he planted that famous case on a pretty stranger to celebrate. he later became a freshman and rhode island that is where he died at the age of 95. we thank him for his service and his exuberance that day. that is the story. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." jussie smollett claim to be the victim of a racist attack at the hands of two from supporters, the entire news media immediately believed him. now that story is coming apart according to police forces, he actually orchestrated the entire attack himself. he's been following from this from the very beginning. the host. >> reports ours will learn that the alleged hate crime against the empire star jussie smollett was all a hoax but he staged the

attack on himself, two arrests were made late last week of the chicago police department officially named two nigerian brothers as suspects, not just persons of interest. hours later both the suspects were released without any charge filed, it clearly two brothers. the term of events the chicago pd wants to re-question smollett. i spoke with his publicist who told me there are no plans for jussie smollett to meet with chicago police today. any news reports suggesting otherwise are inaccurate. the brothers were initial subjects were extras on the shell and they knew him who told police that he was attacked by two white men on january 29th, they yelled homophobic and racial slurs, pouring bleach on him and putting a rope around his neck. the police entered the two suspects home in chicago they found a black mask, bleach bottles and a script from empire. the manager told us exclusively at variety that he was on the

phone with the client during the incident and he heard the slurs yelling, "this is a maga country." he refused to turn over his cell phone and he turns and heavily redacted phone records. smollett is denying the attack was but reports have surfaced that even paid them close to $4,000. the brothers fled to nigeria the night of the attack and did not return to the police pick them up and they began two days of questioning while today the two brothers spoke to a local chicago affiliate and this is what they said. we are not racist. we are not homophobic we are not anti-trauma. we were born and raised in chicago and we are american citizens. lawyers for smollett are standing by the client story sing as a victim of a hate crime was cooperated with the police, jussie smollett is anchored and devastated by a recent support

that there individuals he was familiar with. he has not been further victimized by these alleged perpetrators. nothing is further from the truth and anyone claiming otherwise is lying. that is from his lawyer. >> tucker: amazing story. thank you very much. i appreciate it. almost 3,000 people were shot in the city of chicago last year. men, women, small children, sometimes alone and sometimes in groups. many hundreds of them died. not a single one of those people received anything like the attention the media has lavished on a relatively minor actor jussie smollett. none of the shootings were even half as useful as smollett story. history had everything. the national media gave up the pretense of gathering news, journalism is now exquisitely apolitical job. the point if it is to enforce cultural orthodoxies and punish

enemies. jussie smollett was the perfect vehicle for both of those things. the journal is pretended to be horrified, secretly they were thrilled. >> there are many indications of a hate crime here. they are looking for two suspects who were wearing make america great again hats, that has not been officially confirmed. >> we don't know what happened, we do know that racism is alive and well in this country. there is real evidence of people who have done these crimes, they said the president has inspired them. >> the fact that they said this is make america great again country adds to the atmosphere of menace that african-americans in particular, people of color in general have felt since the advent of the trump administration. >> the media has cast so much doubt on his story which i find so personally offensive that a black man is targeted and then suddenly he becomes the victim

of people's disbelief. it is so outrageous. >> he said his attackers rolled racial and homophobic slurs at him. this is america 2019. >> tucker: this is america 2019. the national media story, it was the perfect metaphor for the trump era. it was also pretty clearly a total crock. it began to pull apart within hours after a series of leaks from the obviously skeptical chicago police department. smollett's handlers. and with a network that could bear that. 60 minutes with robin roberts of "good morning america." she knew there was ample evidence that he was lying, but she decided to ignore that, instead they colluded with him. she nodded sympathetically as he wept on camera. she has no significant follow questions, the two parted like

old friends. they turn out to be talented actors. check with her performance on youtube before it was scrubbed. you will never watch "abc news" again. virtually everywhere the uttered was dishonest. explain the men who attacked and were not muggers, they didn't want money. they assaulted him early because of his identity. people like jussie smollett are not allowed to live and donald trump's america, that was the message of the attackers. this is mega country they screamed. referring to of course a city where 80% of the population voted against donald trump. as a crime story did make a lot of sense, skeptics on the internet raised jessica to my questions about his country he attacked them as racist. >> if i had said it was a muslim or mexican or someone black, i feel like the daughters have supported me much more.

