their mother laura has been cancer free for 13 years. i would say everyone in that family is a midnight hero. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us. good night from washington. i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." all of washington is girding for next monday, six days from nowr when palo alto psychology professor christine ford has been invited to testify on capitol hill about the assault that she says she's suffered att the hands of supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh sometime around 1982. both republicans and democrats say they want ford to testify on the hill but no one has explained exactly what the rest of us could possibly learn from that. ford says she has already recounted everything she can remember about the details at this point are thin including when and where that assault allegedly took place. brett kavanaugh for his part has denied that any of it ever happened, and so has as high school friend of mark judge

who ford claims was there a that night. so that is the sum total of what we know and it's still a matter of she said, they said. without a lot more evidence it's hard for anyone to prove anything. but that has not stopped leading democrats from reaching a firm conclusion in this case. how do they know for sure what happened 36 years ago? because brett kavanaugh is a man and therefore he is guilty. all men are guilty. it's the y chromosome. watch as a hawaii and noted geneticist maisie romo describes it. >> not only to women like dr. dr. ford who come forward, it need to be heard, but they need to be believed. guess who is perpetuating all of these actions? bel it's the men in this country. and i want to say to the men in this country, just shut up and step up, do the right thing for a change. >> tucker: did you catch that, it's not just brett kavanaugh who is guilty, it's "the men" of this country. every single one of them because

they are men. christine ford meanwhile is telling the truth because she is a woman. she is female, you must believe her. that's a command from the united states senator and it's not optional but mandatory.us so repeat after maisie. men always lie, women never do. one is evil and the other is holy. a that's the catechism of the church of late stage feminism. does anyone actually believe this nonsense? of course not. it's ridiculous, divisive and crazy. virtue is not restricted to a single gender or for that matter a single race. for a time it seemed like we had moved past ideas like those, they are corrosive. but now they are back in force and because the left has already decided conclusively what happened in 1982, further evidence is irrelevant. as democrats explained today, there is nothing brett kavanaugh could do to prove his innocencea said that's very hypothetical.

very hypothetical? is not very hypothetical brett kavanaugh and his wife and their daughters. imagine you are accused of a sex crime and informed by a lawmaker that there really was really no way you could beat the charge, no matter what evidence you presented. you could never be declared innocent except in some "very hypothetical way." how would you respond to that? you probably wonder what country you are living in. definitely not america. these are the democratic party's' new standards and it goes without saying that theyca are highly subjective and not applied to everyone. it depends entirely on how useful you are. senator ted kennedy drove his oldsmobile off of a bridge with a young woman inside. he fled the scene and left her but never summoned helped. he didn't want the dui arrest. the young woman that he abandoned slowly asphyxiated over a number of hours.t. ten years after doing that, he ran for democrat and he died a hero.

the democratic party needed ted kennedy, so they excused virtually everything he did. you are watching something similar unfold with the deputy chair of the national committee, keith ellison. last month he was crediblytt accused of physically abusing an ex-girlfriend, karen monahan. apparently she never heard about it because nobody in the party seems to believe monahan despite the fact that she is a woman. as she put it "i have been smeared, threatened and isolated for my own party all for the sake of the allegation she made for daring to speak in public. we asked the dnc today about the ellison case and they did not have much of a response." we take allegations ofof sexual abuse seriously and we are working with the state party to review the allegations. right, we are confident it will be a thorough investigation. on the other hand, why would it be? none of us ought to be in the investigations business in the first place. political parties, college administrators, rappers, all ofs us. we are not people we want

determining anybody's guilt or innocence. when not qualify for that. we have a legal mechanism for doing that. it's not flawless but for almost 250 years our justice system han function pretty well. o better it's pretty straightforward. than any other country in the world. if you believe a crime has been committed against you, you report it. that would include theft, embezzlement and sexual assault. go to police. it's not easy but it's still your obligation as a citizen, if not at least to protect the rest of us from whomever you believe did it. the police investigate and a judge or jury rendered aea verdict. that's due process. it's the cornerstone of our system and one of the main reason people moved to thisre country from other places, because it works. it's more fair they are then cnn. or a summary of judgment from self-appointed gender judge mazie hirono let's not give up on it. it's one of the best things we have. former obama regional campaign

