have heard so many stories of people reaching out a risking their own safety to help others. most-watched, most trusted, most grateful you spent your friday evening with us. good night from washington. i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." just about 24 hours ago, the president issued a sweeping declassification order. he gave us attorney general william barr broad authority to find and release any documents related to domestic surveillance,do spying by american intelligence agencies over the 2016 campaign. you think everyone would like this. you think it would qualify as donald trump's least controversial decision since president. everyone in washington says we love transparency. democracy dies in darkness "the washington post" reminds us every modern. even now members of

congress are calling for the impeachment of the president because portions of the mueller report were redacted. let's see everything,s they're telling us. okay. let's do that. the president suddenly appears to agree with them. let's see everything. so how did the left react when he suggested that? not well. watch this. >> in the end, this is all part of a pattern ofs. politicizing our justice department instead of allowing justice to be done. >> i know it sounds like the "onion." it's true, it may also bring a tear to your eye. >> to quote a former high level doj official, this is a grotesque abuse of the intelligence community. >> this is an attempt by the president to let the women and men of the intelligence community know, fbi agents and others know that if you investigate him, he's going to come after you. >> right. >> that bill barr and others are going to come after you. >> there is an investigation of the same material just designed to

further the propaganda against the mueller investigation. >> tucker: politicizing the justice department m is what they're concerned about. politicizing the justice department didn't seem to be a main concern when fbi agents spied on and then slandered carter page an entirely innocent american citizen. when another two fbi agents were caught talking about an insurance policy against trump becoming president, and then promising to stop him, that wasn't politicizing the justice b department either, according to them. neither was the fired head of the fbi sleeking to the political law professor to make a political case. none of that was politicizing the justice department. but an attorney general declassifying documents that already exist that he had nothing to do with creating, now he has gone too far. cnn trotted out serial liar jim clapper to let viewers know really this could be dangerous. >> concerning because there

has already been so much s information declassified already that particularly in the form of the mueller report and the previous indictments going back to our original intelligence committee assessment we did in january of '17. i wonder what else is going to be declassified that that risks jeopardizing sources and methods. >> tucker: precisely. he is concerned that the fbi's methods might become public and that's exactly what we need to know a lot more about, the fbi's methods. the fbi has a lot moreod power. its investigations can destroy your life even if you are innocent. it's happened to a lot of people recently.y. so the fbi absolutely must be above suspicion. if you cared about preservingmo

our democracy which they claim they do you would immediately disinfect the fbi with sunlight. james clapper has no interest in doing that, and neither does the rest of official washington.es the only principle they care about is self-preservation and they will say anythingco in its service.li congressman adam schiff of california responded to the declassification order this way, quote: while trump stonewalls the public from learning the truth about his obstruction of justice, trump and barr conspire to weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies." the coverup has entered a new and dangerous phase. this is unamerican. end quote. got that? declassifying information is now a cover-up. it's unamerican. a keep in mind this guy is the chairman of the house intelligence committee. adam schiff is a complete nut case. his allies in the media though are certainly more subtle than that.. they know that coverup isn't a plausible way to describe declassification. it's laughable. so instead they are going with the term distraction.n. watch. >> distract and deflect. >> it's very good distraction..

>> distract from a day of very bad news.>> >> an effort to distract. >> distract. as usual, you are watching projection at work. a distraction, yes.at we are familiar with that concept.t. for two and a half years we listened to their absurd theories about russian collusion. the goal was to distract us from the implications of the 2016 election. and more broadly to keep americans from noticing what is happening to their country. the dying small towns, the needles and garbage flooding the big cities, the overrun border, the middle eastern wars that persist for no reason. the grotesque and growingo income inequality on the coast. the rise of china abroad, etin cetera. these are actual problems. some cases they are full blown crises. they need solutions and serious people to think about those solutions every day this farce about russia and coverups continues is another day that america gets weaker and more divided. after a while you begin to conclude it must be intentional, there is no

