heroes. to hear a couple of them talk about it in a press conference, they were so humble to say they were just doing what they are trained to do. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the evening with us. good night from washington, i am shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." this is a man called andrew cuomo. mr. cuomo is the governor of the state of new york. new york is one of the most corrupt places in the english-speaking world. you can imagine the qualities you need to possess in order to run a place like that. andrew cuomo has those qualities and he figures he can ride them all the way to the white house. but that didn't happen. instead, another new yorker became president. this enranged andrew cuomo. he's been mad ever since. >> the first year, we lost 40,000 people to gun deaths.

the highest number in 50 years. new york will move forward! not by building a wall, my friends! but by building new bridges! the unifier for the democrats is their anger and fear at the trump administration. >> tucker: like so many people who truly hate donald trump, andrew cuomo tumbled headlong into the rabid line of russia conspiracy. in his defense, it made kind of sense. trump is bad and orange, therefore he's a trader who works for putin. cuomo made that point on twitter, "trump is aiding and abetting putin, a russian dictator, covering up russia's influence in our elections." aiding and abetting, a cover up! call the police, the russians are here! cuomo appeared to believe all of this and many people did. imagine how those people must've felt yesterday. for more than two years, they

waited for their god to deliver them from their orange god. it was all a hoax. there was no collusion. andrew cuomo and a lot of people like andrew cuomo suddenly looked pretty stupid. luckily, andrew cuomo and those people know people. new york is like that. his little brother works at cnn. that's not really surprising, lots of people on scene and has close ties to the democratic party, including the guy who runs the place, jeff zucker. he says he may run himself, thinking just to flip on cnn. last night, pretty much everyone on cnn, the older brother looked especially agitated. people criticizing cnn, doesn't like that. it shouldn't be allowed. >> i'm not going to let people say that, you know, cnn, the media or whatever, they've been

creating a false narrative. this report is plenty of proof that the questions that have been asked repeatedly where legit, and that the answers we were getting consistently were not, especially once you get past the line of, hey, are you a felon? once you move past that, the things they did, the meetings they have had, the explanations they gave, they where wrong consistently. >> tucker: did you get that? i'm not going to let people -- i won't allow that! to which you might, understandably respond, who cares what you think, pal. just because you're the governor's little brother gets to mean that you get to tell me that, buzz off. okay, you could say that. you could ignore his orders entirely. that's up to you. it's your life. but before you make any hasty decisions, we thought you ought to see this. >> you guys who are asking for the fitness test? i will give you one. they key to this is make sure

that the dumbbells are next your bodies like this go up and down. do you see me coming like that? you aren't exercising right. >> tucker: woah. ask yourself again, do you really want to criticize cnn? does that seem like a smart move? this is new york. when the governor's little brother suggests you should do something, you should pay attention if you know what's good for you. repeat after me, cnn was never wrong. cnn got it right. cnn is the most trusted name in news. good. the governor's brother likes it better when you talk that way. if only everyone was so obedient. let's be honest, not everybody is that obedient. some people are going to point out that cnn did, strictly speaking, get the biggest story of the decade completely and

utterly, and flamboyantly wrong. people will say that no matter how many barbells its anchors lift. because it's undeniably true. it wasn't just to see and then. virtually the entire news media did the same thing. this was a failure on an unprecedented scale. the russia hoax wasn't part of what the media covered. it was all they covered for years. the numbers are remarkable. over the first 60 days of 2018, just to pick it almost at random, the evening news shows on the broadcast networks spent twice as much time talking about the russia hoax as any other topic. print, even more profound. since the 2016 election, giving you one measure, more than 150,000 americans have died from drug overdose. that is far more than the number of americans killed during the entire second world war in the pacific. guatemala canal, okinawa, iwo jima, those battles took

fewer american lives over a shorter period. "the new york times" took no notice of it. "the new york times" wrote twice as many stories about the mueller investigation. that mattered more to them. "the washington post," the ratio is even starker. last year, jeff bezos' newspaper ran 4,319 articles about the russia investigation. it ran a little more than a thousand to mention the opioid crisis. america's shrinking middle class? that got a total of 119 mentions. they just didn't care. they weren't pretending otherwise. they don't care. cable news was, as you know, even worse. all russia, all the time. for years, to the exclusion of everything else, including, obviously the truth. relentless, repetitive, calculatingly dishonest. the very definition of propaganda. that's what they did.

