tell us what you think about what we're doing here and suggestions you might have. tucker carlson is coming up next live from d.c. good night, everybody! ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we are in the business, so we watch a lot of television and we noticed a theme. every day the organized left and it public relations arm in the media tell us that illegal immigrants are interest equal to american citizens, they are superior to american citizens. they work harder, they are more noble and deserving. they have more interesting cultures than you do, mr. white bread and mayonnaise. they deserve better treatment. contracts that to the story. new numbers on the drug crisis in america. it is by far the worst in our history. more than 70,000 americans died of drug ods in just the last

year. that is a shocking, horrifying number but you may not be familiar with it, because the press barely covered that tragedy. they don't care. it's just middle america dying, no big deal. but if you watched tv in the last few days you have definitely heard of a man called joel a rona lara, a hardworking undocumented worker who for fon explore will reasons was arrested out of the blue by i.c.e. agents as he drove his wife to the hospital for a c-section. the media pounced. a moral of prosody typical of the trunk years. the cameroons never did anything so appalling. cnn went on the attack before ice even commented on what happened. >> i want to let you know about this story regarding a new baby boy. he has not with his dad today because i.c.e. agents pulled his father away has the family was headed to the hospital where the mom was scheduled for a c-section. >> the mother of five just gave birth to days ago. the same day her husband joel

arrona-lara was detained by i.c.e. agents. shortly after she gave birth to her baby boy. and while he's physically okay, this mother is living a nightmare. >> i have not yet commented on this incident. >> tucker: living a nightmare. a made for television tragedy but it wasn't just cable news. the hill, slate, abc, cbs, many others did exactly the same story. they presented it as a dystopian morality tale. heartless i.c.e. officers tore a father from his family for no reason at all. they were probably wearing maga hats as they did it. they summed up the media reaction with this tweet. "oh msg, ice detained a husband as he was driving his wife for a c-section. the cruel inhumanity of this regime!" why did they want to arrest this guy in the first place? did they even have a reason or did they just do it because they ran out of puppies to kick? it turns out they did have a

reason. here's the reason. >> this is far from an innocent victim. at this person was wanted by foreign authorities for murder, and like this arrest, most of wt ice does in cities and towns is enforcement. this is a referral we got from interpol for a wanted person. we did surveillance to find out where they lived when that individual left their home we made a vehicle stop. >> tucker: oh, murder! so the doting father was wanted for murder. homicide, killing someone in mexico. it turns out the government asked the trump administration d arrest this man. but whatever. he's so noble and depressed. he is the exact of the of person they want living in your neighborhood next to you soaking up your tax dollars. "the new york times" said as much. even after the murder charge became public, that newspaper ran this headline. "ice detained man who was driving his pregnant wife to a hospital."

the murder part was buried in the fifth draft. outrage and growing anger towards ice over the administration's "sweeping" immigration policies. that's what propaganda looks like. artfully disguised lying designed to manipulate rather than inform. and you can tell by how inconsistently it is applied. for example, if you are arrested for murder on the way to your wife's c-section, with the times attacked the cops in defense of you? probably not. the headline would instead lead "murder suspect apprehended. hooray!" the fbi raided paul manafort's house on a tax charge while his wife was in the shower. a letter to his lawyer would have been enough but the feds wanted to intimidate manafort's family with "shock and awe." the times wholeheartedly applauded that. paul manafort is an american citizen. nobody thinks he's noble. he gets no breaks and neither will you if you were ever accused of doing something wrong. if only you were here illegally, they would defend you. richard goodstein is a lawyer.