other explanation for it. a former u.s. attorney joins us tonight.. thanks a lot for coming on. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: who should be concerned about this declassification order? who should be worried? >> well, first, we as theel american citizens should be concerned. it seems like political games but there is nothing more important right now that our focus should be on but this issue, did oour federal government, those in charge of using extraordinary powers under the fisa rules and using the fisa court, did they abuse it? so first, we should be. but there are two other groups that should be very concerned. those that were involved in the process of getting a warrant, using the fisa court. if they did so without justification, or if they did so without falling the rules or they knew that there was some aspect of the information they were providing that was not

credible, they had should be concerned. and we should be digging into that. the second group isrt certainly those that may be -- may have been in congress. you hear some of the statements they are making that may have information and known all along and have been attempting to distract us from investigating thisis issue. >> tucker: so how likely is it do you think that american national security would be damaged if this information was declassified? that's what jim clapper was telling us. you've heard members of congress say that. is that a plausible concern? >> well, setting aside the schizophrenic argument that it is that it is cover up at the time as you are shedding light on an issue.d [laughter] >> tucker: it's millers, yes. >> it's hard to take seriously. if you set that aside think about the executive order at issue here. the president didn't just

say, release it. and by the way, he has absolute authority to control what is classified and what is not classified. here he has asked the attorney general to work with the heads of the intelligence community, including the director of national security to look at these documents, redact what needs to be redacted and release what can be released. i see that as a thoughtful approach to the classification issue. >> tucker: so if you are the head of one of these agencies. if you are chris wray for example fbi he is fighting against any declassification effort, that's kind of the classification posture of a washington bureaucrat of an agency that he wants to protect his own people and

his own thiefdome. why should that -- we consider that meaningful like, in the end who cares whether his agency is embarrassed? doesn't our right to have confidence in our government override those concerns? shouldn't it override those concerns? >> you are exactly right. in 2003, i was in the united states senate. i was responsible for helping get the reauthorization of the patriot act done. and i recall jim comey then, the deputy attorney general, bob mueller, the director of o the fbi giving assurance to congress as we expanded their power under the patriot act and we expanded the rules of the fisa courtd and its application, giving assurances that it would not be utilized against american citizens.ri and if it was, it would be because they had absolute evidence of that citizen's work with an agent of a foreign power. that's not what appears to have happened. are we entitled to have answers? we are and we shouldn't care whether or not -- and i know chris wray, we were u.s. attorneys at the same time, and i have a lot of respect,am but with all due respect, our need to know is greater than any need to not be embarrassed. >> tucker: amen, thank you

for reminding us of that as someone who worked on that. exact issue 15 or 16 years ago.r thanks, i hope you will come back. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: john is a former cia officer and regular guest on the show. always happy to have him. thanks very much, john for coming on tonight. >> my pleasure.ho >> tucker: when you hearoh mr. clapper say that we can't possibly declassify thisan material because it will jeopardize sources and methods, as someone who lived in a world of sources and methods, do you think that's a plausible concern? >> no, no. not at all. i don't think it's a plausible concern because he is making a judgment that the president and the attorney general are just willie nilly going to declassify everything, expose the names of sources, expose operational methods and nothing could be further from the truth. the heads of all the different intelligenceom services are going to take a chop on this. they are going to redact what needs to be redacted and the bottom line is the

american people own this information and they have a right to know what's in it. >> tucker: exactly. t so that was -- it's funny you anticipated my next w question, as someone who worked inside an intel agency for as long as you did, in the federal bureaucracy for as long as you did, do the people who run these agencies remember that they work on behalf of voters accountable through elected representatives and all out information they gather belongs tout public and not them. do they keep that in mind? >> no, they don't, quite simply. the thing about these intelligence agencies, and not just the intelligence agencies but the fbi as well, is when people finally make their way to the top or mid level leadership positions, it's because they have been there for 20 years or 35 years. they know they can outwait presidents. presidents come and go. y and they are there always. >> tucker: right. >> most of the time, they think they can just wait out

this president and he will leave and somebody else will be president and by then they are going to be okay again. so, no, they don't consider the voters. they don't consider the wishes of the president. they just want this problem to go away. they think if they stonewall long enough it will go away. >> tucker: so i'm just hearing that john brennan as we speak right now is on another channel red in the face angry calling the declassification order reckless. why would brennan be saying that, i wonder? >> well, i would say that he has something to hide. and he is afraid that a true transparent investigation is going to reveal whatever it is that he has to hide. remember, john brennan is not an old man. he is still young enough that he has, or at least he thinks he still has something of a future in washington. he is the kind of guy who is not shy about telling people here in town that he wants to be secretary of defense in a democratic administration.

