♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." if you have been paying attention recently you may have noticed an unexpected trend.en a number of establishment liberals including hillaryry clinton and john kerry suddenly starting to wonder if open borders are really a good idea after all. that's amazing. what does it mean? we will be joined by a guest to explain the thoughts. later the ambassador to germany will tell us what happened to the german chancellor angela merkel when she asked her country's doors to a million refugees in a single year. there are lessons there for

this country. then tomorrow marks the anniversary of matt lauer's firing from nbc news for sexual harassment. a year later has anythingg changed? we will talk to a former nbc employee who says the coverupp at nbc is still in progress. she has details. also tonight, postscript in the long and the exceptionally seedy saga of the creepy pornal lawyer. his most famous client appeared to have turnedd against him. did he defraud her? details ahead.ta but first tonight after two long years of the most expenseive and the wide-ranging independente? counsel investigation in a a generation we should be close to nabbing the dastardly agents from russia who hacked the election. arewi we? no we are not. instead they are threatening elderly men with life in

prison for petty crimesea and crimes that have nothing to do with spying or russia or anything else that threatens america. this is a grotesque joke. here was cnn yesterday in the breathless stupidity. >> potentially big new question in the russia investigation.ig corresponding look of answers from the white house.d >> any kind of collusion with the russians -- >> then there is the russia investigation. r >> we know the russians were involved in interfering with the election. t >> russians offering as you know in the trump tower meeting some kind of dirt on hillary clinton. >> russian hackers began to target clinton accounts. >> it's russia. >> tucker: russia, he says. the word itself is a man call incantation that eliminates skepticism and rational thought in journalists. whatever the claim, they believe it whole heartedly. not just because they areea dumb, obviously they are dumb but russia!

a spell. like eye of newt. yesterday, the "guardian" newspaper reported paulme manafort the former chairman of the trump campaign held a series of secret meetings with julian assange at the ecuadorian embassy in london over a period of years. it sounded sinister. but the problem is there is precisely no evidence that any of that happened. there is a lot of evidence to suggest the story is false. assange is one of the most closely monitored people on the planet. e living in europe's most heavily surveilled city. somehow, nobody saw or recorded any of the meetings, which by the way, everybody supposedly present denied ever took place. the whole thing was absurd. after pressure, "guardian" walked back the story. but the geniuses in they american press corps axed like it was all completely real. the washington senior political reporter aaron blake

repeated the claim as gospel. so did john campbell of cnn and cnbc john harwell, not surprisingly. it sounded right, he would probably meet with assange in russia or london.ss who cares if he actually did. keep in mind these are reporters. they are supposed to be fact-base and our watchdogs. they are not. the people are mindlesss enforcers of whatever the establishment line of the day happens to be. they are intellectual thugs to make us shut down. who would believe anything they say? molly hemingway does not believe them and is senior editor of the "federalist" and she joins us tonight. "guardian" story i pulled out because of a great piece you wrote and metaphor for our coverage. it's transparently thin at best and repeated as if it was real. >> like all the other russia stories we have seen. there is a claim. this is a hard to disproveth claim. it doesn't say what is going on but the russia thing comes into play. >> tucker: russia! >> so everyone falls for it.

as journalists we should have a higher standard. we should demand evidence and make sure it makes sense. the notion that julian assange could have a meeting with literally anyone and not be defected is hard to believe. >> tucker: three separate times over years.fe >> not once, not twice but three times. not just a heavily surveilled city. he is holed up in the ecuadorian embassy. they keep logs. the story explains it away saying that he failed to sign in. that is ludicrous. you should demand evidence before falling for a story. all of the stories are used to prove a cloud of suspicion. it's not russia meddled in election. they did. they have done it for decades. that is what they are known for. but the notion is trump is ahe traitor who colluded withot russia to steal hillary clinton's election.. that is the claim put out ino the media and the one they have to prove. to say they haven't come close to making that, proving s that

