>> martha: thanks, mike. thank you for watching us. tucker up next. >> tucker: fox news alert, chicago police announce dramatic development in the jusie smollett case, no longer considered the victim of a crime, seconds ago, he was charged, felony charges, for filing a false police report. we're going to have the developments in this fast-breaking story. conventional wisdom turned on its head. good evening, welcome to tucker carlson tonight. first, we ask this question. have you noticed the weird compulsion in people, a lot of people, to pretend they are the opposite of who they obviously are? jussie smollett is one of them. but it's everywhere, prevalent in politics, it's ubiquitous in

democratic party. one politician who wore black face demanded the resignation of another politician wearing black face. that's more than hypocrisy, it's escape and evasion. you escape skruchlt any by advicing people of who what you are doing. people calling you a thief are picking your pocket. ones calling you an adullterror are hitting on your life. the ones claiming you are immoral are deeply worried about spending eternity in flames, probably for good reason. the bill clinton as feminist scam. we should give you a million examples. but the living embodiment of this syndrome, all-time triple gold medal winner in the category turns out to be running for president of the united states. kirsten gillibrand. jill i brand is interesting not because there's a chance she will become the president, she won't. she's fascinating because she's

so perfectly embodies the attitudes and the vanities of the modern democratic party and ruling class more broadly f you want to know what they're thinking in the faculty lounge at wesleyan, hollywood, watch kirsten gillibrand. show's who they all are. she rarely it areas sentence without a form of moral u j. appears to have retired from politics, she's a preacher now. >> this country was founded on some basic moral principles. that we have a moral compass as a nation, our morality as a country is literally on an ice edge. it's a moral question. for me it's a moral question. i've been called to fight as hard as i can to restore that moral integrity, moral decency. >> tucker: moral integrity, moral decency. interesting to see if she gave that lecture to her old friend harvey weinstein. or pal disgraced new york general eric snyderman, standing

accused of beating women and calling his girlfriend a brown slave. did she mention that? the question of moral prims ever come up during the time she spent with her mentor, bill clinton? probably not. it's not clear how gillibrand or any of these people de find the word "moral." couple of months ago she gave us a hint, our future, she wrote in a tweet, is, quote, female, intersectional, powered by belief in one another. do you have any idea what that means? gillibrand likely doesn't, no one asked her to explain. they're afraid to ask her anything. why? gillibrand is a victim now. bet you didn't know that. she's shielded from the scrutiny we receive. she announced her status in a fundraising pitch. quote, i'm already facing questions about my likability and tone she wrote. sexism is bubbling into the narrative around the campaign. but i won't stop fighting for a country that valuesnd respects women. will you add your name to reject

sexism. get it? kirsten i jill i brand is impressed. you wouldn't know that by looking. one of the most powerful people in the world. u.s. senator and candidate, went to a pricey all girls school, ivy league college then law school, now got a prestigious legal clerk and got a senate seat without running for it. pretty high level of privilege. but, no, despite a life of wealthy connections kirsten gillibrand is telling us she's oppressed. who are the oppressors? you and me and anyone else who doesn't support her for president. we're guilty of sexism. she's a victim of it. you won't be surprised to learn that kirsten jill i brand was one of the first politicians to side with jussie smollett. she can empathize with that. gil i brand probably will tweet support that, can't resist a fad. whatever the political opportunities she's there, too,

in lock step. jill i brand supported a balanced budget amendment, now backs the new green deal. bragged about do keeping two guns under her bed, a rating from the nra, now wants to ban rifles. the nra is not wrong but evil she says. >> the nra has a choke hold on congress, the nra is concerned only with gun sales, it is literally all about money and all about greed. nothing to do with the second amendment. the power of money, the power of communications, the fear they instill in members and it's wrong. it's morally wrong. >> tucker: there it is again, it's morally wrong. the beauty of declaring something morally wrong, rather than just misguided or ineffective, is that you can't really argue with the moral absolute. you can only obey a moral absolute. that's the point. as a member of congress, gillibrand said she believed in borders. she promised to crack down on sanctuary cities, opposed awarding driver's licenses to

illegal aliens. now she wants to abolish i.c.e. >> i don't think i.c.e., today, is working as intended. >> you think you should get rid of the agency? >> i believe it has become a deportation force. and i think you should separate out the criminal justice from the immigration issues. and i think you should reimagine i.c.e. that's why i believe you should get rid of it, start over, reimagine it, and build something that actually works. >> tucker: you can see her trying to remember the talking points, don't get confused, reimagine i.c.e. a little over her skis. when she said that, banning i.c.e. wasn't pop oh lar even among democratic voters. jill i brand lurched back and said she didn't really want to get rid of i.c.e., you saw she proposed exactly that. but now, a few months later, lurching back again, abolishing i.c.e. that qualifies as sen terrorism in the -- centerism. she needs something more radical to be considered the progressive candidate.

