good night from washington, i mike emanuel. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." in case you were wondering whether the president was serious about the border crisis, last night he delivered a decisive answer. in a surprise move, the white house announced unless mexico halts the flow of illegal immigrants into the united states, the u.s. will starting on june 10th impose a 5% tariff on all imports from that country. if the situation doesn't improve going forward, that tariff will rise by 5% a month every month. by october, there will be a 25% tariff on all goods coming from mexico from avocados to automobiles. let's bebe honest about what tht would mean.

the u.s. imports $372 billion for mexico every year, the prices on all of those goods would go up, consumers would feel that and so would businesses. critics claim the tariffs would slow the u.s. economy and they are likely right, over time they probably would. but. we ought to impose them anyway. not every government policy is a pure economic calculation. one of the united states is attacked by a hostile foreign power it must strike back. mexico is a hostile foreign power. for decades the mexican government has sent its poor north to our country, this allowed that country's criminal oligarchy to them to maintain power and get richer but at great expense to us. the flood of illegal workers into the united states has damaged our communities, ruined our schools, burned our health care system and fractured our national unity. it has suppressed wages for our most vulnerable, it has been a slow-motion attack on this country and its effects have

been devastating. there's not a lot of real debate about that, the numbers are clear, honest people admit it. but our leaders are not honest. in the hours after our president's announcement they instinctive lee sided with mexico. >> tariff man is back, the president isn'ts threatening a new country with tariffs, this time mexico. >> it sounds very strong but who will it squeeze, us, or mexico? >> there's no mistake about it, u.s. consumers will bear the brunt of these tariffs. >> whether it's a negotiating tactic or an attempt to onstract, it still surprised everyone. short of a political stunt. >> may be it's changing the subject from the mueller, i can't figure a bout. >> tucker: he can't figure it out, it's too complicated for him. the award for the most disingenuous response has to go to the left wing mexico president, in response to the

terror threat he said social problems are not resolved with taxes or coercive measures. in other words says the liberal, government doesn't the solution. he went on to lecture at theer u.s. president about america's national values because the president of mexico is arrogant and presumptuous to do that. the statue of liberty is not an empty symbol. mexico is corrupt ruling class believes it's america's duty to absorb the country's problems forever. the american left agrees, they are as contemptuous of america as the mexican government is. here with the office trade policy, we spoke to him earlier today. what do you anticipate the mexican government would do in response to this threat? >> let me give you a little background. you are right, many years of abuse by the mexican government

in terms of sending one of their biggest exports to america, the undocumented aliens -- there's about 100,000 illegal aliens moving along a conveyor belt to the southern border along to our border, this conveyor belt is supported by a transnational criminal organization that provides the buses, the trucks, the trains at the choke point, the checkpoints where these things are supposed to be interdicted. we have corruption that is rampant. on wednesday for me it was a red line. we had over a thousand illegal aliens walk as a single group from juarez into el paso and the

vast majority of them were families and unaccompanied children. this is a crisis, the authority being used is called the international emergency economic powers act. it has to be a national emergency, check that box. it has to be a threat to our national security foreign w policy, or economy. check all three. we want mexico to do three things. the southern border were the illegal aliens are crossing is in guatemala, it's only 150 miles across, it's characterized by numerous choke points. we want the mexican government to choke those choke points. they have to put an end to this conveyor belt and the transnational criminalff organizations that are making billions of dollars off the american public and off the poor

people that are being exploited by them. third, the mexican government has to cooperate on this whole issue of asylum, the mexican government should take those folks and hold them on mexican soil, that would put an end to what iste essentially a strategc gaming of the asylum system because we know most of these illegal aliens coming are only using that as an excuse to evade what little laws we have. >> tucker: do you think the mexican government will do this immediately by june 10th? i think that is the deadline according to thell president's statement, will they do this? >> i'm sure they will immediately engage with our side. we aren't trying w to punish thm in any sense, we want them to solve the problem. the metric as chief of staff mick mulvaney said lastas nights that the numbers coming in go down dramatically. that is what we are looking for. to the point as to who pays for

the tariffs, the tariffs weren't going to hurt mexico. they would have no inclination to come to the bargaining table, just as if the tariffs didn't hurt china they went to be negotiating with us. mexican corporations that send this product will lower prices and lower profits, we will see more investment come here to the u.s. i think the mexicans will respond to this because it's going to cost them dearly.s remember, this crisis is costing us dearly now and all we are seeking is fairness. >> tucker: peter navarro from the white house tonight. austan goolsbee chaired the council of economic advisors tyder president obama, he joins us now. thanks very much for coming on. i'll concede at the outset that it's easy to see how this could wind up slowing the u.s. econom