claim is an understatement. >> tucker: the problem is that sometime very soon this is going to culminate in a report from the special counsel's office. we are going to have to chew over a lot of different allegations. and the people presenting the allegations to us have no credibility left.ga so where does it leave thet. country? >> this is the problem. you would assume at this point if people were trying to push the theory they'd understand there is a problem. there is no evidence with it there is no way with a u straight face you can make the claim. you would assume some reporters would try to back pedal. i don't know if they aree embarassed how much they pushed it to undermine the incoming administration two years ago and embarrassed how they receive leaks from the intel folks without doing due diligence on them or they just fell for the information operation. because they weren't smart enough to see through it. i don't know if it's just that. >> tucker: ask you a quick question. we are almost out of time. t you follow this closely so have you heard anybody in thehe press corps say wait a minute,

here you have robert mueller threatening 72-year-old jerome corsi with prison because he couldn't remember forwarding't an e-mail. maybe that is excessive. has anybody said that? >> there is no skepticism ones any aspect of the story. the other part there are things we have learned about the bad behavior and bad action by senior officialse in the government.y and the media have not shown concern or care about that. >> tucker: because they are hand maidens to power and job to defend the establishment. thank you. kim strassel follows this regularly and joins us for updates. great to see you. what is the latest? >> hi, tucker. the latest we have got out there is that new text by carter page today to show he was first con about thed by the reporters all the way back in july of 2016 -- contacted by reporters all the way back to july of 2016 to ask about the claims in the infamous dossier. >> tucker: yes. >> the reason this iss

important is you look at the testimony from the fusionpo g.p.s. founder glenn simpson or the depositions made by christopher steele's team. they always made it sound as though when they got the information, explosive revelations about carter page they went to the f.b.i. and the only interest was the national security and alerting law enforcement. and that they didn't go to the press until months later. it turns out almost within days of him puttingat together the allegations, they were shopping it to the press to see if they could get it out there in the middle of july. >> tucker: you are saying the creepy foreigner with actual russia ties christopher steele accuses a former naval officer and annapolis grad falsly of being a russian agent -- falsely as being a russian agent and everyone in the press takes it as face value? >> i want to give credit where it is due.

according to page, contacted by numerous reputable press outlets in the summer asking him the question and he deniedie it and they never ran with the story. >> tucker: right. >> it took simpson and fusion up until september to get somebody to bite. but the point here, the bigger point is completely undermines the claim this was something they took to law enforcement. this is clear already in the middle of july before the f.b.i. started the counter intelligenceb. investigation that this was the chatter among the press corps, t undoubtedly among most people in the obama administration. probably within the intelligence agency. and up doubtedly there was pressure brought to bear on the f.b.i. to act. >> tucker: amazing story. at some point the whole story will be written. i think it will look very different. i hope you you will write it. thank you for that. >> thank you. >> tucker: well, the special counsel investigation is accelerating and at some point possibly soon we will see robert mueller's report or parts of it. if it's not released to the

public parts of it will be leaked. we'll have the information. but how should we assess it? alan dershowitz thought a lot t about the question and retired harvard law enforcementht professor and author of "the case against impeaching trump" and joins us tonight. thank you. for coming on. >> my pleasure. >> tucker: are we likely to see the report in whole or part and what should we think when we do? >> we will see the report, probably the whole report eventually. but we should never see it until we also see the president's legal team rebuttal. because otherwise it's a completely one-sided presentation.. remember it's like an indictment. even though it won't be an indictment. it's one sided. it's based on the testimony only that the prosecution caught to call. everybody knows indictment can't be used as evidence of guilty and it doesn't undercult presumption of innocent.

