loses a piece of at this time -- loses his pizza. he didn't get the ball on the second one. listen, sometimes you get a sacrifice for food. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent the night with us. good night from washington, i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." antifa went on the attack in portland, oregon, yesterday. one of the victims joins us ahead with an account on what happened. first it has been a bewildering couple of months for bill barr. imagine you are bill barr. you served at the attorney general with george h.w. bush, 1991. alexandria ocasio-cortez had just turned two years old. that's how long it was. this february, purely by process of elimination, he was the one guy who could get confirmed, barr became attorney general of the united states once again. the mueller investigation was nearly over when he got the job and he probably didn't expect to

become a major figure in the russia story because he had nothing to do with it. as far as we know he never met with secret agents in prague orn texted vladimir putin on hiswe blackberry. he never managed a macedonian content farm. if barr betrayed this country for a sack of rubles or a case of vodka, nobody has ever proved it but it doesn't matter. the russian story cannot die. cnn, "the washington post," many others have too much invested in that story. the fact that has been untrue is irrelevant. he is a handy way to keep russia and the news. watch today's talking point in action. somewhere in the basement of the democratic national committee, some messaging consultant has decided that credibility is the most effective line of attack. watch. >> we are joining the chorus of democrats saying he should resign. why? >> his credibility was shredded yesterday. >> he played a home game today and his credibility was destroyed.

>> this attorney general lacks all credibility. >> he has burned through any credibility he had in that role and he should resign. >> tucker: what we have here is what we always have here every single time, we have projection. they call you what they themselves are, whether it is privileged or bigoted or hateful or, in this case, fraudulent. the same people who spend two full years ginning up hysteria over a bogus story but it's the rest of us they tell us with a straight face who lack credibility. these are the people who hated the results of a democratic election so much that they dropped everything and worked tirelessly for years to nullify that election. guess what they're calling other people? enemies of democracy. >> the attorney general joined with his supervisor, the president of the united states, decided to show the american people that this is not a democracy. >> stop this attack on our republic and save this nation, it's democracy. >> it is simply another step in

the administration's growing attack on american democracy. this is a grave danger for american democracy and a part of the attack on american democracy by this administration. >> tucker: english is the largest language in the history of the world, more nouns, more adjectives, more verbs than any language ever and yet night after night we managed to find tape of people saying exactly the same thing. almost like it's coordinated. tonight it is, "they are attacking our democracy," says they guy who refuses to wait till the next election to throw out the elected president. it went on like this today and on and on, democrats stopped and tried to make a rational case and by the end they were resorting to prop comedy. here is congressman steve cohen of memphis. >> we are looking at images of you with what appears to be a bucket of fried chicken andwi you brought props, i see. what is the message you're trying to send? >> the message is that bill barr

is a chicken. he was chicken to come to the house judiciary committee and he does not deserve respect. he has lowered the bar formi lawyers and the attorney general. >> tucker: he deserves no respect!or he has lowered the bar, says the guy who brought a bucket of fried chicken onto the house floor. how long does this work is continue and by the way, why is it still in progress? why hasn't it left town yet? glenn greenwald has followed the russian stories since the very first day, and we are very happy to have them in the studio tonight. glenn, thank you for coming on. if you think about it it is strange that this is continuing. the mueller report is out and the president will not likely be impeached, what is the point of continuing the story? >> the point is everything you just said, namely that for three

years, almost three years, it started in 2016. the democrats have put all their eggs in one basket which is that they have insisted the central theme of the trump presidency is that he was a russian agent who collaborated with the kremlin in the election and they all agreed that robert mueller was going to be empowered to get to the bottom of this and we were going to expect whatever it was mueller found. what mueller found was that the entire conspiracy theory was a hoax. there is no evidence to establish that it's true and they led their flock to belief are so long and profited greatly, cable networks saw massive increase in their ratings, newspapers saw huge subscription increases. they made tons of money exploiting people like con artists and now it is like the leader of been a apocalyptic dooms day cult who keeps promising people that the world is going to end on a certain date and the date comes, and the world is still there, so you keep giving people reasons to follow you and we are now dissented from trump is a russian agent was controlled by the kremlin, he conspired with

the russians to people eating fried chicken because they say bill barr waited three weeks before releasing the entire mueller report that he himself gave to the public. >> shannon: [laughs] where's the part where we stop and assess what we have just seen for the past three years, hold people accountable for it and learn something from it, and move on? >> the reason you are seeing so much rage towards bill barr is because they know what he is now going to do which is what journalists should be doing and at least some of us are, which is asking the question, that is for me the central question in american politics, how is it that our discourse has beenol drowned out for almost three years by a conspiracy theory, or really a set of conspiracy theories, as inflammatory and dangerous as you can get, they turned out to be untrue? who started this conspiracy theory?