a lot more. that says a lot about the place that we are in our country right now. the fact that we have these fear mongrels, these people that are trying to separate us and it is not okay. >> tucker: what you just heard is a near perfect inversion of the truth that he might have put it. who is the fear mongrels here? who is dividing us and who is the victim in all of this? smollett claims that he is the victim. he tells us that he represents the most despised and unfashionable groups in america, that is why bigots talk to story and the rest of us not as if this was true because we are required to do that. that is how dishonest are to society has become. everyone must lie all the time. we know the rules, we have no choice. meanwhile leaders immediately jump to the defense of the supposedly unpopular person before even hearing the evidence.

within hours at least two presidential candidates have described is what happened as a attempted lynching. they assumed that he must be telling the truth, by definition, they smeared anyone who doubted him. they called him a hero. as is the treatment that marginalized people received? hardly. smollett is an powerless, far from it. his power lies in pretending that he has no power, in fact jussie smollett and his promoters are the aggressors in the story. they launched a cuckolded campaign of slander against the entire group of people who are far less wealth and far less cultural influence than they have. if there is a biased crime here, they committed it. will anybody be held accountable for this? don't bet on that. i'll sharpen, she had an awful to story to tell. he said she had been viciously by a group of racist white man and left in a garbage bag. she was covered in with racial

slurs scrawled on her body. the case dominated headlines across the country for more than a year, it bitterly divided new york city along catholic nice to make lines people hated each other. it was all a lie. after conducting hundreds of interviews, the grand jury declared the story fraudulent, none of it actually happened. she fled the state, a judge ordered i'll sharpen to pay for damages for accusing innocent men. that should've been the end of his career, get just the opposite happens. before he promoted her allies, he was known as a small-time hustler, an fbi informant from brooklyn. a man who had been james brown's road manager. after he perpetuated the single most racial hoax and memory, he got a promotion. he became the world famous civil rights leader. he ran for president. he became a policy advisor to barack obama. according to visitor logs, he was invited to the obama

white house more than 80 times. he cut his own show on msnbc which he still has. he has never apologized or knowledge the harm he did to this country by lying about her case. no one has forced him to. the lesson of al sharpton was clear to everyone watching, there are no penalties for hate hoaxes. there are only rewards. not surprisingly, there have been many more sense. the incident exploited dramatically after the 2016 election. the muslim student who claims she was assaulted by racists and dropouts. muslim woman in san diego who alleged the same. the anti-asian attack in minnesota. for the racial in delaware. racial graffiti at the air force air force. all fake. those and many, many more. the much-hyped epidemic of hate crimes he averts much about essentially is made up. the premise is absurd. america is not a hateful

country. it is the most welcoming place on earth. that is why even as our children learn from their teachers what a bigoted country this is, millions continue to stream in from africa and latin america for a better life here. it is what we have welcomed more refugees and immigrants than any nation in history. it is we rescued her from a refugee camp in kenya. we are kind people. you see it in your own life. how many violent racist you know? none probably. that is because there aren't any in america. the left has to invent them. stoking race hatred gives power to the party, divided populations are easier to manipulate and rule. there would be no coalition without racial animosity, it is what holds their constituencies together. that is the part of of identity politics. it is why they forever reopening the wound. it is why all al sharpton is a

revered figure. ask the kids from covington catholic school. for the crime of having unfashionable beliefs, a group of entirely innocent high school students can post them in their lives destroyed. the national media did that. they concocted a hate crime out of nothing. the twitter mob demanded those boys be expelled from school and marked for life. their parents were threatened and their classmates were harassed. after two days the video surfaced showing that none of it was real. the mob moved on. what if the video had not emerged? seen in panels was to be screaming for their blood. you hear people wonder why the media never seemed to learn anything from moments like this, moments where they are exposed as corrupt and reckless. the answer to that question is very simple, it never occurs to them that they may be wrong or have something to learn. immediacy is themselves as teachers, not students. if you ever try to put a sleepy 4-year-old and a snowsuit, you know how journalist bill about the audience.

