friday, april 26th, we will see you back here on monday at 7:00. tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." i am not tucker carlson. i'm going to play the role of brian kilmeade filling in for the great tucker carlson. his whereabouts are unknown. guess where we know joe biden is? joe biden has officially joined the democratic presidential race. the instant frontrunner according to the polls he hasn't bothered attacking fellow democrats yet. instead he is gunning for this guy named president donald j. trump. the former v.p. had no shortage of fans though in the mainstream media. they are obsessed with his aggression his opposed authenticity and aviator glasses. >> well, he just decided to bypass the primaries and go right to the main event and kind of consign everybody else to the kiddy table. >> that is joe biden at his

best. that is someone who is authentic. it's the reason he connects with people. >> today the man who has been a senator, a vice president, and a big fan of aviators is joining the race. >> aviators are back. there they are. there are the aviators. and he loves this. he is having fun. this is not heavy lifting for joe biden. >> i thought that message today was very, very thrilling. to me i thought it was very american. i thought it was great. >> brian: is it me or is chris matthews always thrilled about something. cnn and msnbc very happy. nothing compared to the ladies of "the view" today. they treated him kind of like a god. no that's a little bit too mild. treated him like the second coming of his own boss barack obama. >> former vice president joe biden just answered the call millions of americans have been begging for. >> you know i think it's exciting for so many people

finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. you think? we're off to the races. there might be a chance to wake up from this three-year long national nightmare. >> and imagine four more years of that nightmare. >> no, no, no. no,. >> please welcome former vice president joe biden. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> you said something yesterday in your announcement video that really brought tears to my eyes. you said that we are in a battle for the soul of this nation. and i felt that in my soul. >> there are so many people that in a moment of need, when they needed consolation, when they needed encouragement, when they needed a hug have been happy to get that from joe biden. we were the very first daytime show to even have on a sitting -- have on a sitting president, barack obama. here's my question. we pencil you in for january 21? >> if i'm there, yes. >> all right. >> brian: those are the only three words he said.

he just got a lot of questions. if you want to get in so bad why take so long. joe concha joins us now live from the studio very close to his house. joe, first off, is it surprise being he gets positive reviews after three weeks ago the touchy feely joe didn't explain himself too well? >> surprising? is that a rhetorical question? i believe it is. yeah, look. "the view" amazingly falls under abc news division. that's not even seen as an entertainment show. i will leave it there. i watched this interview today. i didn't hear any questions in terms of who is joe biden? he has been in politics for nearly 40 years and i honestly don't know what's at his core. and in the end, hillary clinton made this mistake because we saw that in those clips that you played. as a democrat, you can't just say donald trump is a bad guy, i'm a good guy or in hillary's case a good woman and if you vote for me, that's good enough.

no, people want to know what you are going to do to improve their lives. what's this position in terms of improving healthcare, immigration, the opioid crisis. in terms of raising taxes. will you raise taxes or not raise taxes? what's your position on infrastructure? and so on? so i want to hear those questions. i don't want to see what i saw today. i'm not surprised by it there are actually two republicans on that panel. and i get with meghan mccain why she would want to endorse biden considering her father's relationship with mr. biden but at the same time, look, he is going to have to do some interviews with some tough people in some tough places. he expects to be president of the united states and answer the kind of questions that i would pose as i just laid out just now. >> brian: joe, look, he has been in the business for 28 years. i get it it's going to be tough. maybe the decision you made in 1984 you wouldn't make in 2019. totally under understandable. if donald trump teaches you anything don't run from it. embrace it, explain it but don't apologize for it i'm

not sure what he is doing about two controversial things the anita hill situation as well as the touchy feely trend. he hasn't really apologized. he addressed it and the other thing he did, he mocked right after he addressed it instagram video. so far in terms of damage control you can't give him an a. >> oh, no, you can't. he has been in crisis mode for the past two months. before he even ran, right? and with anita hill, doesn't anybody on "the view" or anybody else who interviews him going forward, doesn't anybody find that completely disingenuous that only after he announced that he decides to apologize to anita hill? what was that? nearly 30 years ago? he hasn't had the time since then or even when he was running for vice president? so to do that now and say hey, i'm running for president, i think i feel bad about what i did, i'm sorry. that comes across as phoney. what we have learned at least from donald trump winning, brian, is that people embrace authenticity good and bad or ugly but be authentic. don't be that guy. >> brian: what happened is