now they can't stop. they've been doing it too long for it watch them test drive the new talking point. see if you can identify which word the dnc has told them to use. >> the report has a potentially damning list of ways the president try to "influence" the investigation. >> the report is an ugly damning piece of business. >> i agree it's absolutely damning. >> far more than the president and attorney general initially indicated. >> but it's still very damning. >> absolutely. >> tucker: very damning says don lemon. and they are right. it is damning. chris hahn is radio host and former aide to chuck schumer

we've had many debates whether trump is a russian agent and et cetera and et cetera. but i think now that this is over, we can take three steps back and ask -- there are questions i asked myself, honestly. what did we miss the time we've been focused on this story or hoax? >> all right. what have we missed? not much. first, i've got to say that i think you and chris cuomo need to hug it out. >> tucker: i'm not mad! i'm not mad at chris cuomo. i'm being sincere though. 150,000 americans die of drug ods and nobody mentions it? "the washington post" write as many stories about robert mueller? what the hell! >> robert mueller was charged with investigating russia's interference with the investigation. the report did find that russia interfered with the election. and donald trump was named in the report as someone who tried

to stop that report from coming out. so some points he made were, you know, damning. >> tucker: do you think -- okay. but do you think looking back that the american news media and the leadership of this country, the smart people. the cool kids who went to hbo and worked at mckinsey and set the tone for the rest of us, do you think we emphasized the story to the exclusion of other things that mattered, like the death of 150,000 fellow americans, like the disruption of our middle class, like the degradation of our military, like china's rise, maybe there were other things going on that we missed. do you think? or no? >> i think the media can walk and chew gum at the same time and there are a lot of places that people can get their news. it's very important to understand when there is a foreign government trying to influence our election and a president who is obstructing justice.

which this report showed to me he did. >> you think that the mueller investigation, which whatever else you are going to say about it, didn't show criminal collusion between the president and his campaign and the russian government? your predictions are wrong on that? so whatever you think about it, you think that was worth three or four times as much coverage as the death of 150,000 people by drug od? you really think that? >> i think drug ods are very important but i think this is very important as well. while it did not show criminal collusion, it showed a the campaign very open and accepting help from a foreign government and really enjoyed getting that help and aware of that help. it was something we should be concerned as americans. i want to know right now what the president and attorney general are going to do to protect us from this happening again. i want the media to get to the bottom of this. >> tucker: it's all a joke. it's all a sad joke as the

country literally falls apart as we talk about stuff that means nothing. by the way, i participated in it too and i feel bad about it. thank you so much. the mueller report, it exposed a lot of things. but one of the things it exposed was just how lousy the report, how flimsy and stupid and dishonest the reporting by a lot of our supposedly impressive news outlets have been. they want to pretend it didn't happen, but it did happen and we are going to bring you the details and what we know about how it happened. also the creepy porn lawyer news. mueller aftermath tonight. s pros in-store and online! like eclipse oversize camp chairs for under $15. and these cabela's gore-tex waterproof hikers for under $100. your adventure starts here.

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♪ >> tucker: welcome back to our special report on the aftermath of the mueller investigation. just days before the current president's inauguration, and attack blog called buzzfeed -- it was something a lot of people had heard about in the media, but no one printed. once it was, you can see why. it's full of salacious and grotesque allegations, none of them have been verified. we asked buzzfeed's ben smith, on our show and why you would run something like this. here's what he said. >> this document being fought over, by the way everybody -- we don't have any special powers. we can see this too and deal with the fact that it's okay to be labeled as unverified, some things aren't true, which is we did. >> tucker: i get it. what you're saying is because famous people are gossiping

about it and because -- >> the president of the united states, garden-variety. >> tucker: they gossip too. t >> it's not gossip. it's an official briefing. a document, by the way, it's our freedom of information law. >> tucker: sometimes it's gossip because as unverified. a different what you did and what drudge did, what you did report it was not true. it's not gossip, it's an official briefing. as much as we appreciate him coming on the show, the mueller report has revealed that the trump dossier is what we thought it was from day one, a lie. some of the laws may have come from russia. for the sake of causing problem here irony knows no bounds. buzzfeed knew that but didn't care, so they succeeded what thousands of reporters have