economy. they are a huge trading partner with the united states and the tariffs tend to do that. that's not really the question. the question is is it worth it? is the crisis sufficient that we need to act in our own defense? i would ask you, do you think illegal immigration is a crisis? in this country? >> the first part of your question does not make logical sense to me and maybe you could explain it to me better which is if you take an action which hurts yourself, how is that getting something done on your behalf. >> tucker: it's simple, as the united states is attacked as it has been occasionally over timef >> shooting oneself is not -- >> tucker: the response costs money. there's a great economic cost to war, actual hot wars, there's always an economic cost ofhe the response but your sovereignty and long-term interest sometimes demand it. is the crisis profound enough to

justify it and that is my question to you. >> number one is about how large do i view the crisis of immigration. i view the issue of illegal immigration in the united states to be a serious problem, not a crisis. i view the action taken by the trump administration pretty clearly violatesw the law and yu saw peter navarro they are trying to rationalize something that has never been done. we have never used the emergencies act to go around the clear statement in article one of the constitution that says tariff policy is determined by congress, not the president. i think that is a bad precedent to set. on top of that, the major losers in this action are u.s. manufacturers who are buying their parts from mexico. >> tucker: i can see in the

outset that there would be an economic cost, i'm not a liar. >> i know. that was my third point. >> tucker: how many illegal aliens are there in the united states? >> estimates are about 6.6 million, down over the last four years. >> tucker: there is no estimate that says 6.6 million illegals. >> actually there is from pew research. >> with respect, i don't know where you got that number i think you are wrong on that come i don't believe that's true, but i appreciate you coming on, thank you. >> tucker: elizabeth warren campaign took another blow as a radio host compared her to race faker rachel dole is all, after the break.

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but yes probably. there they are. aww! whaa , whaa, ahh! ♪ >> tucker: elizabeth warren hopes that releasing a dna test with silencer critics and safer presidential campaign, instead it appeared to back fire her phony heritage is a millstone holding her down. charlemagne the god asked what many people have been wondering how was she different from phony black person sex. stigation. it never affected, nothing about my family ever affected any job i ever got. >> you didn't get a dolezal.

>> you are kind of like the original rachel dolezal a little bit. >> this is what i learned from family. >> tucker: how is this different from rachel dolezal? >> if you assume as i do that elizabeth warren sincerely believed that she was native american -- think about it. what a brain-dead person was going to demand to take a dna test when she knows full well -- the parallel is when a guilty person demands to take a polygraph. knowing full well he didl it. he thinks t he can beat the test which is why the polygraph is not admissible. how do you beat a dna test? i believe she sincerely believed she was native american and that she needs talk to them parents about having misled her. >> tucker: it's such a great point.er

the falseness of pretending it didn't help her, she was listing as the first law professor of color even though she's paler than i am, "the boston globe" somehow proved -- it's a lie. >> i agree, harvard bragged that the first native american faculty member to be hired, she clearly benefited. who knows how many speeches she got, i believe she sincerely thought she was native american. >> tucker: it is the most famous fact about her at this point when she was asked by a radio host, she didn't have a lot to h say. >> my parents told me i was native american, who was going to call their parents a liar?

i think she wanted to believe it, i think she sympathized with the plight of native americans and felt a cause célèbre by being associated with native americans, all of that went on. she said i was wrong, i was dead wrong. >> tucker: she didn't grow up on a reservation nurse speaking a native language, she grew up as what she is which is a conventional white american woman. in what sense would she identify -- in other words, a dna test doesn't really speak to your actual experience, it's irrelevant. >> it is irrelevant, she apologized to the cherokee nation, she was in fact native american. i don't believe that's the number one reason she was doing so badly in the polls. have you heard any of the speeches, she put you to sleep. she's as radical as the next

one, it's her problem. >> tucker: she's nasty too, she shouldn't be but she is. good to see you, thank you. the past couple of years you have seen a campaign to tear down many of this country's greatest heroes.in the latest victim could be martin luther king, david guerra wrote a pulitzer prize-winning biography, now in a newly released fbi document, they semisecret recording cfi oncedi made of king. the recordings allegedly reveal extensive extramarital affairs dozens and dozens of them, and weapon episode where he looked on and laughed while his companions raped a woman. professor, thanks for coming on. i'm going to take a different position from what you might expect. we've seen a whole bunch of