she found it. she proclaimed border security is immoral it impedes the movement of indigenous peoples into our country which apparently is really their country. watch. >> on immigration, um, i mean this is a crisis at the border right now. >> we need to have asylum, creating refugees. >> a lot of these people are indigenous to this land and that border is cutting them off. >> the wall is hurtful. >> tucker: just who are these indigenous people? who knows. as long as they're female and intersectional, she believes they are eure future. jonathan harrison joins us. thanks for coming on. who are these indigenous people we can't keep out? citizens, noncitizens? >> i think what she was referring, to it wasn't her that said it, it was the activist --

>> tucker: walls are hurtful she was nodding, i'm know sure she was agreeing but i think in the mid 1800s in texas, that was an independent nation, shared by european settlers as well as mexican settlers. then the europeans forced the mexicans out, that was duplicated in california. she's talking about a lot of the people that are now outside of the country are actually descended from indigenous people. >> tucker: aren't they dead? >> i said descended from. >> tucker: in your ancestors lived in a place you have a right to go there and use their social programs for free? >> you ee desended from them -- >> tucker: the woman said it's wrong to put a border wall up because it would keep people who are indigenous out, and gillibrand said that's right. but if your ancestors lived in a place that you have by definition genetic citizenship or something, is that true do you think? or is that insane.

>> i don't think that's what gillibrand was saying. that might have been what the activist was saying but she didn't agree with it. what she said is going back to her talking points, we need asylum, the wall is immoral, things like. that i don't know she agrees with that. that is a factual statement. >> tucker: populations have moved around the globe for thousands of years. >> right. >> tucker: if your ancestors, take a dna test? >> that works f i have a child or you have a child outside the u.s. they're still american citizens. >> tucker: because are you a citizen. citizenship is not a genetic category. despite what people say, inherently racist nation, as soon as you decide that genes are what give you claim to living here -- >> no -- >> tucker: that's different. >> i don't think that's what she was agreeing to, she was agreeing the fact many of piece people had they not been pushed out or robbed of their land, the

people there now are descendants -- >> tucker: i doubt she knows about the history of the region or anything else. she said that the 14th amendment gave women the right to vote. let's not overstate her knowledge. >> i could go down a laundry lils the of things trump has said -- they all do that. >> tucker: i'm saying i doubt she knows bz the history of the region. i think it's important to establish a principle, if you're a citizen you have a right to be here and if you're not you don't. >> of course. >> tucker: jill i brand doesn't agree. her new posture as a victim, grew up privileged, saying there she's a victim of sexism? she said that. >> the right does that a lot. they mounted this horse in the 'le 0s of the moral majority and everything was a moral issue. people couldn't get married, do things in their private lives. the right did that. >> tucker: but i'm not here to lecture you about your moral failings at all. i mean, whatever. but right now, gillibrand is saying this is one of the most powerful people in the world, like jussie smollett, rich person. >> but there's no -- there's no

correlation. >> tucker: there is a trend of powerful people claiming they're victims. the people oppressing them are poorer and less popular than they are. >> there's a dinners highlighting something you may be the victim of, like hillary clinton had a very different road than donald trump and a lot of it tied into sexism. she's not taulg herself a victim. >> tucker: of course she is. >> she said this what i had to do. can you highlight your own struggle without calling yourself -- is that possible? >> tucker: you should be quiet about your own strugful you're as powerful as hillary clinton. or powerful as i am, a lot of things i don't like but i don't whine about it. >> do you understand what they're doing when hillary clinton does that, obviously, she said it can't hurt me. but a lot of women go through that. people that -- >> tucker: you know what is going on, powerful people pretending to be powerless. >> i don't see herself calling herself a victim. >> tucker: i hope you're right. thank you, jonathan. great to see you.