failed, they say they've got documents proving that the president ordered his personal lawyer to lie to congress. that would be obstruction of justice, hands down, that would be an impeachable offense. that didn't happen either. the mueller report the bunk that too. what's going on here. michael tracy independent journalist, he joins us tonight. michael tracy, i don't want to pile on buzzfeed because i don't think they are the only offender here. but the one story they ran, because it was so vigorously defended by the editor in chief including twice on the show is worth thinking of.or i mean, do we know conclusively it was wrong now as of right now? >> as pitiful as it sounds, tucker, buzzfeed i think actually does deserve some credit acknowledging after four months, after it became totally untenable that the story in any way could be perceived as accurate, it finally came out within the past past 24 hours or so declared essentially that it had been retracted. i think, yeah, we do know now with almost absolute certainty that the story was not true

because robert mueller came out and said, quoting cohen that he had not been directed by donald trump to lie to congress. cohen had been instructed by trump to cooperate. not only the core pieces been under minded, the core pieces were not true. as to the genesis of all this. but the thing to keep in mind with the broader trump-russia saga, trump-russia has come to more resemble an article of religious faith than a set of journalistic, political or legal claims. and a religious faith, by definition, is not falsifiable for countervailing evidence can never undermine the core premise upon which believers rest their faith. and so it goes for trump-russia,

you have people at "the washington post," "gq" magazine, all these people who are slobbering over one another after the mueller report congratulation one another on how wonderful of a job they did in covering the trump-russia saga. it's mind-boggling and i don't know how to react at this point because they are not amenable to reason anymore. it's almost like they are in a church and they are chanting these, you know, excerpts from their holy texts. >> tucker: you may know the answer to this, there is a guy called the jonathan chait who works at "new york magazine." not a genius, but a work a day journalist. wrote a story that trump had been a russian agent for decades accompanied by this graphic that was so complex, it looked like a maze.ad was that real, was he serious, and did anybody else say, that's a little demented, john, maybe pull back.

>> after the barr letter was issued, he wrote a follow-up piece saying i was right about that cover story published in july of 2018 asserting that donald trump had been colluding with russia not just in the 2016 election but since 1987. so for decades. >> tucker: you are absolutely right. it's a species of religious faith and they must be -- and for all the you've taken. dana perino warned the democrats might be getting this wrong. cnn is obsessed with robert mueller and russia. but voters, do they care? >> the latest news, elizabeth warren is calling on the impeachment of president trump.

announced it a few hours ago, but it's a mixed bag as far as what we are seeing from otherof 2020 candidates reacting to the 448 page report. last night on the show, dana perino had this warning for candidates, do not base your entire campaign on the mueller report. listen. >> it doesn't mean you can't think it's an important story or you might want to get to the bottom of the origins of the investigations or if you are a democrat looking at this saying, look at all these people walking right up to the line of obstruction. you can think all of that, it's not going to win you in election. >> some of those candidates agree with dana perino. here is sanders monday night at the fox news town hall. >> if we spend all our time talking about donald trump, democrats are going to lose. >> while they believe it's an important story, they realize voters do not have it at the top of their list, so it hasn't stopped some candidates focusing more heavily on the mueller

report. >> i think the attorney general should resign and it's congress' job to hold the president responsible and investigate this mueller report. >> attorney general barr made it clear that he's impartial when it comes to the investigation. this is from americans deserve the unvarnished truth. we need mueller to testify in congress. and from cory booker, american people deserve the truth, not spin from a trump appointee.o release mueller's full apart r. when asked if president trump should be impeached, he said flat out, no. tucker? b >> tucker: thanks.