different heroes in american history dethroned and in some cases their statues knocked over because we learned they were flawed in their personal lives. thomas jefferson, great example. i'm assuming all of this is tru true. should it change how we view martin luther king andn his role in american history, should we knock his statues down, i don't think we should. >> i think you would be making a mistake to make the assumption that this is true. all of his articles, you he tro write this for many publications, including "the washington post," they all rejected it because the evidence wasn't solid. mainly because the fact that he hadn't heard the fbi tapes, he didn't have access to them. he was going off fbi memos and these were memos from cointel pro. >> tucker: i respect martin luther king and i don't want to think these things are

true. but we often learn that people we revere for their role ine history were deeply flawed death. and there is actual evidence that he was deeply flawed, he was a philanderer, we can say that. >> i think having extramarital affairs is very different from watching someone -- >> tucker: i agree with that completely. but i'm just saying should we define, should we define a man's life by his worst moments, or should we take three steps back and assess his place in the sweep of history? i making the case on behalf of thomas jefferson as well as martin luther king, could the standard apply to both of them?y >> with dr. king i will say thi this. i believe we should not tear down all of his statues, but ig, think one of the things about dr. king as great as he was and he is one of my personal heroes, one of the things about him is a

lot of times his image obscures so many other people in the civil rights movement and i would say actually the most important person to the civil rights movement was not dr. king, it was ella baker. if you want to change some things, some people in the particular community are not comfortable with his image, then they should put up other civil rights heroes particularly local civil rights heroes and we have a martin luther king boulevard in every city in america. why not have an ella baker? >> tucker: i think that's fairs. but i want to end on this. when your kids get to high school, they will learn the most important thing about thomas jefferson is he may have fathered a child with sally hemmings, we don't know that, but -- >> pretty certain. >> tucker: it's hard to know 200 years later but they will say that. they will leave out the fact that he created the

united states. should your kidsbo also learn te most important thing about martin luther king as he had a weird person life, i don't think that should? >> i 100% agree we need to learn everything about even with thomas jefferson, some of the good things he did in creating a republican some of the bad things. we can't leave out the things we did wrong. we need to understand who our founders were in some of the ideals and that way we can create a more perfect union. i think we should learn about the good things and also not leave out the bad things that our historical figures have done in theirei lives. >> thank you. meryl streep is not someone you would imagine picking a fight with feminists, she just glenn

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>> fox news alert, 12 people are dead and several others are injured after a gunman opened fired friday inside a municipal building in virginia beach. police say he shot people on three floors and someone sitting inside a car. the suspect was shot and killed by police after a fight. >> i can tell you that it was a long gun battle between those four officers and that suspect. we recovered a .45 caliber handgun with multiple extended magazines that were empty at the time. the suspect was reloading extended magazines in that

handgun firing at the victims throughout the building and at our officers. >> a responding officer was shot but was saved by his bulletproof vest. police say the gunman was a longtime public utility worker, his identity as well as a motive has not been released. now back to "tucker carlson tonight" ." >> tucker: we spend a lot of time making fun of hollywood and it's true they are at top global exporter of evaporative brainless liberalism but sometimes celebrities don't play along. in a q&a for an upcoming appearance in the show big little lies, meryl streep said she didn't like the term toxic masculinity. both genders can be toxic. joe concha is a radio talk show host on the biggest channel in the world, he writes about media, great to see you tonight. so she stepped completely out-of-bounds. are you allowed to think this? >> you can if you're a meryl

streep because you are 69 years old you've been nominated 21 times for an oscar so she's in the f mode at this point, she's loyalty, you can't touch her. it's a lot like our media, it's an echoo chamber of conformity. if you step out that hive mentality will be ostracized what she could get away with saying something like this because want to say something to meryl streep? >> tucker: she didn't say there was no such thing as toxic masculinity, she said toxic behavior is not unique to a single it's universal. it is so obviously true that it makes you think may be the things are not allowed to say are the truest things. >> she said that females could also be toxic and that is true. it's not because women are worse than men, it's we are humans, we are bad to people sometimes. so the term comes from the fact that it's a mind-set that the men have oppressed women.

