the most trusted, good night from washington. i'm shannon bream. ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." every president since george washington faced political opposition. democracy are built on debate and competing ideas. if you find a political leader who seems universally loved you have found a dictatorship. as a matter of principle there is nothing wrong with opposing donald trump and his policies. that's not what has been happening for the past 2.5 years. nothing about the resistance enhanced our democracy or made this country better. the opposite.ad it's shredded democratic nowhere

they have worked to nullify the presidential election. they have imposed censorship on much of the country and they sided with the permanent bureaucracy over voters. like former cia director john brennan under voters to ignore and undermine the elected president. that is a brazen attack on democracy. that's more destructive than anything the russians attempted. at nbc news he delivers commentary. >> it's treason. it's a betrayal of the nation. he is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. trees and this is defined as a betrayal of trust and aiding and abetting the enemy. >> tucker: when you disagree with john brennan, it's high treason. the death penalty. brennan is a reckless and unbalanced partisan.

when we learned from a source last year that brennan retained his top secret security clearance as a civilian we were shocked but not surprised. that's how washington actually works. brennan no longer works for thew federal government in any capacity. he holds no official post. according to two's forces we explicitly spoke to today, brennan retains the most valuable asset he had in government. a top secret security clearance. it's terrifying to think brennan still has access to that information. he is an extremist and should not have security clearance. many in congress agreed to that assessment. senator rand paul said john brennan came on this show to say brennan should not have a security clearance. we assume that was the and lack of the story and in a real democracy, it would've been.

it wasn't because this is in. a year later brennan still as a security clearance? how did that happen? executive branch officials ignored the president's orders. he was elected by voters and they were not. all legitimate power in the executive branch flows from him and the election he won. his employees don't care. bureaucrats wield the real authority in this country. but this one time, we decided to find out what happened. the first thing we did is we called over to the executive branch. we wereol told that john brennan no longer has "access to classified information." the source explained to us that means the administration sent a letter to intelligence agencies explaining aat brennan no longer has need to know. that t sound reassuring, but its a mirage. it means nothing. bureaucrats can ignore that

letter. if they choose beer they have before. so the truth is the president of united states was undermined by his own staff. he gave them a direct order. in their feline, passive-aggressive way, they refused to carry it out. how many times does that happen? every time it does, our democracy arose. by the way commit fine with officials in washington. if holding elections mean donald trump wins power they are against holding elections. whatever it takes. including brute force. nancy pelosi said her goal is not to impeach the president. her goal is to put him in prison?o for what crime? she did not specify. it doesn't matter. you know as well as anyone thatn trump's real offense was getting elected in the first place. buck sexton is a radio host and former cia analyst who joins us tonight. to be completely blunt about this, is it possible to tame the bureaucracy? >> no, there is a more pervasive

attitude in the federal government than people realize among the civil servant class, first of all the democratic party is theer party of the deep state, and the state is the party of the democratic party, so there is a relationship between people i who work for te government and in the sense they are going to be there forever. the democratic party supports them. they are the party that most likely to decline. we saw this with hillary clinton donations in the last election cycle. there is little accountability for what they do.. there is little you can point to and say you will get in trouble for this. unless you break the law or don't show up at all, you will be able to stay and do what you want to do. and use the discretion you have. >> tucker: you are more likely to die in a job than be fired by the federal government. just take three steps back and assess, is this a greater threat to our democracy to undermine the democrat order, or is breaking into john podesta's gmail account which is a greater threat? >> it's a much bigger deal.

