most trusted, most grateful you spent your evening with us. good night from washington. have a great week weekend. i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." from philadelphia to san francisco to college sccampuses everywhere, suddenly, the american pro-life movement -- not just the pro-life movement, really anybody who has even the mildest qualms about legal abortion -- is under attack from the intolerance left. the newly energized and newly radical left. we have footage of the latest attack from the university of north carolina. we'll show youro would just ahe. first tonight, and related matters, one of the most weree bewildering thing to watch has been a steady migration of the civil left from concern of civil liberties to embrace of authoritarianism. it wasn't long ago that liberals

worried about powerful government agencies that might be stepping out somebody's rights. they had hearings on the subject. they don't anymore, they don't worry about it. they applauded. instead, the left now controls government agencies. they understand that a permanent bureaucracy is a powerful tool of social control and they know it's on their side. that is why cnn is suddenly so invested in promoting creepy nformer bureaucrats like clapper and comey and john brennan. wire and the tube all the time? that's why.s it's by the news media became hysterical when trump pointed out the previous administration hadou espied in his presidential campaign, which they absolutely did. the press could not admit that. they had to be absolutely certain that you would never believe it. >> president trump as a new favorite word and every time he uses it, he is lying. and that is the word spy. >> his baseless claims of spies. >> the president of united states telling people, don't believe what this federal government is doing on that has

very, very dangerous consequences.t >> the notion that somehow the fbi implanted, planted someone inside the campaign to spy on the campaign is just not true. >> there is no evidence there was a spy. he wants you to believe that his campaign was spied on and it's one of the worst things that we've ever seen from government. >> tucker: the governor's brother. they were all lying. people who should've been telling you the truth were hiding the truth. they were acting as willing tools of the surveillance data. there should be ashamed of themselves, they are of course not. last night cnn held a town hall starring former fbi james comey, he should have paid the network for shelling for him. his body and? what an ugly word. only the russian spy on people. the fbi doesn't spy. they investigate investigate. >> "the new york times" or. reported that the fbi investigators posing as an assistant to meet with a trump aide george papadopoulos in 2016. does that qualify as buying?

>> i'm not going to comment on the particular investigative step because that is where the bureau to do and i'm'm not in te government any longer. by the fbi doesn't spy to begin with. the fbio investigates. >> tucker: the fbite investigates. okay, jim. and yet moments later after telling us, i'm not going to comment on current operations, comey changes his mind and said it was improper to comment specifically but then he did.al like? because he had to explain thato spying -- sorry, investigating, presidential campaigns is the most commons thing in the world. totally normal, and his words. >> sending an investigator undercover to meet with somebody who is connected to the campaign, they claimed he was later on just a coffee boy, that is an extreme step, no? >> no, it's a reasonable -- that was the guy, papadopoulos, who was the subject of the information we got from the australians.

he had talked to the russians. >> r did you signed off on the investigator? >> i don't remember talking with a particular step with my team. and who they were trying to see if they could check it out. that is a tour totally normal step. see if you can get someone close to the person and see if they'll confirm what we heard from the australians. >> tucker: i don't know if i'd anything to do with it. but it would be a totally normal step. really, it would be bizarre if you didn't send secret agents to lie to staffers on arrival presidential campaign to say they would spell information while keeping the whole thing from their boss. totally normal. does comey think anyone believes that? does he believe it? of course he doesn't believe it. does he expect we will do believe is propaganda, or submit to it? comey's arm at school. everyone knows that it's verifying that the obama people sent to spies on their political opponents. jim comey says is normal and cnn backs him up so be quiet. if you don't agree with that, you are the enemy. >> they start to make little compromises to stay on the team, echo his words, usero the term

spying, talk about collusion, or just to be silent. thinking that is what i need to do to survive. in the process, he has eaten our soul, they are lost. >> tucker: so ignore the obvious, agree with me or you have no soul. who talks like that? sort of persons who will say or do absolutely anything for power. a scary person talks like that. not long ago, jim comey was one of the most powerful man in the world. he could investigate you or anyone else at will. he could ruin lives if he wanted. sometimes he did. how did a person like that ascend to a position of such authority in our government?as what kind of system and promote a man like that? what kind of media would cover for him? those of the questions we ought to be asking tonight, if there was one jim comey and the federal government, that means there are probably many others and that should concern us. bloomberg opinion column is joins us tonight. thank you very much for coming on. when you hear the former director of the fbi saying it is