it's just a charging document. that is the way we should read the report issued by mueller. this is simply an accusation. r we must see the other side of the story before we can come to any conclusion. somehow people think that it deserves more credibility because it's a special counsel report. that is not true. special counsel is just another prosecutor looking at one side of the case. he will present a one-sided account which will be very critical of his subject. >> tucker: so the report, there is no requirement that the report has balance in it or shows both sides of any question? >> quite the opposite. it's a prosecutorial report. it won't show balance. anybody that expects balance, fairness or nuance is looking at the wrong kind of document. you can't have balance when you haven't heard the other side of the story. when you haven't called t witnesses who might be

exculpatory. when you have only tried to put together a prosecutorial case. that is why it is essential that thed president's team be permitted to issue their own report at the same time the mueller report is issued. >> tucker: interesting. so people who say we need special counsel investigation to find out what happened as an informational exercise were lying to us. let me ask you a more fundamental question. >> absolutely, yeah. >> so every person who yields power in the society by design has some sort of oversight. we can defeat our election representatives -- elected representatives in elections or recall the judges. the special counsel cannot be fired because that itself is impeachable offense. is there any oversight of any b kind of the special counsel? >> first of all, firing the special counsel would not be impeachable offense, because it wouldn't be the crime. the president wouldn't -- the president would have authority to do it but it's politically damaging to do it.

there is technically oversight of thety special counsel with the attorney general. he was recused and now we have an acting attorney general. regulation requires that thehe attorney general is not supposed to micromanagett the work of the special counsel. he is not like any other u.s. attorney under direct supervision.n. the ultimate control the attorney general has whether to release the report under what circumstances to release the report, whether to redact part of the report, whether to reject part of the report andd send it back to the special counsel to say look you didn't do a good enough job.ct go back to drawing board and do it again. unlike any of those things will occur. exceptoa i think the attorney general would be wise to demand that before the special counsel report is released to the public or congress that the president's legal team be given an opportunity to review and reput it and provide their own report. then the american public and the congress can see both sides in tandem and make an intelligent decision where thec

right is and how to bringde nuance and find the truth. the truth is best achieved through adversarial process and presenting all sides of an issue. not presenting one side of an issue. >> tucker: that is the premise of this show, by the way. thank you, professor. great to see you tonight. >> thank you. amazingly, hillary clinton and others on the establishment left appear to be realizingle open borders may threaten their own agenda. unexpected. dana perino joins to us talk about that. and did the creepy porn lawyer embezzle money from his client? we have developments ahead. you better be 'cause it's red lobster's new create your own ultimate feast event!

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>> tucker: well, in country, the press and the leaders of the party tout immigration as good and you are immoral if you disagree. but once they go abroad and not seeking power for themselves occasionally they say things that stray from theoa script. last week, hillary clintonio told "the guardian" that europe needs to curb migration to check the rise ofua the extremist politics. john kerry of all people agreed and went farther than that in a separate interview.

he said europe as been crushed by migration pressure causing instability in germany and italy. all true by the way. dana perino hosts "daily briefing" and "the five" and the most beloved people on the network. >> greg will be upset. >> tucker: neck and neck. i should note that both of them were attacked by lifestyle liberals in the united states, defenders of the status quo for saying that. why did they say that do you think? >> you have to go back. both john kerry and hillary clinton and panetta if you are going back. all said that they disagreed with obama when it came to how to deal with the rise of isis in syria. okay? when they left their -- gates as well. they all leave and write books and they all say we disagree with obama but they follow in lock step. they want to do something

aggressive but because the rise of isis is allowed to happen and then you have a huge migration crisis. angela merkel making a decision that will go down in history as the worst ever in europe, in the modern era, theha migrants come. remember, putin opens up the flood gates and says absolutely, go to europe, right? he knew destabilization would happen and didn't do anything to stop it. clinton and kerry were more centrist and responsible as secretary of state but theyny weren't able to influence the president and they admit that in their book. >> tucker: interesting. hillary clinton, i can'ty believe i'll say this becausee i noticed she is benal on everything she says. nothing is interesting. but shaved this gives rise to extremist politics and she is right. if you ignore the population and the democracy they seek other ways to express