director and he joins us today. thanks robin for coming on tonight. i want to hit you with some fairly recent news off of capitol hill. dianne feinstein, senator from california who was the person to whom we owe this story and is the one who brought it to public attention. she said today, and i'm quoting, i can't say everything is truthful about what christine ford has said. i can't say everything is truthful. how do you respond to that? >> we know back in august she took a polygraph test and determined what she said was truthful according to that test. now those are subjective and are not admissible in court for example but, there is that. >> tucker: you don'tor understand, i'm not doubting that she's saying what she believes. last night on the shelf i said i think it seems like she believes whatever she's saying. i'm quoting dianne feinstein, the person who brought us the story saying, i can't say everything is truthful. in other words, she may be lying. this is the person who brought us the story, who suspended the nomination process because of the story, now saying she could

be lying.ry i don't know what to make of that. >> what i make of that is she wants us to be investigated. they are calling for the fbi to investigate it and president trump said today he does not want the fbi to investigate that, that brett kavanaugh has been through enough already and that is just his personal opinion. but i think the american people deserve to know exactly the character of who the next nominee is for the supreme court. >> tucker: i'm sorry to pause, i'm getting news in my ear that is breaking right now that and the new demand is that she will not testify. she's been invited to testify as we have set in the open and now she think she will not until the fbi completes its investigation. it's hard to even process that how could you investigate an event that he apparently took place between three people, 36 years ago.

two of whom says does but his money on details. like what year it happened, where it happened, who else was there, how many people were present. how could the fbi possibly investigate something like thath >> there was an eyewitness in the room who says he will not testify before congress, mr. ford. but we have to see how all this plays out. >> tucker: but how could it play out? we don't know the accuser. and by the way, it seems like it seems like she believes what she saying, to me. she seemed sincere. but she doesn't know the address of the house that it took place. she doesn't know the year it took place or any of the circumstances. >> she has therapy notes, documentation that she went through trauma. >> tucker: okay but i don't know that, she saying she spoke to a therapist six years ago about it but that contradicts t what she's saying now. this isn't really about getting to the bottom of the story, it's about delaying a supreme court

nomination. >> i hope not, tucker.ng as a democratic strategist, i honestly believe, and i think -- as much as i really don't wanted to be the next supreme court justice, i think it's in the best interest for the democratic party to fill this vacancy because we really can't afford to have an open seat adding to the midterms because it's going to drive out evangelical voters who may not like some of the things that donald trump himself has been accused of, indiscretions. >> tucker: that may already be happening. let me just ask you really quickly. and i should have prefaced this whole conversation with this. you are a man and according to senator mazie hirono, a democrat in good standing, you are a liar by definition. men lie, women tell the truth. men always lie, the men of this country, she put it, and women always tell the truth, they must always be believed. do you buy that or is that insane? >> i don't prescribe to that. that doesn't even pass the common sense test, tucker.

let's be honest. >> tucker: maybe you are lying. you're a man, how can i know? [laughs] >> this is just my honest common sense opinion here that there are victims of both genders when it comes to domestic violence and sexual assault. that just doesn't pass the common sense test. >> tucker: it doesn't. thanks very much for coming on. i appreciate it. all of a sudden, all kinds of allocations for misconduct from long ago. brett kavanaugh is not the only one. and then ad that targets the current holder of the ohio senate seat, there were allegations of abuse made by his ex-wife. trace gallagher has been following this story. >> by all accounts, sherrod brown's 1986 divorce was our ugly including allegations that he was physically abusive.s this isn't the first time theseu accusations have been dredged up by brown's political opponents, but it is the first time it has