amazing. jean wright is a democrat, he joins us tonight.je so, we are actually not that far away from the presidential election.ig the house, the senate, lots of governors. as of right now, russia is the most important issue apparently to democratic leaders given what they say. if they were to run on that, one the mueller findings, what would happen, you think?un >> we are about to find out. many of them, if they aren't going to -- tv networks, the fact that the democratic base participates in the primary? they'll demand answers about it. they want to talk about it. we spent $30 million the past couple of years turning the country upside down and that we have this wonderful answer which is our president is not a traitor. instead of being able to move forward where democrats are focused on this fool's gold, at least some of our nominees,

prospective nominees are because of this reason, media, primary voters wanting it, it's the catnip. what's the argument for obstruction? may be trump wasn't russian traitor, but he was awfully cranky and did some naughty things. he should've kept his mouth shut, took it to the chin. while the media called him a traitor, cia directors insisted he was involved in treasonous activities but doesn't sell to independent voters, doesn't sell to republican voters, and it doesn't sell to people like me. if we get the same garbage we got the past two years, inability to move on because the media won't allow it, making way too much money on this, too many clicks from advertisers feeding this garbage, we will have a serious problem in 2020 not asas democrats but as a country. we aren't going to be talking

what most people care about. how do we reduce the cost of health care? how do we ensure we have a thoughtful immigration policy that stops these folks from coming over? that's the stuff that most of us want to talk about. as a part of that, we can say, look, trump has done some great things. t let's talk about china, holding them to account -- but is trump fundamentally the kind of leader we need? so we can come to an agreement or disagreement on that, but that's not the conversation this country wants to have. not more of this collusion stuff. even though mueller didn't find it. you know, obstruction is important even though there is no underlying crime. >> tucker: it doesn't make a single american happier, more prosperous or safer. great to see you tonight. thank you for that.pr almost from day one, the leaders of the american intelligence community were all in on the russia conspiracy. what does it say about them? will investigate as our mueller

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>> tucker: welcome back to our ever since 9/11, americans have given more power and more money to our many intelligence agencies, they can now monitor your communications. or spy on you. there is no oversight for all of it. they just have to see you as a threat. this requires a great deal of trust from the public. do they deserve our trust? well, not always.. equaled or exceeded clueless journalist and then some cases in their willingness to believe the russia story. >> this is nothing short of treasonous because it is the betrayal of the nation..>> he is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. >> is their influence whether witting or unwitting by the

russians over president trump? you know, in this meeting a year and a half or so, his behavior hasn't done much, at least in my mind, to allay that concern. it's possible. but i don't know. >> tucker: people who just led the most powerful agencies in the federal government. how do they get those jobs? john gentry spent more than a decade at cia. he's thought a lot about this question and joins us tonight. thank you very much for coming on. the man who most recently ran the cia saying because he didn't like the president's public press conference with the russian leader, the president had committed "treason." that seems so reckless to me that my first thought is how does a guy like that wind up running the cia? >> he was appointed by president carter --

president obama -- >> tucker: close. excuse me. >> and was approved. he was a white house person who the president liked. it's the president's prerogative to name people like him. >> tucker: the cia and the fbi, intelligences are filled with smart, serious people. what do they think as they watch this guy define the agency's reputation through this cable news hysteria? >> this is a fundamentally new phenomenon. for many, many years, the cia and elsewhere in the intelligence community was that current and former officials kept their personal, political views at home. they were expected to have political opinions, but they kept it at home. former senior officials who wrote memoirs wrote them in relatively objective kinds of ways, even when they had very,

very difficult relationships with presidents, so over time lots and lots and lots of examples of difficult relationships. usually intelligence people said we are subservient here, we work for the president, we are going to bite our tongues, we are going to try to make this work. in 2016, you have a fundamentally different situation.e you had a case where senior officials, i believe that mr. trump is wrong on issues and i'm going public to criticize him. >> tucker: but that's an attack on democracy by definition because cia, every person in the executive branch serves at the pleasure to the one person voted by voters.ex ath >> this is potentially a deep state situation, a term being used for the first time in the u.s. in a political context, we talk about turkey and -- >> tucker: do you think it's accurate?