themselveses. do you think it will catch on here? >> i do. you to have to look at the new congress. governorship across the spectrum. bah t -- the woman who won new mexico district ran on a tough border security piece. but she wanted to deal with daca, the way presidentec trump suggested he was willing to do so the republicans will take their cues from president trump. if he says i'm willing to do something here, let's bring back that deal. nancy pelosi, now you are p the speaker of the house let's try to work it out. i have a fantasy that gavin newsom the governor-elect could come to the white house and say i'm not from washington, i want to solve the problem. we can work it together. i will bring democrats and you

bring republicans. we can try to get things done.ts i think you might end up with something president d trump would be happy with and it u would be good for the country. >> tucker: that is so interesting. i don't mean this is an insult against newsom. he doesn't believe in anything. but sometimes those who are machiavellian get things done. >> sometimes if you're not ideological, that is the draw of president trump. this is a border state. it affects him. he wants the migrant workers to come to work and go back. he has a problem, too. but he has a political future. t i don't think p anyone in washington is up to the task. i think it will bee someone from the outside coming to president trump saying i'm willing to hold your hand and s jump together. we can do this. i might be optimistic, though. >> tucker: yeah. i don't know. i'm more cynical. but that is super interesting either way. dana, thank you for that.

>> thanks. >> tucker: well, anck amazing new poll which can't be real because it contradicts everything they tell you on the other channels shows conclusively that mexican citizens dislike the caravanan currently occupying thehe country. which means they are anti-hispanic racists. can that be real? that question next. plus we ask the ambassador to germany how well mass immigration worked in that country. just ahead. ank. ank. capital one is anything but typical. that's why we designed capital one cafes. you can get savings and checking accounts with no fees or minimums. and one of america's best savings rates. to top it off, you can open one from anywhere in 5 minutes. this isn't a typical bank. this is banking reimagined. what's in your wallet?

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>> tucker: the >> tucker: the migrant caravan cast shadow over american politics but for now they are not on u.s. soil. they are in mexico. on the border with tijuana. the convoy agitates to be let into this country no questions asked the city of tijuana is stuck with feeding and housing the migrants. many tijuana residents are fed up with that. >> i'm not really in favor of them coming the way they did. to me it feels like they invaded. >> i have never seen this. it's like a war zone. >> are you worried that more are coming? >> very much. we are not prepared for this. >> but there are ways in which i enter your home asking for support and help.ch this was not the correct way. >> we are here because the government has not taken control of what we call invasions. >> should this caravan have been stopped at the guatemala border? >> of course. i agree with that 100%. you should have.

>> tucker: of course. a new poll by a mexican newspaper finds that 7 in 10 mexican citizens hold a negative view of migrant families entering the country. 52% of mexicans say their country should block any migrants from entering the country without documentation. so the question is -- we are getting this right from cnn -- are the citizens of mexico w anti-hispanic racists? they have got to o be. we are joined by a california radio host who joins us tonight. what i find amazing about this is that the international racist conspiracy is so vast that it includes majority of the mexican citizens. i have never imagined that in my wildest dreams. are you surprised to hear it? >> i'm not surprised because we as human beings have history of not liking the other. this dates back in a deep part of our brain. so any time we see the other

people coming in to our country we have a negative response to it. it's something we have to consciously overcome to connect as fellow human beings because don't forget the migrants are human beings. >> yes. but they are also -- by the way, there is some truth in what you just said. it's a fair kind of nonjudgmental observation of human nature. i agree i think. but i don't agree of everything to a simple black versus white, white versusgr hispanic racial divide. this is much more complicated. they are not racist for not wanting their country changed by migration overnight, are they? >> no. it doesn't make them racist. we don't live on the savannah. we are not cavemen anymore. we shouldn't give in to those deep base feelings in what some people call lizard brain part of the brains that are there to say anybody

different -- we had to live that way tens of thousands of years ago to protect ourselves but we are more advanced now. we have the technology to identify people to process and to help people because remember, these arere asylum-seekers. >> they are not -- okay. first of all. they are not fleeing a war. if they qualify for asylum, that means that every person in the nation of honduras by definition qualifies for asylum. that is insane. that is a separate debate. you are giving the residents of tijuana every benefitat of every doubt. you are saying the instincts are welling up like allyo people's would. i get it. that iss what you are saying. i appreciate that you are saying that. i have never heard a liberal say that about the american citizens saying wait, my country is totally different. racist, shut up, bad person, klansman! why don't we give our own people the benefit of the