there are people around the president that he may not know are part of a #resistance. they believe they are doing the country a favor by protecting ub from different things he may say he wants to do. or policies he wants to enact, but that is for the mentally not their job, as you pointed out. once you are talking about the federal bureaucracy, there arehe news stories about individuals who cried when president trump was elected and think they are doing the country a favor by refusing to enact policies they disagree with. so they take it upon themselves. it's a kind of petty totalitarian mind-set. how do you route this out? how do you deal withth this? i don't know. i don't think there is a way to have bureaucratic reform. i don't think the civil service is open to it in tried. >> tucker: the last thing you want to do is give more power to unelected bureaucrats? you want the power to recite with people you have some

influence over elected officials, right? the past week twice i've seen democratic presidents candidates say we should bypass congress to enact gun control, to protect abortion, and to fight global warming. we should let the agencies do, give the agencies more power. that's an attack on democracy when you say that? >> yes, and it's showing you that there is a believe and it's well-founded, that the bureaucratic agencies, the permanent branch of government that never changes hands, people who will be there in their minds for decades, tend to lean left. if you are looking to get things done that have the force of law but don't go through the legislative process and are not accountable to the people, turn to the bureaucracies for rule making. there is a lot of rule making that goes on that have the force of law but doesn't actually come from congress. that is something that people have been pointing to for years. unfortunately people like it when their side is in a position to do that.

we haven't had as much outrage. in the trump era this has gone to a new level. >> tucker: it's gone in the opposite direction. trump wins the election and isct in charge of the executive branch of the federal government. yet, it's become even less accountable? >> right, in the obama administration, epa would take it upon themselves without going to congress. in the trump administration the epa and state department and other places can decide theyan won't enact trump administration policies because they think it's better for the country. there is a lot of power in the different bureaucracies. how can they be accountable? who really pays attention to them? who knows what they are up to and what they are doing on the day-to-day basis? the answer is a very few people. it's people in the town, they tend to think this is probably for the best. the people doing all the voting?

they shouldn't count as much. the people around here, they should making the decisions. >> tucker: i was hoping you were going to reassure me. great to see you. the wife of a top congressional democrat allegedly took money from her charity into a for-profit organization. it doesn't look good. lisa boothe is a senior fellow, independent women's voice, and has been on this story. joins us with more tonight. >> hi, tucker. you were talking about the resistance and one of the main leaders is logic coming broad oversight over every asset of the. government and what's happening is there has been a file complaint, filed against his wife, and the complaint has been filed by the national policy and legal center. and essentially, it has two chief complaints. the first complaint is essentially drawing the fact, that she has a charity called the globals policy solution.

essentially what's happening is businesses who have interest before the oversight committee are giving money to this charity. so that's the first complaint. i want to pull up a quote from tom anderson who was the chief investigator of this group i mentioned if we can pull this up right here. when he highlights the fact there are millions of dollars coming into the company's entities, these corporations with special interests before elijah cummings, and any time you have that, it opens the door for massive corruption. that's the chief concern. that's number one. the second concern is self-dealing. she's got this charity group and hashe also simultaneously has an llc, and what she's doing is from that money that she's getting from the charity, she's paying herself a management fee to the llc. so this is raising big questions with this group i mentioned, which is why they brought it to the attention of the irs. >> tucker: she has a

for-profit attached to the nonprofit she's profiting? >> these companies that are giving money to charity also have interest before her husband's committee. this is what this group has flagged to try to draw attention too.r: >> tucker: that seems so corrupt. has congressman cummings responded? >> he has. what he's essentially alleging is, look, this is a political hit job from right-wing groups. hiss wife has also said i've hired attorneys and professionals to make sure i am doing everything by the book. we will see what happens with this. but it's also interesting because elijah cummings, at least according to the "washington examiner" in his 2017 financial report, he mentioned the income his wife got from the llc but did not mention the income that she got from the nonprofit. the problem is these two entities are so commingled that this is where it's raising the red flag via this group with the irs. that's why they filed the

complaint to the irs is because she is getting this 5% management fee. in two years alone, she made $250,000 off of that management fee. >> tucker: unbelievable. and we are told the elijah cummings is an important moral voice. could be time to reassess. >> need to learn more about this. thank you, tucker. >> tucker: welcome a youtube clamping down on free speech. the fascist mob comprised mostly of journalists applaud. we'll explain what's happening straight ahead. just one free hearing test at