like most of the democratic party 2020 candidates elizabeth warren is running fast to position herself at the left end of the spectrum, a position she comfortably held for years until the party itself went insane and that left warren looking dangerously moderate. yesterday warren unveiled a plan for universal state-run taxpayer-funded daycare scheme in the united states. warren wants 12 million kids to participate in the daycare plan. 60% of all children under five in america. in a speech shortly before revealing her plan warren said universal daycare, quote, is about what each of our children is entitled to. not just the children of the wealthy, not just the well connected, but one of our children is entitled toed dpoo childcare. -- good childcare. take it seriously. warren has it exactly backward. children are not entitled to government daycare. what children are entitled to is love from their own parents. no, warren herself used to know this well. 15 years ago she wrote an entire book making that case.

the book was called "the two income trap." it's excellent. i say that as a nonlab bral, it's great. she argues that american families have been decimated by the mass exodus of mothers into the workforce. children are less cared for, mothers far less happy, and thanks to wage stagnation and rising prices families report better off economically. she proves that point, read it. many families are worse off. that's one of the main reasons americans are having fewer children than they used to and far fewer children than they say they want to have. they have no choice, they can't afford it. the kids they produce are likely to be less successful and rising rate from drug addiction and suicide and joblessness attest to that fact. the american family has been crushed by the changing american economy. and nobody wants to admit it. but 15 years ago, elizabeth warren admitted it and was deeply troubled. good for her. the old elizabeth warren. now she wants to be president, she's gone corporate.

the new elizabeth warren argues that the dream is not raising your own children, the american dream is outsourcing their upbringing to government caretakers while their parents scurry back to work. the need from our government daycare specialist will be justified, used to justify more immigration. and so the cycle is complete. the democratic party started by outsourcing manufacturing, remember that. outsourced farm labor and yard work. now decided to outsource parenting. raising your own kids elizabeth warren is telling us is a job americans won't do. huh. breaks news in the jussie smollett case, moments before the show began he was channelled with a felony in chicago, we have the live jp date for what is happening in that story after the break. feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin and relief from symptoms caused by over 200 indoor

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their attorney said the brothers do not have a plea deal or immunity, that's not why they're cooperating according to the attorney. the attorney says, quote, you don't need a plea deal when you have the truth. the brothers' attorney says she does not know how jussie smollett is sleeping at night and urging jussie smollett to cooperate with authorities. also, the brothers' attorney says her clients didn't feel pressured by this hollywood actor but wouldn't expand on why they got involved in the alleged hoax. she does not expect charges against her clients. she also says that the brothers will reveal their truth eventually. we obtained a new video showing the brothers purchasing the glak masks and red hats at a hardware store, surveillance video shows that. the ball is in jussie smollett's court. it depends what type of strategy his legal team advises.

chicago police requested last saturday that jussie smollettenes a couple of questions -- smollett answer a couple of questions after the brothers gave testimony that dramatically altered this case. as of this moment it appears that smollett has not cooperated with police. smollett is facing federal charges because the fbi is investigating that the alleged death threat letter that he received one week prior to the hoax, and if he lied to federal authorities or if he had any part in that letter, it could be in trouble with the fbi as well. tucker? >> tucker: matt finn in chicago, wonder if he will be arrested in the predown raid by dozens of agents. oh, wait, he's not roger stone. libby locke has been involved in a number of high profile cases and joins us tonight for some perspective. libby, thank you for coming on. first if you give us some sense of what the charge is jeans jussie smollett and the penalty

for it, potentially. >> sure. tucker, it sounds like mr. smollett has been charged with giving a false report to the police, as your reported noted, that's -- there's a possible three-year sentence that mr. smollett could face for jail time. and this is a very serious charge. my perspective, these kinds of hoaxes, if mr. smollett did, in fact, make up this allegation and did engage in this reporting to the police and wasted police resources, he should, in fact, go to jail and spend time in jail. too many of these hoaxes are not prosecuted. and we need deterrents here. >> tucker: that really is the point. i mean, there's a long list of people who have been hurt by the hoaxs. but there's, seems, a pretty short list of the people held accountable for perpetrating them. can you think of another example where some one went to prison for this?