now, if there is an investigation, and information is developed that he was in part responsible for spying on the trumppy campaign, or for encouraging fisa warrants being issued against an innocent american, carter page. maybe he is not going to be the secretary of defense. and i think that's what is he worried about. >> tucker: that would be very good for america if we could indemnify ourselves f against a future brennan running doj. john, thank you very much.an good seeing you tonight. >> thank you, thanks for having me. >> tucker: it wasn't that long ago joe biden was a completely different person. on tape, opposing amnesty for illegal aliens. calling them illegal aliens by the way, and touting english as our natural language. we will show you the tape after the break. you will not believe what a decade will do to somebody in washington. plus, alexandria ocasio-cortez is denouncing cauliflower as a

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who sneaks in illegally for real. it wasn't always like this.lt biden was for the bit of his entire year, a bit of a blow b hard, but a nice guy and basically sane.n he represented the party that cared about working class americans. we have proof of that watch this tape. >> the democratic position also recognized you got 11 million illegal aliens here. they have to have a way to earn their way into the deal. this isn't amnesty. they are required to take 11 years work.ey they pay a fine. they got to learn to speak english. they have. >> if we went to canada right now, encourage people to keep their foreignot language. english will unite the country. >> i can't think of a country thatll has two languages that is doing all that well including switzerland and/or canada.

>> it divides us. you can't talk to each other. >> tucker: so when was that shot? 1958?? 1973? or is it a fake concocted by russian agents to discredit him? no. that video is real and it's from 2006. as recently as that year democrats could still admit that people who snuck in illegally are illegal aliens and that speaking english made this country better. they could admit that illegal immigration had a real downside and if illegals were going to get a path to citizenship, they had better want it and pay a serious price. was joe biden a bad person then? a racist? was chris matthews? no. their party just cared about americans then. big difference. well, the president now stated he is deploying 1500 american troops to the middle east in response to rising tensions with iran. >> we want to have protection. to the middle east we are going to be sending a relatively small number of troops. mostly protective.

and some very talented people are going to the middle east right now. and we will see how, and we will see what happens. t >> how many? >> it will be about 1500 people. >> tucker: so the question really is why? 1500 soldiers not going to defeat anyone. they are not going to start or win a war with iran. why send any at all? while we are deploying troops overseas to contain threats, why not china? tell us what is happening we are joined by douglas mcgregor the author of the terrific book, "margin of victory." he joins us now. colonel, thanks very much for coming on. what do you suppose the thinking here is? >> well, i think the president told you straight up the truth. this is a theater missile defense formation. the troops and the equipment they have are designed to shoot down incoming ballistic missiles. so this is a purely defensive formation.y it has no offensive fighting capability at all, and

normally in crises or in any period of tension, we routinely deploy these kinds of formations to the middle east to reassure our friends and partners that we will help shoot down ballistic missiles if iran shoots at them. >> tucker: so these are not missiles aimed at our country?un they are aimed at other countries? >> absolutely. >> tucker: okay. so, sounds fine. i guess the concern would be though, that their presence might be essentially a trigger that would get us involved in some sort of wider conflict and the broader concern is that the small group of people around the president are -- pushing for that conflict >> i think you got that in the form of the carrier battle group. the team of one that i call the president, the team of one because he is the only person who is obviouslyhe opposed to conflict in the region with iran, he isfl trying very desperately, i think in his own way, to deescalate.ea

but he really has to pull the carrier battle group out of the persian gulf. he needs to get it out of there. put it out in the arabian sea. even put it in the eastern mediterranean, but get it out of the gulf. that's the real trigger right now. that's the potential catalyst for trouble. >> tucker: looking at the world, the full expanse of the world, do you believe that iran is the preeminent threat to the united states right now?ct >> of course not. iran doesn't threaten us at all. look this is an intramuslim conflict that we are watching unfold right now. have you on the one side saudi arabia the emirates inag the gulf trying to escalate the tension and conflict by dragging us in. o we are there ostensibly to protect them. but in reality, they would like to drag us into conflict with iran. obviously the israelis would appreciate that as well but it's primarily right now