how were the vast, invasive powers of the fbi, nsa, and cia used to spy and infiltrate a campaign and spy on american citizens in the name of a conspiracy? as a leftist, someone who is steeped in the church commission, these are the most serious things that can happen. you want to talk about threats to democracy? how about spying on the calls of american citizens by convincing a fisa court that they're russian agents and then you unleash a prosecutor for 22 months who concludes that they aren't russian agents, no evidence to suggest that that was the case. that is the real scandal. that is why the investigation is going to turn and that is why there is panicking about bill barr because they know he is going to unflinchingly pursue that. >> tucker: i couldn't agree more. that is where the show is turning right now. glenn greenwald, thank you very much. >> great to be with you. >> tucker: during yesterday's hearings, senator sheldon whitehouse said he was outraged that the attorney general would

call fbi monitoring of the trump campaign spying. >> you use the word spying about authorized doj investigative activities. >> i think spying is a good english word that in fact doesn't have synonyms because it is the broadest word, incorporating all forms of covert intelligence collections. i will not back off the wordil spying and up until all of the faux outrage a couple of weeks ago, it is commonly used to refer to authorized activities such a as -- >> it is not commonly used by the department. >> it is commonly used by me. >> tucker: barr, of course, was right, almost always the guy who speaks in plain and clear english is right. that is why he is speaking plainly because he is not trying to hide anything. a new "new york times" story reveals the previously unknown informant was used to spy on the trump campaign. a woman who went by an alias was set to meet with george

papadopoulos and try to extract information from him. george papadopoulos has a new book out called "deep. target: how i got caught in the cross hairs to bring down president trump." probably the most accurate title of a book and a long time. thank you for coming on. briefly describe your experience with the women you believe was sent to spy on the trump campaign by the obama administration. >> that is a great question. i received an unsolicited email in september of 2016 from a man name stefan halper who was suggesting that he wanted to pay me $3,000 to write a report on energy security questions, and i was a recognized expert on that, israel, turkey, and cyprus. i looked him up, i'd never heard of him. i saw that he had worked in four u.s. administrations and he was a professor at cambridge so i accepted his offer and he flew me to london, where he paid for

my five star hotel, and he said before i meet with you i want you to meet my assistant. he put this assistant in an email chain along with me and i saw her name, i recognized it as turkish, which was suspicious right away because my policy positions throughout my entire career were very hostile to turkey. when i noticed a turkish name, i didn't understand why she would be involved. i went and i met with her and she was very suggestive, as you can understand, younger, very flirtatious. i right away understood this wasn't a cambridge assistant and she barely spoke english and she was very flirty and was trying to do two things, one, to extract information about my professional connections in the middle east and, two, to see if i had any information that she could potentially extract from me about trump-russia, which is nonsense. after i met with her, she thenen is introduced to me again the next day, where she goes from

this suggestive young lady who now pouring us coffee and stefan halper it is very belligerent. i explained my book, how belligerent he was, he invited me to basically castigate me about my policy positions and of course she then took me to dinner and was just basically trying to extract information. it was very suspicious.at from that moment, i knew thereus was something wrong, and i was laughing about it, but now course "the new york times"" reported that she was some sort of agent but i don't think she was fbi, i think she was cia. >> tucker: she was dispatched by the obama administration, barack obama was the president and lead the branch including the cia and fbi and every other agency. to spy on, in effect, the trump campaign. am i missing something? is that what happened? >> that is absolutely what happened and i want to make something very clear. i don't think president trump was tweeting about u.k.

interference for no reason last week -- let me explain why. the day i met with them in london, i was invited by the british ministry of foreign affairs to meet with them at their offices, including with tobias ellwood who was the number two at the time under boris johnson, so clearly when "the new york times" suggested in their reporting that the british were told of this operation, i believe the british actively were spying on me as well and i believe part of what president trump was tweeting last week about the british spying was about this involvement in this operation. i guess we have a lot more to find out. >> tucker: i would remind our viewers, you wound up going to jail briefly. correct? >> i went for 11 nights. >> tucker: you go to jail and you didn't spy for russia or do anything wrong and your life is destroyed, but we shouldn't figure out how this happened because why? i don't know. >> we definitely need find out.