>> i can't. you know, we dealt with this in the rolling stone case that we prosecuteded, the uva fake gang rape that a woman on campus told a reporter at rolling stone. now, she did not make a false report to the police. she never reported that rape to the police. and therefore the police didn't have a basis to bring charges against that woman. here, that's a different thing, than mr. smollett. if he, in fact, made up this attack and reported it to police, that is a basis for not only state charges but also federal charges. if any of the conduct that he engaged in, impacted internet xwhers or was in interstate commerce. there's a federal angle, too. >> tucker: interesting it's not a question of how the police responded, law enforcement responds, but also the people covering it, the press. there is instinct to protect the false accuser, the person spreading hatred and distrust. in the case you were involved in

at uva in charlottesville, the woman who made the false claims was protected in effect by the "washington post" and other media outlets for a long time. i never understood why. >> her anonymousness was protected because she purported to be a victim of rape even though every story of rape that she told there are multiple stories turned out to be, you know, debumpged. -- debunked. here, this is an example of media confirmation bias at its best. from the get go, the media rushed in and said, and politicians, too, tucker rushed in and said this attack was horrible, they immediately hash tag "believe jussie." there was no stopping and thinking about does this smell right, what are the facts here. now it sounds like the prosecutors believe that there was a false report, they have brought charges, and, you know,

i would like to see what the evidence is. >> tucker: yeah, i don't know what the evidence is, either, but i know a b.s. story when i see one. i thought it from day one. why the media, which is paid to be skeptical and paid to chase down facts are the ones demanding that we -- robin roberts on abc colluded with this guy to per pittuate his hoax. the other channel, disonnest ones, aren't covered this development. why would reporters fall for this before everyone else? >> that's a great question. you know, it's exactly why justice thomas was correct in raising, yesterday in the supreme court, we need to rethink in a "new york times," sullivan standard, which is the actual malice standard applied in the warren court in the 1960s, insulated the media from liability in these cases.

confirmation bias is a problem. >> tucker: i agree. >> an informed american electorate is important. the media is responsible for helping the american electorate be properly informed. >> tucker: that's right, we're taulg down on the job i would say. more of us being the media. thank very much. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: we put immense trust in the fbi. they have immense power. so what do we do when top officials expose themselves as russia conspiracy theory. it's important, we'll address it after the break. if you have moderate to severe psoriasis,

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the fbi, they have no choice, it's our top law enforcement agency. fbi officials are supposed to be adults, supposed to be immune to hysteria and fads and immune to political pressure. the last couple of years have shaken the public's faith that any of that is truth. jim comey grand standed for attention. sometimes he helped hillary clinton other sometimes he hurt hillary clinton but always about him. peter strzok and lisa page swapped historical texts that were dumb. and when it comes to russia, andy mccabe sounds worse than any cnn anchor. here's one selection. >> i don't know that we have ever seen in all of history, an example of the volumend the significance of the contacts between people in and around the president and his campaign, with our most serious, existential international enemy, the government of russia. >> tucker: quick, design xi

citizen rnl, i bent you can't. of course he can't. [laughing] mccabe said he wouldn't be surprised if the president were taking orders from russia. >> do you still believe the president could be a russian asset i think it's possible. i think that's why we started our investigation and i'm really anxious to see where director mueller concludes that. >> tucker: well, there's no evidence of that. but you don't need it. he has a feeling. hopefully, we'll get facts. reports say the release of robert mueller's report could be imminent bhochlt knows. eli lake is a bloomberg opinion columnist, covering this for a long time. to me, speaking of citizens, it's not about trump or the democratic congress, it's about whether you can trust your most powerful institution domestically, the fbi. if the former deputy director is saying he could be a russian agent on the basis of no evidence, that seems reckless and scary. >> it's harder to justify that,

especially two years into the administration, president trump has appointed russia hawks at the highest levels of the government. he has in a lot of cases, not every single one, countered russian interest dreckly. venezuela selling lethal arms to ukraine. there's no qou to the quid. the quid yesterday to be established after two years of investigation by the fbi, the initial theory there was a conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia to distribute the e-mails from the dnc and john podesta, there was coordination in some ways with the trump campaign to help russia influence the election. most people believe the russians certainly tried to influence the election. and the other part of that, that coordination, not only hasn't been proven, according to the indictment of roger stone didn't know what was in the e-mails, roger stone was trying to figure it out from wikileaks. the trump campaign asked roger

