right policy. >> martha: marc thiessen thank you very much. >> thanks, martha. >> martha: that is "the story" tonight from kansas city, missouri. we will see you tomorrow night in new york. tucker is up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for months and months all the little democratic party mouthpieces you see on television, which is pretty much all of them, lectured you about how there was absolutely no crisis on the mexican border. and you have to be some kind of white nationalist freak to think otherwise. those caravans they told you were a racist mirage. everything is fine, shut up and obey or we will kick you off youtube. now suddenly you are not hearing many people say that it's too obviously untrue. it's a lie too implausible even for cable news. everyone knows our immigration system is a joke. all of central america understands that show one a minor in tow and you are in. we can never make you leave.

thousands arrive every day to exploit our weakness now. millions more are coming. turns out the average honduran migrants knows a lot more about our entire system than the entire lineup on cnn. if there is one person that knows even less than your average cable news anchor the mechanic of congress the loudest one. she still thinks the whole immigration question boils down to racism. if you are for borders, you are a racist, period. >> guess what? i'm 29, i'm the youngest woman to ever be elected to the united states congress. i have plenty of time to learn and i'm not afraid to make mistakes and iterate in public either. and, frankly, if the mistakes i'm making is like a one-off rhetorical thing you correct it, acknowledge it and move on. at least i'm not trying to cage children on the border and inject them with drugs. that's not a mistake. that is a deliberate policy to attack people based on their national origin.

that's not a mistake. that's just hatred. that's just cruelty. that's just wrong. >> tucker: like a lot of narcissist children will ocasio-cortez does not believe in honest disagreement everything is a moral. if you agree with her you are virtuous. if you don't you are a monster. there can be no compromise. policy debates are pointless. only the battles between good and evil. if you are on the side of good which is ocasio-cortez's side, of course you have endless leeway. you don't have to know what you are talking about. you can wead half cocked into the country's most important debates prove yourself and i had outand as she just put it move on. no problem. if you are on the side of evil, the other side, watch out. there is no mercy for you. there is no forgiveness. nothing about you is good. none of your motives are pure. you exist only to hurt and destroy. you are like a demon in a horror film. >> the reason republicans hate me so much is because i confront them directly.

their moral, their lack of moral grounding on so many issues. and, not just that, but the reason they are so upset and they act like that girl in the exorcist that's like vomiting pea soup that's like them and negativity. >> tucker: negativity. that's what the activist left now calls disagreement. they are not interested at all in what anyone outside their tiny little world has to say. every day you see democratic presidential candidates endorsing some new policy that has pretty much zero public support but sounds like something woke baristas in brooklyn would be excited about. banning ice, ignoring federal immigration law giving am else in city to millions. decriminalizing illegal border crossings which to say totally open borders. anyone can come. when they come here give them free stuff. nobody really wants any of this even most of the people saying it would work. the republic would revolt if

they tried it half of country of guatemala would move here tomorrow. it wouldn't happen. countries have borders that's what makes them countries. some day the aoc moment will pass it's too stupid to continue. at that moment sober adults will wake up and rejoin the conversation in progress. what do we want from our immigration system? how many immigrants should we admit every year? what's the ideal number? we currently take a little over a million every year, legally. should we double that to over 2 million? how about 10 million immigrants a year? how about 20 million? is there any number that's too high? and if so why? while we are at it, what's the ideal population of the united states? immigration effects population size more than any other factor. we're at about 325 million people in the united states today and that's a lot. our highways are crumbling, many of our cities are painfully overcrowded. how big should we get? 400 million? 600 million?

a billion people? and if you are pushing to increase the size of our population and they're, what's your plan for keeping our natural environment pristine? crowded countries are polluted, every single one of them. tell us why we should want that here? what sort of skills and education should we look for in immigrants? not all immigrants are the same? some start wildly successful companies. many others go on food stamps not interchangeable widgets they are human beings. what's the ideal level of education immigrant to this country should have? big business doesn't want you to ask this question, they like their immigrants low-skilled and cheap. ocasio-cortez does, too. what happens when technology kills their jobs? and it will. all the major democrats running for president take money from the technology barrons, many of them support self-driving cars. what do you do with hundreds of thousands of unemployment immigrant cab drivers? do they all go on welfare? speaking of, what sort of government services are immigrants entitled to. democrats promise universal healthcare.