totally conventional, totally normal to send not one but two investigators into a rival campaign without telling the candidate, does that sound right? >> no, it was a slippery answer because what he was saying is that it's normal if we get a lead to investigated. no one would argue that really. but the issue here is that not only was there a dangle, it appears, with some of these trump campaign people, there were efforts to get them to acknowledge things with not one, but two people who were basically informing for the fbi or spying for the fbi, but once trump wins the election, the existence of the counterintelligence probe is then leaked. it becomes a political weapon. that becomes this cloud that hangs over the trump presidency for more than its first two years, and that there is a clear-cut case of of surveillance and intelligence abuse, and it's the one thing

that i would like to see what comey thinks of that, which is to say that how in the world to "the new york times" get on literally -- i think the night of the inauguration, the night before, the story of the existing counterintelligence investigation. >> tucker: which is not supposed to leak for good reason. if you have a case that a u.s. citizen has committed a crime, bring the case before a grand jury, and i at him, show him guilty. >> that's right. >> tucker: . licking that has not shown -- >> that was only the first of several weeks as we know, gleaned from sensitive surveillance such as a michael flynn conversations, during the transition, or the existence of the fisa warrant, , and a surveillance warrant on carter page. things like that, because carter page has to have a lawyer in that process, should never, ever be leaked. there's a reason that we have to trust a secret court to approve it, in part to protect the individual, also for the integrity of the investigation itself. so if the press is getting

these -- i was a journalist, some will give itt to make him a hell of a story.is if you are getting that, also in some ways compromising the counterintelligence investigation. all thise is a bit weird that comey would say, there's nothing to see here, it's normal. it just seems like he's -- >> tucker: it does seem that way. thank you. i don't think of you as a partisan, i just need perspective. thank you very much. >> thanks for helping me. >> tucker: michael tracy is an independent journalist and he joins us tonight. if there's one thing as a journalist you want to be on guard against, it is overreached by the secretive government agencies, right? shouldn't we be deeply skeptical always, no matter what your politics, of fbi spying or cia spying or nse spying on american citizens? >> it is so crucial to underscore that the actions we already know, the fbi and to some extent the cia, the nsa undertook all constituted a massive encroachment by these

federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies into the domestic political affairs of the united states. if that was so very normal, as james comey insists, can he please provide a president in u.s. history were something akin to that took place? i've looked and i have not found it. the term normalcy implies this is a routine event. one thing that i tried to employer to my progressive friends, who tendor to brush ths issue aside into a particular care about it, are you telling me that if the trump administration were to send a spy or a series of spies too, i don't know, try to entrap a campaign official associated with the bernie sanders campaign, are you saying you will be content with that? you want to create much mind? i don't think so. that is kind of thing that happens when this occurs with candidates you don't like. precedent gets in trying to they can be used for other purposes down the road. >> tucker: exactly. i want to be clear on this point

because i think it is a central point. comey says this is totally normal. you have looked -- the thought occurred to me -- you've run it down. there is no precedent for this in modern american history. >> the fbi and cia are very secretive institutions so there might be something that ise personally didn't come across, which sheds light ondn whether something like this happened. i don't know, and the truman administration or something. but i'm not aware of it. please, let me out there because i want to hear about it. the thing is, all the craziness around this issue and the democrats failingg to even get a scintilla of curiosity about it is all because they are trying to continue the collusion conspiracy by another name. that is why they are freaking out about bill barr, the impending ig report, the department of justice, this form all that they have been psychologically and professionally invested in four years, and they can't extricate themselves from it, and it's really sad and pathetic to watch. >> tucker: and it's hurting so many institutions that we are

going to need when the trump era is over. thank you for that perspective. so this era will end. at a certain point. the fbi will still exist. at that point, it will be clear what kind of damage jim comey's conduct has done to that institution. we'd like to get some sense of it now. we are joined by former fbi deputy assistant director danny colson. thank you very much for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: is someone who devoted a lot of his life to the fbi, how do you feel watching the former director behave like that on television? >>si it's absolutely disgusting. i was only there for 31 years, so i have some sense of the fbi internally. to see him say this is normal, this is not normal. there are certain guidelines and principles that we follow. you have to have a preliminary investigation, than a full t investigation. but the real problem here, tucker, is that this case didn't