>> shannon: you think? i think we do. your book is a good way to start that. thank you for coming on. >> thanks a lot for having me, tucker. >> tucker: of course. richard good seen as a former advisor to bill and hillary clinton and he joins us tonight. so how about that? are you curious, are you concerned? does it make you wonder what country this is, that that could have happened to george papadopoulos? >> i'm sure george has many positive qualities. this focus on him reminds me of the focus of many people on the caravan to the run-up to the election.f everybody in the trump world bough that this was a horrible thing and nobody else did, which is why the congress flipped.mp let me tell you what donald trump said about yourel friend, which is that he is a proven liar. t this notion of spying -- >> tucker: i want to know what you think. >> i will tell you exactly what

i think -- >> tucker: stefan halper has worked for the u.s. government, for the cia, as a contract by. he reached out to this kid who had no knowledge of him at all. >> listening to corey lewandowski, the campaign chair. >> tucker: it's okay with you? that the obama administration would dispatch spiest on an american citizen, which is clearly what happened. is that all right? >> when five friendly countries report to our intelligence agencies that there are reports that they are getting -- they credit, that the russians are ig fact, as we now know from ourus intelligence community, trying to infiltrate the campaign and trying to tip the scale, that troubles me. >> tucker: does it bother you he wasn't a russian spy? he got spied on by obama and then they spent sent him to prison. >> that's like saying the be babies in cages was done by trump. >> tucker: that's what they say. he is in charge of that, he was spied on by the obama administration, this guy went to jail but he didn't do anything.

he didn't spy for the russians! >> he admitted lying, that's why he went to jail. >> tucker: he went to jail for something he didn't do. is that just as? >> he should have gone h to tril if he thought he had merit. >> tucker: do you have a problem with that? >> we now know donald trump invited the russians to help and they did and it benefited him. i am troubled that no one in the administration is as upset about that as they are about poor carter page and george papadopoulos. >> tucker: their lives were destroyed and i didn't do anything wrong. >> our country was attacked, according to dick cheney.es as an act of war. >> tucker: no, he didn't -- >> take that up with him. >> tucker: i don't care how many republicans repeat that line, we are not even certain exactly where that information came from. no, i'm serious. people who have looked at it carefully, people i with deep knowledge of this question, are not convinced -- we've never seen evidence exactly how those servers werere hacked. why is that i wonder? >> i think i've seen people on

this network interview mike pompeo. when he was head of cia, he was unqualified about what the russians w did. >> tucker: let me say how much that means to me, nothing. i want to see the evidence. i don't trust my government because they tell me to shut up and accept it. >> i'm not saying we should shut up and accepted -- >> tucker: >> tucker: you are saying matt. >> every agency was looked into it is unqualified and saying with the russians did -- we are not allowed >> tucker: they lie to us all the time. to ask questions? >> the evidence is pretty clear. >> tucker: they have lied. all instinct. they lied about mass destruction in iraq and they are lying right now on many levels. we have a right to ask real questions and i'm going to. >> we've had republicans controlled congress -- >> tucker: i don't care if they are republicans. i don't trust them either and that's the truth. richard, thank you. >> of course. >> tucker: more parents could face criminal charges in the varsity blues cheating scandal. that is next. another media outlet is beingngh

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: nick sandmann of covington high school inho kentucky is suing nbc for $275 million for its coverage of his confrontation with nathan phillips, the supposedly tribal leader, vietnam veteran at the lincoln memorial. the lawsuit says correctly that nbc helped promote the fake story line that he to intimidate phillips, later footage revealed exactly the opposite. as usual. phillips confronted nicholas and

man who simply standing there. even after it was clear what happened because there were multiple tapes and it showed the same thing, he went onow "the today show" and the host w badgered him like he was the aggressor. watch this. >> do you feel from this experience that you owe anybody an apology? do see your your own fault? have you looked at that video and thought about how it felt from the other perspective? in other words, there were a lot of you, a handful of the others. there's something aggressive about standing there. standing your ground. >> tucker: something aggressive about standing there. mollie hemingway is a senior editor at the federalist and she joins us tonight. there something aggressive about you sitting there. >> apparently. >> tucker: i feel intimidated. this lawsuit, the upside is that it really kind of offers a very clear explanation of a