he advised both of hilly clintons presidential campaigns and he joins us tonight. do you think as congressman joe kennedy of massachusetts said that it's inhumane, worse than inhumane to arrest a man wanted for murder by the mexican government? >> i hope we can agree before i answer that question, because we are talking about ice, that in deference to our president we can use perfect english tonight. your comment earlier today -- >> tucker: americans should use perfect english. that race is not to say you should speak english? it's what holds our country together. >> wildly racist for the president -- >> tucker: this is so stupid. language is not a race. when our ancestors came to this country they were taught in public schools to teach english because it binds the country together. a country that has no common race or religion. language holds us together. if there's nothing wrong with that in the left, who seeks to divide us to political gain to pretend it's racist to speak

english. >> to say that he can't speak perfect english which is why -- >> tucker: trump is bad! fine. but what's the answer to the question? ice arrested somebody wanted for murder by the mexican government and its heartless. how is that heartless? >> the answer is details matter. when joe kennedy said what he said he wasn't aware that this man was wanted for murder, just like details matter when you talk about chain migration. it involves melania transparence, stephen miller's relatives. >> tucker: let's not attack the relatives of trump officials you don't like. >> are not. >> tucker: let's not bring people's families into this. stephen miller is not responsive not responsible for his lunatic uncle -- do you know what i mean? we are was possible for what we do. let me ask, seriously, why, even after "the new york times" found out that this guy was wanted for murder, the mexican government had asked of the trump administration to arrest them, they didn't know that until

paragraph five and instead made it about the abuse at the hands of ice that he suffered. why is that not propaganda? seriously? >> you will have to take that up with somebody who writes or edits for "the new york times." i can't defend how they prevent which information and which paragraph. the fact is once we know the guy was wanted for murder the fact changed. >> tucker: the facts didn't change. the fact it didn't change. the fact drove the event. he was accused of murder by the mexican government. the trump administration was asked to arrest him and did so at the request of the mexican government. you could have known that if you had asked ice. nobody did and the presumption was that this guy was arrested because, i don't know why. they had nothing to do today other than arrest people on the way to the birth of their child. it's insane, actually. don't you think? why didn't anyone ask? >> i don't know that that's a standard question with a person wanted for murder on interpol.

>> tucker: american citizens arrested all the time. if i got arrested tonight for not paying my stupid red light camera tickets which i really don't want to pay and shouldn't have to, but if i don't i get arrested, you're going to say they just unfairly arrested -- you're going to be like you broke the law, you got arrested. american citizens don't get the perception of innocence that illegals do. why is that? >> i think the reason we are talking about this is because the walls are closing in on the president and this is an issue he thinks he can make payout. >> tucker: i don't care what the president things. i think this is outrageous. i think we have a right to enforce our own laws. i don't think we should sit back and get invaded by foreigners. i don't. it doesn't make me a racist, it makes me an american. >> i bet there were very few times on your show over the past five or six years that you reported that you reported it was a net outflow to mexico. >> tucker: mexico is one among many countries that sense it's poor here. who cares about mexico?

one-third of all l salvadorans live in our country. one-third of the entire population of living salvadorans live in america. it's not just mexico. that's just silly. let's be honest here. we have a right to enforce our own laws, don't we? >> i'm just saying there hasn't been the full reporting just like you are saying there wasn't a reporting of this guy being wanted for murder, there hasn't been the full reporting of the immigration -- no one is talking with the fact that donald trump's in mexico is going to pay for the wall. he's talking about shutting down the u.s. government because the funding for the wall that he said mexico was going to pay for. >> tucker: we haven't built the wall. i've mentioned it many times, i'm upset about. once we do, you can stay. >> thank you so much, i appreciate it. >> tucker: mark steyn is an author and columnist. he joins us tonight. we've been kind of -- was going to run as the vp candidate for a democrat in 2020. it why wouldn't it be an illegal alien accused of murder? that's kind of the perfect distillation of what the party stands for right now i would say.

>> i think that's absolutely right. by the way, for those red light tickets of yours, i'm willing to rent you a pregnant illegal alien to sit in the passenger seat as you drive around washington, d.c. i bring 200 of them across the border, they are doing the jobs that americans won't do, which is sitting in the passenger seat with you to serve as your pregnant passenger as you go around holding up liquor stores and all the rest. you know it makes sense. >> tucker: i hate doing show after show about the faults of the press because in the end who cares they are just journalists. if they were smart they would be in private equity or whatever. but i do think this is worth unpacking for a second. to write a story about this and not mention that he's wanted for murder until the fifth draft, isn't that just lying? >> i think it is. but i think the sentimentalism nation of public policy, which is what immigration is. it's no different from building

another runway at the airport or expanding the highway. it's a matter of public policy which we should be able to discuss rationally. for example, this couple have been illegal in the united states for 12 years and they have five children. so simply if you are playing the odds you've got roughly, whenever you pull them over you've got roughly a 50/50 chance them being pregnant. that's actually very demographically revealing of where california is headed. two people who shouldn't be in the country nevertheless had five anchor babies in a country where the fertility rate is 1.75 children per couple. so actually this is california's future and it is actually a snapshot of where this insane sentimentalism nation of public policy has got us.