start with an fbi field office. it started basically on the seventh floor of the fbi. when it's done by field office, like iran contra or watergate, you have checkss and balances at the very bottom level. these cases will never get to headquarters. the guard commander -- i was a commander for a long time -- this came across my desk, if this patent application, i would have done that in about 5 minutes. unverified, it is alicia's. i think the question is, if it was -- and comey knew it was -- why would he have the audacity to walk that to the fisa court and give it as something that would be the basis for taking over the fourth amendment issue to get a search warrant? it is not common. it's aggravating to the will those of us who were there. i still do a lot of work for the fbi. did these guys go to an academy? don't you know the rules? clearly, they did, they ignore them. that is what really upsets us

all. >> tucker: yeah, what a tragedy of our people are serving the fbi, serving there right now, who are watching their integrity impugned by this lunatic. >> absolutely. i think we take a lot of pride in credibility. people talk to us because of our credibility. ability to follow the law and follow the constitution. these guys just jump right overs it. again, maybe it is too strong but i will say it. it's disgusting to see with the director of the fbi now says. also, this is troubling, that the head lawyer for the fbi finds no problem with what happened fi even now in retrospect, he doesn't have a problem with it. so i think that tells the mentality of the people under james comey's lodge on the seventh floor. >> tucker: it's distressing. i agree completely. thank you very much. >> thank you. always a pleasure. >> tucker: a pro-life campus activist assaulted on video by the left for her views. that is next. ♪ (male announcer) get huge savings on clothing for the outdoors

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of north carolina has been arrested for assaulting a pro-life activist. carley shimkus joins us tonight. >> hey, tucker, how are you? the debate over a woman's right to choose versus her babies right to live has always been controversial. but now it has grown violent. a string of attacks on for like activist have taken place in recent weeks. in april, pro-life group created equal was holding a peaceful demonstration at unc chapel hill but it was disrupted when a 19-year-old pro-choice student took issue with the group's and attacked. >> oh, no, they are going to -- is going to come down. yeah. don't do that. please. [bleep]. please. >> this is not okay! >> can you call the cops? >> man, called down. >> shut the [bleep] up! >> this is wrong. >> there is a woman who just

punched my friend four or five times. she assaulted him. >> you're a terrible person! >> campus police arresting julian warden charging her with misdemeanor assault but this is not just happening on liberal college campuses. last month and 85-year-old pro-life man was assaulted outside a planned parenthood in san francisco. disturbing footage shows the attacker through his bicycle and repeatedly kicked him. after the incident, the 85-year-old reportedly went back to planned parenthood to pray, this time with bruises. then there is pennsylvania state representative brian finn, who had called an elderly woman outside of philadelphia planned parenthood. the incident was caught on camera but this time, he proudly posited to social media. in a previous encounter, he recorded himself harassing her mother and her teenage daughters and even offer his social media viewer is hundred dollars to identify them. that situation backfiring as a

group of 1,000 pro-life supporters gathered outside his local planned parenthood today. meantime, rhetoric among pro-choice lawmakers has become increasingly extreme. alabama state representative john rogers created waves this week by saying, "some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or kill them later. tucker?er >> tucker: thank you so much. appreciate it. as you just heard from hateful attacks on the pro-life movement are now normal. you just heard about what happened in downtown philadelphia with pennsylvania representative brian sims. there is part of t it. >> hi. representative brian sims here. i am outside the planned parenthood. there's a bunch of pseudo-christian protesters who been out here shaming young girls for being here. i've got $100 to anyone who will identify any of these three. i'm going to donate to planned parenthood. a bunch of white people standing outside of a planned parenthood shaming people. there is nothing christian about what you are doing.