he picked up the phone and called anita hill a disaster. gave an interview to the "new york times" i essentially don't accept his apology and he didn't really apologize. what are they upset about? he didn't vote for clarence thomas. what did he do? evidently he didn't tell the truth according to her when she would get to testify. it was not going to be first. she thought it was last. she wasn't allowed to bring up people to verify her story. so just go out and explain what you were doing as chairman a republican nominee and move on because nobody wants to re-litigate. we barely remember the story. i'm not saying it wasn't important. but if you are a politician, and you have a staff, and he has got money. be able to answer these questions. the other 19 contenders aren't seeing the undefeated heavyweight champ right now. >> and good for anita hill by the way for not falling in line and doing what she was supposed to do which was accept it so joe biden could get past this hurdle. for people worried that joe biden is going to get a free ride from the media, brian. here's all you need to know. before the 2016 election 59

papers, major ones offered their endorsements. 57 went to hillary clinton. two went to donald trump. that got hillary clinton a concession speech. so that's all you need to know in terms of influence of our media today, at least on the political side. and, look, the bottom line is that as far as the media putting their finger on the button for joe biden, we saw it, obviously, with hillary clinton. it simply doesn't work because half the country does not trust the messenger. it's all white noise. the punditry and the predictions mean nothing to the american people. they will decide what happens here from debates and a concise message which biden needs to establish besides trump is a bad guy. >> brian: joe, i have to let you go. you understand how controversial it is going to be for him when he did not know how to greet the host. i don't know what to do shake your hand, give you a hug, give you a kiss. we are friends with joe biden to win in 2019, he can't be joe biden. that could be a problem.

joe, you are released to go party and go to the club right near your house like you do every friday night. appreciate it. >> in jersey there is nothing like it quite frankly. >> brian: absolutely. don't go to manhattan and get yourself in trouble. >> probably. >> brian: 7 minutes after the hour not everyone is in love with uncle joe. vox calls him 2020 hillary clinton totally out of touch with the democratic base. elizabeth warren says biden sold out america to the credit card companies. and in an email to supporters bernie sanders blasted biden for hosting his first fundraiser at the home of a top comcast lobbyist. quote, saying this: day in the democratic primary we are hoping to end it strong not with a fundraiser in the home of a corporate lobbyist but with an overwhelming number of individual donations. so the question remains is biden liberal enough to lead the 2020 democratic party? i can only turn to one man, who would answer the call on a friday night chris hahn former staff. host of the podcast.

great podcast host. chris, is he liberal enough? >> absolutely. look, at the end of the day, my friend, democrats are going to unite around the person they think can beat donald trump. and i think the reason why he is leading in the polls right now is because they think he can beat donald trump. that's really the ultimate goal. i heard your previous guest talking about healthcare plans and everything else. i think a celery stalk with a good healthcare plan will be united around by democrats if they're the nominee if they think that person could win the presidency. that's the key for democrats right now. now, there will be a lot of talk between now and then. there will be a lot of fighting. there will be a lot of back-stabbing, a lot of mud thrown, politics ain't beanbag, brian, you and i know this very well. at the end of the day, democrats are going to unite behind whoever the nominee is. every single person running, all 30 or 60 or ninth however many run this year will have to make that pledge that they will support the ultimate

nominee. >> brian: find out who is support murderers voting way overdue. who is going to support medicare for all and eat trillions of dollars of student debt because you don't want students responsible for the loans they take out. i can wright you a list of things that they say matter to the american people and then matter to the democrats. i'm not sure where joe biden stands and if it matters. that's what makes this period so interesting to have a chris hahn on. another thing, here's what bernie sanders, former press secretary simone sanders had to say back in november of 2016. >> in my opinion, we don't need white people leading the democratic party right now. the democratic party diverse and should be reflected as so in our leadership and throughout the staff in the highest levels and the vice chairs, the secretaries, all the way down to the people working in the offices at the dnc. >> brian: that's cnn. and that's what she thought then. now sanders has been hired by joe biden. she has been hired by joe biden's campaign. chris, how does she do that? isn't joe biden still a