when they say she is living a nightmare, she is living a dream. she's been here for 12 years, had five children at public expense, your viewers, assuming for the sake of argument that there are any legitimate u.s. citizens and lawful residents remaining in the country, that your viewers have paid for. so that's the nightmare she is living. she's had five children at public expense, married to an illegal husband who apparently works for a company that makes bouncy castles for children's parties and actually the only people who need bouncy castles for children's parties are families like this one, which have had five anchor babies. this is a snapshot of the insanity of the sentimentalism nation. >> tucker: thank you. you will be back. i'm glad to report. in just a minute to discuss chelsea clinton's plans to run r

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♪ >> tucker: since he lost his security clearance he never should have kept in the first place the former cia director john brennan has positioned himself, almost described himself as a martyr, a blameless truth teller being nailed to a cross by the president's wicked regime. another perspective. a former technical director at the national security agency, the nsa. in a recent interview he said the u.s. intel agencies have become in effect a guard that lies to the press, to the president and even to each other. he'll joins us tonight. thank you very much for coming on. you are in a position to know, which is why it's so interesting to ask you this question, but do you think that elected officials have full control over the intel agencies that there

constitutionally empowered to fully control? >> they don't. in fact, they really can't tell exactly what's happening behind the walls. once they close those walls everything is done in secret. and they only know what the intelligence agencies tell them. >> tucker: that is by definition an assault on our democracy, isn't it? >> it is. they have no effective way of finding out and verifying what they are being told is true. this is true for the fisa court too. as early as august of 2002 the fisa court discovered the fbi lied to them over 75 warrants they had asked for. and they have no way of verifying it. >> tucker: this is the nightmare scenario that liberals spend like 30 years worrying about. i don't even know what your politics are. i don't care. what are you struck as an observer by the degree to which the media has taken the side of

unaccountable intel agency bureaucrats over the public? >> i think they are doing that just to support the argument against president trump, but they believe in. i for myself, i refused to join the growing numbers of mentally empowered people with emotional positions they can't change. >> tucker: so do you think that there's anyway to bring bring these agencies under some kind of democratic oversight? >> yes, but they have to be legislated. the congress, we proposed to president obama in january 2141 of the ways he could do that would be to have a set of technical people that would be responsible to the government and the courts outside of the agencies but have all of the clearances to go into any intelligence agencies and look

at any database or any system they are using or what they are doing with the data at any time so they have carte blanche to go anywhere they wanted. but none of the agencies would really accept that unless they are forced to. and that's really got to be at. they have to be forced to. >> tucker: they are not in charge of our country, voters are. >> they are not. >> thank you. >> tucker: great to see you. for close to your bruce or has been a central figure in the steel dossier, has direct ties to christopher steele and his wife of course performed work for fusion gps which commissioned the dossier in the first place. but in an effort to downplay his connection to the story the press keeps describing ohr as an obscure mid-level doj official. really? because in fact until last year he was associate deputy attorney general, obviously a top post. the weekly standard joins us tonight.