stone to find out who was in the e-mail, if they were coordinating why go to julian assange. >> tucker: if you want to help russia, you spike gas prices. the fastest way to do that take the richest natural gas fields in the world offline with the green new deal. i don't really understand, it's the people saying that the united states should stop the production of fossil fuels are claiming that trump, who promotes the production of fossil fuels, is on russia's side? seems insane to me. >> russia, in fairness, trump gets into trouble sometimes, i mean, i think in 2016, he said russia if you're listening you should leak the hillary e-mails. >> tucker: of course. >> and moments where the helsinki summit from last summer another example, he will say things that i think most people, including myself, would scratch their head, where this coming from, why is he being so differential to putin. what we haven't seen is follow-thru in terms of the policy. >> tucker: nor the bedrock. >> nor have we seen the evidence that there was, in all of is

into meetings that have come out and things that he's talking about, contacts, well we have yet to see anything coming close to that initial claim. >> tucker: it seems like, if you're ralph peters or some kind of, you know, hysterical person on tv making hysterical claims, that's fine. if you're the deputy director of the fbi, have been the director of the fbi and you commanded massive domestic army, that can crush and kill people, you have an obligation not to be reckless in cable news thmplts was the first few months into the administration. i think the fbi was freaking out. what is less understandable, baffling, deputy attorney jinl rod rosenstein. akwording to mccabe, rosenstein was meeting with him and other senior leaders, discussing the invocation of the 25th amendment, wearing a wire, leading to the appointment of

mueller. rod rosenstein helped come up with the memo justifying the firing of comey. how is he on board -- >> tucker: i know! [laughing] >> its me, the argument that i get from reading between the liens, i have read a bit of the book from mccabe, there would be no investigation, they wouldn't have launched this investigation, we wouldn't have gotten mueller if trump had stuck to the initial cover story that hid his -- obscured his real reasons for firing comey. totally about hillary clinton. then we wouldn't have, according to mccabe, doesn't make sense. >> tucker: it doesn't make sense. i'm grateful that you tried to explain the reasoning, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: jihad against the west, now several isis brides want to come home? their supporters say it's racist to prevent them. after the break. coaching means making tough choices. jim! you're in! but when you have high blood pressure and need cold medicine that works fast,

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>> tucker: almost 16 years since the united states invaded iraq to overthrow the regime of saddam hussein. in the end more than 4,000 american troops died in the war, tens of thousands maimed, more than 100,000 civilians died as well, costing the country more than a trillion dollars. the ripple effects, without the iraq invasion it's hard to say there would be no syrian civil war, no isis, no european migrant process. there might be no president trump who ran against that war. it was our most costly foreign action since vietnam might have been worth it if we got something out of it in the end. did we? we didn't make the region safer. weapons of mass destruction never existed.

and that's a fact worth remembering, the next time the government and the "new york times" align to assure that you something is absolutely true. for real. may not be true. it often isn't true. but for a broaderenes, to whether it was worth -- broader answer, there is a new two-volume, 1,300 page study of the war and its consequences produced by the army war college and released last month. to very little notice of the conclusions are grim. years of warfare in iraq nailed to create a thriving democracy or stable government. much vaunted coalition of allies didn't work very well, since most allies sent only token forces, too few to be useful. a handful of countries did the real work. keep that in mind when they tell you how critical nato is. for the most damning part of the report is its conclusion that the iraq war really only had one winner, the winner was not america, it wasn't iraq, according to the report's authors, quote, emboldened and expansionist iran appears to be

the only victor of the iraq war. whoo. almost nobody has paid any price at all for embroiling this country in the iraq disaster. the biggest advocates of the war are still around. amazingly many are still influential. bill kristol, max boot, john bolton. many of these people want to repeat the iraq war o a larger scale if they can in syria, libya, yemen, venezuela, iran itself. they've learned nothing. they may get their chance to do it again. before they do, they ought to write a book report on the army war college report. isis has been all but destroyed in syria, followers who abandoned the west and went over there to help are trying to slink back home. this is one of them, fled the u.s. to join the caliphate and marry an isis fighter now wants to return without punishment.