it is frustrating when children don't understand or obey, but you have to keep trying. that is how they feel. listen to that media kit explain that the jussie smollett hoax is not in any way reflecting poorly on the people who promoted it. >> perhaps the question was not tough enough, ultimately this is not about the media or politicians were activists, at it is about jesse. >> tucker: oh, yeah, it is about jesse. it has nothing to do with any of us in the media who uncritically repeated his lies at night after night for a political fact. it is his problem now. that is nancy pelosi's new position now, almost after a story at the newswires the speaker of the denounced the attack "maybe i'll commit to ending this hate once on parole." she sensibly did that tweet, she has not apologized for her own role in perpetuating that date.

she should apologize and not simply because it is good manners. hate hoaxes make ethnic groups fear and distrust each other. that is a dangerous thing to do in a country that is becoming more diverse by the day. the only way to prevent future jussie smollett's is for the people who promoted these last two acknowledge what they have done. ask for forgiveness and pledge to stop judging others on the basis of racial stereotypes. we need to resolve the jussie smollett story. we can just move move on and ie it never happened which is their plan. he himself made that point actually at the end of his interview at "good morning america." watched. >> i still want to believe with everything that happened that there is some justice. >> tucker: we have that in common. something called justice. we'll want to believe that. more on the jussie smollett story after the break. it is still developing.

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senescent like victoria cross was. for three weeks jussie smollett where the victimhood mantle, or a sham. and said he was likely victimizing other people. depressed controlled things and he would have gotten away from it. the local police were skeptical from the very start. they apparently exposed a bizarre plot that nobody would have the outset. mark morgan was the head under barack obama and before that he spent more than 20 years at the fbi. thank you very much for coming on. underneath all of this is the largest store in chicago, which has an epidemic of shootings and murders. 3,000 shootings last year. fewer than 1 of 6 murders were resolved in chicago. i kept thinking, what is the manpower that has been diverted from actual crimes to work on this for crime? >> that is one of the most infuriating parts of this. they have a shooting about every

two hours, a homicide almost every 12 hours. the chicago pd and even though they were skeptical, they took it serious and they didn't outstanding job. they devoted 12 of 15 detectives around the clock to work on that, do the math. they could have been doing other stuff, solving real crimes to help the people of chicago. >> tucker: of this is what it appears to be, that seems like an actual crime. i can remember -- we were just talking about al sharpton, he has a show. he is richer and happier than ever. he perpetuated the greatest race hoax in my lifetime and walks free. do you think smollett will face that? >> i hope so. if the evidence does show where it is leaning, the district attorney should take this before the grand jury and get the indictment which means he will be arrested.

it is a felony in chicago, he will spend serious time. i have the chicago pd writes out a bill and make some pay. >> tucker: to think it is possible that he will hire him to join al sharpton in a race hoax block? [laughs] the criminal penalties though, it doesn't seem like anyone is ever charged. i can think of a long list on the top of my head of hate hoaxes of the last couple of years. >> what i will say and most investigators and detectives will tell you this, falsifying claims. this isn't anything new. this happens on a regular basis and that is why my law enforcement perspective it was so frustrating. it is not just a rush of judgment to assume it is a fact, what you see is a step further. they are not just excepting every allegations, they are immediately placing blame sour after it happens.