eric, he's been described as a minor player at the doj, by whom? >> "the new york times" in a couple of stories this last week tried to downplay as much as possible bruce or, calling him a mid-level employee at the department of justice, calling him a nearly anonymous person in the 113,000 employees at the justice department. what they didn't mention was that he was one of the associate deputy attorney general. what's interesting about that office is that there are always two associate deputy attorney general's who are career employees and then there are several that are political appointees. the career employees, which ohr was, that is the highest rank a career employee can have in the justice department. so bruce or was not some mid-level employee of the justice department. he had the single highest rank

that you could have as a career employee in the justice department. he was frequently in press releases put out by the justice department. the notion that he's deep in the bureaucracy it has been plucked out of obscurity by resident trump shows that either "the new york times" doesn't know how the justice department is structured, which is unlikel unlikely, or that they are being dishonest with their readers, which would be shameful. >> tucker: because that's factually incorrect as you just laid out. if the highest level of career employee can reach. they corrected the story? >> not that i've seen so far. >> tucker: that's just unbelievable. when you pay close attention to the news coverage of a subject you know a lot about does it drive you a little crazy? >> what's funny is they keep referring to bruce or as little-known and he is

little-known if you read "the new york times" or "the washington post" where they don't tell you about bruce orr. they don't tell you that he was the source who was funneling information from christopher steele to the fbi long after the fbi was telling the fisa court that christopher steele had been closed as a source for misbehavior and yet they were secretly -- bruce orr was collecting information, bringing it to fbi agents and the fbi agents were on a nearly weekly basis writing up official 302 memorandums, those are official fbi memorandums that they were writing up of the information that ohr was bringing them. >> tucker: it's unbelievable. i bet our viewers don't trust the meat but if they knew all the details they would trust me to even less. thank you for that. great to see you. big tech opposes free speech. that has become very obvious in the last week. john stossel knows what it's like to be on the wrong side of

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>> if you are a liberal you are supposed to be first free speech. a free speech for the speech you hate. that's what free speech means. we are losing the thread of the concepts that are important to this country. if you care about the real american [bleep] or if you don't. i don't like alex jones, but alex jones gets to speak. everybody gets to speak. >> tucker: alex jones gets to speak. on youtube, facebook twitter and elsewhere, noncompliant voices are being silenced, many of them. and yet somehow very few institutional conservatives in washington are standing up to defend them, so of course they are likely to be next. bill is not a conservative, he is a liberal. mostly dumb ideas but he does have principles, so he's one of the rare people willing to

bravely stand up for an unpopular man, which is the measure of bravery, whether you're willing to stand up for something that is unpopular. the president also entering the fray. today he said "i won't mention names but when they take certain people off of twitter or facebook and they are making that decision, that is really a dangerous thing because it could be you tomorrow." john stossel knows what it's like when it turns out to be you win big tech target too. every week he makes in a video and then he puts on line on stossel tv. youtube has been putting disclaimers on some of those videos. john stossel joins us tonight to explain. been doing this for decades. you've been making television that is controversial for decades. have you ever had a disclaimer on any of it? >> not until now. it's not exactly a disclaimer. it's a link to the wikipedia page for global warming buried in this case somehow all the other controversial stuff hasn't required a disclaimer but global warming stories now do.

>> tucker: so what have you said that youtube, google believes is so unacceptable that they need to flag it and warn viewers that you are probably lying? >> this week when i discovered it was online i thought it was about me. but actually they are putting it on everybody. posts that talk about global warming. they decided this one subject needs a link to the wikipedia page. and wikipedia is usually pretty good, but this page has been captured by the alarmists and it's very one-sided. >> tucker: so what does it tell you when the people in charge don't allow dissent on a topic? what does it tell you about them? why wouldn't they allow free debate if they are confident they are right? >> to be fair, they are allowing the debate. they are not censoring me. we are sending a signal that this guy, he may be misleading you about global warming. it you check wikipedia.

so i'm happy. they can sense or anybody they want. it's a private platform. i don't want them to and i think the consumers will punish them if they do but that would be their right. so far they are only saying this is a notice, check out wikipedia. >> tucker: we want to put that up on a screen to give our viewers some sense of what we are talking about. so here's a video you put up that includes this show and the warning says global warming, also known as climate change is the observe century scale rise in the average temperature of the earth's climate system and its effects. multiple science system so that the climate is warming. it really is like a cigarette smoking is bad for your health warning on the pack and it does affect how you enjoy each one. this does affect how people view your videos, don't you think you? >> yes, and i say it's a warning. i just say there's nothing we can do about it now and the money we are spending is wasted. i'm glad you put that picture up because axial was posted that pd

