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virtually everyone in washington thinks that is hilarious. it is delusional. the very fact that trump says stuff like that says he is probably mentally ill, and nuts. the guy sitting next to you on the bus babbling about the trilateral condition. but suddenly they are not saying that anymore. why? because yesterday afternoon, "the new york times" ran an anonymous op-ed that confirmed every single one ofinin trump's supposedly paranoid claims. and many more. executive branch employees arere in fact working secretly to stop the president's agenda. unaccountable functionaries are actually conducting against him. it is all real. so how did washington respond to the news that trump was right? by calling for him to be removed from office without an election. here is that senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts. >> if senior administrative officials think that the president of the united states is unable to do his job, then they should invoke the 25th amendment.

>> tucker: in an interview with cnn last night, former secretary of state john kerry seemed to agree. he announced that america is in the midst of a full-blown constitutional crisis. >> this is unbelievable. this is a presidency. this is a genuine constitutional crisis. >> tucker: for once, john kerry is right. it is unbelievable. it is a constitutional crisis. but not for the reasons he thinks. america is a constitutional democracy. the central principle of our system is that voters rule. voters elect politicians to do their will. politicians listen to voters,e. get to keep their jobs, those who do not listen get fired. elections make our system accountable.e. j voters get to decide who is in charge because ultimately voters themselves are in charge.ci that is why under our constitution, the cheap decision-makers are politicians, they are elected.de in the executive branch of government, all power derives from the president. he and the vice president are

the only ones in the building who have been installed by voters. no one else has.s so when an executive branch employee subverts the president, he is subverting the will of voters and therefore the constitution. that used to be obvious, this is not some crazy new legal theory. it is the basis of our democracy. and now it is crumbling. trump won because he promised to do things that other politicians have been asked to do but failed to do. he pledged to keep the united states out of pointless wars, to protect our borders, and to renegotiate our trade deals. voters wanted these things. they said so on election day. prominent washington did not want these things. so guess who is getting their way? not voters. what kind of government is that? it is not a democracy, it is something very different. it is a system where a small number of people you've never heard of and cannot fire make all of the key decisions and reap most the rewards. it is an oligarchy, and it is not even a straightforward oligarchy.

if the 500 smartest, wisest, most decent people in america suddenly overthrew our government and took over, things might actually improve, who knows.ly but that is not what is happening.ve instead, the assistant under secretary of god-knows-what has decided that he is the king and you are a moron. we are doing things his way or else. but he is not even admitting that he is doing that. he has not held a press conference to announce he is in charge. instead, he is doing it all in secret, surely for his own benefit and that his friends. if you call him on it, he screams that you are a racist and cancels your twitter account. meanwhile, he never stops lecturing you on how vital democracy is and how you are somehow a threat to democracy. that is what is happening right now. it is infuriating and it is wrong. a few minutes ago we spoke to california congressman eric swalwell about it. congressman, thank you a lot for joining us tonight.

you've got a staff in washington, of course. what would you do if you found out that a member of your staff was trying to subvert your policy goals? taking memos off your desk, hiding information from you, making decisions that you are not approved, leaking that information to the press. how would you feel about that? >> they would be gone, tucker. they would not be working for me, but i would hope that i would hire people who would not have to do that. >> tucker: what do you mean "have to do that"? if you are elected by your constituents and the voters in your district to do the things that you run on. so you say "i'm going to do this" and not everyone agrees with those objectives, but the voters who voted for you did. you get elected and your staff says "that is unwise, that is what the voters elected him to do, but we do not care about voters." we are going to stop those things from happening. would that be a democratic process, would you say? >> it is not democratic. i believe donald trump was elected as president and we should be able to see who he is. the fact that these aides are going rogue, and i don't think