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>> tucker: this is the >> tucker: steven crowder is a conservative comedian who makes videos on youtube. he's pretty popular. he has close to 4 million subscribers and tens of millions of viewers print his stuff isn't for everyone, but so? if you don't like his videos, watch colbert. it's a free country. or used to be. if you days ago, a writer at vox.com demanded that youtube ban stephen crowder, the crime of insulting him. many in the washington press corps agree. turns out the vox writer is hardly a sympathetic figure. he's called for physically assaulting people he disagrees with politically. even as he whines about being oppressed himself. he is in other words a classic archetype on the left, a fascist posing as a victim.

no sensible adult would take him seriously. and yet youtube is obeying his command. the company announced it will be monetized stephen crowder's youtube channel, killing his business. they did this even though in a statement they admitted that crowder had broken no rules. since her crowded entirely, not just to monetize him, but bounced him off. so much for freedom of the pres press. the real question for the rest of us, why is this allowed to continue? let's stop pretending for platforms like twitter, facebook, youtube, these are the modern public square. obviously for congress has acknowledged them as such. gives tech company special immunity from being sued for defamation or fraud. in immunity we do not have in this channel, for example. the purpose of this is to allow "true diversity of political discourse." it's a high-minded cause. the effect is immunity.

and that immunity is worth tens of billions of dollars. it's one of the reasons the owners of twitter and facebook and google are so rich. you guaranteed that to them through representatives in the congress. in o turn these tech companies violate the terms of the deal every minute of every day for they are not open forums. they are ongoing exercises and control and censorship. the question is, how long will the rest of us stand for this? glenn greenwald, cofounder of "the intercept" joins us. thank you for coming on. you do not have to be a fan of stephen crowder or anyone to see this as a threat to one person's speech is a threat to all of our speech. is it not? >> yes. i find stephen crowder to be a. contemptuous cretin. i do think he's an infantile bully and bigot which is not words i easily invoke what he

did not just criticize carlos maza, he mocked him for being gay and latino. he criticizes him and sums him a lot of harassment his way. that's the point. censorship advocates us to only want us to go to the primitive level of the we hate this person and are we glad that they are being censoreder without thinkig about the framework being endorsed or the consequences that it resonates a lot for me. because i've dealt with harassment far greater than what carlos maza is complaining of. i'm a man in the country, brazil, the just elected a president driven by intense anti-animists we have not been marked by random youtubey or is but by te president of a country himselfy on twitter and his family members who are elected members of congress and it would never occur to me to run to social media companies to beg for censorship. because in part it's just

something that comes with the territory of being a public figure but more so because i don't want to live in a world where our discourse is policed and determined by over loans don't make benevolent overlords run silicon valley companies and are always going to cater to the most powerful faction. that's what happened here. youtube caved in and not in defense of the marginalized person but in defense of the powerful one, the one who despite being gay and latino works for a major media conglomerate and that's what they are always going to do, defend the mob and defend the powerful at the expense of those who are marginalized. >> tucker: [cackling] that such a good point. they are defending the powerful. you don't have immunity, you don't have the immunity that youtube enjoys granted by congress but you found it a big and pretty well-known sight. if you liable someone you can be sued. they are immune from that. why do they retain that immunit

immunity? >> that's a really good question. the reason is that because originally these companies, like youtube, google, twitter, facebook were supposed to be like at&t, which are neutral public platforms, right? if stephen crowder wants to call someone using at&t and organize and an high vox rally, nobody expects at&t to stop them because the idea is it's just a platform for people to use. that's what silicon valley companies were originally supposed to be and they got immunity for it. in reality, this power to censor was not one they wanted. it was one that was foisted upon them, amazingly largely by journalists who were demanding that they remove voices from the internet. imagine going into journalism and then begging corporations to silence and censor people. that's the real reason they got in this position. >> tucker: [that is so nicely put. federal product being charged under the