immigrants get that, too? who pays for it? how many immigrants can our system support? do we have enough doctors and nurses and hospitals to treat the number of immigrants we want to admit? same question for schools? the real answer is, of course, nobody knows. because as of today we have no idea how many immigrants live illegally in the united states shouldn't we find out before we make more plans? once we do find out, what do we do with them? who gets deported? anyone? or do all of them get to stay? what if the real number of people living here illegally is north of 25 million? and that's entirely possible. that's bigger than the population of 48 out of 50 states. it's enough to change this country completely and forever. do all of them get citizenship and voting rights? what about gun rights? and do they immediately start paying into the reparations for slavery fund that democrats are now promoting? how do you explain that to them? can we watch that conversation? and finally what about america's ideals? democrats are always talking about values when the subject of immigration comes up. they quote from the poem on the statue of liberty and

tell you about their grandparents. well, previous waves of immigrants were asked to buy into this country's most basic ideals. religious pluralism. free speech, political freedom, equality under the law. our schools made them learn english and tried to instill operatism. we called it assimilation. we thought it was critical to our social cohesion. are we still for that? do we still think we have values to impart or do we imagine that huge groups of people with nothing in common can share the same country without fighting each other? it's an important question. maybe the most important question of all. we never hear anyone ask it. anyone who dares ask it is banned from twitter. instead you hear the endless drone of self-righteous children barking about racism. that's not enough. the decisions we make today about immigration are irreversible. it will help determine the health of the country that we leave to our grandchildren who should be a lot more serious than we are. enrique is a univision anchor and he joins us

tonight. thanks for coming on. you are relentlessly promoting immigration into the united states often on this show. what the ideal number of immigrants you would say we should admit every year. >> i don't remember promoting immigration to this country. i remember promoting a comprehensive immigration reform that fixes a broken system. and that allows a u.s. to take the full benefits of immigration. >> tucker: i'm not sure that changes my question. >> crisis we are seeing at the border, tucker. >> tucker: that doesn't change the question. you say it benefits from immigration. i would agree we benefited from immigration for sure but not all immigration is the same. and so my question to you is what's the ideal number? since you are promoting this, how many immigrants a year do you think we should take? how big should you are country get and who is going to pay for it? >> interesting question just today the "new york times" published a report that says by 20034, two thirds of the counties in the country are going to have a deficit in terms of the population that is economically active in terms of the adult

population that is joining the workforce. so with it thirds of the countries are going to have trouble generating economic activity. >> tucker: unless americans can afford to have their own children instead of deporting them. >> how do you keep that economic growth going? >> tucker: i'm sorry, you are dodging my question. >> it's part of fixing the problem and having immigration reform pathway. >> tucker: you are doing what everyone does skate along on platitudes and please don't quote the poem at the bottom of the statue of liberty for me. you do this for a living and you haven't thought of the most basic question is how many people should we admit a year? 325 million in the country? should we get to 2,500,000,000? would it be a better country? should the people we admit take part in our universal healthcare program that we are clearly getting, should they? >> let me give you an example, canada has a guest worker program with mexico. it's very successful. every year thousands of mexicans get on a plane with

a permit. they go to canada, they work six to eight months canada the government establishes how many it needs. they have, you know, full rights in terms of the benefits they have as workers. they have important service to the canadian economy. once they are done with their job -- >> tucker: i'm sorry to interrupt. but we are not canada. we are not canada. >> immigration looks like in the country. >> tucker: no, no. hold on. >> completely hyper polarized and stuck on the issue of immigration. >> tucker: we are hyper polarized because whenever you try to ask honest questions as i'm trying to do right now you are met with either accusations that you are a racist or white nationalist or whatever that is you are a bad person in other words or met with again platitudes. we don't have a worker program like that. we are not flying anybody in. a lot of them with walking across. they are not leaving and no onen the left wants them to leave. give us a glimpse of what the plan is what's an ideal worker. how many do we need?