been raised in the age of me too. the website running the 62nd ad is called me too ohio. watch. >> issued a restraining order. later, she said brown violated a court order, pushing, shoving and bullying her. >> it's a super pac but also connected to a g.o.p. political firm that has done significant work for jim renee see, sherrod brown's opponent for senate. he denies having anything to do with the video, but appear to amplify it, quoting here "violence against women in any form is not acceptable and has no place in our society." sherrod brown's well-documented history of domestic violence is deeply troubling. in turn, senator brown's office released a statement from brown's ex-wife saying "disparaging my family for political gain is disgusting ani congressman renee see should know better. she says her previous

accusations were because of hurt and sorrow on both sides. >> tucker: trace gallagher, thank you. so that's ohio. we are in washington right now, i've been here all my life and i can say have never seen this city crazier or more paranoid or more tense or more dumb.. here's an example. three years ago, brett kavanaugh made a joke about his time in high school. >> unfortunately we had a good thing that we have held firm to this day as the dean was reminding me before the talk, which is what happened at georgetown prep stays at georgetown prep. that's been a good thing for all of us, i think. >> tucker: so he's obviously admitting a felony sex crime there. no. it was a joke and clearly irrelevant to what we were talking about today but don't tell them that we are literal humorless of the senate. elizabeth warren said this. i can't imagine any parent accepting these views.

is this really what america wants in its next supreme court justice? if you can imagine texting something like that or putting it on twitter, mindless. coulter is a writer, as ifie she needed another example of it, and she joins us tonight. so what do you make of the fact, i was trying to get this straight answer from my last guest. i'm not sure what i even think of it. what do you make of the fact that dianne feinstein is saying, i'm not sure i believe christine ford now? >> dianne feinstein has always m been one of my favorite senators, republican or democrat. i was surprise she held onto this letter. i don't think the big issue is the 11th hour, i think the issue is last week we started getting polls showing the democrats started getting a shot of the senate. they really want to get a shot at this nomination. it's been kind of hilarious listening to the democrats. "the new york times" editorial page and schumer and blumenthal, we need a major fbi investigation. as you pointed out, there's nothing to investigate.

aj they want to appoint a blue ribbon commission and maybe they will wrap up their work sometime next february. it's purely for delay. >> tucker: so can i ask you, why not an independent counsel? he can take maybe four or five years to get to the bottom of it. i am giving everybody every benefit of every doubt. i'm not attacking ford who again, i said he was a nice person. this is a political tactic designed to prevent the president from putting his nominee on the court. why are the republicans in a congress playing along with this? >> i think some of them, and this is the only thing that i think makes it dangerous for s republicans and for kavanaugh and for the republic because there are certain republicans in the senate who so hate trump that they would put their egos above the good of the country, and what so many republican said about voting every four years, they would have to do it for the supreme court nominee is.. maybe for ben sasse. maybe not for senator bob corker.

they just so hate trump, that could end up hurting comey. i think your point that if they get away with this, then you have cnn running the country. it's not even just the democrats running the country, if the media running the country,e because this allegation could be made against anyone at any time, absolutely monitors provable. "the new york times" -- i wanted to mention on here, teddy kennedy. one of the great things in "the new york times" editorial on this case was to say that things were so totally different in the 1980s. that's why this woman, dr. ford committed and reported at the time. you remember the 1980s. there were sexual assault like mad, every place. the proof of this that people aren't taken seriously in the 1980s was to link to an article in "the washington post" citing "the new york times" treatment of the accuser of william kennedy smith.

so yes, the kennedys have always had free reign to rape and murder and, "the new york times" would go after the accusers. but that's really what the division is here. but this isn't a new thing. as long as you are a presumed white male republican, whether it's the duke lacrosse case or that dastardly haven monahan and the rolling stones story, then the whole thing turned out to be a fake. there is no haven monahan. now, a lot of the statements about brett kavanaugh, like oh he's smirking. and a lot on twitter and elsewhere. he is a white male and white privilege, and it's not just democrats and the media running the country, if any white malend can be accused with an evidence reaction. i >> tucker: will you shouldn't judge people on the basis of they are immutable, period.