espionage act in his role to release leaked government documents. you've been very close to this story since day one. your point has been that this could criminalize ordinary journalism. what do you mean? >> well, a lot of your viewers probably remember that under the obama administration a lot of journalists were targeted and called criminals for working with sources including james rosen who was called a conspirator for working with a source who leaked it to him classified material. but at least they never went out and actually come in colonized the people who published that material. the trump justice department has taken that step now by saying that wikileaks is criminal not because they stole the information, they didn't, but because they published it. we've all seen on the left and right over the past several decades that thehe cia, the nsa, the fbi are agencies that will abuse their power unless they have great transparency shined on them. wikileaks has done that,

sometimes angering the left, sometimes angering the right, and that's why they want to criminalize juliana sans. to punish him for bringing transparency to the deep state, but also creating a theory hoping that everybody hates a assange, if you are somebody who publishes secret information, you can be turned into a criminal. that's why it's so dangerous to press freedom. >> that's the key point. they whipped the mob into a frenzy -- here is the person you should hate!nt they distract us from the consequences of what they are doing, the consequences to us. thank you, glenn greenwald, for remindingk us of those consequences. appreciate it. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: what would a bill de blasio presidency look like? probably not a question we are going to have to entertain in real life, but what the heck! we are going to take a look at new york where bill de blasio rules fanning racial animosity at a level really unprecedented grid that's next.

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>> ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> tucker: there has been a surge of anti-semitic violence in bill de blasio's new york. in the first quarter of 2019, according to nypd figures, anti-semitic facts went up by 82%! instead of fighting that is, married bill de blasio decided to fuel it. in a press conference, de blasio said he knows who is behind the attacks, people of a certain skin color. watch this. >> i want to remind people that particularly these white supremacists forces affront the jewish community and the muslim community and the gay community and the immigrantnd community. that's one of the things that is happening here. >> tucker: the guy is a moron, that's not really an excuse for making a statement like that. there is no evidence that white supremacy is behind these attacks.

not a lot of that in new york city. de blasio made it up to vilify a group of people he doesn't like. seth baron is the associate editor he's been on the story for quite some times and has the actual facts. seth, thank you for coming on. is there evidence -- as a factual matter, is there evidence to support what may or de blasio games down the claims? >> there's a lot of what's a pharmacy in east new york? no. mayor de blasio knows politely who's doing these attacks. he was working in the dinkins administration during the crown heights rights 30 years ago. the largest anti-semitic programs in american history. just a week ago, for instance, there is video of a young man going and punching -- sucker punching ago hasidic jew in the back. in october, a taxi driver who stormed out of his cab and attacked a hasidic jew.

mistaken identity. the blogger knows precisely who is doing it. the violent attacks are all being done by -- you know, black and latino kids and occasionally a pakistani cabdriver or somebody. he is playing a game here. this is political season and he's insane anything mode. >> wouldn't that be the same as lying to whip up race hatred? >> de blasio has said a lot of this. he's pushing the same kind of rhetoric in the schools. he's claim there's a lot of racism in the uft, for instance. that's the logical extension of his rhetoric. >> tucker: that would be the teachers union? >> the teachers union. >> tucker: is there evidence. it's new york city, the biggest city, most of his gated city in the united states. everything is measured. is there data to prove anything

about this? >> no, there is no data to prove there is overt racism. but if black students are not attending the best schools because they are not doing very well on the test, according aco de blasio that's a function of whites pharmacy. so, you know, if anti-semitism is up, it must be because of whites and premises. >> tucker: let me ask you, when you go to crown heights or over to the hasidic parts of brooklyn, do the leaders in the hasidic communities believe the problem is the ku klux klan? >> no, obviously not. theyob know who was attacking them. it's been the same story for a 50, 60 years in these neighborhoods. no. nobody believes it. the bellagio doesn't believe it. he's just saying it. >> tucker: that's really the lowest form of lying. great to see you tonight. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: de blasio is sowing racial division in america's largest city, some of

his employees are more effective at it. the chancellor of the city's schools, richard carranza, is leading the charge. he spearheading the effort to abolish merit based admissions to the city's magnus' schools, the only successful schools in the city. why? because asians have been too successful there and we can't have that. h a recent lawsuit accuses carranza of demoting certain employees purely on the basis of their skin color. doing so is called racial equity training sections, people told to give more attention based on the color of their skin. this is happening right now. in new york city. out in the open. heather mcdonald is the author of the book "the diversity delusion" and joins us tonight. heather, i know we are not supposed to say this and because we're supposed to say it's totally fine, why is this diffet from jim kroll, why? >> we are supposed to believe that whites are the source of all evil in society, and the