said he split known to give false information, but they left your picture up. >> tucker: so basically what they are saying is if you have questions about the cause of it or what we can do about it we need to warn the public about you, you are dangerous. >> and anybody who talks about it we better warn the public because wikipedia knows the answer. wikipedia spends it in a way that all the models predicted the correct warming when in fact they haven't. >> tucker: thank you very much for that, and good luck. i believe you. america's trade war with china is heating up. a lot of former u.s. officials are taking china's side and getting rich doing it. that's not betraying our country somehow, really? why not? we will get into that next. ♪ & the staff needs to know, they will

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♪ >> tucker: china is working hard to overtake the united states is the most powerful country in the world economically and militarily. it's a struggle that will define future generations for americans. and yet remarkably not all americans are taking their country's side in this conflict. there are plenty of high-level american officials now on china's payroll. many of them. for example, u.s. trade representative from 1993 to 1996. a close advisor to bill clinton. now he's on the advisory board of the chinese smart tv manufacturers we covered on the show. marco rubio among others hears that these televisions could be used to spy on americans. it's not a crazy fear. former congressman, republican in virginia works as the lead lobbyist for his vision, a chinese video surveillance company because that's not creepy or anything. even former house speaker john

painter is a pro-china lobbyist now. barth. bill joins us now. you've heard a lot of people say in the past couple months so-and-so is betraying his country, acting against american interests. here you have a bipartisan collection of people who are demonstrably working against america's interest and that's okay in washington, how does that work? >> it's a huge problem. china's information and influence operations have been extremely effective. they are literally buying up former officials. they are utilizing coercive measures to get u.s. businessmen who have interests in china to do their bidding and very little is being done about it. we hear a lot about russian influence operations. it would china has been doing over the last 30 years is huge compared to what the russians have done in terms of influencing the u.s. government. they have literally changed the direction of american foreign policy towards china. >> tucker: it's terrifying and

unlike russia china has promise of overtaking the united states is the preeminent nation in the world. they are our arrival, a threat to our interests. so why is it socially acceptable for rick boucher and mickey kantor or john boehner, god help them come into a lobby openly on behalf of trying to? why does nobody say wait a second, what are you doing acting against america's interests? >> up until the trump administration there was this narrative through successive republican and democratic administrations, the big propaganda theme was china is not a threat. trump has come out and said the emperor has no clothes. china is a threat. it's not just limited to these former officials and congressman and former commerce officials and the like. they are actually going after former military officials. if there's a program called the sonja initiative which was launched about ten years ago by the former vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral bill owens.

and he basically has made tens of millions of dollars in china and he formed this organization of former military officials who literally lobbied congress and the administration to do china's bidding. >> tucker: that is so deeply corrupt that we are going to follow up on that story and i hope you will come back to tell us more about it. thank you, that's shocking. >> thank you. >> tucker: the trump administration has, in less than two years, turned the american left from the opposition into the resistance. how did that happen? and coulter with a brand-new book on that subject, resistance is futile. she joins us next. ...that's just my favorite boat. boom. (laughs) make summer go right with ford, america's best-selling brand. and get our best deal of the summer: zero percent financing for sixty months on f-150. get zero percent financing for 60 months- plus $2,800 bonus cash on a 2018 f-150 xlt

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♪ >> tucker: with come now to the quiz portion of tonight's show. the game is simple. we will play two pieces of video, both from msnbc over the weekend. you watch them and you tell us

who's dumber. at the first comes with preacher without a church al sharpton. he once worked as james brown's road manager so he knew aretha franklin well. as part of his tribute to the deceased soul singer he said this. >> in the words of my late friend aretha franklin, show some rsp ict. >> tucker: watch the short version again. >> show some are esp ict. >> tucker: he doesn't have much of a formal education. he started preaching as part of a road-show with jackson during school. he frequently makes up verbs out of thin air. if you've watched a show you know he doesn't read the teleprompter well. michelle goldberg of "the new york times" by contract is unwaveringly eloquent. she's got an advanced degree from one of our country's most prestigious universities. she has written a couple of