white guy? >> >> last time i checked. but, look, that's politics, manual. i think joe biden can win. i think simone sanders wants to win. i think at the end of the day what people want in politics is competitive, man. you and i have been com competitive athletes our whole life. competition people in it want to win at the end of the day. what the positions are you laid out some things that might change might move left or might move right or center. at the end of the day, it's the winning message. let me tell you something the message that might win in 2020 might not be around politics. everybody knows democrats are going to have a progressive healthcare plan that's going to cover more americans than the republican. what they are going to want to know who can lead this country in the right direction and who can bring vanity back to the oval office. >> brian: you can't have it both ways. you can't have medicare for all and obamacare. what's this plan you just referred to? >> look, i think there is going to be medicare for all who wants it. which is kind of like obamacare, with a public

option, that was ruled out five or six -- was ruled out when obamacare was originally passed. that's what you are going to see a robust public option and similar plan to obamacare that's going to cover more people and give them more options even as don't adopt obamacare through the exchanges. >> brian: chris, give the people the aetna realize they are no longer in an industry. it's been turned over to the federal government and did. >-- >> -- obamacare made private insurance more customers find a way to keep that system going and cover more people. we have got -- everybody has to come to the table with ideas. brian. can't be calling it socialism and can't just be calling it names. everybody has to come to the table. you and i talk about things. we work things out. the american people who govern have to do it as well. >> brian: right. chris, you are talking about something whoever wins 2020 that's the conversation we have. but to get to 2020, there is going to be no compromise. going to be two sides totally separate and we both know that but, first, one

person has owe merge from a group of 20 that could grow even more. it's going to be great having you on over and over again and watch you pull out your hair. >> can't wait, man. [laughter] >> brian: all right. chris hahn, thanks so much. you are now released to enjoy your weekend deputy a.g. rod rosenstein just criticized the obama administration and even his former boss jim comey. what does that mean? that story is next or i read the wrong prompter. ♪ ♪ - my family and i did a fundraiser walk in honor of my dad,

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>> brian: what i think is remarkable speech was delivered thursday night, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein criticized the obamacare to a degree complaining that they did not tell the whole story about russia's efforts to influence american politics at the time. listen. >> some critical decisions about that russia investigation were made before i got there. the previous administration chose not to publicize the full story about russian computer hackers and social media trolls and how they relate to russia's broader strategy to undermine america. >> brian: wow, that's interesting. meanwhile the 2016 election is still driving militant anti-russian rhetoric from the left. dnc chair tom perez says america isn't just combating russia, we're at war with russia. >> our fiercest foreign adversary attempted to interfere with our election. to help donald trump and hurt hillary clinton. we are at war right now. it is a cyber war. unfortunately, because our

commander-in-chief is compromised, the federal government is asleep at the switch. >> brian: commander-in-chief is compromised? didn't we go over this? kim strassel writes for the "wall street journal" editorial board she joins us. commander-in-chief is compromised? did ed rendell talk like that? did gillespie talk like that or reince talk like that? come pro-3450euzed? >compromised?>> we just had a tr probe that proved that donald trump is not compromised and at some point democrats need to accept the findings of that report on the collusion front in particular. but, the other issue, too, is look, this is how we got here in the first place. russia is certainly an adversary. someone that we need to be very concerned about and putin and his authoritarian tendencies. but we have a lot of enemies in the world. and to suggest that this is 00 only one and then also to suggest that anyone that