>> tucker: today, pro-life activist held a large-scale rally outside the same planned parenthood in philadelphia in response to his behavior. abby johnson is a former planned parenthood clinic director, no i pro-life activist. her story was told in a recent film "unplanned." thank you very much for coming on. is it our imagination, or is the reaction to antiabortion activism, including prayer, turning violent? >> it is. is becoming increasingly violent and i think one of the reasons is because people in their own parties, democratic party, are not willing to come out and talk about this behavior, condemn this behavior. nobody from the national organization for women, who are supposed to stand up for women, no one is coming out on condemning this behavior. so it just sort of goes unchecked. it goes unnoticed, without

consequences, and i am here to say, along with a thousand other pro-lifers who were there today, tofe say, this is enough. we had enough. we are not going to be bullied, we are not going to be harassed, we are out there, that is what is in our first amendment rights to do so. >> tucker: why do you think is driving this? these are people who are arguing for abortion, in some cases, post-viability late-term abortion, not only are they not ashamed of that position but they want to hurt anyone who disagrees. where does that come from? >> i think it's a couple things. right now, abortion supporters are feeling the heat. they are feeling the pressure. we've got these heartbeat bills being signed all across the country. we have pro-life measures taking place in many, many different states. i think now we have a supreme court that is being set up to overturn roe v. wade. i think in some ways, it's a response to this sort of

impending doom that they feel that it might actually be overturned. but i think also, we've got over 60 million abortions onve the books recorded since roe v. wade was passed in 1973. we19 are dealing with a group of people who are very wounded. they are very hurt. they need to really justify urndtheir own actions. a lot of times, that hurt comes across as anger and i just don't see the difference. re>> tucker: i think that's right. when you know you are wrong, that is when you're the maddest. i think that is how most people are. it is sad. abby, thank you very much. >> of course, thank you. >> tucker: the left has suddenly decided that people's tax returns, which were private, are not fair game for politics. so what other private information out to be available to everyone? 100 medical records? we'll ask a lawmaker from new york state that question after the break. ♪ i have a vision correction number,

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>> tucker: it's been an exciting week for cnn. russian collusion is still a lie. they spent two years telling the country but they found someone f to leak information on donald trump's taxes from 30 years ago. that information showed that trump lost money. people were excited about this. >> cnn tonight, i'm don lemon. are you listening? the president of the united states is a product and a con manen.

you are saying he's a sociopath. >> without any question. >> a con, all of it? >> all of it was a con. this person is a walking fraud. >> he calls people's losers and he has such disdain and yet he was literally the biggest loser in the country. >> tucker: so if you remember the '90s you might recall that trump's business problems were t big new story. they were real. he wrote a book about them. don't tell don lemon. he was shocked. >> you know it they say about gambling, casino gambling?he the house always wins. well...bl [laughs] not always. note if it is a trump casino. [laughs]in who loses money at a casino except the person gambling? not the owner. [laughs] because i'm good enough, smart enough, and doggone, people of me. [laughs]

>> tucker: what are the odds that don lemon says that in the mirror every morning. joe concha writes about media for "the hill" and he joins us. great to see you. this didn't --so basically they discovered that trump lost a ton of money in the '90s which anyone who was alive then new because it was a major story but this was news because s why? >> why? because it was presented as recycled news. i don't like to use the term fake news, tucker. in this case, you could have read donald trump's book from 2007, "the art of the comeback." you could have read any of the new york tabloids, the "new york daily news," new york post talked about the trump slump from those years between 1985, 1994. you could haveum watched "the apprentice," season one, episode one, the very first segment, donald trump literally says on video that he lost billions of dollars. he was billions in debt and he was able to come back.

so to keep all of that out of reporting, if we want to call this even reporting, that is the device of omission, we talked about that before, the worst kind of bias because if you were, say, younger, or didn't follow donald trump where you lived in a bubble, taking care of your kids every day and working hard and you come home and you hear the story about trump losing billions of that time, you don't get the other side of the story which is, he was very transparent about it on tv, on books. you are being sold a bill of goods here that this was a new revelation when it was anything but new, tucker. >> tucker: this was his whole story. he bragged about it endlessly. once was lost, now i'm found. this was his redemption story. did you hear anybody covering this, pause for a moment to say, a little weird we are looking at private financial information that is supposed to be proprietary? no one is supposed to have this information. did anybody say that?