>> i think it's an issue we should be thinking about. i don't have a firm view on that yet, but it's to the point where we ought to be thinking. >> tucker: if you are running the cia, would you be afraid that congress would clip your wings? if democrats take over, why would they want an agency that shows itself to be willing to overthrow a president? o why would they want a agency like that to continue to exist? >> much of the icc, the cia particularly, has evolved into a left-leaning organization. i think an open question, does the democratic party want to go back to the roots of having a thoroughly objective intelligence community? >> tucker: basically once you politicize these agencies -- how long before they politicize the united states military that there is no part, there is no power center not controlled by the left? >> well.

i don't know. that's a good question. i'm not sure i have an answer to that one. >> tucker: when did this happen? when you worked at the cia, was it a left organization? >> when i was there in the 1980s, there were probably a majority of liberals. that's probably the case. but the ethics was that politics of stay-at-home and one was expected to be objective, of course.s there was a process that we call the review process that's designed to exercise political bias as well as incompetence, basically. over time, that culture pretty clearly has changed. >> last question. since you know how much power these agencies have, does it make you nervous that they are so politicized? >> my main concern is that because it's so critical for effective intelligence to enjoy

the trust of senior decision-makers, that fairly overt politicalization by both senior leaders and also apparently a number of people in the workforce is evidenced by comments by some of the leaders as well, that these people are damaging the trust of presidents and the people, so what that means in essence is that we've got the potential for self-inflicted trust related damage. >> tucker: it's going to be a long time as an observer i can ever trust these people. thank you for that. it's really interesting. and sad. a former advisor to the trump campaign, one of those directly harmed by the russia investigation which we learned yesterday turned out to be hollow at its core and joins us tonight.

since we've spoken to you the duration, i can't resist asking you now that the book has beenat published, what your final reaction is to all of it? >> i can only think of one word to describe the mueller report, and that is mischievous.s. i really think the democratic pro-clinton bias comes out of this report, 13 out of the 19 prosecutors very strongly in support of hillary clinton. you know that by just reading these pages. i was on page 61 of this report where they recounted a russian named henry greenberg giving me a call and offering me dirt on hillary clinton. they went through this wholecl escapade and said it hades nothing to do with russian interference, but nowhere did they mention that henry greenberg had been an fbi

informant for 17 years. they missed that fact in the report, and other things were hankie about the page on me and i got to believe as somebody who is marginal in this investigation, can you imagine the mischief they were up to with some of the star players? >> tucker: if you could just rewind, how could they not mention that? he was on the payroll of the fbi, but they just don't include that in a report? are you sure? >> absolutely.y. when i interacted with the guy and i saw how curious the mueller team reacted when we talked about it in my interrogation, i hired a private investigator to look into this guy, and you found sworn affidavits in federal court in california where this guy came up as a 17 year fbi informant. he spent ten years in jail in

russia, three years in jail in united states for gun crimes, ho was only here on fbi informant visas. i actually have copies of 14 of those fbi informant visas off at democratdossier.com, including the name and telephone number of his fbi handler! but for some reason, that just went -- you know, slipped through the fingers. >> tucker: that's so rotten! and it's the kind of thing where if we didn't hear it from you, we would have no idea. i'm kind of glad you added to the record and i hope this is a kind of permanent record because that deserves to be known. >> that's what mr. gentry is talking about. >> tucker: totally right! we should be nervous about this. >> we really should. >> tucker: thank you very much. >> investigate the investigators. t >> tucker: amen. well, cnn just didn't invite creepy porn lawyer on air, like, every day.id they also tried to convince viewers that cpl was a russia expert.

they'd like you to forget that. we haven't forgotten, though, as our special continues. we'll show you what we remember. e

♪ >> tucker: today, the creepy porn lawyer is best known for getting arrested for smacking women, shaking down big companies, stealing millions f from his own disabled clients. back in the good old days, it seems like an eternity ago, but it was only less than a year, he was a different person entirely. he was cnn's star guest. they let him come on all the time -- as much as he wanted. 65 times in less than two months! originally he was a creepy

lawyer for a troubled woman that turned out he was taking advantage of. but cnn turned to more than that. cnn turned him into a russian expert. true. watch. >> it's ridiculous as to why the president would not want to get to the bottom of the russia collusion situation unless he knows he's guilty.co how do you think is going to handle like someone like myself or bob mueller asking questions? it would be an absolute disaster for him and he knows it. donald trump does not want to sit down and have to answer any questions under oath and if i was in his shoes i would probably want to do that either in light of the facts and the evidence. >> i think this has shown that the president has significant criminal as well as potential money violations. president trump will not serve out his term no way, no how. he will be forced to ultimately resign. why am i on cnn so much?