saudi arabia and the gulf arabs.h they are unhappy with what's happened in yemen with the fact that the houthis haven't all committed suicide yet. they would like to see iran driven out of iraq and syria. the only hope they have of any of that happening is by dragging us in to do it for them. >> tucker: i mean, that doesn't seem remotely in our interest, our national interest at all. why wouldn't we fight that idea -- why wouldn't we fight that with every ounce of strength we have? >> well, the problem is that the team of one, once again,ha is surrounded by these globalists interventionists with ties in many cases to the gulf arabs, to saudi arabia and israel. so they are going to -- they are going to do whatever they can to advocate for conflict.ca that's the problem. the team of one sits there and says wait a minute, why? we have been through this process in the past. there is no evidence that iran had anything to do with the attacks on the tankers, far from it. anybody that knows iranians knows if they were actually trying to sink those ships they would have done it.k that looks like anotheroo false flag designed once

again to create tension and drag us into the fight. >> tucker: it's just funny, it seems like only yesterday that the left was berating the trump administration for doing the bidding of saudi arabia, and now they are sitting by happily as we come closer to war on behalf of saudi arabia. >> this is what yogi berra called a deja vu all over again. these kinds of things keep happening over and over again. i think president trump knows better. but he really needs to get involved personally. deescalate this thing. the iranians are trying hard to communicate with us through intermediaries, and i think we should talk with them quietly privately in a third country and sort out some of these differences. but we should not be inig the intramuslim war, it's not our war. >> tucker: no. of course not.ef colonel, thank you very

much. good to see you tonight. >> yes. >> tucker: well, normal people are fleeing the state of california in droves. the governor of the state says it's not his fault. instead, he is blaming this show, for real. we have got the tape after the break. billions of mouths.

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>> tucker: well, the governor of california gavin newsom spoke to the california chamber of commerce yesterday, in fact. in his speech, newsom admitted that businessn leaders in california are distressed. some of them are angry, some of them are fleeing the state entirely and not coming back. newsom admitted that's

happening and then he says he knows why it's happening. this program is doing it. watch.he >> and i get why some of you, you know, often seem in despair about this state. you know, i watch fox news as well. [laughter] poor tucker carlson. >> tucker: newsom then proceeded to tell the business leaders that actually things are great in california, don't listen to "tucker carlson tonight" and you will feel much better. now, we would like to think that we have enough power to w convince people of things e that aren't true to work our voodoo, but we're not capable of doing that. what we have done instead is show people what's happening in the largest state in the union. in california. and every day we do that and every day the message is the same.fr homeless encampments in downtown los angeles, san francisco filthy. prettiest city in the continental united states destroyed. sacramento. across the state, same story.

piles of needles, mounds of garbage and human waste. a it's ridiculous. and then the absurd laws, bans on plastic straws or preventing authorities from reporting illegal immigrants to ice. how does that help anybody? it doesn't help a single american citizen. sky high taxes and housinge costs to make the place unlivable for the middle class. you don't have to take our word for it, because we have had video and statistical evidence for everything we say. obviously. but nobody in california need dollars us to tell them their state is in free fall. they see it every day themselves. the question is, does the governor care? doesn't appear to. ♪ >> tucker: as california declines, its housing crisis seems worse in its most affluent towns. it's an interesting paradox. mountain view, california is the home of google, the world's most powerful tech company. apartments rent in mountain view for more than $4,100 per month on average. m

the average home costs more than 1.8 million. these are ranch style homes. these are -- you would want to live in one. homelessness is exploding in mountain view. hundreds of people are living out of rvs.s. the city's solution? kick them out. city council has enacted a ban on rvs parking in the city overnight. this is a story that tells you a lot about a lot.t. to respond to it, we have asked jason nichols university of maryland to join us. professor, thanks very much for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. thank you for having me. >> tucker: so, there's a paradox here, mountain view, one of the richest places in the world, also one of the, most liberal, and yet it's a city defined by income inequality. it's not alone in that. across the country the places with the greatest divide between rich and poor are almost exclusively left wing places. what do you make of that? >> well, i think that it goes beyond this kind of political divide that we're talking about.