>> tucker: what happens after a society in which people's skin color makes the more believable or less believable? i thought that is what we were against a nice saying this guy looks and therefore he must believe. isn't that what was wrong with the jim crow south? >> tucker: that is exactly right. let's be honest, a country that is very divided on this issue. something like this happens, what happens? it further divides us. i hope if the evidence shows, i hope the d8 is the right thing and hold him accountable. >> tucker: i wonder after a while of the pressure doesn't become so intense that justice is no longer there. we should be trying for that, i would hope. have we given up trying? >> i can tell you chicago pd has not. they did the right thing even though they were skeptical from the start they did everything they could. they took us hate crime very serious and the work that they

have done, i hope they let the american people know just how difficult it was with what they have done. i did the right thing. i think we are okay from a law enforcement perspective. they will still do the right thing. i hope the divide, the entire law enforcement movement, i hope this serves that. the law enforcement will still do their job. no matter the vile things that are sad, chicago pd did exactly right. >> tucker: makes everybody hate each other, so sad. thank you very much. the press blasted smollett's original allegation as i did with covington, the fake duke grapes and a lot of other stories that conveniently confirmed their own personal bias they learned nothing from these hoaxes which again they helped perpetuate, prefer to forget they ever happens. this time be ever different? he has the worlds living expert

on this, author of the book panic attack, young radicals in the age of trial. i said, you are -- and expert on hoaxes like this. i said, if we find out more on this case i hope you will come back and you have. my first question is, but about the stats that you often hear about these hate crimes? i always hear, one of my will die in a hate crime or whatever. they seemed very large, are they real? >> the short answer is no. if you look very carefully, it is easy to misrepresent. if you look, more agencies reported data to the federal government. just counting the issue more accurately will make it look like the problem is getting worse when really there were fewer people participating in this game to count hate crimes the year before. statistics about anti-semitic hate intentions incidences, the

was a 60% increase since trump was elected. actually anti-semitic violence was way down and what was up was that one deranged teenager who lived in israel had sent him threats to jewish institutions. that was the entire swing was just him doing that. these were small numbers of overall crimes. it is easy to change depend on how you count and tally, it looks like it is happening and rising and we can point to why that is. that can be further from the truth. >> tucker: what you have is interest groups having misleading statistics to the media, but in the specific case the media didn't push back. if philip morris says to me, marbles are good for your health, i might want to google it. when these groups say, they faked the stats, they don't check? >> right. though stats weren't even

scientific, surveys from their own members. they were interested in promoting the idea that there is a surge in hate crimes. the media institution and he when he read their stories, they lead with the headline of, this is a figure that the activist group said and maybe many paragraphs down if you are lucky you get, by the way, this is comparing apples to oranges. >> tucker: this is why i love talking to you. maybe because were not aligned another side. no one else seems to follow up on the hoaxes. are there stats kept on this? >> it is so hard to tell the percentage of these things and if they are hoaxes. a lot of times, the college bias incident where someone does something. end. and my nephew criminal but it violates the college policy. something racially offensive. often times they're just not solved. when they are solved it seems to me, a lot of the time it ends up being a hoax. that is just from which ones i seek at solms.

i can say. >> tucker: of the cases that have been solved, of the top of your head, what percentage are fraudulent? >> it could be as many as every other, probably. >> tucker: wow. a long line. no surprise there. great to see you. congrats on the book. andrew mccabe says the fbi schemed to remove the president, their boss from office. what is happening at the doj? we have an update after the break. instead of covering her campaign, journalists are giving kamala harris fashion tips. more examples of them at work, after the break. ♪ gonna be 50 times happier... i would've gone into aspen dental much sooner. it was a very life changing experience... and it felt like i was me again. that's when i realized i hadn't been for three years.