now we are seeing it in the presidential election where 2020 candidates like eric swalwell who has been on your show or cory booker have said i will have a female on my ticket, it doesn't matter if that person has the same worldview, it doesn't matter if that person complements me in any capacity or fills in blanks i don't have, i will have a woman on my ticket because that's how men are now these days, they have to placate certain things and not be men. i talked to a woman in this business highly successful right from your green room and i said what do you think of toxic masculinity and she is an entrepreneur as well. she said i love manly men, i want a man to be a man. i would recommend to protect me. if there's a spider i want him killing the spider come i don't want him cowering in the corner, leave men alone. men have built-in testosterone, they need an outlet for it. that doesn't mean violence, it football.asy god created men and women to behave differently for a reason. that comes from somebody who we

both know. >> tucker: it's a statement that's so obviously true that they have to extinguish it and the person who says it. i have alwaysan wondered this ad i think i moreom pro-women becae then pro-men because i'm a man and i love women. nif you were to survey 100 million women and to ask who would you rather work for, who was tougher on you in a workplace, what do you think the answer would be? >> i ask my wife this, she says unequivocably men, women tend be more gossipy, they tend to be more emotional about certain things in certain situations and take things personally.r i hate to throw her under the bus like this. >> tucker: i don't know what the answer is, it's a lot more complex than they are telling us. i guess meryl streep is going to get away with acknowledging that. >> she will and god bless her for standing up and saying the

spirit of i have a young boy right at home. if your told one day you could be a harasser or a date or you going to oppress women, i feel sorry for my son and people growing up in this environment you're told you're going to be this kind of persont >> tucker: attacking people for who they are is wrong. >> what is right as you were iny new york, you should be coming to the city more often. if you go clubbing tonight, you want to go to huck a bunker in new jersey, it's tremendous he will never forget it. >> tucker: are you doing open mic night? i will see you there. twitter, facebook and other social media platforms will ban you iff you have feelings they don't like.ur twitter isn't the only technological threat to your intelligence. the world health organization has voted to officially classify video game addiction as an actual addiction.

dr. marc siegel is a fox medical contributor, in-house position here and he joins us tonight. does it surprise you to learn that some social media like twitter makes people dumber? >> not at all, it surprise the people who did theey study, they shouldn't have been surprised. they took a very sophisticated important novel and they tried to use twitter to teach people how to read and interpret it. they found out they did far worse than if people were actually taught by teachers. twitter is a shortcut, it's full of anger, social media is full of anxiety and separation, quick shortcuts and misinformation. of course is not going to teach you how to read a great novel, no chance. >> tucker: if it's making us dumber, that's a threat to public health.so that is a threat to our society. >> we are seeing iqs in western europe, maybe it's a socialized medicine, iqs are going down across the board right b now.

i believe social media and smartphone technology and texting and emailing, not talking to you -- whatever happened to the richness of personal experience? sitting next to somebody, not texting somebody in another room but sitting next to somebody, looking at nonverbal cues,e. learning how to read people, learning what people want and learning how to love. if you're not going to learn how to love on a smartphone and not on twitter. that's what we have to get back to basic human relationships. >> tucker: y or more physicians weighing in on this? >> it's a medical problem, one of the reasons i'm glad the world health organization and you're notth going to be surprid that gaming companies are all saying "you don't have any researcher." d they are defining something i agree with. if you are so addicted to video games that it's interfering with yourai daily function where you can't perform whatever your work, school, that is a disease, that is how i defined a disease. >> tucker: that's what it is.

dr. marc siegel, thank you. no one kind of remarkable developments tonight in our investigation into unidentified flying objects. we've learned something fascinating and we are going to share it with you after the break.

♪ >> tucker: for many, many decades, the u.s. government has dismissed out of hand ufo sightings as crank stuff, things that lunatics babblet. about. now suddenly they are taking a different approach, they are telling the truth.

they are finally admitting ufo sightings are in fact routine and the government is now being systematic in investigating the question of ufos. a new history channel documentary called unidentified will explore the military's many recent encounters with unidentified aircraft. >> the object of the navy pilot is tracking suddenly seems to get bigger. the object appears to accelerate rapidly disappearing off screen. >> that is a significant rate of acceleration in a horizontal plane off to the left. that is very fast. >> the object appears to perform a similar maneuver to what the pilots witnessed. instantaneous acceleration at this rate would produce a force of gravity, or g-force, so extreme it would crush a human being. >> tucker: a former military intelligence official and special agent in charge, he joins us tonight.