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♪ >> tucker: a year ago "the washington post" spoke for the entire press company including us by the way when it adopted a new slogan, democracy dies in darkness.g and it does. apparently the president who doesn't like "the washington post" agrees with the slogan so yesterday he called for the declassification of documents related to the rush investigation, including the carter page fisa warrant application. president trump said this about it today. >> president trump: i want total transparency. this is a witch hunt. republicans are saying it and the democrats know it's a witch hunt to but they don't want to admit it.to the things that have been found over the last couple of weeks about text messages back and forth are a disgrace to our nation. we should open it up for people

to see. >> tucker: so if obama had said that or george w. bush for that matter, pretty much everyone would nod in agreement. sunlight is the disinfectant that we all want to. but the new organizing principle of the left is that everything trump does is bad so the press are now racing to condemn transparency as a threat to the public. >> this president shatters so many norms that it's hard for people to understand when he does something that's truly damaging. this is one of those times. >> the president is classifying the material. despite the fact that he was bagged by the intelligence community not to do that. any commander and chief who did care would listen to all of his intel agents. >> can anyone stop president trump from doing this? he is arbitrarily releasing part of a fisa warrant. you can't say it's's politically motivated because it doesn't make sense. >> tucker: journalists staying up late making sure you don't

get more information about what your government is doing. never thought i would live to see that. then former cia director john brennan went even further. he said democracy is actually defined by the fbi agents refusing to obey the elected president from which they work. >> if mr. trump in the white house does not relent than they have some decisions to make.. whether or not they are going to just not follow that direction and be fired but, if they believe it will or to resign. have serious impact, then they have the obligation since they took an oath of office to the constitution of the united states, not to mr. trump, to uphold their responsibilities and their agency and department authorities. >> tucker: those of usus who laughed to the deep state considering, john joins us tonight.t. thanks for coming.e the only real argument i think against this is, details will be released if that will jeopardize intelligence gathering in the lives of who gathered it.

if this information is released, and it looks like it will be, and we find that nothing that is unredacted threatens the secrecy of the methods of the agencies, will the people who complained about it today to the right thing and resign from their jobs in disgrace and shame and admit i'm just a r political hack carrying water for the democratic party? >> for all the talk about transparency, that's not what we're seeing here. we have the president who is cherry picking information.we this is the president getting involved in this investigation and basically trying to change the news cycle. i don't think it's a coincidence that the next business day after his former campaign sherrick pleads guilty, all of a sudden he's out there -- but if he was truly wanting transparency then we would be seeing more than just these cherry pickedtr documents he wants to get out there. >> tucker: one, white houses have always done that.

that would not surprise me one bit. but i don't understand why i as a citizen, not a click cable news, that's a big deal. why i shouldn't know that the u.s. government was spying on american citizens. that's a big deal. why shouldn't i know that? >> what we are talking about here is a releasing the declassification of documents that contain sensitive information about not only individuals but also about the tactics that are used by going after spies and terrorists. so you have a president who is worried about saving his own u rear end and the way he wants to do that. >> tucker: i'm not talking about the president, i'm talking about me and the other 325 million people that live here. we know that our government spied on american citizens. one administration spied on arrival presidential campaign. maybe they had reason to that, but shouldn't they assure us that they did, that it wasn't political? >> you are incorrect. there was no surveillance of the term campaign. there was not surveillance of the term campaign. carter page had already left the campaign --