kind of a violation of privacy, no? >> tucker, no one does. as a means to an end. i was on your show and we talked about the "access hollywood" tapes and everybody concentrated -- rightly so -- the content of both. then there was another part of the story which was, how exactly did that tape get out of nbc and into the hands of "the washington post" two days before a presidential debate, major one, three weeks before an election? no one bothered to look into that and no one is going to bother to look into the fact that this was leaked by somebody, confidential information, got into the hands of "the new york times" and obviously was a spread everywhere by the way, i get that don lemon, he's on at night and there are a lot of opinions at night but he still is billed as an anchor prayed for him to talk thatti way and act that way -- i've been on his show, he's a great guy in person -- i could never picture bret baier or chris wallace or david beer ever acting like that in their anchors also. so you wonder why cnn struggles? you want to hear about struggles, tucker. and cable news, they rank all

the shows by ratings. you've got to get down to number 36 out of fox and msnbc and cnn, defined the highest-rated cnn show. the other 35 or the other two networks. they have to understand they are alienating their viewers by acting like children on the air but they are not doing it. i don't understand why, the results are so horrible, from a business perspective. >> tucker: is a political mission. joe concha, great to see you tonight. thank you for that. >> happy mother's day, happy weekend. >> tucker: new york state senate has approved a bill that if it becomes law would make it easier for congress to request and then publish the president's state tax returns. while we are going full authoritarian, what else should be fair game? andrew cuomo's text messages, internet search e history, porn habits? new york state senator brian benjamin comes on to join us. thank you for coming on. it's a sincere question. you want to see trump's tax returns, whatever.

but it's bigger than just trump, right? >> of course. >> tucker: don't we have -- is there anything that should be private? >> first of all, as you know come on the federal level since 1924, the ways and means committee, the senate finance committee, joint committee on taxation, they can request federal returns. all we are saying is, if they want a state return, we are able to have that in new york. >> tucker: where are yours? >> if the senate finance chair or the ways and means chair or the joint committee of taxation shareai wants my company can react -- >> tucker: why don't you release them. >> why doesn't trump release has? >> tucker: he doesn't want to. ihe would like to see them. i agree. hold on. you are forcing it. >> we are not forcing anything. >> tucker:or yes, you are. >> we are saying that if there is a legitimate legislative purpose, the congress -- >> tucker: there is no legislative purpose. this is total -- >> investigations are going on,

indictments are going on. come on, tucker. >> tucker: total war, they want to destroy a guy politically. whatever. >> it applies to both sides. it applies to democrats and republicans. senate chair finance can request, tucker. >> tucker: how about medical records? >> that's not what this bill is about. >> tucker: i'm talking about the principal. hold on. why is it different from the principal? you want to destroy somebody because you don't like them. >> we don't want to destroy someone. >> tucker: obviously you do. >> investigations if they are requested. tucker, i am open -- >> tucker: you don't want to help i.c.e. keep the borders secure, right? a sanctuary state but you will help the congress pull a guy's tax returns because you are facilitating investigation? >> steve mnuchin refuses to give them up. in the specific case -- we are just saying, we can do what you do at the federal level of the state level. >> tucker: "the new york times" piece the other day had information fromw

ten years of trump's tax returns. that is supposed to be private information. >> that should not have been linked. that is not b what this bill is about. the bill that we passed -- >> tucker: i wonder, is anyone going to stop lying for like ten seconds in the last year quacks ten seconds. just be honest and say, i don't like the guy. i want to destroy him. i will do whatever it takes. i see that as my job. if it means releasing his tax returns against his wishes, i will do that. why don't't you say that? >> tucker, there's congressional oversight over the executive branch. if the congress asks for his tax returns, he is supposed to get it. that is the law. all we are saying is, we want to follow what the federal law says. >> tucker: you just want to follow the law. but not immigration. are you for the fact that it is actually stayed? ou fs -- a sanctuary state? do you think that new york should help the feds enforce immigration law? >> i feel the feds should be a century state. new york should be a sanctuary state. >> tucker: oh, okay. just wanted to --

>> >> tucker: no principles. normal principles >> following the law. >> tucker: [laughs] >> tell steve mnuchin to follow the law. a provide the tax returns that congress asks for and then we wouldn't have a problem. >> tucker: you are nice to come on the show. thank you for coming on. what are the plans of the democratic presidential candidates for the your guns if they win? will sell you after. ♪

>> tucker: it wasn't long ago that there were a lot of democrats who were pro-second amendment. that is on the case anymore. the 2020 democrats running for president are proving it. on her facebook page, senator kamala harris of california recently posted an image of an error 15 rifle, guns killed 40,000 people in 2017. what she didn't say dishonestly was that at least a quarter of those deaths were suicides. of the remainder come most of them are drug organ related.