i think that actually, we are seeing gentrification around the country, in red states and blue states, in red cities and blue cities. this is just a matter of income inequality all together. the fact that the price of housing is rising much higher and much faster than wages, wages rising 3% right now. we have a strong economy. housing prices are rising 5% and have been for several years. i think this is more than just political, and i think we need to come together as americans and come to some solution. >> tucker: i agree with that a place controlled by conservatives has this level of income inequality. no place in wyoming for example has.

rural alabama doesn't have this. it's san francisco, it's new york, it's seattle, it's portland, oregon, it's los angeles. these are the most liberal places in america and, yet, they have the most homeless. at some point you have to ask what is going on? >> well, so, again, i would go -- if we are going to talk about places like san francisco and l.a. and washington, d.c., of course, i think part of this -- part of the reason, you know, real estate goes by supply and demand. unfortunately, i want to give a shout out to everybody in wyoming, but there are many people who don't want to live in wyoming or don't want to live in rural alabama. but many people, particularly people with lots of money want to live in places like san francisco. that leads to a push-out and people end up without homes and prices actually because

the demand is so high, is low. >> tucker: oh, i get it. but why aren't they helping? so if you are the founders of google and you're progressive icons and you a believe you are a goodre person because you help so many people, why aren't you doing something to help people on the sidewalk in front of your mansion? why isn't nancy pelosi doing something about homelessness in her city? i don't get it. i honestly don't get it? >> i would agree there many are things politicians need to do on both sides of thens aisle in order to deal with this crisis. again, i would also go with the fact that the leader of hud, who is my old friend dr. carson, is someone who is rising rents on some of the poorest people in the country right now.ow they are doing some good things at hud and i'm not sure that dr. carson is the guy to talk to. but there are many people over there who are also rising rent on people who can't afford it.is that's leading to more of a push-out. of course, in california, you have 8 in 10 people actually live outdoors. so people in rvs are actually somewhat fortunate in that circumstance.

>> tucker: there is something -- >> it's both sides of the aisle, tucker. >> tucker: i don't know. i guess i don't see that. if you can find -- i hope you will come back if you can find a city of over 100,000 people in america run by conservatives that has the same problem with homelessness or income inequality. i just don't think there is one. maybe there is. i will stand corrected if you can find it. professor, thank you very much. >> thank you for having me, tucker. >> tucker: good to see you. alexandria ocasio-cortez just warned her fans that cauliflower is a white supremacist vegetable. don't eat it. we'll tell you what she is talking about after the break. break. ♪ ♪ just one free hearing test at

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♪ >> tucker: exactly three years ago, british voters voted to pull out of the european union but that still hasn't happened though, because elites don't actually care about democracy. they are happy to ignore it when it doesn't affirm their wishes. yesterday the british public voted in the european union elections. the top party in the polls is nigel farage's brexit party, running on a very simple platform get britain out of the eu. now that idea is against the left's agenda so much like in america they have responded with violence. the new fad in britain is leftist throwing milk shakes at people they don't like.he nigel farage was attacked on monday. >> tucker: farage by the way

will be joining us on this program this coming tuesday. but keep in mind it's not just politicians. an 80-year-old military veteran in britain was also attacked since he was a supporter of farage's party. physically attacking people for their beliefs, of course, is fascism and an actual attack on democracy. so what has the response been from powerful people in britain? well, of course, they h tsupport it. a columnist for the guardian called it justifiable political theater. burger king's u.k. twitter account tweeted this, quote: dear people of scotland, we're selling milk shakes all weekend.ta have fun. a little woke capitalism for you. and the manchester throwing milk shakes was not enough quote hit them over the head is a brick as is traditional. no one should be surprised the left stopped caring about democracy long ago. what they want is power any behavior is justified if it gets them more of it. understand that and from. >> tucker: getting hard to keep track of all the things that are racist these days. g jefferson statues, milk.

not wanting african-americans to abort their children, that's racist. now add another one to the long list: cauliflower is racist. in a video posted on sunday young pioneer alexandria ocasio-cortez explained to her followers that it is deeply problem that the particular to grow cauliflower in urban gardens. >> really think about it, when someone says that it's too hard to do a green space that grows yuca instead of, i don't know, cauliflower or something, what you are doing is you are taking a colonial approach to environmentalism, and that is why a lot of communities of color get resistance to certain environmentalist movement, because they come with a colonial lens on them.

