will toss an indictment out the door and then it turns out it stays in place. so, we have to wait to see what he rules. but i got to say the mueller camp has to be surprised and disturbed by what happened this morning. >> tucker: so what is the resource for the ancillary figures caught up in the investigation? we just talked to roger stone. obviously a colorful, outrageous character. probably has done things that people disagree with. he has the charges and he is probably going bankrupt. he is out $1 million and the livelihood is destroyed. can he do anything about that? can any of the people do anything about it if they are innocent? >> i wish i could say they have all sort of remedies and resources but the answer is it's exceedingly difficult for

someone who at the end of the day is ultimately vind kateed to -- vindicated to recover. the law isn't set up for that. you try to reign it in on the front end and home prosecutors are responsible and make good choices for whom to investigate and indiet. you have the protection of the federal judge we saw this morning making sure that the prosecutions are properly before the court. >> tucker: so you have adam schiff of california totally irresponsible and dishonest. completely dishonest. getting up and accusing an american citizen of involvement in a criminal hacking of an e-mail account. it turns out that is false. there is nothing you can do about that? a member of congress is protected by his office? >> they have the speech and debate clause give congressmen broad protection what they can say and do. at the end of the day, i think a private citizen's protection from something like this often is in the ballot box rather than in a court of law. that just doing what you are doing and what we are doing here, to say put a spotlight

over-the-top statements, state ments not supported by the evidence and hope the american people will see there was no merit to some of the allegations. >> tucker: that is all so irresponsible. it's shocking this is happening in america. does this shock you? are you surprised this is what the system is producing? >> well, i am disappointed more than anything, tucker. what is frustrating from my perspective, what we are seeing is the increase attempt to criminalize in many cases are policy differences. people on the other side of the aisle, election outcome you don't like and you say let's prosecute. >> tucker: you don't like trump. okay. beat him in the midterms. it's unbelievable. thank you for that perspective. i appreciate it. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: we will be joined more with judge ellis' critique of the mueller investigation. i don't know if other channels are covering it. they should. it doesn't happen often.

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requiring english is de facto discrimination based on the origin. insane interpretation but they say it can't be tolerated so it won't be. we are joined by a radio host, ethan. thank you for coming on. >> thank you. >> tucker: the language you speak is not the country you are from. plenty of american-born employees speak foreign languages so it's not discriminating on national origin. why can't a business say this is our building and here are the standards of behavior we expect the employees to meet. i thought it was fundamental of employment. >> if you interact with a customer, you can require english to be spoken. but these were employees not talking to customers but they were speaking to themselves. this becomes discriminatory because why would a manager say you can't speak spanish here.

why not say you can't speak any language other an english. english is not an official language of the united states. >> tucker: i know. that is one of our core weaknesses that it's not the official language. doesn't the employer have a right to say you have to wear certain clothing, you have to dress and behave in a certain way? language is not an inherent characteristic. it's not a racial category. so why shouldn't the employer have a right to ask it of the employees? >> again, if i'm not intacting, they do -- interacting they do have the right to affect how it's operating. if i stock shelves. if you and i are in the back and i want to start speaking swedish with you, what does it have to do with how the business is functioning? >> tucker: i don't know. >> it doesn't. >> tucker: isn't that -- i don't know. maybe it is. that is a decision that should be up to the people who own and run the business, not some moron bureaucrat in

washington, right? >> i totally disagree with you on this one. here is why. it was the soviets that had rusify the country they dominated. the chinese says you have to speak mand erin. we don't want to be like that. >> tucker: san diego which i'm from is not an outer region. it's part of the continental united states. we didn't conquer it. it's a state. it's not a province or a territory or occupied nation seeking freedom. it is part of the united states. you know what this really is, the left seeks to divide the country along racial, i can nick and cultural lines. it's their full-time job. is there a single country in the world that is bilingual or multilingual that is not at war with itself? >> i don't believe brazil is at war with itself other than the presidents continue to commit crimes and get arrested