doubt for the benefit of the doubt you give residents of tijuana? >> we have hadef similar conversations about people before. i appeal to not give in to basis. we need to remember these are the human beings that deserve care and treatment so we don't demonize them to say my gosh, they are invading. they are not. they are fleeing. yes, by the way, they are fleeing a war. ms-13 has taken over el salvador and dominated swaths of the country, that is like a war zone.sa >> tucker: okay.y. but they have a point of view and you are acknowledging for the first time that the other side needs representation as well. the lives are changed. affected. it's costly. it's chaotic. like they have a perspective we can't ignore by dismissing them as bigots. you are acknowledging that. why can't we afford the same presumption of decency to

american citizens? it's not just that they are irrationm.m. -- irrational. a million new people come in every year that has an effect on you. it's okay to be upset about it, isn't it? >> look. c we can acknowledge assimilation can be difficult for the first generation. but the second and the third generations assimilate. we no longer have the feelings once we get over the initial shock, that they speak a different lapping wage or theyhe eat different food that we end loving in this country. this is a much biggerer country that is economically rich and we have resources available tory help people.no >> tucker: that is true. i think we are basically a broke country that think it's still rich. like aristocratic family in decline. that is a separate conversation. will you at least concede that decent -- this is all i want from the conversation.n. decent people can look at the

mass migration and say you know what? i'm not into it. i don't like it. and it doesn't make them bad people. >> it doesn't make them bad. again, i just want to say that we can't live our lives like we still live in caves and we have to rise above that. it doesn't make you bad that you have the base instinct but if you give into it and you stop there you have stunted your own growth. i don't think that isou healthy. >> tucker: to be continued, ethan. great to see you. thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: well, nbc fired matt lauer for sexual harassment tomorrow. a year ago tomorrow. the question is what has happened at nbc since? has it learned anything? has there been a realha investigation? is it per vasetive sexual pervasive sexual harassment at nbc? we have someone who worked at nbc and has details after the break.ls plus, creepy porn lawyer came

on the show and denied he was y exploiting stormy daniels.pl now stormy daniels is suggesting, he is exploiting her. amazing twist in the seediest news story of the year after the break. to most, he's phil mickelson, pro golfer.

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and use the joint damage simulator to see how your joint damage could be progressing. ask about enbrel. enbrel. fda approved for over 16 years. ♪ >> tucker: well, tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of nbc news firing matt lauer that followed allegation of sexual harassment by the "today show" host. >> for the moment all we can say is we are heart-broken. i'm heart-broken for matt. he is my dear friend and my partner and beloved by many people here. i'm heart broken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story and any other women who have their own stories to tell. >> tucker: a huge story, if you remember. nbc said it would fix itself, get to the bottom of it and prevent it from happening again. we have a filmmaker and

network news anchor including here and full page ad that will run tomorrow morning and a piece on the fox news.com opinion section. published minutes ago which is worth reading. linda, thank you for coming on. >> thank you. >> tucker: one reason i'm grateful you are bringing this to the public attention is there was supposed to be a public investigation from which we could learn what happened. where is it? >> they published results of the so-called investigation but the truth wasn't in there. because at least six women, at least six women victimized by matt lauer according to them telling me personally or people close to them telling me personally were never interviewed. they had damaged details about lauer and others in management who allegedly protected him. nothing happened. they weren't spoken to properly.