[laughter] >> tucker: even adjusting for the fact she is dumb, which she obviously is, it's still confusing. what is she saying we need the liberal sherpa to figure italig out. cathy areu is a frequent guest on our show. thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: how racist is cauliflower? and let me just tell you i don't like cauliflower so don't look at me like i'm part of the cauliflower problem i'm not. how racist is it? >> thank goodness. it's part of mono cropping. so our colonial ancestors grew coastal flower so they're cropping the same old, same old vegetables. not good for the environmentct because it's the same nutrients in the ground and it actually hurts the environment to have the same old same old, so the corn, the cauliflower, colonialism, so she is talking about diversifying our vegetables as we should diversify our culture. so, yuca instead of

cauliflower is the way to go if you do not want to be racist when it comes to ouro community gardens. >> tucker: cauliflower, you make a fair point, cauliflower -- tobacco comes from indigenous people of americans and syphilous too, by the way. >> both are healthy. >> tucker: well i don't know now. tobacco is an indigenous plant, but you are sayingut it's bad but -- so you are saying tobacco is worse than cauliflower or better than cauliflower? >> the term is the mono cropping. it's the growing the same thing in our earth. so there are no nutrients that are being given to our land, so, therefore, it hurts the environment. so if we grow new things so

forget the tobacco and the cauliflower. we need the new yucca we need the new yucca and different plants, different crops being grown to help our environment. >> tucker: the climate plays as role in this. so i don't think yucca or plantains grow very well in brooklyn or queens. >> have you tried, though? have you tried those community gardens? they are usually led by peopleso with time on their hands. those upper class women. upper class members of society to ho have time to volunteer not those middle class workers. yeah. yeah. >> tucker: the racist cauliflower eaters. are you concerned about applying social justice standards to the food we eat? do you think ultimately it might drive us insane and cause food shortages? >> i'm afraid. we need n to realize that

salsa is more popular than ketchup.o if we were truly racist we wouldn't allow salsa in this country. we are a wonderful country that allows diverse food and crops to come into our country and we can diversify our food and our crops. yeah. >> tucker: every time i get mad at the left i think it must be living hell to be a member of it because you would have to remember all the rules.er i don't think i could. i'm too old. >> it's not that hard. salsa is good. >> tucker: it's baffling to me. we are so glad you are keeping track though. thank you for joining us tonight.re >> thank you, thank you. >> tucker: well, cauliflower may be the latest innocuous object to be called racist by the left and certainly won't be the last. what will they ban next? columnist town hall.com he joins us with a list of the

things the left is planning to prohibit. kurt, great to see you tonight. what's on their list? >> oh, everything, ban all the things, tucker. let's start with pets.in they'll want to ban pets. have you checked your pe privilege? pets. have you checked your pet privilege? look, if cauliflower can be colonialist can't your retriever be racist? >> tucker: if they start coming for people's dogs, i think you could have gun play at that point. people are going to be overwhelmed. that might be overreach. >> oh, you will pry my fat corgie out of my cold dead hands as i lie bleeding on a pile of smoking brass. >> tucker: exactly. i feel the exact same way about my spaniels. >> tucker, it's the importance of these animals to us. it makes it such a tempting target. it's not about pets. sey don't like dogs or cats. a lot of liberals are

probably with many, many cats right now who will devour them when they die alone in their apartments. the simple fact is our animals are important to us. when it's important to us. when it is something that matters to us, that's what is the most fun to take away. because the exercise the power isn't about making a better society. take a look at america over the last 20 years. how did iraq work out? the collapse on wall street. obamacare. failure after failure. >> tucker: they got america to quit smoking and nobody got healthier, i noticed. so what else are they going to ban? >> well, how about hunting?? a there is something related. i don't hunt. i was in the army 27 years. i spent enough time in the woods. no one brings me drinks in the woods so i don't want to be there. but other people think differently. other people like to hunt. it's important to them.