given her stance on the border, she doesn't seem to want less of that. not again suicide, either. they are all for that. meanwhile, cory booker unveiled a sweeping proposal that would require a special license to own a gun at all. you would need cory booker's permission to exercise her constitutional right. bands and confiscation is next. booker is open to banning all guns. >> would you ban guns? >> i am very much one that is against handguns. i know in my urban environment, i see little to no need for guns at all. i would, if i had the power to do so, i would. >> tucker: that was 19 years ago, hasn't changed his views. a former military sniper, firearms attorney, and columnist for "the federalist." i'm going to ask you questions about the point of view of his candidates but we all know that

basically they are all for gun confiscation. they are hardly hiding it. my question is a bigger one for you. i can't resist. what would happen if they tried that? what would happen to the country? kyle rechlicz of a move would that be? >> wow. i did not expect that. i am more shocked that they are coming out and saying it now. we've heard solon, we are not coming to take your guns, don't worry about it, but now we are actually hearing comments like, give us a reasonable amount of time before they put us in jail. i don't know about you but i'm tired of hearing -- it's modern america, what do you need a gun for? the government is not going to hurt you. turn on that gun before i make the government forcibly taken from you. >> tucker: they call it a buy backward suggests they all get to the first place. how was it a buy back? they never owned it? >> interesting point. they sure didn't. in a weird way -- i will say something unexpected -- i applaud they want to do something about gun violence. that is good, we should all want to do something. as a matter of fact, we should all want to do something about

all violence. that's the problem. they focus on gun violence because as a political talking point for them. kamala harris' tweet had a picture of an ar-15 and we know that a tiny, tiny fraction of all gun violence happens with any rifle, let alone an ar-15. the fbi stats show that hammers are used in more violent crimes than any type of rifle. i think they have something in for this firearm. although they want to help school safety, i get it, by focusing on banning guns, not only do gun bans not work, but they make us less safe. you want to guarantee a place that's going to have a shooting? make it gun free. places where guns are allowed aren't attacked like this. >> tucker: they would never make their own offices gun free under any circumstances. they are surrounded by armed bodyguards. >> absolutely right. same thing as they are surrounded by fences and walls and they call for no walls. very typical hypocritical point. i'm surprised to hear they are coming out. eric swalwell and cory booker are trying to play a game of

one-upsmanship on who can infringe on more rights. calling for permission to get a gun? aren't these the same people that are against ids for voting? it makes no sense. >> tucker: i have trouble believing that many people would obey, honestly. hope we never find out. great to see you tonight. thank you. >> thank you for having me on again. >> tucker: it's friday. our favorite former new york city cop will be here. dan bongino's news explosion. after the break. ♪

>> tucker: it's friday. naturally things are ♪ >> tucker: it's friday. naturally things are blowing up. especially dan bongino's news explosion. our former favorite -- favorite former secret save service agent, here to rank the top

three stories of the last week. hey, dan. >> tucker, how are you? my favorite segment. let's get to it. most explosive story of theee w week. number three, joe biden discovers the money theory. wants to give health care to people in the country illegally. have you heard this one? this one is fascinating. yeah, tucker, when you factor at the united states, the world has 7 billion people. of course, there is no limiting factor to providing health care for everyone so how we will support that, i don't know. don't worry, tucker, joe biden will figure it out inou conjunction with the money theory. he's got this. [laughter] >> tucker: can't wait to see the money theory. >> explosive story number two. china gets a taste of his own medicine. president trump hammers china back with 25% tariffs. you know, i'm a free trader. i know you are, too but china is not trading fairly. we saw it when they joined the wto that they would handle

themselves a little differently, more prosperity, freedom, not what happened. if the world's largest surveillance state.pp in my opinion, i am a freeac trader but good for president trump for fighting back. a very important story. all right. this is big. this is the gold medal of stories this week. have to spend a little time onje this one. jerry nadler, competing with adam schiff and eric swalwell for who canch be the biggest hak in congress right now, jerry nadler is filing contempt charges against attorney generao bill barr for not producing a report, tucker, that you and i can get on our iphones right now. you can go -- i do know this? this may be breaking news. you are laughing. you can go to amazon right now or barnes & noble or wherever you want to do and actually pick up a copy of the mueller report that jerry nadler wants to file criminal charges against bill barr for not producing. you know, are we living in peak

stupid? army and do crazy? are we living in peak stupid? he realized that the one piece of the reduction jerry nadler wants that bill barr cannot produce because it's congress' own law, rule 6z, do you find that a little confusing? you can buy the mueller report he saying he can't get in the reductions he wants, he can't get because congress created this federal rule 6e. again, we are living the dumbest of times. i'm really sorry to have to give that to you. it reminds me of "billy madison." we arebe all them are for having heard that. >> tucker: and degrading, too. hating this much diminishes people. they have been diminished. i think jerry nadler was never that impressive but he wasn't a full on buffoon as he is today. dan bongino. >> tucker: doesn't make you feel bad that these people in p? really pathetic. >> tucker: but didn't want them to p have any more power. it makes me very nervous.