>> tucker: he was involved with the cane. the whole pretext for this russia investigation was carter page was a russian agent. >> but he left the campaign by the time the surveillance started in the surveillance was directly related to him, not the campaign. >> tucker: they were spying on people he was in contact with including the campaign. they were spying on americans and why shouldn't the rest of us be assured that they had good reason to do that? or else why would we have any faith at all in the doj or our government? >> because when you talk about releasing selected documents, cherry picking if you are not able to see them in totality you don't get the full picture. >> tucker: the fisa application is the totality. it's what went to the judges in order to get permission to spy on americans. what were they believing out? >> it went to four different applications. >> tucker: i'm sure they're all republicans. i don'to care. it's not a partisan thing. i just want to know why my government is spying on americans. >> we are talking about a guy

who had been courted >> tucker: what are you afraid by the russians as early as 2016. of? why shouldn't we know more? >> i'm not afraid of anything. my biggest concern is the changing of the precedent by the president to save his own butt, he's actually putting our country at risk. he's lifting up the curtain for terrorists and spies to see how we actually go after them. >> tucker: we will find out what's in there and we'll see.l and if isis jeerers i will stand corrected. thank you very much. speaking of carter page, he joins us later in the hour to respond to this. this is all about carter page and this innocent man's life has been destroyed and we will ask him what he thinks. another fbi official is writing a political memoir right after leaving the fbi. the second guy at the top of the fbi in a row to do that. why do we have faith in the fbi, and what is going on in our government? that's next. ♪ only provides stable blood sugar control only provides around the clock,

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>> tucker: we have some breaking news for you. the details are coming in and we want to get this right. christine ford, who we thought was scheduled an hour ago to testify to the senate this monday about her allegations toe brett kavanaugh who has obviously been nominated by the president of the supreme court apparently has just indicated that she is not going to testify on monday. but will instead await the finaj results of an fbi investigation that she and her lawyer and some democrats are calling for into the charges. what does this mean, does the fbi have jurisdiction here? what might they find? we have switched topics midstream on joe digenova. knows a lot about how the doj works. does this make sense to you? is is this something that thee fbi has jurisdiction over and could they conceivably come up with this? the case 36 years old.

>> this is utter nonsense. this is another delaying t tact. she really doesn't want to testify because when she does she's going to look like the loon that she is. she may worry very well believe everything she's saying and that's one of the signs of lunacy, believing something that isn't real. but her lawyer is even loony year. the fbi is not going to investigate on nonfederal matter of an alleged assault which isn unconfirmed by even the witness herself. she's not sure whereof it happened, when it happened, who else was present. she never reported it to anybody. this was nothing. >> i had no idea of her mental state at all. does having listened to herr accounts, she seemed sincere. but i wonder if the fbi could, knowing what has been publicly revealed, how could they possibly -- as a practical matter, how could they possibly follow up on that? >> they cannot because they don't know when it happened,ib where it happened or who else was there.

judge kavanaugh has already categorically denied it. there is no useful evidence to be served by interviewing him. it cannot be investigated because there is nothing to investigate. >> tucker: why wouldng republicans go along with something like that in the senate? >> you know i have no idea why republicans are doing what they are doing. they wanted to give a chance for a hearing. she has now denied them a chance for a hearing. >> tucker: interesting. so if you are advising republicans in the senate, what would be your advice right now? >> have a vote on thursday like you said you would. >> tucker: do you think they will? >> oh, god no. they are scared of their own shadow practically right now. cavanaugh is going to be confirmed now because this is clearly a desire to delay the proceedings even further. the fbi is not going to investigate this and they have said that they will not. >> tucker: that make sense to me completely. joe digenova, thank you for that. needed some perspective, appreciate it. >> you bet. >> tucker: google tells you aa lot about how they resist trump because they are against

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where they would have beena propagandized. guess who went along? these members of congress. sheila jackson lee, jim clyburn, gk butterfield and barbara lee. they lent their names to that effort. director at the center for chinese strategy in hudson and the author of the single best book on the chinese question called "the hundred year marathon." dr. pillsbury, should members of congress be lending their name and reputation do this kind of effort? >> know they should not. members of congress have automatic security clearances and frankly they have funds to visit china whenever they want. the u.s. embassy will escort them around, arrange visits and give them classified briefings about what's going on in china. if a member of congress supports this kind of informal activity and takes funds to do it, to pay for the travel and let the chinese make the arrangements, they miss out on getting the truth about china from our own government. i think it's a mistake to do