it's important the way they build their communities and families and cultures. you go out to like michigan and they will close the school so families can go out and hunt deer. that makes it even more of a target because our coastal, urban elites can boss around a bunch of people they think are knuckle dragging jesus gun people. it's fun to boss people around if you are that kind of person. >> tucker: so we got pets, hunting, give me one more thing we should be on guard mgainst having them ban. >> well, religion. religion they don't appreciate diversity. it's because they hate blasphemy. their religion is themselves. they worship their own dogma. they worship their own moral superiority over us. if we won't comply. if we dare to worship god or allah or go to the civilian going to or do whatever, it means we are not worshiping

them. it means we are not acknowledging their moral superiority. they can't live with that tucker. >> tucker: good point their god and their view. finally they will ban conservatives, douc you think? >> oh, i'm sure they are going to ban conservatives. they hate the idea that there are these obstacles out there that are people who have different views. that's why they are always targeting you. they are always targeting me. they are always throwing people off social media because their ideas are, you know, just fill in the blank, it doesn't matter. the excuses differ but the results are always the same, silencing opponents. i have a solution to this, tucker. would you like to hear it? >> tucker: yeah. i will give you 10 seconds. >> here is my solution. i will think, say and do whatever i damn well please and there is not a thing you liberal elitists can do it.t simple and elegant.

>> tucker: i love that, good luck with that harder than it sounds. great to see you, kurt, thank you. >> tucker: time next for dan bongino's news explosion. we'll wrap up the week by going over his top three stories of the past seven days after the break. (male announcer) get amazing hot buys on the gear you need only at bass pro shops and cabela's. like berkley trilene xl or xt monofilament line buy one get one free. and bass pro freestyle spinning combos for under $30.

>> tucker: it's friday. time for the >> tucker: it's friday. time for the pyrotechnics. dan bongino's news explosion. our favorite former secret service agent is here to run through the top three stories of the week. the great dan bongino joins us tonight. hey, dan. >> tucker, it's always great to be back with you. here are my three biggest hits of the week. story number three. bill de blasio defies the odds again! bill de blasio has been a favorite of yours and mine, tucker.oc i know the failed socialist mayor of new york city who has approval ratings that are somehow in the negative. i don't know how it's

possible. but he defied the laws of statistics and is polling at a phenomenal 0%! how that is possible, i don't know. we don't know if you would substitute teach a class and say, kids, who wants homework? there is always the one kid that says yes. a there is never 0% in anythings except for bill de blasio. it's amazing. phenomenal, isn't it? aren't you impressed?ng >> tucker: it's so welll deserved and it gives you hope for the country. as misguided as we can be. bill de blasio is too obviously a fraud. >> he's peachy. we love him. all right. story number two. 40% of americans are embracing and giving a hug to socialism. i think the alternate headline is more appropriate here.er 4 in 10 americans has no idea what socialism is. ladies and gentlemen, clearly you have not done your homework on socialism.

you know, the little things like, 100 million dead, the death, destruction, starvation, mao's china, the great leap forward, a huge leap backwards. kind of big deal. you may want to crack ad textbook before you answer that poll question next. i'm just saying. throwing it out there for you. now, on a serious note. story number one, the biggest story of the week broke last night while you were handing off to toss to me when i was filling in for sean. t this declassification story. i'll just tell you this, tucker. americans need to know the truth. you have been all over this. i have been all over this. i got an e-mail from a friend of mine on capitol hill knee deep in this. he said, we are at a dangerous inflection point now. he said the democrats have a completely forfeited western values. the spying thing is a big deal. we need to get to the bottom t of it. huge story. my number one story of the week. >> tucker: i think we will get to the bottom of it.mb dan bongino, thank you for capping off a great week with a great segment.

have the best weekend. >> always a pleasure. see you in a week. >> tucker: we'll be back monday at 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and s groupthink. have the best weekend. sean hannity is next. ♪ >> jason: welcome to this special edition of "hannity." justice and liberty. i'm jason chaffetz in for sean. attorney general bill barr has the tools he needs to hold the deep state accountable. late last night, president trump directed america's intel agencies to cooperate with the attorney general investigation in the seedy. origin of the russia probe. that is not all. the president gave barr the power to declassify documents related to his ongoing investigation. this is a major step forward for truth, justice, and transparency. have a look. j >> everybody wanted me to declassify. i have done it.