>> god forbid. dan bongino, have the best weekend. >> see you next week. >> tucker: a pair of well-known lawmakers proposed a bill to protect americans from predatory lending. it's interesting. why aren't more republicans getting on board? we'll tell you after the break. ♪ like redhead trail head cargo shorts starting at under $20. and world wide sportsman angler shirts starting at under $20. your adventure starts here.

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>> tucker: bernie sanders and alexandria ocasio-cortez have a new >> sean: bernie sanders in alexandria ocasio-cortez have a new proposal out. it's called the loan shark prevention act. they are about what cap interest dsrates on credit cards at 15%. for a lot of people, that would make aat difference by the medin interest rate on credit cards in this country right now is 21%. some cards charge over 35%. thanks, meanwhile, can borrow money from the federal reserve at 3% interest. do the math. it's a very good business. now you know why they are sending you those offers for new cards. they are getting rich from her debt. the bill would also apply the same 15% limit to consumer loans.

it would band, and effect, payday loans, those loans would interest rates can exceed five or 600% every year. no doubt many republicans in the congress will oppose this bill, if only because of who sponsored it. bernie sanders and ocasio-cortez are obviously demagogues pray they don't mean half of what they say. the other half, they don't understand. they are not impressive. but on this one issue, they are absolutely, indisputably right. there is a reason why the world's great religions condemn using free and why societies have restricted h it for thousas of years. high interest rates exploit thes week. credit card debt destroys people, not just chronically. irresponsible people, but good people, decenteo people, probaby someme people you know, maybe a lot of people you know. what the banks are doing is disgusting and it's wrong. so the real question is, why does it fall to a couple of childish socialists to point

this out? there is no reason that capping interest rates are to be a left-wing issue. most normal people agree with that. eeoverwhelmingly. south dakota, for example, one of the most conservative states in the country. in 2016, its voters one for donald trump over hillary clinton by 30 points. yet those very same voters also voted overwhelmingly o to crack down on payday loans and kathy interest rates on credit cards. historically, fighting usury has been a republican position. 14% is lower than what bernie sanders is proposing right now for perspective. of president george w. bush endorsed that bill and the senate passed it. so why isn't that the law today? and the words of the "chicago tribune" at the time, "five days of intensive lobbying by banking interests and a one-day plunge in the stock market killed the billth died." after that, rachel lukens decided to cave permanently. they became the party of

wall street. what is interesting, wall street is no longer republican. not even close. wall street is the economic engine of the democratic party. finance titans went overwhelmingly for hillary over trump 2016. chuck schumer is their own personal senator. they all have his cell phone, trust me. big finance is one of the most aggressively liberal sectors in this country. if you are watching this show, they despise you. it all became very obvious in the last presidential election. the only people who didn't get that clear message are republicans in washington. they are on autopilot, steel siding with the big banks over their own borders. it's a lunatic strategy. it won't end well. what happens when you refuse to give people what they desperately need? they go elsewhere. republicans should not be surprised when that happens. that's it for us tonight. the hour is over. we'll be back, 8:00 p.m., monday, that show that is the sworn enemy of

sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. in the meantime, have the happiest, most relaxing weekend away from politics, away fromng those people who try to beat you up. good night from washington. "hannity" is next. see you monday. ♪ >> welcome to the special edition of "hannity," just as in america. i'm jason chaffetz in tonight for sean. hour, we'll highlight the very worst bad actors in the deep state you must be held accountable and we'll start with fired fbi director james comey. last night the unemployed hyperpartisan former bureaucrat made yet another appearance on cnn where he continued to impugn the character of the president and float baseless conspiracy theories about trump and russia. watch this. >> do you think the russians have leverage over president trump? >> i don't know the answer to that. >> do you think is possible? >>