at night. most-watched, most trusted and most grateful you spend your evening with us, good night for now from washington, i'm shannon bream. >> tucker: good evening welcome to tucker carlson tonight. last night during our interview from helsinki, part of that interview has made headlines today. people are upset about it and it has nothing to do with vladimir putin or mother russia, it has to do with the nation of montenegro which by the way is smaller than the state of connecticut. it has fewer residents than the district of columbia. it's a relatively poor place ite has no critical natural resources and limited strategic significance. few americans could find it on a map or name its capital or its president. apparently it's a nice place but those are the facts about montenegro. from un-american perspective it's it's not an important

country. and yet a suddenly because of an act of congress that few people noticed, montenegro has profound significance to every american. since last year, montenegro has been a member of the nato alliance. that means if it ever findsn itself in a war, our military is pledged to defend it. that's called a defense guarantee. defense guarantees don't seem like a big deal until suddenlyly they are, that's when the first world war started. 37 million casualties later the world began to rethink the wisdom of treaties like that but thet lesson seems to have been lost since. in our interview with president trump in finland we thought it might be worth having a conversation or starting one about american's obligations to nato. we ask the simple question, why is it in our interest to defend the territorial integrity of montenegro? why should our soldiers fight andol die on its behalf? here's the exchange were had. so membership in nato obligates members to defend any other member from attack.

let's say montenegro is attacked, why should my son go to montenegro to defend it from attack? >> president trump: i've asked the sameat question. montenegro is a tiny country with very strong people. >> tucker: i'm not against montenegro or albania. >> president trump: very strong people, very aggressive people, they may get aggressive and congratulations your and world war iii. i understand but that's the way it was set up. >> tucker: that's not a definitive answer obviously but the president clearly had been thinking about it and good for him, presidents are supposed to wonder about things like that. serious countries ought to have debates like that. the u.s. has to defend montenegro, really? is, there a good reason? let's hear it. that's a conversation we shouldd be happening but the guardians of our public conversations are not serious people they are hacks and buffoons are wondering about our defense guarantee with montenegro, trump is being

denounced for treason. for asking the question we are accused of taking orders from vladimir putin. my former network did an entire segment suggesting americans somehow have a moral obligation to lay down their lives for montenegro. >> yet again raising serious doubts about whether he would honor article five of the nato charter if it came down to it. it's a cornerstone of the alliance, unarmed attack on one nation is an attack on all. this time the president questioned the united states if it should honor its agreement when it comes to the newest member, member, montenegro. >> tucker: the argument is becauseec they have about 20 noncombatants in afghanistan, we the u.s. have an internalrn obligation to spend american money and lives defending their borders. that is idiotic which is to say perfect for cable news. in real life a defense guarantee is not something you enter into

lightly it's like promising y a friend you will take care of his kids if he dies. it's a solemn commitment and you would not make it unless you plan to keep it. the question is do we plan to keep at? do we really plan to defend montenegro? how about estonia, how about slovakia? are you ready to have your kids die in those countries? the u.s. government is ready to send them, we've promised to do that. nato was created almost 70 years ago for a specific and noble purpose keeping the soviets from invading western europe. the soviet union no longer exist and it hasn't existed for almost 30 years. nato is still around and it's getting bigger. why is that? more to the point, is it serving america's interests or is it imperiling them? those are vital questions. official washington does not want to answer them or talk about them, they are trying to crush anyone who asks we are not intimidated obviously. joining us is felipe raines the

omer hillary clinton spokesman. he suggested where working for vladimir putin for daring to ask about nato and montenegro. it's a serious question, defense guarantees or serious promises. why what the united states promise to defend montenegro? >> the nato treaty has kept the peace since world war ii. i don't want your son to find it montenegro, i don't want your son to fight in germany or any other ofy the 29 nato countrie. you are presenting nato as something likely to trigger a war when nato in fact has been what has avoided war. while the soviet union has fallen, the russians are incredibly -- >> tucker: the m reason i brought up montenegro and suggested there was some putin related to reason, there is a muchch more prosaic reason, it just joined.

>> what level is the country not big enough to fight for? >> tucker: what's the american interest that would be preserved, it's a serious question. speak slowly so i can understan understand. >> the answer is nato and the collective defense is the most likely thing to keep the peace that not. >> tucker: let's say that russia moves against montenegro, i hope they don't but they might have. whyut would a critical american interest to be served and going to war overin that? >> at what point is a country big and enough? you diminished their contributions. >> tucker: i'm notac attacking them, they've got 20 noncombatants in afghanistan i guess -- actually feel sorry for them. are you suggesting we owe them a defense guarantee?