attempts to forge a diplomatic compromise or treat with putin in a way that tries to get him to behave more responsibly is somehow engaged in treasonous actions. of course our administration exists to interact even with rogue nations. in an attempt to improve world order. >> brian: kimberly you have led this investigation enemy ways through your column at the "wall street journal" through a determination to be determined later that you like a lot. but, when rod rosenstein spoke on thursday, i think everyone was listening. they wanted to see what he had to say. we haven't heard much from him. what about the fact that he took some shots at the obama administration and jim comey for holding on to this information and letting it go right in the heat of 2016 about russia's infiltration? >> yeah. well, look, on the russia investigation, i think deputy rosenstein, i mean, he put out a very important point. you could go through this entire mueller report and find out that russia was seriously engaged in some very concerning ways in the

election. luckily in no way that affected our election results but, still, alarming ways. and who was in charge when that happened? the obama administration. and, yet, no one heard anything about it we know that the trump administration was not given a defensive briefing. it seems a lot of people were not around with about what was going on including state and local election officials, too. a real failing of competence there in terms of dealing with this adversary that we have. also, look, got to remember, rosenstein has been subject to a lot of negative headlines. i have been critical of him especially when he was obstructing some of the house's efforts to get information on what the fbi and the doj did in 2016. but he has also been thrown under the bus by mccabe, in particular and others. and i think we're going to have a lot to hear from him going forwards. he was there in the thick of all of this going all the way back for a couple of years. and he may have some interesting tales to tell.

>> brian: absolutely. we still don't know about that whole wire story james baker testified behind closed doors that he offered to wear a wire and see about the competency of the presidency to see if he could flip. he denies that said it was sar sass stickily read. he said don't believe everything you read we get along fine. he traveled out to long island to do an opioid conference with the president. i saw him talking casually with the president. he also made it clear in that speech i did not tell anybody i was going to turn over everything that we got in the mueller probe. i was going to let everybody know if there were criminal referrals from that. so, the attorney general overproduced from what rod rosenstein promised. final thought? >> yeah. give rosenstein credit. he has been right there at barr's side. and backed up the attorney general decisions on this report about what would be disclosed. look, that was incredibly wholesome report, brian. you could read just about anything it. only thing redacted is stuff under law that really does

need to be redawcketted for sources and methods and important national security implications. they have done a good job in that regard. >> brian: "yes" or "no," do you think the president would be better off talking about it or talking about it from here on in? >> stop talking about it. >> brian: i agree. kimberley strassel, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> brian: hope he listens to you. meanwhile baltimore's local government is melting down. get. this its democratic mayor kathleen pew refuses to resign despite mounting evidence of severe corruption and criminal behavior. several companies admit they bought thousands of copies of pew's book series. she made at least $800,000 selling the book. the city council her resignation. instead she is taking a leave of absence and hasn't appeared in public since. on thursday fbi agencies raided her house and seized several boxes of materials including many copies of

healthy holy. it's going to be very hard to get by the way. today pew's attorney made this remarkable claim. her health is so bad, quote, she is not lucid enough to make a decision about resigning. pugh has been suffering from pneumonia and bronchitis and at the earliest a decision on resigning will come early next week. weave will continue to follow this story through all its twists and turns and find out where the truths is meanwhile the crisis at the u.s.-mexico border is getting worse by the day. bubeto o'rourke's solution is to have ice make fewer deportations. on the way out have them take up the fence el paso. take a wide shot. music will come up and we will go to a break. ♪ ♪

>> brian: for months the press denied that anything was wrong at the border at all. mexico. now the crisis that i call it is getting worse by the day. on thursday at least 1300

migrants escaped a detention center mostly cubans that was in southern mexico. 700 have been detained once again but 600 are loose. meanwhile in tennessee, illegal immigrant who has already been deported five times now stands accused of murdering a 4-month-old infant. in the democratic party in some cases the only immigration problem we have is the border still exists at all. presidential candidate beto o'rourke. he not only stands on counters on every good diner but if he is elected he has an idea. he is going to cut back on the number of illegal immigrant deportations. >> in one year alone in the previous administration. 400,000 deportations from inside the united states. we don't need those internal roundups and deportations and enforcement. >> [inaudible] exist yes or no. >> yes, it will. but it will not -- it will not employ those practices that we have seen not just