there. brazil doesn't commit war with itself and there are many languages spoken there. there are a lot of examples -- >> tucker: brazil is a divided country. there is no country that i'm aware of on earth where you don't have an overwhelming majority of people united in a language except those countries like belgium, like canada, that are ribbon by the linguistic differences. language is culture. why wouldn't you want your whole country to speak one language? why is that bad? isn't that the goal? >> ultimately in got interaction and the international business interactions and back to the eeoc in this story. a business when it's relevant to the function of the business and required for them to operate, they can require somebody to speak english. that is intruding on employees communicating with themselves. >> tucker: says who? do you really think that the

eeoc -- i'm sad to say it's a trump administration office -- but the eeoc in washington knows more about how to run a supermarket than the guys who run albertsons in san diego? >> i suggest we have one manager in particular singled out by the eeoc for doing these actions. and pointing it out. yeah. i think there are times we have to call out people for doing things that we know are overtly wrong and targeting very specific minority groups. that our responsibility. >> tucker: first of all, okay. i would say spanish speakers are hardly a minority in california. that's just not true. if they are it's only by a little bit. half the state speaks -- literally, 45% speaks spanish at home. not a minority really. why wouldn't liberals who say they believe in bring people together encourage every american to speak english everywhere? language brings us together. isn't that obvious? >> but our language is more than just where we live right

now. it is our heritage as well. you know, if i go to the synagogue, we speak hebrew there. should i be stopped from that to speak english everywhere? can my friends who come over from germany, can they speak german as well? i think there are times that -- >> tucker: okay. look. that is a ludicrous example. i don't think in the congregation in the synagogue people speak hebrew. if they are, more power to them. that is a tiny slice of the public life. i mean day-to-day, in the function of government, why wouldn't you want as many people as possible to be speaking the same language? you are dividing them if you are not encouraging them to do that, aren't you? >> i think we do want people to speak as much the same language but again in this case we had individual employees when they weren't interacting with customers speaking a language amongst themselves that they were comfortable with. you worked at mcdonald's as a teenager and spoke another language to a coworker of mine

because it was fun to do that so people couldn't eavesdrop, even though we took care of the customers in english. intruding on that aspect of individual personal lives and interaction, i think would be government overreach. and in this case, we have a manager trying to intrude on somebody's ability to speak language with one another. >> tucker: it's a private business. and working for one means giving up some of your freedom of express. ethan, thank you. great to see you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: the u.s. appears to be moving ever-closer to some kind of conflict with iran. is that good for america? will it make us stronger or richer or happier? congressman at the center of that debate next. ♪ oh you're simply the best ♪ better than all the rest ♪ better than anyone ♪ anyone i've ever met

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>> tucker: after unconventional and unprecedented diplomatic moves the trump administration looks like it could be about to achieve long-term peace with north korea, which is amazing. and unexpected. at least the administration appears to be moving toward a possible showdown with iran. is this wise? and could in fact feuding with iran imperil negotiations on the korean peninsula? here is what congressman gabert of hawaii had to say about it. we talked to her a minute ago. a democrat representing the state of hawaii and joins us now. thank you for coming on. you have been i would say nonpartisan of your assessment of the foreign policy issues. you are for some and against

others. based on whether you agree with them. given that, what is your view of what is unfolding in north korea? >> well, tucker, this is actually a really historic opportunity that we see unfolding before us right now. it's important to the people of my home state of hawaii and the people of this country and to the world where we have an opportunity to make an agreement to denuclearize north korea and held move us closer toward peace. whatever people feel about donald trump whether they like him or don't like him, this is the people to rise above the partisan politics and recognize this is not about trump. this is about peace. for the american people and for the world. and the opportunity to make an agreement to finally end the korean war. and bring about the denuclearization of north korea. if we fail to do this and president trump is not successful in this, the consequences would be dire for

the people of this country and to the world. >> tucker: so congress has an oversight rule. presidents don't conduct foreign policy by themselves. congress needs to be informed. are you confident you are getting enough confidence about north korea and what is happening in syria, for example, or our posture toward iran? are you getting the information you need to make informed decisions about it? >> yes and no. but i think in each of the cases it's important for us to recognize what is our objective and how does it best serve the american people? this is why i have been calling for quite some time now for direct negotiations between president trump and kim jong un. recognizing that it's critical for us to engage with our adversaries and talk to them. not just our friends so we may achieve peace and avoid more war. three things need to happen for trump to be successful in the negotiations that will be