they are patriotic at all, i lay that blame squarely at the feet of congress. this congress that has not checked the president, and now we are in a position where we have a new branch of governmenth these aides, who think that then get to decide what is right or wrong, and they prevent the president from doing what he wants to do, and that prevents democracy from working and truly understanding what the intent and directions are of the president. that is a problem. >> tucker: that is the weirdest talking point i've heard of, not sure i fully understand it. let's get specific. "the new york times" op-ed from yesterday afternoon said that the president was attempting or resisting efforts to increase the severity of sanctions on russia. i know that you are for more aggressive sanctions on russia, many people are, but the president was elected on the opposite position, which is we should normalize relations with russia to a greater extent. by taking that position, he was representing the will of the people who voted for him. and yet his staff did not agree, so they tried to prevent that from happening. that right there is democracy short-circuited, isn't it, by

definition? >> the staff doing that is absolutely democracy short-circuited. i also believe in the rule of changed circumstances. we learned after the election the full extent of what russia did to meddle in the election, so circumstances change. congress should have fully intervened to make sure this president was checked and his worst instincts -- >> tucker: you're making a separate point about what should happen in congress, maybe it is a fair point or maybe it is not, we don't actually know that much about -- >> we know congress has done zero. >> tucker: we did actually sanction russia. the point is about the president and the executive branch of government.yus all power in the executive branch derives from the guy who is elected. there are only two people in the entire executive branch. more than 100,000 employees, two people elected. president and vice president. so anybody subverting the decisions of the president is subverting the constitution, by definition. so why are democrats applauding

this? i don't you want the president to do the things he said he was going to do? >> i am not applauding this at all. i actually believe that the patriotic thing to do is come forward and raise your right hand before a congressionalo committee and tell that committee what concerns you. if you are a republican at home right now and you find comfort that aides are working in this way to prevent the president from abusing his power, you are on the way to electing a democratic congress. but you should let elected leaders check the president, not his aides. i share the same concerns. >> tucker: last time i checked -- and again, what you are doing is making a sophisticated argument that again i do not fully understand. >> god forbid we are sophisticated here. >> tucker: may be sophisticated is the wrong word. confusing about democrats in the upcoming midterm election, i get that is a priority for you. >> i believe in a constitution that would check the president. >> tucker: i am not sure you believe in the constitution.

>> why don't you believe i believe in the constitution? >> tucker: i will tell you why, because you are a member of a party that is calling for removing a duly-elected president from office without an election. >> i am not calling for that. ' >> tucker: so what do you make of elizabeth warren calling for that today? in effect, saying his aides do not like him, we need to invoke the 25th amendment and remove him without an election. what do you think? >> i think we need to invoke democracy. we will do that in 60 days and we will conduct the investigations that the republicans have been unwilling toatnv conduct. and follow theyo evidence. >> tucker: for two years you've been telling me that there is evidence of collusion that has still not -- >> i came on your show and showed you. if you want to do another n 30 minutes i can come on your show again. >> tucker: i did not want to be mean. calling for removing the elected president -- >> that is not what she said. >> tucker: we just played a sound bite saying that she said that.

the op-ed about his staff is evidence that we need to remove him without having an election. a lot of people are saying that, not just the senator from massachusetts. >> i speak for myself, tucker. >> tucker: but it is your party and you are telling our viewers that they need to vote for your party in 60 days in the election, but in case you did not see it, here is the elizabeth warren sound bite that we are talking about.t >> if senior administration officials think that the president of the united stateswe is not able to do his job, then they should invoke the 25th amendment. >> tucker: okay, so if bureaucrats elected by nobody disagree with the policy goals b that voters ratified in the last election, the president should be removed without an election. that is what she is saying. >> she is referring to the constitution. there is a remedy in the constitution if these anonymous aides believe that this is out there.