under this administration but under the previous administration. >> brian: so ice will exist but be like the maytag repairman no one will come and won't do anything. the left coast news podcast joins us now. ethan, do you like beto o'rourke's answer? does it represent ethan's views? >> i actually like what congressman o'rourke had to say. and it's correct. we need to focus on violent criminals, gangs, the type of people that you just put up on the screen. we don't need to be intercepting dads dropping their kids at school who have been here for 20 years and their kids are u.s. citizens to break up those families and stopping people randomly on the street to inquire about their immigration. this is a poor use of resources. >> brian: ethan, that's one thing with ice and if i had tom homan here he would tell you that rarely happens it is criminals that overstays visas and what have you. but to create order at the border do you believe we should do exactly what we are doing now or what should we do to change things? because dick durbin,

congressman pete javier, both democrats. katie porter. liberal columnist thomas freidman and senator cory booker have finally admitted there is a crisis. so, if there is a crisis, you have to address that crisis. what should be done? >> well, there is no question there is a humanitarian crisis at our border. these are human beings that are fleeing violence, food insecurity. nonfunctioning governments in central america. they are human beings that deserve compassion not being called names. not being told that they're horrible people. that provides cover, excuse me, for the cartels who are the bad people that we need to address. instead of spending trillions of dollars in the middle east. why don't we invest some of that money in our sphere of influence. >> brian: i think you are right in this. i definitely think we need to approach the central american governments where people aren't going to see this isn't infiltration this is aid. i get it not just giving checks but having programs. i understand it what's happening in central america

is not unique and what is happening in cuba is not unique. the fact is our policies make it a magnet. we stopped the mexicans coming over and we have them coming over orderly. how do we do it in central america? change the laws. and this way asylum could be a system rather than a anarchy. don't you agree. >> the probably has been that the current attorney general and the previous attorney general have changed asylum rules. we have done this to ourselves during the trump administration. by making it harder remember, asylum seekers with children who put up a bond show up in court at 98%, 97% rates. it was working. and then we changed the rules to be who are cruel toward asylum seekers which is actually added to the chaos. >> brian: i take -- i will challenge you on the word cruel. i think we are doing the best we can with people who cross in very dynamic dangerous situations because

we have given them the idea that they can stay. instead of going through the embassy. going through an application. instead of trekking through mexico, being taken advantage of and they get here and then we put them in soon to be tent cities. the way to do that is to change the laws. we can do it in a half an hour and jeh johnson sat on the "fox & friends" couch and said as much. the flores rule, the amendment would have hampered him. it got overturned in 2015 as being abused in 2019. final thoughts? >> well, again, we have to address root issues and we keep avoiding that. if we really want to address -- beacon of liberty and want to come here, let's help them. >> brian: we can't take everybody. ethan, you know we can't take everybody. >> i'm not saying take everybody. let's fix their own countries in our sphere of influence. most of them are fleeing violence and food insecurity, brian. and if we can solve that and

get them some functioning government back in their own countries and get the cartels to not be in control, then they will stay at home where they can grow their food and we can help them where they want to be in the first place. >> brian: i don't know if you heard or been watching, it's very hard to control other country's policies. even in the best -- with the best intentions. but, there is chaos in the central american countries. i wish we could control the border. the border patrol got a raise. that's out first start. number two is to get democrats and republicans together and solve this. i appreciate you, ethan. talk to you soon. >> all right, thanks, brian. >> brian: coming up next kris kobach is a former kansas secretary of state. he joins us now. chris, you have a different view, i know. >> yeah. i couldn't disagree more with what ethan just said. he said these individuals are -- he suggested they were making legitimate asylum claims because they were fleeing violence and food insecurity when he put it. asylum is when you are fleeing a government that is persecuting you because of

your membership in a particular social group. the international definition of asylum does not include the fact that you are poor or that you are fleeing criminal -- criminals in your own country. that is not a basis for asylum. what's happening, you know 10 years people people sneak in our country in the cover of night in small groups. now they come n groups of 200, 300, walk straight up to the border patrol and tell the border patrol here i am please take me to your station i would like to make a claim of asylum a bogus claim but here's the thing. right now they are so overwhelmed with bogus asylum claims and vast majority are being denied when they get heard. it takes six years for that claim to be heard. the illegal alien is given a work visa. they are given food stamps. everybody knows that you can abuse the system now. blown wide open. >> brian: i don't think guys like you or the president vilifying these people. i don't blame them. we all know we hit when we