books, one attacking christianity, the other praising abortion, that lots of critic left. she writes for the most famous newspaper in the world. if you were in journalism, you got 100 and every test they gave you, you would be michelle goldberg. she is the best our system produces. here's what she said on msnbc. >> this is the most vocal president at least in real time that we've had in recent memory. he is the leader of the free world. >> no he's not. he's not the leader of the free world, but sorry. he's part of a block that includes vladimir putin, -- rounding people up and murdering them without any due process. he would certainly like to. i don't think you can say that definitively. >> tucker: so who's dumber? it's not really close, is it? and it's not the guy who can't spell respect. he's not stupid. that's what he's been able to game our system for so long. but the other one, michelle goldberg isn't gaming our system, she is our system. that's what her comments and countless comments like hers are

so fascinating. a ruling class loses control in the presence of trump. it becomes clinically hysterical. what a normal person might consider embarrassing or buffoonish they find existentially threatening. the abandoned reason and proportion and decency. if they don't even make sense. what is that about? the short answer is that trump terrifies them. these are people whose main talents are glibness and obedience. and that's enough to succeed in a globalized economy. that's what the system requires, conformity, and that's what they deliver. they are not very impressive. on some level they know they are not very impressive and it worries them. instead of trying to become more impressive, more creative and useful, they maintain their rule by bullying. even if they place themselves outside the bounds of criticism. it's been a very good deal for them and then two years ago when seemingly out of nowhere donald trump showed up half unhinged and started saying all sorts of forbidden things, some of which were demonstrably true.

this threatened to expose their ill-gotten power and privilege and that scared them. they are afraid because they know they are guilty. they watched the country decline as they have ascended, just as the rest of us has watched. they know what they've done. they understand exactly how much they have to lose by changing the way things are and that's why they are yelling so loudly. and coulter just wrote a brand-new book called "resistance is futile." it's out tomorrow. we are honored to be the first stop on her book tour. it's great to see you, what did you learn spending all this time forensically looking at the anti-trump left? >> i think your description just there describes the never-trumpers. with the left i think it's more that they really do hate deplorable's. they hate the walmart crowd, and that's what they see in trump. they are able to attack the gun culture on walmart and

middle-class middle americans by attacking trump without getting called on it because technically he's a billionaire who is president. but really at the bottom of it they just think he's achy so they go on and on about this existential crisis facing america and russian collusion without allowing anyone else in their little closed set so that even smart people, as you point out, they become crazier and crazier and they are rewarded for being crazy as john brennan and clapper and comey were. at one point it was the left who wanted to chop those three up and feed them to the dogs. and all they had to do is start sending unhinged tweets as john brennan has and suddenly he's a hero. i go through in my book not only all of the lies that brennan has told and why he was hated, and for good reason as head of the cia and just constantly lying, lying, lying. the left really hated him and as soon as he starts sending those

crazy tweets about trump being treasonous and history will judge you, i just have one sentence of the names he was called after that. one of the most honored men, msnbc. deep credibility, cnn. it's a cinderella story. isn't that great, they welcomed him back. >> tucker: can i ask a question i've been thinking about for the last year and a half and i don't know the answer. the group the left hates most, the middle class, the group trump represents, is also the group doing the most poorly. the middle-class is dying and shrinking. if life expectancy has declined. why don't they feel sorry for the middle class? >> their hatred of trump has caused them to lose all reason. it seems to me it used to be both political parties would claim to care about the working man, the middle class family. both political parties used to want to defend the border. both parties used to attack the

concept of anchor babies and illegal aliens committing crimes and illegal aliens committing crimes. but you do kind of worry trump had this uncanny ability to raise important issues that americans care about but it's getting to the point, my governor says america wasn't ever great. that's what he's driving them to become a part of it is of course that's what their base or a large portion of their base wants, but i really wish we could sit down, liberals, and ask them. i'm not a waitress at wendy's. i'm not a union bookkeeper but i care about my fellow american. why don't they? >> tucker: it's a great question. it's an obsession of the show and i honestly don't know the answer. but i do agree with you that it does seem like trump among other things has totally corroded their own standards. like they will say anything. you look at the case against