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♪ >> tucker: andrew mccabe's much-hyped "60 minutes" interview aired last night and during it he says that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein offered to wear a wire, a

recording device to collect evidence on his boss, president trump. watch. >> the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the white house. he said i never get searched when i go to the white house, i could easily wear a recording device and they wouldn't know it was there. now he was not joking, he was absolutely serious and he brought it up in the next meeting we had. >> tucker: crazy people. after that aired the president tweeted that mccabe and rod rosenstein engaged in illegal and treasonous behavior, may be the most amazing thing is that as of right now, rod rosenstein is still the deputy attorney general of united states of america. how does that happen? victor davis hanson joins us tonight. he is still the deputy attorney general? at some point the president's has boss.

that is what the constitution says. i'm getting confused as how this is continuing. >> he created a pseudo-immunity for the media and political said that if he was let go, it was tampering into the mueller investigation. on that clip you played, andrew mccabe is not a psychiatrist. either as rod rosenstein. they knew the constitutional limits of the 25th amendment as a president like woodrow wilson, the last week of fdr. it is not a president you happen to disagree with. with their discussing is how to overthrow or abort a presidency. one of the most disturbing things of the interview was the high school journalism. he came onto the scene, remember? the word insurance policy under the peter strzok page text. i wasn't asked what that was?

why wasn't he asked why he went to a pfizer court did not appraise the judge that that dossier that he said was a cheap piece of evidence to get a warrant on a u.s. citizen, he was not verified. the author had been fired and most importantly it was a product of hillary clinton's campaign. he didn't see any of that nor was he asked in an interview. not only is he engaging in unethical and maybe even unconstitutional behavior, but he has a record of leaking according to the inspector general not telling the truth this evening. you've mentioned this to. what really gets us upset, the american people, we have these sanctimonious boy scout self righteous, james comey, peter strzok, andrew mccabe. they feel that somehow they have a rationale or prerogative to be that they could tell people when

a president should go and when he should come in with the court needs to know and what he doesn't, when they can leak confidential information. when they can tell under oath a committee they don't know. we can't do that. plus, the people. they created a hierarchy or some kind of cadre in washington, like a guard where they are not subject to the limitations that we all enjoy is what you can do. mix that with self-righteousness, hired loyalty, all the dramatic language, it is depressing. >> tucker: it is depressing. isn't it also ironic that all of this is being conducted in the name of protecting democracy? they are subverting an office holder, their boss in the name of protecting democracy. is anyone self-aware enough to get this?

>> i don't think so. i think they feel it is trump is a special case that is the best take on it. the worst case is that they thought all along that hillary clinton tesco and they started this during the campaign that she was going to be elected not behavior would not be excused, if not rewarded. once i felt they thought they would take this campaign effort, the dossier. when he said he opened up the counterintelligence investigation, he had no grounds for doing so. all he had was the rumors and the smears on the slanders of this dossier, he had been told in 2016 by bruce ohr was unverified in his own spouse worked on it. that is all just rhetoric can be said to scott pauli, i was opening up a counterintelligence investigation. not only do we have a right to do that, there is no evidence to do that. he is not andrew mccabe indeed, he is not a doctor, on a

constitutional lawyer. if he is a problem with donald trump and thinks he has done something wrong, that is a matter for the u.s. congress. >> tucker: i agree. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> tucker: democrats running for president to have a new rallying cry for 2020, tear down every wall and protect this country. why are they saying that exactly? we will ask the question after the break. ♪ buffalo style chicken in a pouch-- bold choice, charlie! just tear, eat... mmmmm. and go! try all of my chicken creations! chicken!

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♪ >> tucker: a profound moral revolution is sweeping the democratic party. when we say profoundly mean profound. this is like the reformation except for there is one thesis.

walls are bad! kirsten gillibrand of new york and beto o'rourke, a one-man road trip somewhere in texas are both running for president and they put this new thesis in no uncertain terms. walls must be torn down. >> would you take the wall down? >> yes. absolutely. i would take the wall down. >> do you think if there was a referendum that would pass? >> i do. >> i would have to ask folks not part of the country to see whether the fencing that exist today is helpful or unhelpful. i can look at it and see what part he means and why and if it makes sense. >> tucker: tear down those walls! they are not in that. and pioneer alexandria ocasio-cortez says it wall to protect our country is very much like another wall built to imprison a population.