are born in america and how great we have it we can't take in 300 million people. we can't there ha has been a system of immigration. the russians have annex countries to get people who want to be russian. you are taking anybody even if they paid them. they want to come here because of what everything -- what we set up prior to this. >> right. >> brian: will blow system up if we can't control our borders? >> well, as the mow bell prize winning economist milton freidman put it you can't have open immigration and a welfare state. if we just throw open our borders which is essentially what we have right now. we have a crisis where people are just marching in and they are being allow you had. in if you have that system then our own welfare state collapses. i agree with cher on this point. she said we have some 'our own country needy and need our help. we can't just have an open border at this point in time. you know, i talked to one border patrol agent a couple weeks ago she told me word among the border patrol we

are uber drivers for illegal aliens. no longer enforcing out border. they can make a claim of asylum which everybody knows and most cases be. >> brian: i'm being told to wrap. nancy pelosi wants infrastructure get me immigration reform i will talk to you about infrastructure. we have to get this done. i don't want to wait until 2020. it's not fair to the men and women at the border. get something done in washington. senator lindsey graham says he is going to drawing is up and get some votes on it let's see it. can somebody hit print and then hit send. >> we have got to start enforcing our laws. there is no more time to waste. >> brian: right. exactly. no one is saying they are bad people coming across. we don't know who they are. we just know we have to control our country. chris, thanks so much. >> my pleasure, take care. >> brian: meanwhile as the president likes to say without borders you don't have a country. if you would like to know about this country and how it all began, i have a series on fox nation called what made america great. i'm going to be bringing

that to the stage america great from the start combines my books. already has 10 outs there five more coming. we're going to be streaming live shows in bonita springs 19th. 10th and 11 in the charlotte, north carolina as well as birmingham, alabama, go to brian kilmeade.com/tour. i want to see you in person. i can only imagine what you are wearing. i want to see for sure that you are indeed dressed. meanwhile, if the nfl draft and some san francisco 49er fans outraged that their team chose a trump supporter with their topic that ridiculous story is next. arizona's governor under fire for celebrating easter. he says he will not apologize and he shouldn't, right? that story is straight ahead. ♪ ♪

♪ >> brian: sorry i'm not tucker carlson but i do have something important to say. the nfl draft is being held right now and one of the topics the san francisco 49ers, number two overall selected ohio stays defensive end nick bosa. third member of his family to be drafted in the first round of the nfl. but instead politics rules the day and can i say ruin the day? many 9er's fans not happy with the pick. some suggest is he a racist because he made tweets criticizing beyonce's music and called black panther the worst marvel movie ever. others say voice support for donald trump. >> you are a fan of donald trump. >> yes. >> right? >> big fan. he brings charisma to the table right now candidates i haven't seen in my lifetime.

>> brian: how dare he be a fan of the president. rick mchenry a fox nation host noses all about the bosa family remarkable story. that's not what this is about, is it. >> no because of the progressive faction of this country to just simply like any post that's conservative to come out with a conservative voice or support the president of the united states cardinal sin, especially the most liberal city in america which let's face it is san francisco. i think people should be more enraged that there an estimated 10,000 homeless people living on the streets in san francisco. 72% more than the national average in 2010 than what some football players saying about trump. >> brian: that's a great point. san francisco is a mess. >> yes. >> brian: i know tucker did a big feature on this. he deleted his tweets in it he called kaepernick a clown for taking his knee. he called him crappernic. you put in your column some african-american players on

his team tweeted out that think are happy he is on the team. they know he is going to be an impact player. >> absolutely. instantly there were several of them. about three that i had counted at least in a quick search of it because what they want to do is win football games. they want more than four wins. i guarantee you as soon as he is sacking russell wilson or forcing a fumble, even if you are liberal out there, you are going to start routing for them because the 49ers need to reclaim their glory and he will be part of that process. did i cover his bureau joey bosa when he was drafted to the los angeles dodgers great kid, great family. is he not deserving of all this condemnation. i saw it coming years ago when nick got on the scouting circuit and other media members started seeing his talent because he did have these tweets. it's a shame that they forced him to delete it. >> brian: do you know who doesn't care? john lynch? he is the general manager, outunderstanding player put bucks as well as with the denver broncos. is he making that choice. he knows what it takes to win. that's going to be the difference. >> yeah.