this. >> tucker: it is a mistake and it's unfortunately kind ofbohi comment. come in here google is in the middle of what seems to be a real controversy over the search engine that has been secretly developing on behalf of the government of china. the intercept report is that they built a prototype that would link users of the search engine to their own cell phonete numbers which would allow the chinese government to identify people based on what they search for. we contacted google and they declined any comment about that. what is your view? >> i think google is highlywe embarrassed. they hold themselves out as an organization of 88,000 employees who believe deeply in human rights and causes, but now they are simply caught by this one scientist who has resigned in protest and told a lot about the project. it apparently went by the name, operation dragonfly which was known to a small team, fewer than 100 people inside google.

the authors didn'tm, know. apparently the previous ceo, sergei brin took a stand on this in 2010 and wouldn't let it happen, wouldn't let the censorship in china happen. got credit in "the wall street journal" for doing it. and now fast forward eight years and google has reversed itself,, but done so secretly and that seems to be the problem. i think they didn't show up at senate hearing that they were invited to, inviting growing problem for google. >> tucker: but since the rest of us are so wholly dependent, to get our information about everything in the world, how should we feel about this company helping the authoritarian government of our main rival keep its subjects under its thumb? >> i think the congress needs to invite them back and make sure that they come. obviously a subpoena power was required. the trick here is the technology of doing this being able to track somebody searches for awards like human rights are dictatorship back to their phone

number, and then share that with the chinese authorities, the chinese themselves can't do that.e they had to turn to google to do this.o google apparently, according to the gentleman, the hero i think who quit in protest, that will make up for ten lost years of revenue and sales that they haven't had in china because thn previous founder sergey brin refused to do this. >> tucker: good for him. if they have a lot of money. it might just be being decent. >> it shows the growing influence of china and the chinese market. >> tucker: is terrifying. thank you very much as always. >> thank you. >> tucker: what does washington's top news veteran think of this week's political chaos? we are speaking needless to say of brit hume. hehe joins us next to talk brett kavanaugh and the declassification. stay tuned

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>> tucker: this is a fox news alert. not long ago within the hour, christine ford said she will not testify in front of congress unless the fbi investigates her claims against brett kavanaugh. just minutes ago the show spoke exclusively with a high level u.s. official who said the fbi will not do that, it will notgh investigate, because what she is alleging is not a federal crime. the fbi will only investigate if the white house demands it. fox political analyst, the senior political analyst brit hume joins us tonight. what do you make of this? it's all happening so fast. >> it's pretty transparent and it all points in one direction. delay, delay, delay. we know based on what we've been told at least that christine ford was reluctant to come forward and was induced somehow to do so.ea chuck schumer was saying the other day, she should be able to

get on her timetable but it looks like the democrats minutes to accelerate the timetable, perhaps not in her bestim interest. this is a sensitive matter with her and it has caused her as far as we know some pain and difficulty. it has the appearance that she has been pushed and now she may be pushing back. or she doesn't want to testify understandably. she never apparently did want to testify. and now of course they are finding a way to use that to say, we need an fbi investigation because the whole idea of this is to postpone the vote as long as possible. obviously i think the democrats had some hope that perhaps what they thought these explosiveos allegations would sink the nomination but that clearly isn't going to happen at least at this stage. the second best thing to happen was tooap stolid as long as possible and that is unmistakably in my judgment with this is all about. >> tucker: the boat was

scheduled for thursday. it delayed because we are waiting for her to testify on monday. >> correct. >> tucker: now she has a we need to delay until the fbi investigates. while the vote be thursday? >> i have reason to doubt that because the committee will want to bend over backwards to make it clear that they really want to hear from her. the story must be told and it suspect they will keep that date open a couple more days. that's just a guess on my part. what's happening here, we are living in an atmosphere in which a woman comes forward and makes an allegation, the burden of proof is on the defendant of the accused. and that is -- if nobody is saying that exactly out right but that's a subtext of all these comments. richard blumenthal for exampleht is saying that he can't identify certain circumstances under which -- and others identify circumstances under which the nominee can clear his name. you heard tim kaine say, that's a big hypothetical. as if his innocence is a