>> i thought i was doing things correctly for the sake of god. when i came here and saw everything with my own eyes, i realized, i made a big mistake. i know my future -- >> do you think you re-dee serve punishment for what you did? >> maybe therapy lessons. maybe process that will ensure that we will never do this again. >> tucker: therapy for joining isis? as is the case, the u.k. dealing with the same problem but worse over there. their former isis bride is not sorry, many are not sorry for what they did but want to come off, no doubt be paid for by taxpayers. >> you think people should have sympathy toward me, as it has been -- anything. >> they have beheaded people, executions. >> yes, i knew about those

things and i was okay with it. i just had a good time there, abandoning things. but i don't want to stay here. >> tucker: yeah, i was okay with the beheadings but we should feel sorry for me. so far these people have been kept from returning to the u.k. but one columnist has called that racist. nigel once led the u.k. independence party and joins us tonight. thanks. >> thank you. >> tucker: how much would you have to hate your own country to publicly argue it is, racist, not to allow some one who approved of beheadings while living with an isis fighter back in your country? >> this is a law f we were to say as a country she can come back, we're taking your passport away, we would be making her stateless. and that is what our political class are scared of doing. but the fact is, she chose to leave us, she worked with a

direct enemy of our country, of our values. as far as i'm concerned, she's not stateless, she's islamic state. i don't want her back in my country under any circumstances. and for those who say, look, she was only a 15-year-old kid, she made a mistake. well, christian forgiveness is based on people first repenting of their since. and as you said, you know, her casual attitude, towards heads, beheadings, fighters who have been beheaded as she found them in the bin, she was okay with it, no. it's possible, always possible, to forgive people for since. but they have got to recognize what they have done wrong first. i don't want her back but i fear our country is much weaker than yours when it comes to defending our values and i say she is coming back. >> tucker: i mean, it seems you do live in a democracy, there would be a market for some

politician to stand up and say, you know, not hating anybody else, but my first job is to protect our citizens. >> yeah. >> tucker: why don't you have a national politician who will say that? >> well, occasionally one does say that. then they get abused, as you say berated for being called extreme, things i've been called over the years. there is a consensus among the british politicians that you don't tackle these issues, it's too awkward. and of course, remember we have a growing muslim minority. within the united kingdom. the fear is if we say these things we'll alienate that community and they won't vote for us in the future. cynically, tucker, that i think is at the top of the list. >> tucker: well, i mean it's hard -- maybe the majority of british muslims support isis. i doubt it. i'm sure a lot of reasonable people, who see this kind of behavior as discrediting to them and wrong. i hope so.

also, serve like, who cares, shouldn't somebody be brave enough to tell the truth? >> yes, absolutely. this is an important point. the vast majority of british muslims are integrating into our way of life. they're apalted with what isis has gone -- appalled with what this young woman has done. it's difficult for them to integrate. the key thing is, we in the west, must not launch a crusade against an entire religion. we must launch it against the extremes of that religion and get moderate islam on our side. you don't do it by being weak, you do it by being strong. >> tucker: thank you, nigel. cnn is under fire from outside and from within for hiring a former trump administration staffer. is this the first political person hired by a news network? hmm. we'll investigate after the

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>> tucker: this is a fox news alert, just a small ad's legal team has released a statement in response to the felony charges, like any other citizen, he enjoys the presumption of innocence, particularly when there is an investigation like this one both true and false has been leaked given the circumstances we intend to conduct a thorough investigation and mount it in an aggressive defense. smollett does presume innocence, but many of the things he said has been proven untrue. no cheeky juke win joke, just one word, liar. the process, known of course especially the national press, particularly cnn for the scruple yes neutrality, so the hiring of the single middle-of-the-road

former republican staffer has people hysterical about bias, sarah is cool for us was just hired by cnn as deputy political editor were, according to the qb kid, the staff was furious when one unnamed reporter called it in "disaster." and said that there were disasters for working for someone who publicly supported term, they are quite a few obama staffers on the cnn payroll, no problem. here to tell us about this is reporter joe concha who covers the press for the hill. so just so that, i know her well, and i think of a lot of her, but my impression is that she was not a right winger, i don't know, but i certainly do not have that impression of her, is she? why the hysteria over this? >> she has worked for some moderate republicans whether you are talking about mitt romney or carly 39, she was jeff sessions spokesperson, and the headlines