tell me a lie by the way about black panther. i love marvel movies i am going to see avenger this weekend it was overrate you had. cut the kid some slack. >> brian: was not a true story. a fun story that you may or may not like. have you that option. there are people out there do not like beyonce's music. i have not met them. they like beyonce. >> i'm more of a rihanna fan. express that opinion now. written off? no. give him a chance. >> brian: the guy can play. >> he can play and a good kid. >> brian: i'm going to keep looking at this camera even though i fake going to that camera. liberalliberals in arizona are apoplectic after governor doug ducey release an easer message. he says he won't apologize or back down though. trace gallagher has more. what about this message? >> well, five days later governor doug ducey does not appear to be budging one inch on this thing on easter

sunday the governor's facebook post a picture of a cross a bible verse and this caption quoting he is risen, have a happy and blessed easter. apparently that did not sit well with the secular coalition for arizona. the grow up wrote the governor a letter that reads in part, quote: elected officials should not use their government position in government property to promote their religious views. they added that if a government post greeting on a religious holiday it should include all 1584 of the world's religions. to which governor ducey responded, quote: we won't be removing this post ever. nor will would he be removing our post for christmas, hanukkah, rosh hashanah shanna, palm sunday, passover or any other religious holiday. we support the first amendment and happy to provide copies of the constitution to anyone who hasn't read it the post also led to a heated social media debate with some congrats laghtd the governor, quote: good for you, governor, sharing your faith has

nothing to do with government endorsement. while others sided with the secular group quoting again great sensitivity, doug, that's the last time this jew votes for you. so far governor ducey has remains true to his word because the post is still active as we speak, brian. >> brian: trace, you never have easy stories. easy to explain but certainly we must talk about them. trace gallagher, thanks so much have a great weekend. air traffic controllers are trusted with the safety of thousands of people every single day. absolutely essential that the best candidates available get their jobs. a single mistake can cost hundreds of lives, right? last year on this program tucker revealed how the faa has diluted its standards hiring less qualified candidates in an effort to promote diversity. they deemphasize job skills and irrelevant relevant factors like how many sports they played in high school. the administration got rid of the worst abiases there still has not been a return

to merely merit-based hiring. this year bipartisan legislation introduced by senator jean shah neon and senator john hoban would fix out problem permanently and they did. if tucker recently spoke to the aviation attorney and here is what they said to each other. >> it doesn't seem like a complicated problem to fix. this someone of those rare jobs where it would seem this heart surgery a few others where you would only want to hire on merit. why has it taken a year to get there? >> you know, tucker, there is still a lot of administrative push back. there is still people in the faa that were part of this can a bowl to try to get rid much the cti program. the be national catastrophic controller's association finally came around and are also trying to support the current litigation he mentioned as well as the association of collegiate training institutions. but my belief is there is still people in the

department of transportation and the faa that are basically acting as institutional barriers to get this done. fortunately, coverage is steppincongress isstepping in wr mike lee to do the same thing. so hopefully the faa will get out of the business of social engineering and hire controllers based on merit for the safety of the flying public. >> tucker: well, that's completely commented and third word that you would even consider hiring an air traffic controller on the basis of anything other than relevant criteria. and have any of these people publicly defended their view that we should hire people based on how many sports they played in high school? >> they tried. the documents we have been able to get through freedom of information act requests show that this was purely done because of diversity. there weren't -- or there was a group within the. if aa or felt air traffic