fraudulent story. >> it is not the first of these lawsuits that have been filed. there are two others against two other media outlets and what is important, currently there aren't any repercussions belief for getting stories completely wrong. if you were saying this where the media feels empowered to snare people including in this case a child would come out to washington, d.c., for the march for life and they did this over the course of days. they said false things about this boy and his school that were demonstrably untrue and right now there's not a lot of accountability. they do these fall stories, they get ratings, they get money, and they never really are held accountable for it. >> tucker: no one pauses to kind of reverse engineer it. how did this happen? it began on a weekend. it is not really a news story, is it? there's a lot going on in the world for the networks were all over us, like it was the most important thing. >> if you were to look into how this happened, it would not make the media look very good.

they liked the story because it waso a way to make the march for life, an event that they do not cover year after year, despite the fact that thousands attend, a way to make the march for life look bad and donald trump supporters look bad and so it was convenient. a narrative that they would like to perpetuate and if they would look at their own biases and how they can lead to really bad news, they might to start toan think about other issues theyo have covered poorly. in the earlier part of the show, this russian collusion hoax that went on for years and caused real damage to the country, including our foreign policy, administration of government and you're not having people take accountability for that.ng or the other people they have been smearing, like brett kavanaugh who when he was going through his confirmation battle. h they don't want to look into it because the entire edifice would come crumbling down. >> tucker: all the destroyed lives and no one stops to say, we just wrecked someone's life. he will never work again. >> that is why the story resonated so much. they have done it to adults,

done that to people who they think deserve it, donald trump, you can say whatever you think about him, conservatives, republicans. this was a boy. a teenage boy who was doing something good and got smeared. people sense the injustice of that and they want to see someone finally take responsibility. >> tucker: i hope somebody does. mollie, thanks. it's great to see you. >> great to see you. >> tucker: another reserved nominee has withdrawn his name after his character was assassinated. he joins us to respond. plus, antifa got violent in portland, oregon, yesterday and cops did nothing. the journalist who was there joins us after the break. ♪ t who was there so...you're stuck in the vicious cycle

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: a group of fascists who claim to oppose fascism, not veryay credibly, assembled yesterday in portland for a mayday rally. they called themselves antifa and as usual things got violent.

the journalist was there and he wound up punched in the w stomah and sprayed with bear mace. portland police did not intervene and they called the event peaceful. here's the tape. >> [bleep]p] >> [bleep] >> tucker: yeah, entirely peaceful. andy, thank you for coming on. describe, if you would, what we may have missed and that video. why were you sprayed? v >> so yesterday's event was supposed to be a celebration of diversity and workers rights but in reality it was a celebration of marxism, communism, andof political violence. antifa had mobilized outside of the i.c.e. office in a unlawful protest where they shut down streets in a critical area near hospital and it was there they targeted my camera equipment

and i was punched in the abdomen. both times were by different masked individuals and i immediately alerted the police officer was standing yards away and he let me know that if they stepped into intervene that would be an escalation and that could incite the crowd so he was going -- he couldn't do anything it if i wanted to i could file a police report later. later that day, there was a brawl/riot outside of the bar in portland and it was there that i was singled out and targeted by a masked individual who sprayed me nearly point blank in the face, blinded me, fortunately a woman, who i have no idea who she is, but she ledo me across the street because i could not see and i was only there as a journalist. i was harassed and attacked all day.

when the riot happened, the police were nowhere in sight. >> tucker: disgusting. it is disgusting. is the policy of the portland police not to protect the citizens of portland from violence? >> of course they wouldn't say it like that. the policy explained to me, in the middle of protests that are politically heated, if they step into intervene, that could lead to an escalation and that is what they want to avoid.on >> tucker: i wonder if they would take that same position on armed robbery and rape. it's demented. the one upside is that some of the fascists wrote "white privilege" in chalk and they misspelled "privilege," which does tell you everything about them. really quick, i'm glad you are okay. any reason they targeted you? >> i write about the radical left in portland, the epicenter of radicalism on the left.