and i agree.s show yourself. show us the evidence. >> tucker: believe that what is out there? the op-ed that i read, and doubtless you read, too, says the president is mercurial and says wild things, which he does in public every day.y. we knew that. the government is still functioning. two, that he is doing things the permanent washington class does not like. too nice to russia, against free trade, wants to secure borders. that is grounds for removal without an election? >> tucker, i think it mayy surprise you, we are more aligned on this issue than you think. i don't support what these aides are doing. i think the best way to check the president is to have a congress -- >> tucker: i'm not talking about the aides. i think we are in agreement there. you have a right to disagree with the president, you do not have a right to subvert the authority.y. >> let's conduct the investigations -- >> tucker: talking point, talking point. i want you to comment on what we just heard from elizabeth warren.. what would be the grounds --

>> she is saying they should come forward, and i agree withth that. show the evidence. >> tucker: what evidence -- >> i don't know. it was the president's senior officials saying the 25th amendment was being discussed. that is something i would like to learn more about. >> tucker: it is so funny because -- >> i don't want a danger to national security governing our country, so we should learn more about that. let's collect that evidence. i want lawful investigations and let justice run its course. >> tucker: sounds like you are engaged in that. congressman, thank you. t michael anton is a lecturer at hillsdale college in michigan. he is a former national security advisor to the president. he joins us tonight. thank you very much for coming on. you watched for the past two years as trump has been called a nutcase for suggesting that

there is a permanent class against him in the deep state. what do you make of that? >> the narrative immediately shifted from "the president is crazy for saying this and believing it, to "the president has it coming, he deserves the deep state undermining him." one thing i found notable -- many things notable in the op-ed -- but one is that this person, whoever wrote it, claims to be a political appointee.rm s when they say deep state, people usually mean the -- whoever gets elected. this is worse. this person claims to be someone who was appointed by the president, one of the people that comes in as the result of an election to implement the will of the voters as expressed in the election. this person has said "i am too subverting that, undermining that deliberately." i agree with you, that is fundamentally undemocratic. >> tucker: what is interesting is the people who are

the subversion of standards and norms, the blue check twitter c idiot, "the norms are goingre away." the norms are changing, actually. they are driving the change in those norms. what does this mean, as a historian, as you are, what does this mean for future administrations? is it okay for the unelected to run the government? >> that is what i am worried about. perhaps as penance for my past sins i was sent books by liberals all saying that the president is subverting democracy, and what i found isra that the purpose of each book is preposterous. they're all written by people who have been saying for years that unelected bureaucrats should take over because they are smarter than us and that administrative state rule is it greater to political rule. they are saying in their books that "donald trump is trying to subvert democracy," but he has a won an election. that is freudian production, as far as i can tell. >> tucker: we are going to have other presidents.

presumably. so the next president is a democrat, what is not going to be like? is it okay if you do not like his policies to undermine him from within? >> the narrative will switch just like it did after "the new york times" op-ed came out. it accords with what the wise and good think, so it is okay, and illegitimate to oppose themr even democratic means to oppose them is illegitimate. one thing i've learned studying the left over many years is they are able and capable of turning on a dime. whatever the argument they need to make in the here and now, they will make it. >> tucker: it is actually a good thing. they are scary, they should not be near power. michael anton, thank you very much. it is actually upsetting, they are power-worshipers. it is a night of big names on this program. dana perino coming up, mark steyn, ann coulter, all in one show. it is like a snickers bar, a little of everything and it adds up to a great snack. plus, the president is scheduled tonight in billings, montana. we'll keep an eye on that stage

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♪ >> tucker: 's we were ju >> tucker: so we were just talking about what it would be like -- what will it be like, to be more precise -- to live in aa country where no elected official, elected officials at the heart of our constitutional democracy -- can carry out policy, the will of voters, without being undermined by people who were not elected. that is the new precedent that has just been set. to find out, we want to talk to someone who has been at the very heart of the executive branch, longtime press secretary for george w. bush and the most famous person on fox. b dana on "the five" every day, but has actual experience with this. you know how complex it is to run an executive branch, you've been right there. what will it be like going forward? >> as you were talking to the two gentlemen in the a block, it occurred to me -- if you think back to april 2001, president george w. bush at the time comes in after the recount, remember, and all the stuff is