what should the population of the country be? do you have any idea? can you answer any of those questions? >> like i said i'm not an immigration expert. i'm oa reporter. i shouldn't have to fill this void in your show of people who dedicated their issue of immigration. >> tucker: you are advocate for illegal immigration. >> they can come up with the answers. >> tucker: so you don't feel any obligation to think through the policies. [talking at the same time] >> 2034 expected to have two thirds of the counties in the country with a deficit in terms of the workforce. we need immigration and, you know, orderly process in terms of immigration tuck obviously you don't know the answer. one more thematic question here. if your prop labor relation isn't reproducing, if it's not replacing itself. >> which is what is happening in the country, you agree? >> tucker: it's what's happening. one of the main reasons it's happening is because people can't afford to have children. the middle class is dying in this country. >> that's one explanation. >> tucker: help them have kids because news flash people want to have kids and

if they can afford it they will. they can't afford it why are we spending all this time worrying about the populations of other countries and not anat at all about our own? >> i said a hundred times on your show we can spend more money in places like central america,. >> tucker: central america. >> guatemala not mexico. important to say that on your network. see the benefits of that on our border or keep spending. >> tucker: wait a second, americans can't afford to have kids so we need to send more money to guatemala. >> worry about those populations. if you don't want them here, spend more money to keep them there. >> tucker: so pay them off to go away. how is that different from like a classic mafia shakedown, is it. >> from what? i'm sorry? >> tucker: i wouldn't want this new window in your store to get broken why don't you pay me 40 bucks. that's kind of what you are saying. >> no. i think it's in our best interest to generate for these people to stay in their country. >> tucker: best interest is to have a country where people can have their own

children. >> i don't know if closing the border or cutting off aid to those countries is going to solve the issue of illegal immigration. everybody knows that. i think it's in our best interest. >> tucker: we are out of time i appreciate it. good to see you. >> north learn -- >> tucker: now we are done. thanks. on capitol hill to testify about what's happening there and he joins us tonight. mr. morgan, thank you very much for coming on. so give us a sense of the scale of what's happening on the mexican border? >> this is what i have been saying and this is a question that people really need to be paying attention to. based on 30 years of public service the crisis we face right now along the southwest border is actually the worse we have ever experienceexperienced in our hi. people want to talk about 2,000, 1.5 million. it's the demographics, tucker. back then the overwhelming majority were mexican males and we were deporting them. now it's family units and because of our -- and

unaccompanied minors and because our laws are broke. we are allowing them. in you said it, grab a kid and step one foot on american soil you are in 65%. we are going to reach a million this year. that means we are going to allow 650,000 into this country most of which we don't know who they are and we will never hear from them again. >> tucker: so you deal with this -- you have dealt with this issue for many, many years, it was the center of your life. you dealt with a lot of people on the other side of the open borders people. have you ever met anybody who has made ananich case for it who has said i have studied the numbers and we need to admit 1 million more people without high school diplomas because it will make our economy thrive? >> exactly. actually, facts will show illegal immigration, that's what we are talking about. illegal immigration serves no purpose for anybody. not the american citizens, or the people that we're allowing to illegally enter. it doesn't help them or us. it's legal immigration. and with all due respect to your previous guest, first of all, we -- this country is the generous country in the world. we let a million people in legally last year.

we have hundreds of thousands of academic visas, of work visas. so we already are doing that the crisis we are talking about at the southwest border is about illegal immigration. >> tucker: since you brought up the charity and the basic decency of the united states wholly unacknowledged most of the time. >> absolutely. >> tucker: i have to ask you about a factual claim that a member of congress recently made that the united states is taking children, keeping them in cages and injecting them with drugs. have you ever seen that? >> i try to restrain myself with this answer because first of all the united states border patrol should be applauded for what she is talking about cages. in 2014, when this crisis started, they did incredible job of scrambling, throwing money and putting a facility together to actually care for them properly because their facilities were overcrowded. in 2015, the administration then incredible great job the border patrol did. those cages the reason why they are designed that way