>> i'm not looking at montenegro itself and looking at the full 29 countries that make up nato. >> tucker: that's all bad decisions get made when people don't look at statistics. >> here are specifics, how many times has the collective defense ever been triggered? >> tucker: once. >> one was that? >> tucker: it was after 9/11. >> it was a sign of solidarity. the one i think that's great but this isn't 9/11. the fact is that we are obligated to defend all of these countries, slovakia, albania, turkey. what would happen if israel attacked turkey, that's not a crazy possibility, you could easily see a terror group backed by turkey, israel retaliates we are obligated to attack israel? >> it's not every time fires a shot at anyone else we go to war otherwise we would've been an 18 wars in the last 50 years. >> tucker: could you imagine a scenario? >> no.

we would never be in a shooting war with israel. >> tucker: under the terms of article five, you could see an obligation -- >> the terms have never been triggered because the point of the terms have been to keep the peace and it has been successfu successful. it is montenegro tipping point? >> tucker: the intent of something isay not always consistent with the results of it. we do things hoping for one outcome and very often get a different outcome. >> we didn't create nato yesterday, we created decades ago. >> tucker: what's the point? specific. >> the original nato which i believe was 12 countries was to keep thehe soviet union in check from invading western europe. >> tucker: great goal. >> it's worked well. >> tucker: i love nato, i grew up loving nato.

if the world has completely changed, the people in washington are so ossified and dumb that they are failing to account for the total realignment ofof everything, the world is completely different and what it was in august of 1991. >> you're saying montenegro shouldn't be part of it? >> tucker: i'm not saying we should pull out of nato. >> i don't know who number 28 was. >> tucker: you're making it possible with reckless charges of treason the conversation americanas needs. >> i don't think donald trump bumping into the president of montenegro was any kind of coated -- i think people picked up on it because it was only a one and 28 chance of picking montenegro. >> tucker: i watch these other channels, every american voting for trump or not has an interest in answering the question what's the point of this? no one can answer thee question. >> i'm trying to answer the

question which is nato has been part of our own defense. >> tucker: you're giving me a history lesson. >> history is relative, if you don't learn from history -- -- i won't say a word about the election, russia is being aggressives again. russian bombers are buzzing us over alaska, we have russian ships -- >> tucker: i don't know you're saying -- >> maybe there incredibly afraid of the montenegrin spirit of >> tucker: it would be worth your neighbors, my kids going to fight russia for the sake of an territorial integrity? >> i don't want to repeat myself four times but i firmly believe it is nato was prevented that. i want to nato four times in belgium. >> tucker: you should be a history teacher, i'm just asking

how about tomorrow? >> what percentage of them want their kids to die defending slovakia? >> i just met leo and michelle from atlanta, georgia, there are a big fan of yours and i think they understand nato is important. they might agree that there is a montenegro meltdown. >> tucker: outside all of the dumb people working in nonprofit scum and a think tank people in charge of our foreign policy who are responsible for wrecking the world. outside that group of people does anybody think it's worth dying for slovakia? not one person. >> i think people are enjoying the freedom that has been provided without having to spend too much time worrying about how it's come which is the american way. >> tucker: good to see you. >> good to be back. back. >> tucker: lou dobbs hosts on fox business, do you think america's obligation to defend the territorial integrity of

montenegro? >> i think the president isn't getting the credit he deserves for raising the issue of realigning t nato. as you worry about whether we will defend nato, it seems to be the reaction that nato has saved the western civilization. it's an odd discussion to me in this respect if i may say. the president of the united states is the one who in his campaign talked about reorienting nato, talked about the fact you talk about washington being ossified and dumb. if this is a president who came in with bright ideas who is attacked from every element of the establishment and those who are invested deeply in the status quo. the reality is as we watched cable television today, the folks are talking about on cnn

are really neocons of casual convenience. they are thrilled to be talking about the united states defending the poor folks of montenegro against the onslaught of mad russians. this is beyond the pale. the fact is the real answer lies in we have a president who saw all of this years ago who was driving this discussion because he can't get congress, he can't get through the national media to the important issues. what is nato doing? why are they expanding to 29 nations, many of them small and whether small or large, not particularly responsible in meeting the demands that are required of 2% of gdp for defense spending. we are being called upon to defend all of nato.