about environmental things. arsenic in the water, for example, coal-fired power plants. in april 2001, president bush decides to pull the united states out of the kyoto protocol. it was basically all of professional washington and even many people in the president's cabinet thought this was a bad idea. >> tucker: i remember. >> but the president made the decision, the vice president backed him on it, and i don't think anyone looking back would say that that was a bad decisiok given that america has actually been able to cut its emissions below those levels anyway based on our free market. so i was just thinking about that in terms of elected officials and the attempt to undermine them, when in actuality, letting them carry out what they were elected to do is the right thing. this staffer absolutely should resign because if you are a senior administration official, good example of this, there are benefits to that.. you are given a level of credibility that you did not

have before you were a senior administration official. while you are lapping up those benefits, no doubt this op-edot writer is scouting around for his next private sector opportunity in which he will be able to make a lot of money, and maybe he will whisper to somebody along the way, "oh, by the way, i was the one that wrote that op-ed." >> tucker: exactly. by the way, under our constitution, staffers have no authority apart from the directions given by the elected guy who works there. >> one of the best things about being a staffer is let's say you come up with a good line for the president to use in an interview or a good line that he writes in a speech..ay that then is the president's line. it is so abhorrent to think that you would go out and say "that was my line, actually, he just used my line." it is actually happening here. if you think the president is being restrained, then don't say anything. if you think you are being so effective, shut your mouth. >> tucker: great point. i want to ask you about the bizarre theater we saw on capitol hill with the kavanaugh

hearings. cory booker, senator from new jersey, released what he claimed were confidential emails and then made a huge fuss to maximize the attention. >> i am right now, before your process is finished, i am going to release the email about racial profiling. and i understand the penalty comes with potential ousting from the senate. i appreciate the comments of my colleagues, this is the closest i will have in my life to an "i am spartacus" moment. >> tucker: "kick me out if you want," but documents apparently were not even classified. we got this statement from bill burke, the lawyer who has been vetting these documents. he said we cleared those documents last night shortly after the staff asked us to. we were surprised to learn about his histrionics this morning because we already told him he could use the documents publicly. [laughs] i mean, what?

so is this all fake? >> he fumbled in his own end zone, as those who watch my show know, i am not good at sports metaphors, but i gave the old college try. one of the complaintss about cory booker has been that he is a tv suit. and if you're going to choose a tv moment when everybody is watching, you better make it a good one. this was a real own goal for him. if he is on your 2020 fantasy league, you could be in a little bit of trouble. however, i think the democratic base has shown, we fight, we want to fight. f. one of the things they said the politico has shown, chuck schumer has failed them on this nomination. let me just say this, president trump has a lot to be proud of.. judge kavanaugh has shown that he is a judge with wonderful temperament. he sat there for days answering all of their questions that he could.d. to the extent that he was not going to have to prejudice himself for the future. and i think that because he did

not do anything to offend like senators paul, collins, or murkowski, i think when this vote is called, i predict he will get several democrats to vote with him.ow he deserves more, but he willal probably end up with 54. >> tucker: it would be amazing if he could pull that off. dana perino, we are going to keep this short. thank you. out of the headlines, robert mueller's investigation grinds on.is new questions that the doj may have broken protocol to c investigate the trump campaign. plus, we are waiting the president's speech in billings, montana, we will take you there. "fox & friends" pete hegseth with an exclusive interview that airs tomorrow morning. we will be right back.