is for the safety and security of the people that are in there. so those comments she is making are, first of all, she is wrong. they are reckless and irresponsible. >> tucker: that was my assumption. it doesn't seem like a country that would be cruel for cruelty sake and that's what they are saying. >> tucker, that's absolutely right. the men and women, i have been there i watched the men and women on border patrol. they took care of those kids and still do today like they are their own kids. i have seen it with my own ice. >> tucker: shocking that maybe congress could say something like this slander. >> it is. >> tucker: mark morgan, thank you very much. good to see you. according to the left there is a new toxin in our environment. it's not mercury or arsenic it's something called masculinity and it's deadly. mark steyn tackles the new poison of masculinity after the break. ♪ ♪

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slash funding for the everify program allow companies to keep hiring illegal labor in violation of a key campaign promise. after that he would denounce bringing in even more low skilled workers that would push down the wages of the people who voted for him. the most vulnerable group in the country. finally he would release a bunch of drug dealers right back on the streets right in the middle of the worst drug epidemic in history and continue our pointless military intervention in syria which in no way benefits the united states. if the president did all of that, the message would be very clear, he has no idea what he ran on in 2016, he just wants out. well let's say voters still didn't get the message. maybe they were too distracted by the russia hoax to notice? at that point you have to do something really extreme to get their attention, something so mindless and counter productive there is literally no way to get reelected after doing it. you would raise gas taxes. in fact the administration is proposing just that according to news reports the white house is negotiating with democrats to hike taxes on gasoline in

order to fund, quote infrastructure. this is one of those ideas that everyone in washington loves. it costs them nothing. they are too rich to care what gas costs and by the way they don't drive. if you live outside the coastal cities and not rich, higher gas prices are a disaster. they hurt you immediately. that's always true anything that raises the price of gasoline green new deal or raises the price of gasoline think tanks crushes the weakest in our society. normal people hate it many of those people voted for donald trump the first time. it's nuts. and it's not like there aren't other smarter less regressive options if you want to raise money there are many of them. roll back some of those 2017 tax cuts which went overwhelmingly to high earners and big companies. billions of remittance in the united states to the rest of the world. remember that idea? reduce carried interest like the income it so obviously

is we should do that anyway just on principle. even tax capital gains like we tax salaries. mitt romney might finally pate same rate as your dentist and that would be satisfying. and then we could get creative. how about about 80% tax on all lobbying produced by former members of congress. that's a good one. how about an iphone tax? or how about a tough new tax on a trillion-dollar based internet dealer whose base public roads to deliver their packages? companies like that have put an awful lot of american businesses out of work. they clog our roads. why aren't they paying for infrastructure? we could go on plenty of obvious ideas out there. hiking taxes on working class rural people is not on the list. unless you secretly want to retire early in that case if you are really sick of the job go with the gas tax. democrats are united on one question. climate change is bad, very bad. as bad as world war ii.

in fact, existentially bad. we will all die from it. >> the singular crisis that we face, a crisis that could, at its worse, lead to extension. ♪ >> if we don't have the bravery to take it on as the most important challenge of our lifetime then we don't care about those children. >> a life and death issue. >> we are running outs of runway to be able to fix this problem. >> people are going to die. habitat will be destroyed. seas will rise. insects will spread. >> we're like the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change. like this is the war -- this is our world war ii. >> tucker: so bad they're running out of adjectives. so what's to blame for this world ending cataclysm? well, a new research paper has the answer. it is, you are not going to

be surprised toxic masculinity that's causing global warming. the paper argues that being environmentally conscious is a stereotypical feminine trait so men in response assert masculinity by so i destroying the environment and hog the remote they drive goldman sachs gas guzzlers light things on fire that's what men do. if we want to save the environment we have to suppress men. it's like world war ii, sort of. anyway, author and columnist mark steyn has thought a lot about this question. in fact, he may be adding to the carbon footprint just by his masculinity. he jones us tonight. mark, is this the science that you grew up with? >> well, i confess i was at first skeptical. if i understand this thesis, my insecurities about my masculinity are causing rising sea levels in the mall december. and at first i didn't really buy that but as i think