this is why. >> tucker: because he knows a lot about russia and campaign finance reform! wait a minute, you don't knoww anything about russia or campaign finance reform! you are stealing millions from some guy in a wheelchair who got a settlement that you're taking from him without his knowledge! no one ever said anything like that because he was saying exactly what they wanted him to say. so they let him say anything. and he did. and they never told their viewers that really, you should not take this guy's word as valuable on something he clearly knows nothing about. from the point of view from normal people, cpl was a fraud from day one. his behavior was less shameful than ordinary reporters on cnn because they have inherent credibility. and for years, they built up a fantasy world to their viewers, letting them believe that impeachment and indictments and

a treason conviction were almosa here, just around the corner for the big orange tyrant. they gave each other pulitzers and other fake prizes underwriting their commitment to the first amendment even though they made other people without their views to shut up, take that man off the internet! oh, thank you for my first amendment prize. they are so corrupt.th now the mueller report among other things exposed their work for the travesty of what it was. and their response to it? no. nothing to see here. cnn is quite pleased with itself. >> the other thing this report did is it cooperated the good journalism that was done. you look at the other stories that were fake news, muellerna showed this was actually going on. w >> this report already is the connective tissue that explains everything we've been reporting over the past two years. >> time and again in the mueller

report reporting from major news outlets is confirmed in this mueller report as being accurate. time and again. >> tucker: yeah, a little defensive. but for good reason. joe conti writes about media on the hill.r: you got a call tonight from jeff zucker saying, hey, joe, i wantt you to go on air and deny that the sun will go up tomorrow, wouldn't you say -- you know, it's going to hurt my credibility to do that.dn y i want to do your bidding, mr. zucker, but i can't say every dumb thing you tell me to say because nobody will believe me anymore. why does nobody do that? >> i think i'd say i have an easter egg hunt i really have to get to. >> tucker: as if as that would ever happen.t >> pulitzers were won, as you said. the pulitzer board described the reporting this way. reporting around russia collusion, okay? "deeply sourced from a reported sources in the public interest that the medically forward the nation's understanding of russian interference in the 2016 election and its connections to the trump campaign, the

president-elect's transition team, and his eventual administration." pulitzers for what the mueller report said -- remember, robert mueller, we have to believe everything in the report, told that for two years, no collusion here so therefore these prizes are null and void. >> tucker: but the fact that nobody is saying that. even long term, even cnn, they are day traders of this stuff, some smart person will say, wait a second, we aren't evaluating our own currency that nobody is going to watch us anymore or read our papers or care about us. pulitzer, no one is even going to care how it isno pronounced f we don't act with some integrity andt correct our mistakes. is nobody saying that? >> nobody is saying that because there is a 2020 election that'll serve as a lifeline to bring people back to watch the news. if we didn't have an election, this would be like the 2008 financial crisis, everything would go off a cliff in terms of ratings, in terms of cliffs, wec

are already seeing this at cnn. yesterday when the mueller report dropped, all that highly anticipated talk around what's going to be in that report, they couldn't even average 1.2 million viewers. that is so hard to do. that's a third of what we got here in this network because you should be getting viewership like that. but on a day like that with so little people relatively are tuning in? that tells you something. when i saw the clips you played where they said, all those reporters there, whether it was acosta or anybody else, saying that the reporting was proven out, you explain to me how the buzzfeed story, that michael cohen was ordered to lie to congress by president trump, was that proven out? i'm curious. has he apologized for that report? of course not. that's the whole problem here in the end, tucker, contrition and the complete lack for all the things that were wrong.