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assistant attorney general for national security, were told that he was doing this. what this tells me is that there was -- there's just no doubt that given the falsity of the fisa applications, the material falsehoods that were given by the justice department and the fbi, that the senior officials in the justice department, along with bruce ohr, were lying to a federal court and that all of them should be held accountable. not because of protocols, because they violated federal criminal law.f there ought to be a grand jury doing this. we are told that there that this guy huber is doing this.in he has not even interviewed the most important person, uranium one. god only knows what huber is not doing in utah. >> tucker: would it not be useful for the rest of us to know what was in the fisa applications? no it is absolutely essential that the president of the united states authorized the declassification of every one of those applications.

and it is my understanding, praise the lord, that that process of declassification iser now underway and that the white house counsel's office is reviewing the documents tond protect sources that we all want, but also to reveal the falsehoods, the materiales falsehoods, that were given to the fisa court by senior justice department officials and senior fbi officials in the obama administration. >> tucker: if you care about the credibility of the u.s. government, if you care about democracy, if you want the public on your side, which is a prerequisite for ruling aar country like this, we should have more information. i don't know the argument against that.tete joe, thank you for that.nf thank you for explaining that and for telling us that process is underway. i appreciate it. >> you bet.or >> tucker: "the new york times" op-ed yesterday clearly designed to provoke the president. how about provoking him into building a wall on the border? that is ann coulter's conclusion. looking at the whole thing carefully, she joins us next to explain it.

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♪ >> tucker: go out to billings, montana, where the >> tucker: go out to billings, montana, where the president is building for a rally right there. right now he is taking an interview in the corner for "fox & friends." you can see it tomorrow, with pete hegseth, the president will be on the stage at any minute. president will have a lot to say about "the new york times" op-ed, colin kaepernick, and many more things. the issue is immigration with all of the border security in the background. ann coulter has noticed that. she is author of many books, including the new one "resistance is futile: how the trump-hating left lost it's collective mind." if you are writing the president's speech tonight, what would you say? >> that is an interesting

question. i would say, "someone justs reminded me that i am president, and i don't need congress to build the wall, so i think i'm just going to start." >> tucker: [laughs] the crowd would cheer, and msnbc they would say "but that is not true, you need congress to build the wall!" to which you would say what? >> pull out your pocket constitution and see who the commander in chief is, who has all of the executive branch power in his hands. he has the department of defense, homeland security, if we were suddenly attacked by china, he would not sit around -- or north korea -- hey would not sit around and say "well, i would like to respond,a but congress just will not write that bill." he is saying "no, i am the commander in chief, i have the power to defend against an invasion." >> tucker: so he does not need congress to appropriate the funds for the wall, he can just

do it? >> exactly. basically what others in a social security and medicare, 90% of all federal money is in the department of homeland andnd the department of defense. this is both homeland security and defense. i am sure -- did he have to get a special bill when he bombed syria? by mistake, it turned out. no, obviously there are discretionary funds there. they don't need to be spent just to send off bombs, to make boeing richer than they already are for no purpose at all. >> tucker: huh. so why is that not happening? >> i suspect everyone around him is telling him, "no you can't do that." which is why i'm glad i have the opportunity on your tv show to say "yes you can, mr. president, remember november 8th 2016? remember that great night"? you are president. of course you can build the wall. that is most of what the

military did for the first 100 years.si we were not going around remaking the rest of the world. it was the military building forts on our border, defending american borders is the number one job of the commander in chief. and again, the constitution makes him -- >> tucker: wait, wait, wait. the number one job for the military is to increase the gdp of cultures that hate it, right? >> yes, and to create a training ground for isis. let me flip through that little bombing syria thing, it has probably been mentioned on your show, it has been mentioned int other places, on my twitter feed it has been mentioned, six months after we bombed syria because they were allegedly using nerve gas, the u.n. was over there doing tests, takingwe all the corpses, chopping them up, looking for "what killed these people"? turns out, no nerve gas was used. >> tucker: some of us pointed

that out the day after it happened. transparently false, right. it was fake, it was a lie, and that was obvious to us. i guess what you are really saying is the staff of the executive branch is not simply writing op-eds, bragging about their subversion, they are working full time to do the opposite of what the president promised to do when he was elected. >> yes. and mitch mcconnell. this is kind of shocking that mcconnell comes out and says, we're going to send you an omnibus bill. we will get to the wall after the election. you know, because it will be so much easier after a blue wave. >> tucker: this is my last question, but it is sincere. as a political matter, do you think the republicans in congress would do better if the president unilaterally built a wall? >> yes. yes, i think a lot of his basete is quitete demoralized. i express it on twitter, i was at this big fair thing -- the immigration outfit in washington yesterday.