>> tucker: we have an altruistic obligation to only act when it's not in our interest. if they are very enthusiastic for war but never wars that would benefit the united states ever. any war we might have an interest income i can't do that because were i bad. >> you put it perfectly. wewe are compelled by some mysterious force to be altruistic to act even against our own national interests. if one argue invading iraq as a president has pointed out, losing all of those lives in all of that money in the trillions was not in our interest because we didn't do much with the people in saudi arabia and afghanistan who were responsible for september 11th. that was the incipient point of the conflict, it is difficult for some to remember. the president has put it straightforwardly. he wants rationality, he wants things to make sense he has talked endlessly over the last

two years to sometimes no avail that we need smart government, we need smart people in government, we need to brains, and we need people committed to changing the status quo that could strangle this country as well as western europe if we aren't w careful. >> tucker: give me a war that protects america, i will support it. great to see you. sexist, racist, trader, nazi, the left is running out of words to throughout the president.yo if youri know what's next? physical action will break that down after the break a scratch so small you coulda fixed it with a pen. maybe you should take that pen and use it to sign up with a different insurance company. for drivers with accident forgiveness liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. liberty mutual insurance.

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>> tucker: first he was a sexist, then a racist, then a nazi literally hitler reborn. now he's a traitor to his country, the left has run out of possible verbal attacks on president trump, there are none left. all that's left is violence and some on the left appeared to be encouraging that. progressives who read a rate from rhetoric to physical actio action. calling on progressives to occupy airports and ice offices to shut down immigration enforcement at key people from doing their jobs and flying on airplanes. former hillary clinton aide felipefo raines has brought air horns to the white house in an attempt to keep the president and his family from sleeping. congressman maxine waters from los angeles wants dump administration officials harassed if they dare go out into public and plenty of seem to be on board with that. ouat shouldn't surprise you. they have been told for months

by the press and progressive leaders that the president is a nazi secret agent working for our greatest enemy vladimir putin. if you really believe that, what wouldn't you do? why one to use violence to save your country? you probably would. things might get worse, the weather is getting hotter we have six ways to go until the timber. harassment and occupation could easily turn into something far worse. youn know what were talking about, people being primed for that and the left is recklessly egging it on. they're not even doing it on behalf of the interest of americansn. but literally for te sake of foreigners. if the montenegrin zoo must be ready to die for for some reason, the illegal immigrants who have a god-given right to enter this country. nobody on the left is occupying purdue pharma to protest the opioid epidemic, the tens of thousands of people killed by opioids last year were mostly born inoier america. they don't. help big business or get democrats elected so they don't matter.

congressman eric's walworth joins us tonight. with the for treason? >> the penalty that we are all paying right now as we are losing for allies, we see a wrecking ball threatening our freedoms at home. if by the president's own definition for treason -- >> tucker: what your definition of treason? >> betrayal of the american people. >> tucker: treason is a capital offense, correct? >> his definition matters, he is the president. he said democrats committed treason when we didn't stand up for him at the state of the union. his conduct was beyond that. >> tucker: it's treason -- treason is punishable by death, it's an actual crime and i think you're an attorney you would know that. when you tell your constituents that the president of the united states has committed a death penalty offense, are you concerned that maybe, possibly you are torquing up the rhetoric

past the point of reasonable conversation? >> the president by his own definition -- >> tucker:r: it's not your job, the president's definition. i want to know what you think. if i want to know what he thinks i'll ask him. i want to know what you think, you're accusing the president of a capital offense. why wouldn't youwh be more usefl for the rest of us to explain specifically the policies you disagree with and we can have a debate on them? if you think the united states has anha obligation to defend no members, tell us why. instead he's a treasonous nazi. >> why don't you have a problem with the president of the united states want to turn over an innocent u.s. ambassador to the russians? do we draw the line somewhere? >> tucker: i have a problem with a lot of things that the president has said but i'm asking you, you're one of the people accusing the president of

treason if that's helpful. it's an elected official, you think spurs thoughtful constructive conversation, that brings the country together or does it with the into a frenzy and increase the likelihood of violence? give me a real answer. >> i think it's a beautiful country that has always added freedoms and we have a wrecking ball president right now. >> tucker: don't give me the talking points. why are you doing this? >> you may not like the answer >> working with the enemy, russia is our enemy. so every president who met with russia is committingnt treason? >> he went over to helsinki, he had a private meeting agreed tog turn over a u.s. ambassador to an enemy and sided with them over our own intelligenceur committee, at what point do i draw a line and say that's not a u.s. president? that the prime minister of russia defending the president of russia. >> tucker: you think the president is more loyal to russia?