the other beat, i write about hate crime hoaxes where i go h after the grifters and they are angry about that. >> tucker: they hate theng truth. you are a brave man. thank you for doing that. appreciate it. for the second time in just two weeks, one of the president's to the federal reserve board has withdrawn after his character was attacked, they said almost nothing about his views on economics but the moment he was nominated, steven moore was tarred as a woman hater, a nut job, a racist, unbelievable. every vulnerability was hyped to hysterical proportions. it all had sheets of the brett kavanaugh hearings just a few months ago. >> i love teaching law. thanks to what some of you on the committee have unleashed, i may never be able to teach again. my family and my name have been totally and permanently destroyed by vicious and false

additional accusations. the swetnik is a joke. that is a farce. ten days where all this nonsense is coming out on these things are printed and run breathlessly by cable news. i wanted a hearing the next day. my family has been destroyed by this, senator. destroyed! >> tucker: he is not the only one. a lot of people had been destroyed by the left of the last couple of years. kavanaugh made it through and steve moore hasn't been so lucky but we are happy to have him on the show especially. he is the author of the book, "trumponomics." he joins us onset. you can defend yourself, but let me just say, what i was struck by watching your character get impugned is that nobody even mentioned your views on relevant issues at all. it was, you are a bad person because you told a joke that must have not been a joke, you must be a bigot.

i was fascinated to see that cnn, where you worked up until 20 minutes ago, leading the charge against you. how does that work? >> let me just say, i am bummed out because i hate quitting. i'm not a quitter so i'm sadad about that and people in airports, at restaurants, they come up to me and they were so great to me about, don't let these jackals get you. what surprised me -- and look, i'm not playing the victim here because the truth is, i have a 2-mile long paper trail, 500 speeches and written a lot of articles and i have said things that are impolitic. >> tucker: did you make a mistake of telling a joke? damn you for telling a joke. >> i'm not saying that everything i have said -- some are stupid and i wish there was a statute of limitations on w stupidity because some of these things were 20, 25 years old.e >> tucker: who cares! here's the point.

i had hoped -- i was excited about this because when trump asked me to do something, i said, this is great. i will have the ability to talk about the economy and the amazing things we can do and it never came up. the left understood from the first couple of days, because they did surveys with the senators, my economic views and that is when they launched this character assassination. the most amazing thing, "the washington post," "new york times," cnn, they got my divorce settlement from ten years ago unsealed so they could just put all of this dirt on me that had nothingus to do with my qualifications to be on the fed. as i've said a hundred times, i will debate anyone on the economy and what we should do and what the best monetary policy is, it never came up. >> tucker: the white house should have never given into this. they shouldn'tav have. that is more weakness, it draws more aggression. >> there is a lot of truth to that. you know who was the biggest

fighter? the guy who did not want me to withdraw? donald j. trump. that is what i love about him. he is a fighter. t >> tucker: i believe it. real quick, i thought you just resigned at cnn. now they are telling me that you are evil. >> this is awkward for cnn because every night they trash me and for the last two years, i've been their senior economics writer. t the things they are talking about where things that happened 20 years ago. if i'm such a scoundrel and sexist then why did they have me on every night? >> tucker: what is the answer? >> you would have to ask them. i don't think you should hold accountable, things that were written 25 years ago. they looked at my christmas letters that we would send to friends and families that were a joke. we would make fun of everyone. >> tucker: you have to stand up to these people. it is disgusting what is happening to you and brett kavanaugh and other people. you are always welcome on the show. good to see you.

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♪ >> tucker: it is time for "final exam" where the news professionals compete with one another to see who has been paying closest attention to what happened over the past seven days. smart people this week, two new contestants. joining us tonight, fox news correspondentnt gillian turner and the university of maryland professor

jason nichols. wow. as i said to you both a second ago, smart people can be at a disadvantage so don't take it personally. i will repeat the rules.t i know you know what they are. you look nervous. >> i'm ready. i want to go. >> tucker: okay, go. hands-on buzzers. i ask the question and the first one to buzz in answers the question. you have to wait before you buzz in and that is key. you can answer once i acknowledge you by saying your name.er every correct answer is worth a single point and an incorrect answer to tracks a point, the cruel math of "final exam." are you ready? >> born ready. [laughter] >> tucker: wow. question one. norwegian fishermen believe they have discovered an actual russian spy in their waters. this time it is an animal with a recording device attached to its body. what kind of animal is it? >> a whale. >> tucker: a whale can't be a spy?