trump until the truth, but they don't. >> if the resistance were smart i think they would read my book. it gives some excellent advice, which is attacked trump on the stuff he's actually done. as my friend devito says it's a buffet, don't keep bringing your own food to the buffet. there's plenty there to attack. you don't need to make things up but they make things up in the stories get crazier and crazier and as luck would have it i don't have a job so i can spend months going through to see the complete insane contradictions of them saying the dossier is true, we know it's true because it was used to go to fisa morn. they would use to get a fisa morn john carter page in ten months later we find out it was hillary clinton-funded research and suddenly where did you get the idea that the dossier had anything to do with this investigation, with the warrants on carter page? i have the quotes side-by-side. >> tucker: i read your column and what people who know you on television may not know is that

you write your own stuff and you are a brilliant writer. i mean that. even people who disagree with you would agree with that. i hope this book sells a term of copies. it's out tomorrow. greatest title of a book this year, thank you. great to see a pretty >> thank you for having me on. >> tucker: it's an honor. mark steyn rejoined us after the break to discuss something that nobody wants to talk about, the possibility of more clintons running for office. stay tuned. ♪ cause let's be honest, nobody likes dealing with insurance, right? which is why esurance hired me, dennis quaid, as their spokesperson because apparently, i'm highly likable. i like dennis quaid. awww. and they want me to let you know that, cue overdramatic music, they're on a mission to make insurance painless. excuse me, you dropped this. they know it's confusing. i literally have no idea what i'm getting, dennis quaid. that's why they're making it simple, man in cafe.

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>> tucker: increasingly this is a divided nation, fewer and fewer things bind us together but if there's one thing most americans can still agree on, it's that it's time for the clinton dynasty to sunset finally. that of course is probably not going to happen. last year chelsea clinton said she didn't want to run for office. nobody believed her and it turns out all of us were right. now she says she is "a definite maybe" to run for office. what does that mean for the rest of us?

mark steyn rejoined us with his view. to think she's going to do it, and for what office and under what pretext? >> i think we can all agree, as you are talking about with ann coulter a couple of minutes ago, that the real message of the 2016 election is that americans want a permanent hereditary political class drawn from the same three or four families. and 25 years of the clintons isn't enough. if you go and see a bill clinton speech where he is getting a seven-figure sum from a couple of saudi princes to give a speech on diarheaa in africa, the chairs are rocking the room. if it's not chelsea, andrew cuomo, who says america has never been great because not enough cuomo's are in public life, or joseph patrick, kennedy the seventh. if it's not one of those -- i

dream that one day they will get together and george busch will marry chelsea and unite forever the house of clinton, bush, rodham got there and we can all live as one. >> tucker: you are just jealous because you never worked at mckinsey or went to stanford. chelsea was like a high level hedge fund person for a couple months. >> and then she said she went to the clinton foundation because she realized that money wasn't important to her. it's easy to say when you gave seven-figure speeches about diarrhea in africa. >> tucker: i think she was living in the widest apartment in new york city valued at $10 million when she said she didn't carry about money. great to see you as always. thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: sadly it's over. we could go on forever but we are time-limited. tune in tomorrow night to the show that this morn and many of lying, pomposity, smugness and

groupthink. all of which are in overabundance. they want to automate everythin everything, including the way you think. don't let them. have a great evening in spite of all that. sean hannity is up next. we will turn it over to him a few seconds earlier. >> sean: great show. is he breaking news night. it's all over the place tonight. for well over year he has targeted president trump and everyone around him. just look at paul manafort, michael cohen. anything to do with russia? after 460 days, mueller has found literally zero evidence of trump-russia collusion. zero. the president's right calling out mueller's witch hunt for what it is. this is now a national disgrace. in moments we will have important updates on two individuals that are caught up in the fishing expedition. paul manafort who is now being tried on an old bank fraud charge and from campaign volunteer advisor george papadopoulos, who pled guilty to lying to the fbi. his wife iser