you're a memberem of congress, you're not supposed to talk like a child or make reckless accusations. >> your yelling right now. >> tucker: i'm shocked that you're talking like this. >> do you want to lead by somebody who's siding with -- >> tucker: don't call it the question my love of the country. >> a private conversation with a dictator agreed to turn over a u.s. ambassador. >> tucker: stopped for one second, you think it is treasonous for an american president to meet privately with a head of state who we don't get along with is that what you're saying? >> i think it's a betrayal of the united states to side with russia over our own intelligence committee, to agree to turn over a u.s. ambassador over to russia who was innocent. >> tucker: should the president to meet with the leader of china, a dictatorship,

kills its political enemies, a great deal off censorship it inflicts on american companies, should he meet with the chinese premier or would that be treason as well? >> if were going to get something out of it, we didn't get anything out of -- >> tucker: it's okay because a lot of your constituents get money from china, you represent the bay area. >> don't it's all the bay area. >> tucker: i'm not, i'm from the bay area. china makes a lot of your constituents l rich, it's a more repressiveon country than russi, let's be real. all that freedom stuff doesn't mean squat to you. >> let's focus on the country that attacked us in the president who met with that dictator right after the indictment came out. >> to >> tucker: the saudis people, -- >> i see what you want to distract. tell me why you're okay with

that, -- meeting with putin? because he's one of the most powerful people in the world. >> are you okay with that he sided with putin? >> tucker: he is skeptical of american t intelligence reports that don't explain their conclusions. >> don't give me the talking points. were you okay with fighting with russia? >> tucker: i'm never okay with an american official siding with a foreign government over our own appeared i am okay with american leaders meeting with heads of state we disagree with. are you a traitor if you've met with the saudis or the chinese or putin? >> what about turning over the ambassador to the russians, it is so disturbing -- do you have an opinion on that? >> to >> tucker: we run out of time for dnc talking points.

i would urge you to stop using the dnc talking points. >> i'm using the president's definition. >> tucker: thank you. dave rubin hosts the rubin report on youtube, he joins us tonight. the problem i have within the rhetoric is that it makes any kind of intelligent conversation impossible. i do think there are real issues at the a heart of the putin-trup summit, it seems like they're worth discussing. the second you call people traders, accusing them of a felony, how can you talk those issues through? t >> it's always good to be with you, you racist, homophobic nazi you. on that note, the rhetoric on both sides but particularly the left has been ramped up to a point where we are basically getting to the place where we

will be excusing violence. this mob mentality that we talked about a bunch of times before, it's spreading everywhere. i did a video a couple months back about how internet culture is becoming mainstream culture. the trolling and attacking and fighting that used to be relegated to the basement of the internet is not leaking out everywhere and our politicians are now telling people to troll people at their homes and all of this awful h stuff. just a great example that i can give you, as i was on the car ride tonight to do this show, a hollywood director, actor, producer, a great guy that i know who's a l lefty, a guy by e name of mark duplass who's a great guy that i've had on my show, he's been reaching across the aisle trying to say to the liberals let's try to be a little more tolerant. he put out a tweet saying you might want to follow conservative ben shapiro, he's a

decent guy and maybe it will open up your eyes -- i'm paraphrasing. if the amount of hate that he got becausete the guy to delete the tweet because the mob just goes after anyone that dares say let's be tolerant. if that's where we are at right now, what you've been talking about for quite some time about this all escalating to violence -- we can't talk then the only thing left is violence. i'm doing everything i can to avoid that, i think you're trying to do it and i think there's a bunch of other people trying to do it too. i think we've got to get louder and keep showing people. >> tucker: i hate violence, if you ever hear me excusing it i hope you call me on it, because it's wrong. rand paul may be one of the very few lawmakers on either side who sees value in the president meeting with vladimir putin. is he a traitor too? he joins us next.