coming up in the coming weeks. first of all it's important for north korea to have -- for president trump to have credibility with north korea in making sure that north korea makes this agreement with the united states, gets rid of their nuclear weapons program, that the united states is not going to go in and launch an attack and toppling the north korean regime. this is the reason why they have had the nuclear weapons program as a deterrent to regime change. a few things need to happen in order for the credibility to exist. number one is we need to end the regime change war that we have been waging in syria since 2011. both directly and indirectly. and end our policy of going around and acting as the policemen of the world, toppling dictators that we don't like. number two, president trump and his administration need to publicly acknowledge that bush's overthrow of saddam hussein was a huge mistake. they knead to publicly

acknowledge that president obama and hillary clinton's toppling of gaddafi in libya was a huge mistake. in that situation with libya, we need to recognize publicly, trump needs to recognize publicly that the agreement was made with gaddafi to get rid of his nuclear weapons program. in exchange for the united states is not going to come in around attack you. a few years later, that is exactly what happened. we went and dropped bombs in libya and gaddafi was toppled. and lastly but perhaps maybe even most importantly with this iran nuclear deal, that we are facing right now with president trump threatening to drop out of it. an agreement was made between the united states and iran and other countries to end the iran's nuclear weapons program. so far, iran has shown to be in technical compliance with this deal. for trump to just say hey, we are going to throw the deal in the trash, threaten the ability for north korea, for us to make this deal with north korea and north korea to

say hey, how can we trust that the united states will uphold their end of the deal when we have seen time and again they have broken their promises? >> tucker: interesting. on the campaign trail, the now president very often denounced the war in iraq and in libya. but not as much since becoming the president. congressman thank you very much for coming on. it was interesting. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: appreciate it. we recently talked to author taleb who has a new book out. in an interview he explained why the people who run our government seems eager to start fights in distant countries. because they are risk nothing personally by doing so. here is part of the conversation. >> never in history, never in the history of mankind have we had people who were warmongers without being ambassadors. >> interesting. how do you reconnect risk to reward?

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>> tucker: well, online and con -- on campus, free speech is in peril. some are saying protecting diversity is more important than free speech. facebook accounts are freely

banned in the name of fighting hate which is never precisely defined. you know what they mean. the movement comes from the left. many traditional, some of the traditional liberals are upset about it. the former president of the aclu released a new book called "hate: why we should resist it with free speech and not censorship." thank you for coming on. >> my pleasure. >> tucker: you are the liberal i used to make fun of. now i wish there were more people like you. on the left there seems to be very few. why the change? why are you one of the only people on the left saying hold on, free speech is more important than anything else. >> i'm not going to demonize the left because i agree with the sentiment expressed by the former journalists who died several years ago cantoff whose book title said it all. "freedom of speech for me but not for thee." >> tucker: exactly. >> how the left and right relentlessly sensor each

other. >> tucker: hentock was a wonderful man. i wouldn't say he was much of a liberal toward the end of his life. he was a pro-life activist. >> some of us are citing individual liberties. >> tucker: i agree completely. >> one of the message of our book is all of us regardless of where we fall on the political spectrum have a crucial sake to defend the freedom of speech that the u.s. supreme court despite its ideological diversity unanimously supports. the supreme court most recent decision on so-called hate speech last summer all of the justices struck down a federal statute that prohibited the use of so-called disparaging or demeaning terms as trademark, subject to trademark protection. so they upheld the right, interestingly enough, of an asian american rock band to

choose the name the slant. of course, that is a disparaging term. but the asian american rock band members chose that not to denigrate their own ethnic origin but for the opposite reason to celebrate their dignity, empower themselves and show their pride. that illustrates, tucker, the problem with handing over to government the power to pick and choose which particular words are going to be ruled out of bounds. you have to look at the context. >> tucker: that's right. >> you have to take -- all of us have different subjective perspectives and we have to make decisions for ourselves and not turn it over to the government. >> tucker: i agree completely. and the reason that right really isn't trying to do is the aclu in the case of 1967 and other free speech cases. aclu that you ran for years brought to the high court. but the main threat to speech now is not from government, but from the big technology