hypothetical. that is where we are.. but the political power, the me too movement israel and it motivates people and the republicans -- they are all bending over backwards to say she ought to have her story told. >> tucker: we have not attacked her, and ice sincerely feel sorry for her. there is a whole other country. hundreds of millions of the rest of us and there's a process to fill a vacancy on the supreme court and why should this story delay it if she's not willing to come to washington and testify? i don't understand why this can't go forward. >> i think what you hear from senator lindsey graham and others, is that they are prepared to go forward. they just have to leave this door open for a little while, is what looks like to me. i think they are going to go forward. this is a tiny handful of senators.

susan collins, lisa murkowski, jeff flake who is on the committee and could by his single no vote keep the nomination coming out, and, this -- attorney number number of republicans regarding this and the leadership is working hard to keep them in the fold. this hearing date is one manifestation of that. >> tucker: jeff flake has a lot of power today. >> delivery does. he may not have a much longer since he's retiring but at the moment he's got some say. >> tucker: brit hume, thank you very much. president trump's>> declassification order means that carter page will finally learn the details of why he was spied upon by the last administration. he joins us next on that. ♪ why accept it from an allergy pill? flonase relieves sneezing, itchy, watery eyes and a runny nose, plus nasal congestion, which most pills don't. it's more complete allergy relief.

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administration? people in the media, a lot of them have repeatedly suggested he is a russian spy and they were egged on in that by politically motivatedy leaks from the economic governmenty and doj. despite all that, he's never been charged with a single crime and there is no indication he ever will be. thanks to the declassification that we've been telling about, we will finally get to see why the obama administration spied on him. can't imagine the money you've spent and your reputation has been sullied to put it mildly. all of these people calling you a russian spy. but you are not, why is that? >> things could have turned out so much worse. if president trump had listened to this fake intel report from comey, klapper and brennan in 2017, imagine the wars i couldt have led to. >> tucker: well sure.

what do you expect to learn from these declassified documents? >> i think it will be a complete laughingstock. every premise, anything that i was ever asked by members of congress, the fbi, various government institutions, it was all just preposterous from the very beginning. >> tucker: they accuse you -- you graduated from a military academy, you are a naval officer, and people of congress accused you of betraying your country, how does that feel? >> again. thankfully we have president trump's leadership working through in terms of -- you know, the impact it's had on him and his administration, this is a minuscule problem that i have had to deal with. >> tucker: you either have a deep religious faith or you are on xanax or something that the evenness of your temperament is amazing to me.

there's one question in 30 seconds that you want answered in these documents, what would it be? >> who is responsible for all this? there's obviously a lot ofof people that have some culpability, but let's see who did what to whom. >> tucker: i can't wait to find that out. if i had a dollar for every time someone has sat on the set and accused you of betraying america on behalf of vladimir putin, i would retire. i don't even know you. outside the studio, we've never even met. carter page, godspeed. that's about it for us tonight, tune in every night including tomorrow, the next night and the night after that to the show that is the sworn enemy, and we mean it, of lying,mo pomposity, smugness, and groupthink, all of which are overwhelming this country and especially the city and in our small but persistent way, we are fighting back. i hope you join us as we do that. good night from washington. guess who is next? live from new york city,

the financial capital of america, sean hannity. sean: the swamp is tucker's and the sewer is tucker's, and i pay all the taxes. great show as always. we have so much breaking news tonight.. welcome to "hannity." a presumption of innocence it is the very foundation of america's justice system and ap the very core of our constitutional republic. sadly tonight there are some people in this country ready to throw what is the single most important principle to the wind, all in an effort to delay, disrupt the confirmation of judge kavanaugh. i have long emphasized the seriousness of sexual misconduct allegations. kavanaugh and his accuser should testify under oath. sadly, that's just not good enough for some people.