are incredible, no coordinator of the 2020 coverage, cnn said that a new standard media chicken stuffed catering to republicans, catering to republicans, every analysis i've seen is negative towards the president and the administration. but let's put it this way, let's say that cnn hired valerie jarrett's daughter, and she was assigned a cover, the trump doj despite having no journalism experience whatsoever, do you think that all of these other publications will be going nuts right now over a hiring like that of somebody who has no journalism experience but obviously has a bias, and the answer is, we arty know the answer, because that happened in 2017. and you can go down the list, i mean -- speed >> tucker: really? speak of course it did come and it was barely reported, i wrote about it two years ago, but there was not a lot of coverage. and we would have been with hewitt at msnbc, everybody was in an uproar because again he

lacked was trying to bring msnbc too far to the right by giving q who it in 8:00 a.m. saturday morning show for a half hour. i was actually on the show, it was quite fun, and you are turning into fox news, so that's what happens, you hire anybody from the right and left leaning news organizations and they go nuts, because it is not conforming to the way that things have always gone. like with george stephanopoulos or david shipley who worked for the clinton administration went to be on "the new york times" op-ed editor, and the list goes on. >> tucker: i am starting to think that they are really not in favor of diversity. >> it depends on what kind of diversity we are talking about. ideological diversity. >> tucker: while people are different. they are not into it. >> it was overblown, they are trying to state that sarah florez is all of the 2020 coverage, there are several people that have the same title as she does, it is one person, but balancing things out a little bit, give cnn credit in that regard, but i would say

that i agree with the left leading publications when they say that you could have hired 100 other political editors that cannot be compromised in any way, because we saw it happen at cnn, obviously with donna brazile when she got her hands not once, but twice on town hall to debate questions and pass them onto the clinton campaign and said that that was my priority over my priority was cnn. >> tucker: unbelievable, joe concha, great to see you. >> good to see you. >> tucker: as you know if you have been paying any attention, there's nothing cooler than marijuana, cool people smoke weed, that's why total league legalization nationwide scenes unachievable, but a mysterious illness called cannabinoid hypermedia's syndrome is affecting some heavy users. not a lot know about this, but symptoms include what they are called discriminating, and uncontrollable wave of screaming and vomiting, it might be worth learning more, we are joined by

dr. marc siegel, our in-house doctor. what is this? >> we use marijuana to decrease nausea and pain, medicinally, medically, but as anything in medicine, when you use a lot of it you get the reverse effect ten then you actually want to. this is for chronic pot smokers, places where it is recreational. we see a ton of this in colorad colorado. 3 million people in the united states are affected, because the pot, when you start using a lot of it turns off the receptors in the nerves that are supposed to suppress nausea and pain. so you're nauseous, and in pain, and the only thing that works for this, tucker, his hot showers. it floods the receptors and turns them back on. you go back to normal, but you have to be in the shower for six hours. guess what the curious? stop smoking pot. kamala harris, stop smoking pot, that is the cure. >> tucker: six hours? it seems to me, i have never heard of this. i grew up in california, it

seems like there is still a lot that we do not know about the medical effects of heavy marijuana use. >> that is the take-home message. i talk a lot about long-term effects in terms of behavioral changes, judgment, how you do on exams, effects on the long, this is a big one. and the biggest take-home, people misdiagnosis all the time. people have had their gallbladders taken out by mistake because they come to an emergency room vomiting uncontrollably, and doctors are not used to this. over 3 million people, and as we zoom up more than 10 million who are chronically smoking pot nationwide, we will see more of this. it is a terrible side effect. pain and vomiting. it is a warning for people out there. there is no free lunch here. >> tucker: the politicians are really reckless. dr. siegel, thank you very much. that has been in for us tonight, unfortunately we will be back tomorrow, apm, the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. a dvr it if you dare, but above

all, and we say this every night, but we mean it completel completely, stay tuned for the surprise that we have for you next come alive from new york city awaits sean hannity. there he is. >> sean: oh, it is such a shocking, great show, tucker. thank you. welcome to "hannity." we start with a fox news alert, we have huge news all over the place tonight, breaking news as we speak including larry logan's powerful rebuke of the media, a risk that may cost her a future. and also the lawyers filing a $250 million lawsuit against "the washington post." joining us tonight with an exclusive interview, but we begin tonight with the breaking news empire actor smollett has been charged with felony disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report, this is a class four felony, punishable by t