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>> tucker: former cia director john brennan missed describing the president's somewhat as treason, that seems a little bit over the top. amazingly many otherwise responsible people have raced to endorse that assessment. we asked the president about them in helsinki, here's what he said. >> president trump: i think he's a very bad guy, if you look at a lot of things happened under his watch. if i think he's a very bad

person. >> tucker: someone who does not think the presidentsk meetg with putin as treason is s senator rand paul of kentucky and he joins us tonight in the studio. thanks a lot for coming on. the former director of the cia, you think that as a sober minded person, kind of a james bond with maybe an advanced degree. here you have a negative partisan nut cake describing a press conference as treason. how should that make us feel as american citizens? >> it makes me wonder if he should be getting a government pension if he's going to be disrespecting the commander in chief, calling the presidents treasonous. that's about as over-the-top as you can imagine. >> tucker: is a death penalty offense. disagreeing with someone's opinion is the same as betraying the country. >> he started by voting with the communist party, that's who he wanted to win back the presidency back in the 70s. when he came to the head and the

cia, i filibustered him because i thought he was bad news from the very beginning. i think what we've seen is and what should worry us all is this is one of the most powerful people in the world, he has the ability to destroy and gain information on anything you do, the head of the cia. with all of that power, he was coming to work each day with a bias and a hatred of the president. it should worry us all. what other things could he have possibly been doing with that power? we need more checks and balances on those in the intelligence committee, james comey, john brennan, james clapper. >> tucker: it's in a responsible thing to say, is not a defense of the president or any figure, accusing someone of treason is a big deal. you wish the congress was exercising its oversight role aggressively, i know you're trying. i want to ask you about montenegro. a consensus has formed that america has a moral obligation to protect the territorial integrity of montenegro. if montenegro was attacked,

americans have a moral obligation to die to protect it, do you think we do? >> here's what people who have talked about nato expansion have said to. whenen you add montenegro, doest addoe to our national security? or does it increase our strategic risk of war? i think it's more theth latter. when you add montenegro or albania, we have a resolution before us in congressut right nw that i have been opposingve that says anybody in the world who wants to join nato, anyone who is qualified can. we can have 50-60 countries.s. we can have equatorial guinea in there. if molly attacks equatorial guinea, we are in a world war. every member of the foreign relations committee voted against my amendment and all my amendmentmi would have done waso strip out the section that would have said we invite any aspirant to join.

>> tucker: do you believe the average american has any idea we are obligated by treaty to protectt countries that nobody n the country can find on a map, does anybody know that? >> nobody knows that, people in washington are unified that everyone should be in nato, the whole world should be in nato even if they are former soviet satellites. oblivious of the fact thatt that can get us involved in world wa. if you come to kentucky or you gogo to tennessee or you ask average republicans, average democrats do you think we should put every country in nato and defend everynt country in the world, most people would say i don't believe that. >> tucker: thank you for bringing this to public attention. a u.s. territory is authorized, the seizure of guns from private citizens. they said it would never happen but it is happening. one congressman is paying close attention trying to end it.

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katrina hit new orleans, the mayor tried to do the same kind of executive order in the courts ruled it was unconstitutional. this is the question. the governor has said this about it. he issued the order that would've allowed them to confiscate weapons and ammunition and other property although i don't know how you would defineon that one. he said he never intended to do it, this was a way of getting his national guard to get ammunition and guns without using the normal procurementus system. i don't know what that means. what it does mean is that our committee and we are sending a letter with chairman goodlatte from the judiciary committee asking themte for some documentation to find out if any guns have been seized and number two, why would you make this order in the first place and why would you keep renewing? he's renewed it six different times well after the danger is t gone and trying to realize if a hurricane as devastating as those two hurricanes were if it

ever justifies the denial of the civil liberty or the denial of a constitutional right. >> tucker: why not ban free speech, people say inconvenient things during disasters why not them in jail for that? >> it would seem consistent. just because there is an emergency, i know how devastating that hurricane was k for the island that still does not justify what this appears to justify. we don't know if it actually has been used or if anything has been confiscated, that part of the information we want. we want to ask why you would do this in y the first place. the territory that allows this to take place is similar to what was ruled unconstitutional. >> tucker: i covered katrina, i was there, that's the moment you need ath gun. >> that's one of the purposes f why the second amendment it's not about hunting it's not about collection, it's an individual right to self-defense. >> tucker: thank you for coming on.