companies. particularly from google and facebook and twitter. they are the conduits from which all information flows. they control speech. they are quelching it and the aclu is saying nothing. i don't know why. >> let me tell you. there is a big legal problem here in terms of remedies for what clearly are restrictions on speech. by the way, i disagree that the aclu has not spoken up. but first, most people do not understand that the first amendment free speech guarantee only applies to government. to the public sector. so you have no first amendment right with respect to facebook and the other private tech companies. >> tucker: yes, but hold on. >> however, you can bring pressure on them. the aclu along with the large coalition of other civil rights and civil liberties organizations have been complaining to facebook for years about how they are wielding their power to take down hate speech. we have complained they have not done it in a way that is

supportive of equal rights and civil rights. >> tucker: i respectfully disagree with you. i think the aclu has stood back -- it's spending its time defenning illegal aliens and everybody in the world -- >> tucker: i'm so sorry. let me tell you that some of us can defend all fundamental freedoms for all people. >> tucker: but the emphasis on speech is absent to the aclu. >> tell that to the people who are criticizing the aclu and lobbying us to change our position which we have not because we defended the free speech rights of the alt-right demonstrators in charlottesville. that is a decision i stand by and my aclu colleagues stand by. in part -- >> tucker: that is not true! your colleagues do not stand by that. look, i'm here to tell you how much i respect your views. but you are not being honest there. >> there is debate and

discussion within the aclu, tucker. but you know what we have not seen, what we saw in the case in the 1970s that raised the same issue when the aclu came to the defense of the neo nazi to demonstrate of holocaust survivors and jews. >> tucker: i remember. >> we lost 15% of the members nationwide. that has not happened now. of course there are people arguing we should not continue to take those cases. but the leadership has not diverted from that. in part for this reason. >> tucker: i'm torn. we are almost out of time. >> you yourself said we don't have to choose between diversity and equality on the one hand and free speech on the other hand. i couldn't agree with you more. these are mutually reinforcing and all of us who care about racial justice and other equality causes have the biggest stake in defending robust freedom. >> tucker: you filibustered me and i let you do it i'm sorry.

>> tucker: i think you are an important voice but i think you are wrong on some details. >> have me back. thank you. >> tucker: with smart phones everywhere in every pocket is it possible to escape selfies in everybody gets roped in, it turns out. what does it mean for the rest of us. the president does it. pope francis does it. well, now, some researchers are calling this a disease. few people report being helplessly addicted to taking photos of themselves so they snap hundreds of selfies every day. they are simply unable to stop. is there more disgusting illnesses in the world? probably not. we're joined by a psychotherapist. nel, it degrades science to call it an illness when it's self-involvement of a kind we're familiar with. we have reached a greater magnitude. >> i know that is if gut reaction and i see why you would say that.

but i think there is a big difference between thinking that someone is narcissistic and they post selfies all the time because they suffer from an element of narcissism and actual addiction. so when you have what is cited in this study was a bunch of young women constantly taking selfies of each other you have to understand that the devices are addictive. i don't necessarily think and it hasn't been proven that it comes from a place necessarily from a narcissistic place. >> tucker: really? >> yeah. >> tucker: so if you find our own face the most interesting image in the world, that is not self-involvement? it seems like it to me. >> i know but actually think about it, tucker. wouldn't you think if that is how you are spending your time and it impairs your daily function it's coming from a place of maybe perhaps low self-esteem? so we are flooded all the time -- these device, understand instagram and facebook, all the social media platforms are built to be really addictive. and you can't talk to any

marketing or p.r. agency that doesn't say if you are trying to build a brand or a business that you shouldn't post pictures of yourself. that is the message we are sending constantly. the greatest population on instagram, for example, are young women between the ages of 18 and 25. what they look at the most is makeup and fashion. we are attracted to people's faces. that is a big difference, that is a little bit of a different conversation than necessarily talking about young women or people who are super addicted to taking selfies. unfortunately, selfies make money. if you look at instagram at all you will see that there is tons of people making money by posting videos of themselves, for example, putting on makeup or doing, you know, different exercises and showing people how to do that. >> tucker: ask you a quick question. the feminist long that is dumb and wrong as usual. but dumber is the most men are the cause of that.