about it, i think in fact it's actually one of the least visible climate science thesis of recent years. i'm kind of on board with where they are going on this. >> how did we wind up with a country in which feminists do science? i mean, isn't that bomed bound study like, this right? >> i think, in fact, it's very difficult to tell with social science as with climate science whether or not it's an ingenious parody. it's almost impossible to tell in fact, i think this goes back to, -- i think the important point here is toxic masculinity. they are saying that they did a survey here. this is the kind of hard core science behind it in which they gave someone a walmart gift card and it was pink and had lots of floury patented on it looked a bit girlie and sissy and milk toast painty waist. the guy giving this gift card went out and bought a

very macho masculine things that melt the polar ice caps. if you give him something he is so impressionable this toxin masculine male if you give him a masculine type card he thinks oh that's really nice and he goes out and buy as sierra club tote bag and saves the planet. this is the kind of social science that the hire education institutions of america are spending a fortune investigating. >> tucker: i thought climate science was all about ice corps samples but it's about walmart gift cards? no, no, that's ridiculous. climate science is a state of mind yo you can go and take tree ring samples. that's for losers. the big box are doing a survey where, in fact, you decide what's heating up the planet is men. a couple of weeks ago on this show, tucker, you had a report that they were

introducing vegetarian days in the new york city schools because red meat has toxically masculine overtones. and, basically, if you look at half the stories you cover every night, toxic masculinity is the sort of underlying subtext of it. so, basically, when jerry brown says we all have to be worried because insects will spread, i mean, these guys are literally predicting a plague of locusts now and only good thing about the plague of locusts is that they will kill all the men if alexandria ocasio-cortez is flatulent holsteins don't get us first. between the plague of locusts and plague of flatulent holsteins toxic masculine men will be over and the planet will be saved u. >> tucker: i wish there was a latin term by government unhappy crazy people. mark steyn, it is so -- as long as we are having a revolution i'm glad you are

here to chronicle it with us. thank you. >> thanks a lot, tucker. good to be with you. >> tucker: young man in kentucky fascinated the country trip when he claimed to be a boy who vanished without a trace 8 years ago. today that story took a strange twist and we will tell you what happened after the break. plus, barack obama has ignored the scandal, the joe biden hair sniffing scandal. but, wait, he was very close to biden, really his best friend. where is obama tonight? as his former vice president twists in the wind? that's just ahead. ♪ >> the best vice president america has ever had, mr. joe biden. [cheers] >> let's also give the internet one last chance to -- [laughter] >> talk about our bromance.

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>> tucker: a young man went to police in kentucky and said he had been a 6-year-old boy who went missing 8 years ago. the nation was fascinated. today that story took a strange turn. fox news matt finn reports on the case for us tonight. ♪ >> this is a 6-year-old timothy pitzen next to a commune generated age model. neighbors in newport, kentucky called to support a suspicious teen. >> it broke my heart to see him standing there like he had not a friend in the world. but then shock as that teen claimed he was timothy

pitzen. pitzen's family said they were optimistic. now fbi looks into true identity to be clear law enforcement has not and will not forget timmothy and we hope to one day reunite him with his family. unfortunately that day will not be today. ♪ in 2011, 6-year-old timmothy pitzen's mother trekd him out of his class in illinois. she spent a few days with him at a zoo and water park. then, apparently killed herself in a rockport, illinois hotel leaving behind a chilling note saying her son was okay but would never be seen again. here is timmothy's family responding. >> we know that you are out there somewhere, tim. and we will never stop looking for you. praying for you and loving you. >> and tonight this mystery deepens who is the teenager

that came forward and where is the real timmothy? >> and tucker this evening we have now learned the person claiming to be that teenager who suddenly resurfaceside actually a 23-year-old man. brian reasony of northern ohio, apparent la apparent lay . we will investigate why he put the pitzen family through this heartache. if there is any silver lining the case is back in the spotlight perhaps helping the investigators find the real tim pitzen, tucker? >> tucker: that is so cruel. thank you. speaking of frauds tonight we have a fox news alert for you. the city of chicago has announced it is suing the actor jussie smollett for the cost of investigating his fake hate crime back in january. prosecutors dropped felony charges against him last week despite ample evidence that he was guilty. shortly after that city officials sent him a bill for $130,000. it would have been wise,