listen to this. >> no matter how you feel about the wall, i think it is a moral abomination. i think it is with the berlin wall. >> tucker: of the berlin wall! what city to that divide? that is the question i want to ask. for the university of maryland and he joins us. thank you for coming on. i was shocked to hear alexandria ocasio-cortez is criticizing east germany. she is not the person i thought she was. >> again, when she says that walls are immoral i think she is not saying -- i don't think anyone thinks walls are immoral, i think what they're saying is that something that walls us from our allies rather than our enemies as immoral. somewhere where we are not being invaded, that is immoral. the fact that it is a physical manifestation of the racism that is coming out of the

white house, that is immoral. >> tucker: beto o'rourke says that we should tear the walls doubt that exist on the southern border. i'm pretty sure i understand that he is a rich man, i think he married a billionaire family. i bet he has some pretty stout locks on his doors. why should he be allowed to have those? why is that not racist? i'm serious. >> that is not a fair comparison. >> tucker: why? >> when you look at it, that area around el paso did not really have walls for -- we shouldn't even call this a wall, it is a gate or a fence. >> tucker: would ever would ever come a physical barrier. >> that barrier is relatively new, when you go back to 1995 a new look at the trends of violent crime in el paso, it has always been one of the safest

cities in america. it is not like a physical barrier was built and people got safer. it was always a safe city. >> tucker: it is a wonderful city by the way. great plays and great people. the city right across the river was the most dangerous city in the hemisphere. so they built a wall to keep the dangerous people out there in the drug war. that would be fair, right? >> i totally understand the motivation for building that barrier, particularly we were in a post-9/11 time where people were afraid of many different things coming from other countries. however when we look at it statistically, before the gate and there was nothing. horace has been invalid for a very long time. >> tucker: i think el paso is a majority hispanic city and i think that wall was built

with the approval of most people in el paso, not because they don't like it has been annexed because there was an actual threat across the way and it served everyone. it doesn't need to be a race dispute. >> in 2005 is not the place of 2019. we can agree there that it went through a period of extreme violence, it does not quite as violent now. >> tucker: i guess the way you're thinking about this is that if there isn't what you call a threat that you don't have a right to protect yourself. beto o'rourke lives in a pretty safe neighborhood and most rich people do. why is that not racist to lock your doors? >> locking your doors is very different. >> tucker: what do you mean? you are surrounded by allies in your loft or treats mike enemies. that is the message. you don't like me enough to let

me end? >> first of all we know when it comes to migration on our southern border people come through illegal ports of entry, we also know that the vast majority -- we talk about undocumented immigration, it used to be people's at 40% of the people overstate a visa. now the new studies are saying as many as 66% of our documented people come on airplanes. >> that may be right. >> tucker: we will start fair. lick lick. they are talking now, aoc, talking about the right of migration. why doesn't that apply to beto o'rourke and his yard? i'm asking. why don't i have a right of migration there? what makes them so special? >> again, i don't know if he has a gate around his yard. i think private property is different than --

he is not worried. >> tucker: than the country? [laughs] we have an excellent conversation for next time on private property. i hope you will come back. there is an epidemic of pouncing underway in this country. the republicans are pouncing on people. plus, kamala harris doubling as her fashion advisors. hilarious story! after the break. ♪ advisors.