>> i'm telling you it's a whale. >> tucker: is it some kind of whale? >> fishermen discovering a beluga whale wearing a russian-made harness with the words written, "equipment st. petersburg."de fueling all kinds of speculation about spying. one newspaper reporting at the russian military is believed to have trained sea mammals. >> tucker: you are saying even the whales are spying for the russians? >> i'm sorry, did you say you wanted to concede now? [laughter] >> tucker: we will see. question two is multiple-choice. these are their shoals upon which many a ship has gone down, these multiple ship question. you've heard about the war on straws. there is now a war on styrofoam. single use styrofoam. which state out of 50 just made history by banning styrofoam by 2021? is it a, the state of maine? b, the state of new hampshire? or c, vermont? >> i'm going to guess.

>> tucker: professor nichols. >> i'm going to go with c, vermont. >> tucker: it sounds like a vermont thing to do. is it actually a vermont thing to do? >> maine has become the first state to ban food containers made of styrofoam. the law goes into effect in a month. people will be prohibited from selling or distributing food containers made of styrofoam. they will face fines, the democratic governor who approved of the ban said styrofoam cannot be recycled and it eventually breaks down into micro plastics. >> tucker: hard to believe. they got a new governor question three. the new "avengers" movie shattered box office records, $1.2 billion in the opening weekend. which 2020 candidate says disney ought to do the ethical thing and give all profits from the film directly to employees?

which candidate running for president says the studio ought to give the profit from the film to employees?e who would say that? i guess it could be anyone. >> elizabeth warren. >> tucker: you have to hit the buzzer. >> that's not a formal gas. >> you can make a guess and not buzz? >> tucker: no! you can't. you got to buzz. i will give you a hit. a man, not a woman. okay, this is really simple. which candidate is fighting for socialism? professor? >> bernie sanders. >> tucker: bernie sanders, .all right. is it bernie sanders? >> i want to talk about bernie sanders and something he has tweeted. he said it would be truly heroic is if disney used the profits to pay all of the workers a middle-class wage instead of paying the ceo bob iger $66 million, over 1400 times as much as the average

worker at disney makes. >> tucker: for the record, i agree. >> i kind of do too.of >> tucker: why is that so crazy? bob iger -- whatever. good job. question four. another multiple-choice. robert francis o'rourke no to some of us as beto. announced that his family is undergoing some kind of crisis, a pet turtle has run away from home. what is the name of beto's runaway turtle? is it a, greg, b, gus, or c, godfrey? >> i feel like you made the quiz harder this week. >> tucker: no. it is one of those three. begins with a "g." it's either a four letter word, three letter word, or a seven letter word. >> i would guess but i have 0. >> tucker: you want to go for it? >> why don't you give us a clue? >> tucker: okay, i will give you a clue. it starts with a g. it's the kind of thing you would

name a pet. i will count on from four... >> i'm going to go with gus. >> tucker: is it? >> we have to address a crisis at our house, our baby turtle gus went missing last night. and it does not look good. we followed the trail of turtle food.it we went to the backyard. >> tucker: what we have now is a sudden death situation. 1-1. >> aren't we 2-1? >> tucker: you were but there was the remarkable comeback. you weren't even looking. this is the final question. are you ready? >> ready. >> tucker: which member of congress brought shame to himself by marching around the capitol with a toy chicken as a way of mocking the attorney general? which congressman brought a toy chicken in today?

>> i can see him in my mind's eye. >> tucker: you can see him. >> i don't know. >> tucker: i'll give you a hint. he represents the state of tennessee. he represents the western part of tennessee. he represents the city of memphis. >> i'm not a capitol hill correspondent. i don't know why you're looking at me. >> tucker: some people think he is related to michael cohen but he is not. because he has the same last name. >> that would be cohen. >> tucker: right, it would be -- [laughs] >> representative cohen! [laughs] >> tucker: you are on it there. the first name. >> who knows the first name? >> tucker: we are going to go to the tape. what the tape? >> chicken barr should have shown up today to answer questions.

the attorney general was picked for his ability would not be fearful with attorneys questioning him for 30 minutes? >> tucker: [laughs] our judges are saying, we have no choice but to give it to you >> no! >> tucker: yes! [laughs] >> what a comeback. >> tucker: [laughs] i don't know what to say. that is the weirdest segment we have done. o you will be back. >> i object. [laughter] >> tucker: i'm a marionette carrying out the orders of new york. you get the coveted eric wempel coffee mug. will you pass that to the professor? thank you. that is it for this week's "final exam." bizarre as it was, pay attention to the news and tune in on thursdays and see if you can beat our experts. we'll be right back. ♪ - [narrator] meet the ninja foodi,