obviously, just to pay it and hope it goes away. but smollett was refused and now he is being sued by the city. hopefully the full truth will come out for the sake of the real victims of this hoax, ordinary americans have the wrong skin color or supported the wrong presidential candidate. we will continue to follow it, obviously. now to exclusive story for you. a russian woman tells fox news she thinks she was manipulated by outside forces in order to entrap donald trump advisor michael flynn. fox chief intelligence correspondent kathleen herrige reports exclusively before the show for this story. >> i am not a russian spy and i have never worked for the russian government. i believe that general flynn was targeted and i was -- >> allegations center around the 2014 dinner at new england's university of cambridge. at the time general mike flynn ran military intelligence for president obama. spoke to fox news via skype. >> general flynn was the guest of honor i sought on the opposite side of the

table. >> were you alone with general flynn, before, during or after the dinner? >> i have never been alone with general flynn. >> according to a flier the cambridge events were organized with the support of americans stephon halper later identified by media outlets as a professor who reportedly assisted the fbi's rickenbacker probe. in december 2015 as a private citizen flynn was paid $45,000 to speak at a russia today event in moscow where he shared a table with president vladimir putin. >> did you ever discuss traveling to moscow with general flynn after the dinner? >> there was absolutely no discussion whatsoever with general flynn. >> in february 2016 as flynn's role in the trump campaign became public, out of the blue she says she was invited to a private dinner with halper. >> it was very, very unusual to me. [inaudible] absolutely hate you had all russians. >> during the 2016 campaign,

halper also contacted trump campaign aids. halper has refused requests for comment about his government work. in 2017 as flynn was forced outs as national security advisor over lying about contact with the russian ambassador, she says three american media outlets contacted her over a four day period alleging suspicious contact with film in 2014. >> was it a coincidence or did you think it was coordinated? >> i think it is high chance that it was coordinated. [inaudible] investigated. >> she says she is, quote, collateral damage in the russia probe and she is speaking out to clear her name and get answers about american stephon halper specifically whether she was used to you target or smear general flynn. tucker. >> tucker: that's an amazing story. i think we need to know much more about stephon halper. >> i will stay on it. >> tucker: catherine herridge, thank you. >> you bet. >> tucker: joe biden is facing the gravest political of his career. interestingly though barack obama has remains completely

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>> tucker: time now for final exam where our hardened news professionals compete with one another to find out who has paid the closest attention to the news this past week. our first contestant tonight fox contributor and frequent guest on our show lisa booth will be facing off another frequent guest on our show fox business anchor melissa francis. >> lisa: come on. i'm sorry, i'm too excited.

>> tucker: again, i can't anticipate who will win. this. >> lisa: did i some pushups to get the adrenaline. >> tucker: it helps? there is an aerobic element to the game melts melissa i red the encyclopedia brie tabritannica. >> tucker: here are the rules i will read them for the audience. hands on buzzers. i ask the questions. first person who buzzes gets to answer. you have to let me finish asking the question before you answer t every correct answer is worth a point. if you get it wrong you lose a point. best of five wins. make sense? we are going to start. >> lisa: we're ready. >> tucker: msnbc is very concerned about the president's threat to shut down the southern border not for the reason you think panicked over a possible shortage of which fruit? >> avocado. >> tucker: lisa booth? >> avocados. big crisis, tucker take it seriously. >> tucker: guacamole crisis.

>> lisa: what we do without guacamole. >> the u.s. would run out of avocados in three weeks if president trump shuts down the border with mexico. >> three weeks before avocados. >> the united states would run out of avocados in three weeks. >> lisa: come on, melissa, give mee credit. >> tucker: we need our own supply of after cad dos. >> melissa: 115% of the avocados come from california and the other come from peru. >> tucker: how did you lose that? >> melissa: she is an athlete. i'm ready with the buzzer at this point. >> tucker: wait until you hear all the potential answers. >> lisa: okay so i have to be patient. >> tucker: wild new video on the internet shows tourists running for their lives an glacier falls into the ocean sending a giant wave crashing to the shore. in which country did this country take place a norway, b., new zealand on c, iceland? >> melissa: iceland.