the first question is why did they live for so many years about what they knew. we didn't have quite the technology of the decades that we do now. >> we now have the technology on some of the most specific weapon systems that give us fidelity to better ascertain what these are. another answer could possibly be stigma and taboo, potential for verbal landmines. >> tucker: we have had technology for a while and it's been more than 60 years since right after the second. world wr that the u.s. military has been downplaying these reports. over the course of that time, some of the most smartest and dedicated people in our country watching these unexplained aerial phenomena, they must have gathered quite a bit of

information about ufos. what have they learned in all of these decades? >> i can only answer from the time i was part of that program. we learned art lot. i think probably the most significant result in theha program were five observables. you have already mentioned a few of them on your show. instantaneous acceleration, hypersonic velocities, a bit of an oxymoron, low observability, trans mediumrv travel and last t not least, positive lift and in the vernacular, antigravity. >> tucker: there have been enough sightings over a long enough period that the idea that it's a computer glitch or that these are generated somehow by radar systems, that can't be right. >> we are well beyond right now establishing these things exist. it's a absolute fact they are

there. is it possible these things are a foreign adversarial technology that somehow was developed in secret and we are just now trying to figure these things out? it's possible. there's also other possibilities as well as what these things could be. >> tucker: that would be the terrestrial explanation, just a sign off the top of your head to the likelihood of that being the case. >> you don't want me to give my opinion. the one thing i learned in intelligence, you can be absolutely sure of something and be absolutely wrong. >> tucker: it's happened to me many times. >> is a low probability. we have the most sophisticated weapon systems right now on the face of the planet and we can identify not only a 737 or eight meg 25 or an f22, we can tell you what airline it is and the difference between the models of aircraft within that type of aircraft.

i think it's highly unlikely that a foreign adversary was successful in developing something like this. me ask you one last question, do you believe based on your decade of serving in the u.s. government on this question that the u.s. government has in its possession any material from one of these aircraft's? >> i do, yes. >> tucker: you think the u.s. government has debris from a ufo and its possession. >> i have to be careful, i can't go into more detail than that. simply put, yes. >> tucker: we have a lot more to find out and i'm glad, veryop glad you came on our show tonight. thanks. time for dan bongino's news explosion, he will be ranking his top three stories of the week and just a moment and there is a new fake scandal involving the internet's greatest website, barstool sports.

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♪ >> tucker: sports are supposed to be refuge fro >> tucker: sports are supposed to be a refuge from politics but in modern america, that's not allowed. someone is always determined tol make every aspect of life apc. for a for game 2 of the stanley cup finals, barstool sports sponsored towels for fans with the boston bruins, but some people freaked out demanding that the bruins disavow barstool. why? and they are sexist or something. dave portnoy joins us to respond tonight. you have there the controversial towel, i can see that is a very sexist towel. >> it says talks on net, that is

my phrase to score goals, you shoot pucks on that, a lot of people had a major problem with this and with our company on it. the bruins called us, a sales guy called me up and say we need a sponsor for the towel, are you interested. all of our fans love the bruins, they love hockey, half the players in the lake weor worked with, we worked with every team in the lake we are huge in the nhl. we have the number one nhl podcast in the world, it seems like a natural fit. i thought. the pc community, people who are just mad at life, i had a quote i read from 2011 which remains't true. people who l don't like to laug, like fun, they don't like america, those people hated thi this. they absolutely hated it, they pulled their hair out, they demandedld answers, they turned this into world war iii. a lot of good press for us, any press is good press. if somebody reads this and has a

brain, who are these guys sponsoring hockey, then you become a barstool plan. >> tucker: i don'tno know if there's a way to know this part of the members of what you described, the pc community -- on average how many nhl games do you think they watch a year? >> i would say the over under is like five and a half. there were some reporters who cover the team that got mad, people piling on and saying i'm the ku klux klan and this and that come of those people don't watch hockey. 'tey are serial protesters and they don't know what they're mad about. they literally wake up like what can i get mad about today. thiss towel? it is the most basic towel in the history of towels. they do it every game, there's banks everything. >> tucker: wouldn't be easier to say you are absolutely right, you're in charge, i'm so sorry, i hate myself, i will do better next time. >> let them win? it didn't surprise me they got

mad, they get mad about everything. we continue to get bigger and stronger, all of these people, the faces change but they have freelance jobs because you don't win by just complaining about i everything. if i complained as much as they did i would drown in my own tears. another thing they do, they say people are saying mean things to us on twitter, they called me a nazi and people who like me would like that's mean, m shouldn't do that. i get the meanest things ever said about me. if i sat and waited complained, i would get nothing done. these people, what are they doing with our lives? one reporter wrote a horrible article about us, she said i'm getting attacked by the barstool people. you know how many tweets we had? five. we have millions of followers. five people said you wrote a bad article and you're going to cry about that? >> tucker: she ataxia but she