controllers and so they wind out that list of approximately 3,000 candidates that graduated with significant aviation experience knowing that they everywhere the best candidates and that they had the best opportunity to sertd phi faa facility. ironically loss of minorities on those lists because colleges quite frankly very diverse. behind the scenes, this was for diversity, publicly they come out and tried to say that the best qualified candidate was someone without experience. ie akin to saying a doctor that the v.a. would hire is better than someone off the street and throw them v.a. or going through medical schools or the irs hiring accountants without any accounting experience. the faa actually for years has tried pushing forward the propaganda that the best qualified candidates are those without experience. >> brian: they should fire every one of those racist

sickos who would do anything like that. >> i agree with you, tucker. >> tucker: it's too much. you want to hire sociology photographer fine, go crazy. it's my country too. you are not allowed to do that. >> it impacts the safety and flight of your family. tucker, if it wasn't for you and your show this issue would not be where it is now hopefully with the administration and our fixing what happened to these kids horrific error. thank you so much. >> tucker: only so much can put up. thank you so much. nice to see you tonight. i appreciate it? >> 23450eus to see you tonight. tucker. >> brian: meanwhile we forge ahead to close out this hour. time for dan bongino's news explosion. tropicaformer new york city cop done so much more be here without a ty during his biggest story of the week. that story is very much next. ♪ ♪

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it's friday. it's time for dan bongino's music explosion. our favorite secret service agent is here to give his top three news stories of the week. dan joins us. let's begin in new york city with mayor de blasio. what did he do wrong? >> what did he do wrong? i was born in new york and i live in florida now. mayor de blasio wants to ban hotdogs. he doesn't want the city to purchase processed meats, including hotdogs. takeaway number one, if i haven't eaten a dirty water dog in new york, you are not a new yorker. turn in your new york city card. >> you cannot be a cop. >> it is illegal or something. it is on the application, have

you eaten a dirty water dog, and if you haven't, you are banned. this probably explains poor decisions. why mayor de blasio went up to new hampshire for a presidential thing and had 14 people at an event. they were all panelists. he is not getting a lot of clouds, because of decisions like this. >> number two? let's explode into it, ready? i put the graphic up. my wife loves that. >> the peter strzok text, the fbi agent the lead investigator for the spygate drama in the hillary clinton case. we have texts from catherine herridge and sara carter showing them what appears to be coordinating getting a mole inside of the white house. now, brian, these are the top spy catchers in our government.

i love the fbi. don't get me wrong. i have worked with the rank and file agents. they are the best. these people at the top, this is the greatest spy story ever told, except it is full of idiots. i keep telling people, it is not a james bond story. it is like a bond james story, no jack ryan in this but a lot of ryan jacks. i cannot believe they were texting each other back and forth exposing their whole plot. what were you guys thinking? >> you are better at putting pieces together. they were trying to flip pence. no one is going to flip mike pence. >> number three? >> no, you are getting it backwards, three, two, one. it is the gold medal, not the bronze. the gold medal is joe biden with what has to be the gaf of the century, saying that the obama administration, there wasn't a

whiff of scandal. i don't even know where to start on this one, the gao scandal, fast and furious, the irs, spygate. it is a scandal paluza. when you went to lalapaluza, this is the exact opposite. they had so many scandals in the obama administration, biden is forgetting about all of them. >> they all clapped on "the view" on that. i miss one because i was watching the pallets of catch arrive in iran. they said they told us. dan bongino, you promised not to show up with a tie and you fulfilled that promise. you promised three stories and you fulfilled that story. >> could you explode into your weekend now? is that okay? >> yes, i will. i will see you monday on "fox &

friends." >> that's about it for us. make sure to watch every night at 8:00. tucker will be here in a nicer suit. he has great slogans. i don't have time to read them. i'll stare straight ahead. welcome to the special edition of hannity. i'm tammy bruce in for sean tonight. the trump agenda is delivering success after success. the first quarter gdp shattering expectations. full coverage just ahead. first, the radical democrats are hitting new levels of extremism. as they compete to outliberal each other on everything from the green new deal to open borders and letting murderers vote from prison, president trump is giving his early assessment of the candidates so far. let's take a look. >> we're calling him sleepy joe.