there are four members on-air talent who worked closely with matt who were never interviewed. they too had important information and i believe the network knew it. not only implicated matt but implicated other men in positions of power at nbc news. that never got investigated. there has to be a question of why? is it because he, himself has a history of reported sexual misconduct in the workplace in the past? so he, himself, is guilty? or is it because he wanted to protest other high profile men at the company? he cares more about the bottom line and doesn't really care about the women whose lives, careers and reputations are being destroyed. he just cares about the money and the man he wants to protect. >> tucker: nbc is part of a larger public company comcast. you would think they had an interest to get to the bottom of this. why haven't they? >> this is long overdue the comcast board of directors get

involved. they are directors of a publicly traded company. they answerable to shareholders and the public. this is a broadcaster that is regulated by the f.t.c. so these board of directors, they cannot get away with burying their heads in the sand. these are real women whose lives and career and reputations are destroyed. they can't ignore them. comcast just put out a twiddle handle yesterday that says, "comcast cares." does it really? the directors need to make it their business to get involved and investigate all of the allege predators at mbc nbc news, not just matt lauer or tom brokaw that assaulted and harassed me but many others who need to get to bottom of it and clean out what is wrong with nbc news. be a bacon of the journalistic organization should be. >> tucker: you mentioned andy lack who runs this and suggested he, himself, ought to be investigated.

has he been? >> no. >> tucker: do you think there is evidence he should be subject of an investigation? >> i know of two victims who have been interviewed by reporters. i know of a member of cbs news management who was involved in both of the cases who confirmed that to me. so, yes, that exists. it's also been in print. this is out in the news. what is shocking to me is that this is easy findable. you can google this. does nbc universal and comcast just not care? does andy look's boss steve birk know about it and not care he had alleged i will say predator running the news division? does brian roberts not care? comcast was founded as a family company. tell me how that is a family company when women are abused and being silent? non-disclosure agreements and the forced arbitration are literally choking the voices off.

and preventing them from speaking. how fair, moral and ethical is that? this is a news organization. they should do much better. >> tucker: the fact that andy lack has been accused of that who is running it is shocking. can you give us a sense of the time frame of allegations against andy lack? >> they were in the '80s i'm told by people who were knowledgeable of this as an executive producer at west 57th. >> tucker: amazing story. nbc should lead the charge. but you are. linda vester, thank you for that. >> thank you. >> tucker: angela merkel took a chance letting in a million asylum seekers at one time. how has that worked out for her and for her country? we ask the ambassador to germany that question after the break. then the creepy porn lawyer client stormy daniels made

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>> tucker: america isn't the only cou >> tucker: america isn't the only country facing economic pressure and social volatility from unrestrained immigration.. just three years ago europe faced its own wave of migrants from africa and the middle east. the german chancellor angela merkel responds to this by accepting nearly a million migrants in a single year. adjusted for population that would be like this country taking in 4 million in 12 months. three years after that, how has that decision affected germany and merkel's political career? rick gemel is the current ambassador to germany and is joining us. thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: you are seeing

the figures on the left, hillary clinton and john kerry, but others rethinking the political fall out of merkel's decision to do that. from where you sit what was the effect of letting in the migrants? >> first, talk about the political effect. there was no plan in place so the policy fell apart. chancellor merkel and many in germany had big hearts. they wanted to do something but there wasn't a plan. so, even chancellor merkel all the years later agreed that there was no plan. and therefore the policy fell apart. it wasn't implemented with hardcore security measures. and follow-up. so from the political standpoint, next week, w chancellor merkel is giving up her chairmanship of the party. there are three other people running and the top issue ishe migration and her handling of migration. politically i'd say it toppled

her and has forced her now to give up the chairmanship of a party she once ran with a strong arm. >> tucker: what is so interesting watching germany from here is how the german press and the cultural leaders responded. this was three years ago and it was obvious ordinary germans didn't like it and it caused the crime rate to go up and it was causingng economic pressure on ordinary germans. but people weren't allow to say that for a number of years in public. or am i misreading it? >> no, you are right. i'd go so far to say we still have the problem in germany. there is still an overreaction if you complaint about wanting secure borders or -- if you complain about wanting securecu borders or an orderly process. this is not whether you have a heart. this is whether or not you have a plan.