>> tucker: was it? i don't know the answer to this. >> melissa: yes, it was. >> tucker: was it iceland? >> you're going to see nature's power send a group of tourists in iceland running. that's a glacier tumbling down sending the tourists sprinting for their lives. >> do you know what's that called? >> huge wave you will see that coming now. crashing toward. >> tucker: you not only knew the answer you knew the back story. >> lisa: that was a good story. i watched "the five." >> tucker: what percentage of mexican avocado comes from peru. >> melissa: like 2%. >> lisa: extra credit? >> tucker: setting a baseline for the next question. this requires two answers so please listen carefully. >> melissa: oh no. >> tucker: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez complains quite a bit. this week her gripe was about food. specifically the price of an

item at laguardia airport. too expensive she says. what food was she complaining about and how manhowmuch does she say it cost? melissa francis? >> melissa: croissant 7 bucks. she bought it. i wouldn't buy a $7 croissant. >> tucker: was it a $7 croissant? >> congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is demanding more doe. here's what she tweeted croissants at laguardia are going for $7 apiece. some think getting a whole hour of personal dedicated human labor for $15 is too expensive. republican senator ted cruz tweeted back oh the humanity. >> lisa: darn, i knew that one. >> melissa: i knew the avocado one. >> lisa: that's like a draw at this point. melissa melts i don't think there are any prizes any way. i don't think we should not worry about it. >> lisa: most important prize. >> tucker: of course there is a prize. i'm not going to tell what you it is. you will find out. question four also multiple choice.

engineer company boston dynamics unveiled a creepy new robot all robots are creepy. resembles a bird. it can stack boxes and move around the warehouse itself. what type does the robot look like a a penguin, b a ostrich or c a flamingo? what is it? >> lisa: ostrich. >> melissa: b an ostrich. >> tucker: is it ostrich robot? ♪ ♪ >> i don't even know what that is. >> tucker: just a box. >> boston my am i dynamics. the last one was that creepy dog. ♪ >> tucker: i will ask you this because i can't control myself will that robot make our lives better? no. you are absolutely right. you don't get points. but you deserve them. you had the right answer. final question. 2 point question. today's daily double. some customers add

mcdonald's over this week were angry after the restaurant introduced a brand new burger on april 1st and then admitted it was an april fool's joke. what was the name of the strange new mcdonald's burger? melissa francis? melissa melts this is my favorite story of the week. mcpickle. >> tucker: mcpickle, that's not a burger. >> melissa: it was a burger made of pickles we thought about doing it on the 4 p.m. show after the bell. >> tucker: i watch it anyway. >> melissa: have to so most of these stories on after the bell that's what's wrong with this. >> tucker: was she write was it the mcpickle. >> mcdonald's some customers going after the jokingly teased mcpickle burger in australia they want it on the menu for real. >> tucker: why didn't you do that story? >> melissa: i think we blabbed in another segment and rewithin a out of time by the time we got to this. >> lisa: those were like all of our kickers from the

week. that's basically what we do on after the bell. i shouldn't be allowed to do this anymore. this is basically what we like to do at 4:00 p.m. >> tucker: you just won the cold fronted eric wemple show. he came on the show and loved it as can you tell. this is for your morning coffee. >> melissa: thank you so much. >> tucker: have him sign it at some point or his wife. >> melissa: i'm going to give her the mug. >> tucker: i know it's not fantastic but it's still a prize. >> melissa: it is, it's fabulous. >> tucker: thank you, lisa and melissa. >> lisa: i knew but i wasn't quick enough. stretching was in vain. >> tucker: we will see you both very soon. that's it for final exam. pay clos attention to the news all week mcpickles included. pay close attention to the news all week and see if you can beat our experts.

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♪ >> when a small army of heavily armed federal agents arrested roger stone at dawn, they took every precaution. they closed the street and the canal behind his home. his neighbors stayed in doors. the only witnesses to the arrest, a crew from cnn.