is the victim. >> that is what they all do. there is no way around it. we are a popular organization, we have loyal fans which have been following us for 15 years. bey know what we stand for. if you say i'm a scumbag may take that as a personal offense. it's bananas, they tweeted in public, it's a public forum. if someone says guess what, you're a scumbag, they cried.e worry about yourself. you don't have to worry about us, if you don't like the towel, don't pick it up. it's that simple, this is a sales deal. the bruins have buttons possible by banks, huge organizations, this story i'll tell quick, this is a true story. w a guy from st. louis wrote a story about how the bruins should be ashamed, he was arrested for robbing a bank, he's a bank robber. he is a legitimate bank robber. >> tucker: the no fun community, the pc community and the bank robbers. we like you a lot.

dave portnoy and his sexist towel. you may have heard jeopardy host alex trebek is battling cancer, in an interview he revealed that happily his cancer fight is going well and may even be in remission soon. he credited their prayers but you wouldn't know that if you watch nbc news there coverage nbc admitted out twice his references to prayer because that's scary, they implied he's getting better from good thoughts. prayers are terrifying and nbc is protecting you from hearing about them. ♪ it's friday, that means it's time for dan bongino's news explosion, our favorite new york city cop and secret service agent joins us to rank his top stories of the week. >> always good to see you, i have a bonus story for you.

in the interest of time, let me get right to it. "the new york times" is clamping down on reporters going on msnbc and cnn. how bad of a conspiracy theorist network do you have to be to have "the new york times" tell the reporters, you may not want to go over there anymore. it's an issue. >> tucker: if you're not credible enough for "the new york times," you've lost it. >> i had to read it twice to make sure it wasn't a story at the onion. story number 3, this one is a classic. i hope i can get through this with a straight face. hillary clinton with absolutely no sense of irony whatsoever is going to headline a cybersecurity conference speech.

i'm wondering if this is an anti-ted talk, this is an anti-ted talk where she tells you everything not to do in the interest of cybersecurity. >> tucker: keep your server in a closet. >> digested that one over the weekend. story number 2. president trump has had enough of the illegal immigrationio problem at the border, it's become an obvious national security issue. he decided to launch tariffs against mexico. they could stop this tomorrow if the rhinos up there on the hill on the democrats get together and build a wall and do t something about the immigration problem, i'm sure the president would be willing to negotiate with they don't want to do anything so he's forced to do that. that's going to be big news. >> tucker: it's a little weird, just pause on that one. if you're a democratic member of congress do you feel strange up

taking the side of the criminal oligarchy that runs mexico over your own country? >> no because this is a pure power play by the democrats. they are losing working-class boats and they think they can make up and open borders policy, it's always been about a power play it's nothing to do with immigration. i know you know that, it's a pure financial play, it's nothing to do with the rule of law or anything like that. i wish it did but you and i are on the right side of the argument. story number 1, the biggest story of the week. bob mueller for some bizarre reason if the press conference to sayay listen, i don't really have anything to say, my report speaks for itself so let me go on and say what i don't have to say. it reminds me of that scene in g.i. jane or the commander of the base says people who don't want to make statements don't make statements about not making statements. what was that? one last thing, he invented a new legal standard -- not not

guilty is apparently the new legal standard in the united states. let's impugn everybody's character with a not not guiltye standard. >> tucker: he suggested if you are not not guilty, that means you should be punished by the congress. >> there is no question he insinuated that and i just don'n get it how even liberals don't speak out and say this is just wrong. they had a big beef with it when it happened with hillary clinton and jim comey after the press conference but when it happens to donald trump all of us on the left's hands off and they celebrate it. >> tucker: dan bongino, great to see t you, have the best weekend. that's it for us for tonight anl for the week, we'll be back monday, 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. have a happy weekend with the ones you love, good night from new york city, sean hannity is next. ♪

♪ >> sean: welcome to the special edition of "hannity": active two, the deep states day of reckoning. tonight, we are now inching closer and closer to real truth, real justice, and holding those who abuse power at the highest levels accountable. for over two years on this program, we watched a political witch hunt like we've never seen in american politics before. based on lies and smears and outright conspiracy theories. and just like we've been telling you, all week, the russia hoax is now completely unraveled. mueller are part is over, it is dead, it