we in the united states know a million people a year get u.s. citizenship. we are very generous. this is not wanting immigrants.we the idea that the left or the right or. the media is mixing upup legal immigration with illegal immigration is an outrage. those of us in the public policy positions have to push back and say look, we are not talking about legal immigration. the united states isal generous. germany has been generous. this is about whether or not you have a plan. because not everyone is going to be able to come. that is what you have to beo able to say. we must prioritize. what is that number? 1 million people in the united states. is it 4 million people in germany over a number of years?s? what is that number? because whatever that number is still going to be too low.

you are still going to turnca people away. let's have an orderly processoi and figure out how to do legal immigration and do it thehe right way. t >> tucker: are people -- i think that is what we need in the united states. honest adult conversationte about what we can afford, whatou is good for your country and what the next 100 years looks like demographically. we can't have the conversation here. can germans have it? >> i think the united states is having a better conversation than germans tote be honest. this has largely been controlled by elites in berlin. but normal, everyday people are beginning to say wait a minute, this policy is not working.ni this is not about being generous. we are very generous. they have a lot of open borders throughout europe. but i would also argue that the mistakes of germany,t tucker, rippled throughout all of europe because we have seen in austria with sebastian curtis who came in with a plan and say we need security and a

set of rules. this is not about being generous or not being open to immigrants but just having rules. once he established that he wanted rules he won in a big way and is now become popular throughout germany. >> tucker: yes. >> so while some in the media and germany will try to push this into saying you are a radical far right person, the reality is that normal everyday germans and europeans are clamoring for leaders who wants to have safe and secure borders and an orderly process. >> tucker: if they wantec create radicals they could keep lying to the population. that is what they will get. ambassador grenell, thank youou very much. great to see you tonight. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: stormy daniels. made a remarkable and yetet predictable allegation against the creepy porn lawyer. we have details for you after this break. (burke) parking splat. and we covered it.

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♪ >> tucker: we close tonight with breaking news about a man we thought we'd never mention again on this show. a man who for a bright,n ugly moment dominated cable news and then receded to well-deserved obscurity. he is back. creepy porn lawyer. you will remember he came on the show a couple of months ago and suggested he was a feminist. we responded he was, in fact, exploiting a troubled woman, stormy daniels, to transform himself from a sleazy lawyer into a presidential contender. here is how he responded.aw >> tucker: stormy daniels is right now working in strip clubs in little towns on stage and people are throwing things at her. you are wear wearing $1,000 suit. why are now not paying her? you profited from stormy daniels. you did tens of thousands of free media on the basis of your relationship with her and she is working at strip clubs. you areyo exploiting her.

and you know that. why are you paying her some of what you are making? >> this is absurd. >> tucker: it's not absurd. it's a fact. >> i have done a remarkable job for my client and she will be the first to tell you that. >> sean: it turns out his client would not be the fist to tell you that or vouch for his services as a lawyer. today, stormy daniels leveled several blockbuster allegations against creepy porn lawyer. first she said he sued the president for defamation for her without telling her. that could be a crime. there is more though. in a statement to "the daily beast" stormy daniels says, "for months i have asked him to give me accounting information about the funds my supporters so generously donated for my safety and legal defense. he repeatedly ignored those requests. days ago i demanded again repeatedly he tell me how the money was being spent. and how much was left.y instead of answering me, without my permission or even my knowledge, he launched

another crowd funding campaign to raise money on my behalf. i learned about it on twitter." that is her statement. the creepy porn lawyer is right about one thing. he has done a remarkable job for himself. the only client who matters. thank you for the last hour. we'll be back tomorrow. sean hannity right now. >> sean: great show as always. that kind of cracks me up every time you do it. >> tucker: [laughs] me, too! i can't help it. >> sean: makes he laugh. welcome to "hannity." chocked full hour. mueller's partisan witch hunt will soon come to an end but not before he makes one last hail mary attempt to damage, destroy, and disrupt the presidency of donald trump. how the screws are being turned on two trump supporters, both of whom will join us tonight. jerome corsi and roger stone. mueller is threatening them with what could be life in prison sentence. laying perjury trap after perjury trap around every