i met a lot of sheriffs, a lot of angel moms, and also i go. about my life and meet people. a lot of people who do not put it in their twitter feeds themselves because they feel like trump is our only hope and they do not want to criticize him at all. boy, do they like me doing the border wall talking. they want somebody reminding him of this, and they are really disappointed. >> tucker: you have been relentless on that and we appreciate it. ann coulter, thank you.im good luck on the book. up next, kids change their gender as easily as they change their clothes, so what other biological traits, basic ones, are adjustable? if you can change your sex, why not your race? it's a fair question, and we are going to ask it. plus, we are watching for the president's speech in billings, montana. we will be right back. e findings in a chevy for the first time. ♪ you can too during the chevy labor day sales event.

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♪ >> tucker: a new law in california makes it easy for citizens to change their sex and get an updated birth certificate.e. three options are available: male, female, and nonbinary. a there appears to be a limit of how many times you can change it or how often. if sex and gender is flexible, what else is? thanks a lot for coming on. i'm still confused by a lot of the parameters of this conversation because nobody wants to talk about them, they just want to force them on you. and by screaming them at you. if you can change your sex, or if you can proclaim that it is changed, why can you not change your race? >> that is a good question, and i understand where you are coming from, but i want to approach this from a slightly different angle, and i do not mean to avoid your question.ro

i've been thinking a lot about this issue, 1.4 million people now identify as transgender in this country. we think of this as a liberal, progressive thing to give people the choice on their license and birth certificate, whether or not they want to identify as male or female. but think about it, if you are in an airport and an airport security officer and you have someone approach you -- again, 1.4 million people are identified -- identify themselves as transgender in this country. so you are a security officer and you have someone approached you and you are trying toer identify them and you have their license in your hand and they appear to be -- look like a man but dressed like a woman, but on their license, they checked other or x, they do not want to identify, you are actually able -- i would say, suggest, more correctly identify that person. >> tucker: i'm not arguing against that. by the way, i'm sure there will be 20 million people who identify as transgender. a lot of things are accelerated, and that is why it makes it so

important for the rest of us who are looking and wondering what this is to get answers toes straightforward questions like o what is this exactly and what does it mean to change your sex? specifically, what does it mean? i do not know why it is a dangerous question. it is treated as one though. most straightforward questions are, though, now. ten years ago, we believed that sex was immutable, the dna level, you could tell from fossils whether it was male or female. now we claim that is not true.e. if i can change my sex, whyy can't i change my race? who is making these rules? what are the rules? >> the government is making these rules, california, washington, they have all said, they have passed legislation that says --e >> tucker: i know the mechanics, but if i am changing my sex, they will say "you are courageous" or whatever they say, but they will accept it as real. but if i am saying "i change my race," and by the way, now i am potentially eligible for a lot

of benefits because the federal government classifies by race, i am left that were seen as a threat. why? i don't understand. >> i do not know if there is legislation, i cannot answer this question well for youy? because i do not know if there is legislation out there in terms for what is happening in the gender movement, in terms of race. >> tucker: there is not, but i'm just saying, all of this follows a philosophical change where we, ten years ago we thought this to be ludicrous and i we accepted as nonludicrous. and now the laws are changing tw reflect that. why are people who think this is nonludicrous so hostile to the idea of me saying "i am american indian" or whatever?ic why is that considered offensive? that is my question. >> i cannot answer that question correctly for you because i do not know if there is a hostile movement toward people who necessarily want to identify in

terms of a different race. however, i can say that i believe most government documents i've looked at, they give people an option to not sae what race they are. and i'm sure people lie all the time. i think netflix did a documentary on this where people claim they are a different race than they actually are.. >> tucker: people will continue to lie on federal forms because it is no one's business what race you are. >> some people would argue it is no business what gender you are. >> tucker: that is what their argument. thank you. president trump speaks any minute in billings. before he does, we will have additional thoughts on "the new york times" op-ed and the reaction to it and what it h all says about the people running our country. no one better than mark steyn on that, so he will be with us next. no one better than mark steyn i'm on that, s