let's face it. what the whole ball game was was collusion between trump and russia and that was the reporting, the primary part of it, and that's what everybody got wrong. forget about everything else, that was the whole ball game. >> tucker: totally right.ro michael cohen went to prague! when it turned out he didn't, his phone was cited there. joe, great to see you. >> happy easter to you. on a happy note, exactly. we are going to end this easter week for time for dan bongino's music explosion. nobody has payed more closer extension to the mueller report and dan has the top takeaways.fo explosion up next after the break! t and dan has the top takeaways. explosion up next after the save on the gear you need at bass pro shops and cabela's in-store and online! like natural reflections ladies' spring valley shorts starting at under $15. and save $50 on this bass pro formula/ cabela's fish eagle baitcast combo. your adventure starts here

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>> it's friday! that means it's time for >> tucker: it's friday. that means it's time for dan

bongino's news explosion. this week, the theme of course, the mueller report. our favorite former new york city cop and secret service agent is here to give us his top takeaways from the report.ha as you listen to what dan bongino says, see if you catch them using the word um or hmm are pausing at all. no, he is the most complete sentence because you'll ever meet in your entire life.ve dan bongino. >> gosh, no prompter either. i don't even put notes on my hands or anything. this is all natural. here are my three stories. before we get to mueller, story number three, got tora go back o avenatti, a creation of cnn. the more we find out about this aguy, the more creepy he becom. it's amazing. tucker, has there ever been a less impressive human being on cable news on a wider breadth of topics? >> tucker: that says a lot, as

you know. [laughs] >> he's on a show called "reliable sources." that is the funniest part of this whole thing. listen, brian stelter, change the title of the show after avenatti. the clips aren't going anywhere, we've seen them, it's not reliable sources. it's "unreliable sources." >> tucker: got to be, at best. >> can't go back to that. story number two, getting back to the mueller report, critical take away, it's not what was in the mueller report thatte fascinated me -- a time through about 90% of it, just got to get to the gr used up -- it's what's not in it. tucker, we've all been told by the brilliant academics and media people that as you know, are much smarter than you and i -- >> tucker: a spider. >> we are the dumb ones. they have told us that mueller was the demigod that was going to expose russian collusion. what he conveniently leaves out of it is that some of the people who made that trump cabinet

meeting happen, the russians, were in fact connected hillary clinton through fusion gps, the company she paid, and personal relationships already acknowledged in the media. i thought we were investigating russian collusion. i'm not sure that is what mueller was doing. i think what he was doing, to quote mark levin, he was writing an op-ed for $30 million. >> tucker: let me ask you one question. do you think what you just said explains the puzzling fact that we haven't heard, i don't think we've heard from hillary clinton on the release of the mueller report? >> tucker, she has a lot to hid hide. the russian election connection, the russian lawyer, both had ties to clinton and business ties to fusion gps. this is documented fact. anybody can look it up on the enter rob out there. you can check it out yourself. again, nowhere in the mueller report are those relationships mentioned. it's basically a jack ryan story

told to make you believe drum colluded with the russians and so they can get a road map for impeachment. that is what it is. it's incredible. story number one -- [laughs] how did they blow this? the american media was completely humiliated, tucker. they got the story totally backwards from the start. they told us collusion was real and the spy scandal was fake, we are all conspiracy theorists. the story was actually -- the spying scandal is very real and collusion was fake. one quick thing, running out of time, i find it ironic that they keep patting themselves on the back forgetting minor details of the story right. going to a bank robbery, reporting on a bank robbery that never happened, and then celebrating that you got the color of the car the guy left in and patting yourself back like jim acosta. good job, jim. it a bank robbery that never happened. >> tucker: by the way, this show actually did get it right, we haven't patted ourselves on the back of him and we are not going to now. dan bongino, you're the best, have a great easter weekend. we are out of time.

8:00 p.m. monday, we'll be back. the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. easter is on sunday. have the best weekend with the ones you love. good night from washington. "hannity" is next. jason chaffetz is inverter sean. ♪ >> jason: welcome to the special edition of "hannity": just as in america. i'm jason chaffetz in tonight for sean. it's a good day for president trump, and a great day for america. the witch hunters over. there was no trump-russia collusion! it was a giant, destructive two and a half year long hoax. the media's favorite conspiracy theory has been blown out of the water! so now they are shifting the narrative to another hoax surrounding phantom obstruction of justice claims, which, as mark levin pointed out this morning, is complete and total nonsense. watch this.