>> were going to send a letterht out tonight, were going to be looking into this. >> tucker: a pro-gun activist is sitting in jail right now, the government is going to deny her bail. she is accused of breaking the law by promoting russian interests in the united states. whoo is this person? what laws the cheap brick? and mysterious story were going to try to answer this basic question coming up next. ♪ it's so hard to b elieve ♪ but it's all coming back me. ♪ baby, baby, baby. all you can eat is back, baby. applebee's. where we're changing withs? contemporary make-overs. then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. who has the upper hand now? start winning today. book now at lq.com.

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: just a day before the summit in finland between president trump and vladimir putin, the fbi arrested a woman called a maria butina, she's a russian citizen and a pro-gun activist. according to the government she

illegally worked to promote russian interests in the united states. she'ss in jail and the governmet is trying to deny her bail. what did she do? is not clear from one of the stories. he is an unusually crisp explainer of the facts and we asked them to tell us. i have no idea if she's a good person or not. from what i could tell, shean didn't steal anything but i didn't understand what her agenda was. it sounds like she was trying to bring the u.s. and russia closer together and now she's in jail. >> it's a mysterious case, difficult to describe the given what we know right now. it appears that she was in touch with russian intelligence agent agents. she was some sort of agent of russia, she comes over here and appears to want to insinuate herself into political organization.

seeming to concentrate on conservative political organizations. she had a shtick she wanted to start an nra like organization in russia as if if you could he one of those -- but a lot of american conservatives, some who met her thought it was really cool. do this in to russia, that's great. according to the court papers, she had a close live in relationship with a man who was very connected in the nra, a former politico out of south dakota. the government says she was doing that as part of her work. >> tucker:th is at the government's business? >> the big question is what she was doing, what is the point of this? >> tucker: what's the crime? >> she's actually charged. she is charged with representing a foreign country. spewing off the top of your head calculation, how many people in this city are lobbying for

foreign governments not registered? >> a huge number. >> tucker: thousands. >> a smaller number now in the post paul manafort era. >> tucker: i think this is a weird story. >> i have had people say to me if the fbi had evidence that she was in touch with her russian handlers over the nuclear codes, she would not have been charged with this foreign registration. >> tucker: she would have a real charge. >> this is not serious like that, cases like this do sometimes end with the united states deporting the person. >> tucker: if she did something wrong, charge her with it. make you so much. simona papadopoulos is the wife of george papadopoulos, lester he p pleaded guilty to making false statements to the fbi. she testified today to democrats in the house intelligence committee in relation to the rush investigation she voluntarily did that. she joined us now to tell us

what happened. misses papadopoulos thank you so much. the democrats ask you to talk to them, what if they ask you? >> they asked about the relationship with -- i used to work for which is the link between me and the investigation as a witness. mostly as george's wife. i explained to them that according tom my knowledge, he couldn't be a foreign agent but mostly he has ties to western intelligence. it's the link to rome which is notorious for training western intelligence officials. i invited them to go into these different tactics. >> tucker: were more than a year into this in your wife up someone at the center of this case, why does it take this long to talk to you?

>> i have nou idea. i know the investigation is formally closed so i don't know why it took so k long. i attended the meeting out of transparency because george has been misunderstood. we talked about george as mastermind of russia gate which is completely ridiculous. he just happen to meet someone who casually talked about the president of the united states and he never did anything with those emails. >> tucker: are you worried? paul manafort is going to do a life sentence for tax evasion and not registering under farah, are you worried about not getting caught up in this? >> i am quite confident i can protect myself. i always say the truth. i hope that the truth will come out. i'm not sure it's russia collusion at all.

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other countries, how is america different from a colony? huh. worth thinking about that. that's it for us. tune in every night at 8:00 for the show that is the enemy of the show that is the enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. sean hannity from new york city right now. >> sean: great show and thank you, welcome to "hannity." the american left and mainstream media will stop at nothing tohe malign the presidency ofna donald j. trump. night after night, these attacks on the president and anyone who supports them, they are vicious, absurd, at this point, it's psychotic. right here on "hannity," we've been onto this game all along. we've been calling out o for years. the you've witnessed in last 48 hours is the latest example of the last anti-trump echo chamber propaganda all in an attempt to hurt his presidency, delegitimize his election, and undermine the vote of the american people. we will go over the politicalcy hacks who pretend to be so fair and unbiased, the so-called "journalists."