they are adding to the sum total of unhappiness for young women and no one calls them out on that. why is that? >> sean: the first part of the comment i'm not sure i agree with i don't think all feminists believe it's just men causing women to have low self-esteem. >> tucker: the ones that come on tv say that. >> okay. i'm a feminist and i don't say that. here is the thing. it's really important to recognize that these devices and i agree with you that facebook and instagram need to have sort of a bigger ethical responsibility to create platforms that don't necessarily push people always having to post their face on the platform to be super addictive. i agree. >> tucker: right. the images are owned by the company in the end. now thank you, that is interesting conversation. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: up next, more on the amazing development in the mueller investigation. mueller himself dressed down by a federal judge. you totaled your brand new car. nobody's hurt,

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>> tucker: judge t.s. ellis' remarkable attack on the mueller investigation this morning are the latest twist in the jeer-long saga. at least one judge does not think the mueller team should have unlimited authority to serve as the fourth branch of government. dan is a former secret service agent and tv spokesman and joins us tonight from dallas, texas. what did you make of the remarks, dan? >> you know, i applaud this judge, tucker. let's be candid about this. right now the most powerful person in america, tucker, is bob mueller. he seems to have evaded the constitution. and oversight. he is doing what bob mueller wants to do and it appears at this point that bob muler is doing something frightening,

tucker. he is investigating trump. not the crime. the judge was clear. hey, where's the beef on this? do you have anything? or are you investigating people simply to go after donald trump? a quick story on this. i was a federal agent. i worked with the federal government. i was a police officer. i hope the audience understands the incredible power the federal government has, to ruin your life, seize your assets, take your freedom and take your life. you do not investigate people. you investigate crimes and you find people. you don't investigate people. then go find crime. that is exactly what is happening. i think this judge saw it. i applaud him for taking a stand. >> tucker: isn't it the role of the press to fact-check things like this, to act as a backstop against abuse of power, rogue investigations? reporters are supposed to be interested in that and pushing back against that. why aren't they? >> because, tucker, the press are accomplices in this. yes. i get it.

with a free and fair press you would expect they would do basic things like journalism and say something like hey, is there a predicate crime we are investigating here? >> tucker: yeah. >> what was the actual crime? i don't believe the collusion story at all. but the fact is even if there was collusion, collusion is not a crime. there was none of that. this is an embarrassment. journalism completely failed us. this is their most embarrassing moments in a series of embarrassing moments in the last few decades. >> tucker: well, you would think someone in the press would sail i don't like trump, i get it or i disagree with his policies. fine. what would happen if it happened to me? any american, it could happen to carter paige or roger stone why couldn't it happen to you? why shouldn't we worry about that? >> i have heard you bring this up before and i hope -- i get it. listen, in some respects we are preaching to the choir for some viewers but we have

liberal viewers on this channel. what if someone says i want to investigate president john smith. for what? for something. we'll find something. imagine walking in to the police station saying i want to investigate my neighbor. what did they do? don't worry, we'll find something. >> tucker: he looks shady. we'll go after him. dan bongino, thank you. good to see you. >> you got it, tucker. >> tucker: well, robo-cop is coming to a major american airport. it's not as cool as the movie version. but we have details anyway. stay tuned. my day starts well before i'm in the kitchen. i need my blood sugar to stay in control. i need to shave my a1c. weekends are my time. i need an insulin that fits my schedule. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ (announcer) tresiba® is used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. don't use tresiba® to treat diabetic ketoacidosis, during episodes of low blood sugar, or if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. don't share needles or insulin pens. don't reuse needles. the most common side effect is low blood sugar, which may cause dizziness, sweating, confusion, and headache.

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♪ ♪ >> all we hear about is this phony russia witch-hunt. that's all we hear about. [crowd boos] >> a major blow thanks to a federal judge's scathing tongue lashing. >> it's about time a judge honestly looked at the situation and assessed the surprising and refreshing two top fbi officials abruptly quitting from the agency ahead of that inspector general report is expected to be scathing. >> the nra today gave the president rock star reception at its annual meeting. >> we are all finally putting america first. i love you too. thank you. >> the