♪ >> tucker: the republican party is the elephant and it has been since abraham lincoln was president, yet for much of the last centering the national media has advocated for a different animal mascot, the tiger. nobody has said that explicitly out loud, but according to a review we did 85 years of headlines from "the washington post" and

"new york times" america's biggest newspapers believe that the republican party behaves like a predatory jungle cat. this not a crazy comparison, you can see resemblance. they tend to avoid densely populated areas and their senses come alive at night. the leader is orange, but above all they pounce. according to the times in the post, republicans are compulsive bouncers, claws extended, they leap with feline precision and devour. they can't help themselves. their victims are usually unsuspected woodland creatures never see it coming. crouching high on the branches, they went on their prey from above them mercilessly tear them to shreds, sometimes for sport. it is grisly. alexandria ocasio-cortez just the other day. no word and how she is doing. she must've been terrified at the very least, that is certainly how the media shows it. they pounce on them a few weeks before that.

two weeks before that republicans pounced on some poor congressman from michigan, apparently she made the mistake of walking alone on capitol hill at night, r.i.p. before that, conservatives somehow managed to pounce inside the vatican, that is in rome. a long way from washington. republican hunting grounds appear to be more extensive than previously understood. some victims have endured multiple republican pounces and lived to tell the tale. hillary clinton for example, god knows how many pounds as she has had to repel, tough lady. barack obama too, his eight years in washington amounted to a single interrupted republican pounce, imagine the horror of that. no wonder you don't see much anymore, he is still recovering. all those claw marks. what is remarkable is how long republicans have been doing this, pouncing on people. here's a "new york times" headline from february 15th, 1933. fdr had not even been

inaugurated yet and those republicans are pouncing on him, hard to believe roosevelt made it three full terms. pouncing then, pouncing now, apparently a tiger does not change his stripes. liberal journalists don't pounce of course, they purr. kamala harris should be getting grilled about her policy ideas, promoting jussie smollett's fake hate crime, but no. instead she is getting fashion advice from reporters sent to cover her, she was in columbia, south carolina, when cnn's maeve rested the drills her into trying on a sequined jacket then tweeted about it. reporters from cnn and the l.a. teams ghost on twitter about the moment. mark steyn was also watching if not gushing that he joins us tonight to assess, pounce! >> okay, i will pounce. kamala harris is a fine looking woman to go all nonpartisan for

a moment, that is a good jacket, mixer look like a giant rubik's cube. i don't know why those female reporters would do that to her. i am slightly amazed by this story, we have the democrats have a cozy relationship with the media and the republican candidates. i think back to 2004, john kerry took some reporters into a sporting workshop and in that faintly creepy way he had, he picked an athletic supporter, a jockstrap as we call that my rugby playing days. lead a best of my recollection, however he was that store, sam donaldson, when he did that they didn't go, the turquoise is really you senator . the participation of these female reporters and kamala

harris' expectation is taking it to a whole new level. >> tucker: it is a little discrediting, no? if your goal was to be taken seriously as a journalist, you probably wouldn't do this, would you? >> i don't think you would. a friend of mine in canada got into trouble for doing this with a royal duchess. i don't particularly approve of it with real duchesses, we are doing it about -- with political candidates who have a platform that they are trying to sell to the people, it is kind of pitiful. kaylee qe burns interviewed me a few years ago and she didn't help me pick out a smoking jacket or a spangled jacket or whatever she might have in mind. it is something that -- he gets back to what you are talking about the first part of

the show. the jussie smollett thing. the hostility only goes in one direction and the cozy collegiality only goes in the other. >> tucker: i know. i agree with you. very quick, we are almost out of time. what is your friend do with this duchess? >> that is just a royal family. they are getting so chummy and laid-back now. they are leaving it to the hillary clinton's only nancy pelosi's, all that's left of the regal figures in this world today. >> tucker: such a deep point. he always throw something really profound that i meditate on for the next three days. thank you. we will be back. 8:00 p.m. and tomorrow night and we will remain a show that is the sworn enemy of lying. those things exist in abundance

right now. resist as they say. tonight from washington, great news for you. this is unexpected, but it is true. sean hannity is >> a busy news night. welcome to "hannity." a fox news alert. new information in the case of jussie smollett. in january he told police he was brutally attacked on the streets of chicago by 2 white men shouting anti-gay and anti-gay slurs and shouting this is maga country. tonight jussie smollett is under investigation for a hoax. despite red flag in the smollett case, the hate trump media championed this story as fact from