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: for years, the entire city of washington accused the president of treason because at one point he said he wanted better relations with russia. does he know that russia is our number one enemy, they squawk. that is absurd, they are wrong.b russia isn't our top enemy, not even close. itne might be worth improving relations with them, why wouldn't we? we have a top enemy, a real threat, and it is china. they have far more people, a much larger economy and a bigger military, far more spies and hackers breaking into more h servers in this country than russia ever thought of, and they're getting stronger every year. which brings us to joe biden, the front runner on the democratic side. his position is don't worry. at a recent rally, biden says this of china, "they're not bad guys, they are not competition for us." biden has been pro-china for a

long time, in 2011, he wrote an op-ed saying "china getting stronger is not a threat to the united states." e of interesting. why would he say something like that, so demonstrably untrue? maybe he's a chinese spy -- we are not going to make that allegation. we're just making the point that he is dead wrong, because he is. well, hillary clinton is not running for president, not once again, but she is still in the news. she was on msnbc last night, and she said she is mad because she is not in the white house, and therefore this country is lurching toward tyranny. >> if they find barr in contempt, which they have every reason to because he actually is, he is the president'sch defense lawyer, he is not the attorney general of the united states. >> barr's argument about that today, he went, i believe even further than he went in his i

19 page memo.t not just the president can't obstruct justice, the presidentt can't be investigated if the president doesn't want to be investigated. >> that is the road to tyranny, that is what authoritarians believe, and those who service them argue. if the president were not in office, he would have been, indictedin for obstruction of justice. >> tucker: there was a lot of agreement during that segment last night, as you can imagine. didn't do that while in the ratings.. turns out not a a lot of people want to watch the outcome i wonder why. partly because there was so muce projection, as there always is, going on. at one point hillary said that president trump is obsessed with her. he's not living in my head, she insisted, i'm living in his. [laughs] she is not living in most people's heads in this country. a new poll from rasmussen finds that only 42% of americans think the country would have been better off had hillary won. 48% disagree. author and columnist mark steyn is on the fence on that question and he joins us tonight to

deliver his verdict. mark steyn!! >> i was on the fence, tucker. it isn't funny anymore. basically, this is the woman who is more responsible than anyone for the totally pointless and discreditable russian investigation that destroyed your first guest's life, papadopoulos. we had all this talk in november 2016 about how america is the only country that is the peaceful transfer of power, which i find a little odd because i can't member the last time i saw you belgian or danish prime minister hanging from a lamp post, but the fact is the more people who said it, the more it became conditional, because it was her refusal to lose gracefully that in fact enabled this disgusting last two years in which the losing party's men on the inside have conducted an investigation into the duly elected president. it is quite disgraceful.

she is quite disgraceful. to listen to your friend, richard goodstein -- i like richard, but for him, laughing at what happened -- papadopoulos landed in washington, and the fbi put him in shackles -- shackles -- for doing nothing, and that is all on hillary, because she didn't know how to lose. because clintons shouldn't lose. >> tucker: and she is lecturing us about tyranny, amazing. the self awareness is in short supply, i would say, in washington. mark steyn. >> absolutely, and it could happen to richard and all of the other defenders of hillary clinton, too. >> tucker: that is true. hope it doesn't. mark steyn, great to see you tonight. thank you. >> thanks a lot, tucker. good to be with you. >> tucker: we are out of time, don't know what happened, but we'll be back tomorrow night, 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposityk smugness, and especially groupthink, from which we

dissent until they shut us up, they haven't yet. we have good news for you, it is not over. 9:00 p.m., sean hannity awaits in new york city. take it away, sean. >> sean: i don't think anybody would ever say tucker carlson is guilty of groupthink. >> tucker: [laughs] no! >> sean: maybe some of the other things, i forgot the list, but no, you are out there on your own, which, you know what, is refreshing. great show, tucker. >> tucker: thanks, man. >> sean: buckle up, welcome to "hannity," thank you for being with us. we have multiple major developers to bring you, including proof that comey's deep state cabal spied on the trump campaign.e we have tonight breaking news, an admission from ukrainian embassy, in fact of the dnc did try to collude with their government during the 2016 election. we actually have evidence. we are going to show you how the democratic party is unraveling ng