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and is part of reason for it. the people in charge of our democracy no longer believe in democracy, and that is why trump got elected. not because putin sent in agents or because middle america is evil, he won because of the people in charge failed. they hate voters as they are incompetent. they have no idea what they are doing. it is an ugly story but it is worth knowing and it explains what is happeningg right now, te premise of my new book "ship of fools." you can order it now as an act of resistance. speaking of resistance, the i publication of that famous "new york times" op-ed, cnn hasu >> the president appears to have a wildly debilitating injury or illness or is acting as if he has gone insane. the vice president on the cabinet could tell congress that he has got to go.ee we are now in charge. and they do take control.

measurable, provable, mental or physical incapacity. speak of the other option is impeachment, which is in the constitution. >> tucker: i can't believe i ever worked there. mark steyn, columnist, joins us tonight. what do you make of this, mark? >> they are basically treating the president like one of those ottoman sultans in turkey where all of the grand vizier thought they were nuts. they used to call the giggling one, and they kept him they kept him in a cage with a couple of ladies from the harem and let him giggle all day long. that is how they are treating the president. i believe the constitution, tucker, begins with the words "we the people." this guy in "the new york times" is basically saying "we the people who know better than you people." we are the people who know better than you crass, vulgar, stupid people. so we have decided to subvert the results of the 2016

elections. all of these people serve at the president's pleasure and the idea that they can effectively nullify the election is actually disgraceful and depraved andha decadent. >> tucker: but how are they exactly the same people who are forever lecturing us about the subversion of democracy? it is mind-bending in its hypocrisy. >> right. there is a huge element of projection here.n by the way, i think that goes to the insanity, too. bob woodward's lousy, unreadable book, part of the evidence he cites for the fact that trump is an obvious moron is because hebo is in a meeting about afghanistan and he says to his generals "when are we going to start winning some wars?" after 17 years running around one of the most worthless bits of real estate on the planet, that is a very legitimate question to ask. sometimes you can be the only sane person in the room, and it is everyone around you who is nuts.

>> tucker: woodward really cites that as an example of craziness? >> yeah, yeah. "when are we going to start winning some wars?" we been 17 years -- ann was referring to this 10 minutesg ago, running around helmand province, which actually -- the entire value of helmand province is worth about half of barbra streisand's terrace in malibu. remember the days when wars stand in victory and defeat, what happened to those? on that basis, he is presumed to be the ottoman sultan who has to be kept in the cage and the wise guys like "new york times" writer, supposedly the same ones. it is ridiculous, it is decadent, it is disgusting. >> tucker: you are the best. mark steyn, thank you for that. i always learn something. stay right here, the president will begin speaking at any moment from montana. that is it for us tonight. every night 8:00 p.m., come back

to the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. have a great night, and of course, stay tuned for the great sean hannity from new york city. sean?re >> sean: tucker, by the way, thanks. you are not taking my time from me. i have to go through this past because the president is about to take my time. >> tucker: yes you do. >> sean: all right my friend, good show. it is a fox news alert. huge "make america great" rally is about to start in the great state of montana. president trump expected to takt the stage very soon, we will bring you live coverage of a speech in a few minutes. first, we have so much critical breaking news tof cover. we start with our breaking news opening monologue. ♪ a lot of news tonight, i do want to get it in, our top story something that trump will likely confront tonight head-on at his rally. yesterday, an anonymous figure claiming to be a senioril officl in the trump administration daauthoring an op-ed in "the new york times" bashing the president and his agenda andnd telling lies.