>> exclusive footage you're looking at right now as the fbi arrives at his residence. a dozen officers, we're told. >> fbi, open the door. >> so, how did cnn get that exclusive? how did they know to get there early? well, they were tipped off, obviously, by their friends in the mueller investigation. that's how these things work, always. ask anyone in journalism. instead of admitting that, cnn attacked anyone who dared to ask questions. >> a conspiracy theory spread. >> that we were tipped off by mueller. give me a break. >> so i guess it would embarrass him. they were saying it's propaganda. a lot of people started asking

questions about this conspiracy theory. i think we have to be very careful not to allow bad faith actors to move the story away from what it really should be. >> how dare they ask questions. that's not allowed. let's see the proof. let's find out for sure. the federalists tried to do that. they filed a request to get the emails, but the fbi shut them down. they covered for their allies at cnn. we mentioned this on the show and cnn went ballistic. they're guilty as hell and therefore defensive. why didn't cnn push the fbi to abide by a legal freedom of information act request and release the relevant emails, add some facts to this debate? it's called reporting. we called cnn to see if they planned to do that. of course they never responded to us because they're lying.

for eight years, joe biden served dutifully. according to obama, it was a deep and personal friendship. two years ago, he surprised biden with the medal of freedom. >> it was eight and a half years ago that i chose joe to be my vice president. there has not been a single moment since that time that i have doubted the wisdom of that decision. joe's candid honest counsel has made me a better president and a better commander in chief. so, all told, that's a pretty remarkable legacy, an amazing career in public service, it is as joe once said, a big deal. [laughter] >> two years later, biden is running for president and he's the middle of one of the worst stories that's ever surrounded him, one of the most damaging to

his political career. the mob wants him out of the race for the sin of hugging people. if there's anybody who could halt this scandal immediately, it's president obama, with a single statement. nobody else on the left commands as much respect as he does. what has president obama done to help his old friend? well, it's not about him, so nothing, nothing at all. one of the great people in the building joins us tonight. this is where the biden story in my view gets poignant. so, biden served obama in the most self-effacing possible way and took a lot of patronizing abuse in the white house and put up with it. now he needs obama only to issue a two-line statement saying he's not a molester, he's just hugging people, and obama won't do that. why is that? >> i think he has only one chance to weigh in either as the

king maker in his primary or to step in at the last moment, if there's a real nasty primary at the end, he only has one shot to do that. biden has to prove that he can win this on his own. imagine in obama had to come out and save him now. hundreds of more women could come out and say they have similar experiences. he's been hugging people his whole life, is what he says. i think president obama is doing the exact right thing. it's possible michelle obama gets asked about this on the book tour. stacey abrams, the woman who will not concede that she lost in the georgia election, threw him a lifeline today. we do not need our candidates to be perfect. for all those other candidates, they don't need to commit murder when your opponent is committing

political suicide. >> that's true. >> he's going to have to prove he can win on his own. imagine if they're like, you have to have obama come and save you. that would be bad. >> i know for a fact, because i know you very well, if it was your friend. >> it would be very hard so say something, but i wasn't president. i think the best thing obama can do is stay out of this until he's needed possibly at the last moment or until there's a nominee. but what if obama says this. also, joe biden doesn't even have a campaign yet. so, i wouldn't do it. that's joe biden fault. his timing is his timing. but i think obama's done the right thing. >> man, i want my friends to stick up for me. it's a different world, you're right. great to see you. >> yeah, thank you. >> thank you. that's it for us tonight. we'll be back tomorrow, 8:00 p.m. the show that is the sworn and totally sincere enemy of lying,

pomposity, smugness, and group think. we will be back. good night from washington. but if night is not over. stay right where we are. in eight seconds, from new york city, sean hannity is right here. >> i stick up for you. >> obama should leap in for his old friend, i think. >> sean: i have no problem standing up for you, your opinions, are free speech, the fox news channel, and i do it all the time. >> and i'm grateful for that, sean. thank you. >> america needs just one channel that has a somewhat different point of view on occasion. >> we can do that here. yes, i agree. >> sean: tucker, have a great night. welcome to "hannity." buckle up. the hate trump media mob has been up to it all