discrimination against whites is compatible with the constitutional ban on all discrimination. unfortunately, the supreme court has basically embraced that in allowing racial discrimination in college admissions in the name of diversity. what's going on in slightly different in new york city right now. the diversity rationale for racial discrimination which now seems almost quaint in its sort of white bread nature is being replaced by something far more vicious and far more hating, which is the idea of toxic white culture. and this is a test. you know, if carranza and the bellagio get away with this, it shows that the ideology of hatred and racial division that is now pervasive in our higher education system is entrenching itself throughout the rest of society, that will lead to, i fear, a state of very, very

dangerous racial tension in our society. >> tucker: i don't understand how decent people can allow this to happen. i really don't. i mean, i think all throughout the new york city school system there are decent people. i know some of them. there are certainly dissing people who live in the city and these kids go to the schools. how can they sit back and allow children, little kids, to be attacked on the basis of their skin color? how can they allow that? >> people are cowed by the charge of racism, obviously. i mean, richard carranza in demoting three white women and justifying what he is doing in his racial crusade within the hierarchy of schools said, well, 75% of schools students are black and hispanic. now they have senior administrators who look like them, what's wrong with that? let's just acknowledge the lunacy of this. no student knows who is buried

deep in the of the college will make department of education that knows the color of the senior administration. desperation to justify, explain away black academic achievement gap is so great that we are now claiming that some bureaucrat in the is going to make a difference to whether black kid succeed. the public has to stand up and fight against dismissive bias and say that there are behavioral differences that explain outcome. if white privilege explain everything, please tell me how all seven of the eight recent national spelling bee champions were indian americans. it's if skin color where the scourge of people of color, they would not be able to succeed. in fact, why do they succeed, tucker? they studied their buts off and that's what inner-city kids have to start doing. >> a lot of them do. bronx science, hunter college

high school, the high level merit-based high schools in new york city, they have amazing outcomes. they are not majority white schools, not even close.nd >> no. they are neither white nor privilege. these are poor asians that have a culture of academic achievement. that's what needs to spread. again, as long as the myth ofyt bias remains, the only allowable explanation for social ill economic and racial disparities, the left wins. more and more people have to stand up and say this is not a racist society per there's not a single mainstream institution in this country which is not sub rosa, doing what richard carranza is doing, which is hiring and promoting on the basis of race. it is a benefit. if you are applying to harvard, applying to any selective school in the country, to be black and hispanic. it's the same in microsoft recently a female complained publicly about the antiwhite male bias in the corporation.an this is your biggest, tucker. we have to fight back against

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>> ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> tucker: it's time now for a final exam where the news to showonals compete off their mastery of what happened this week in the category of strange and obscure news for this week's defending champion is fox business correspondent susan lee who did a masterful job last week. our challenger tonight, jesse watters. whom you know well from watters' world and the five.

good luck, jesse watters. >> i'm 0 for 2. >> tucker: i've got this! you know the rules. i'm going to repeat for the people at home.qu a hands on buzzards, i asked the question for the first one who buys and gets to answer the question. you have to wait when i finish the question that every correct answer is worth one point. if you get the answer wrong, you lose a point. best of five wins. ready? >> ready. o >> tucker: question one. over 20 democrats running for president. which candidate just released a political ad in which he changed a baby's diaper? >> eric swalwell. >> tucker: that too embarrassing. i don't believe you, jesse watters but let's see if it's true. >> eric swalwell also struggling to make theag debate stage, so w he's bringing in his infants to help.

♪ >> tucker: yes. it's not actually -- by the way, good job. it's not true that just because you can change a diaper, you can run a government. i happen to know. having changed a lot of diapers myself. this is multiple-choice. wait until you get all the options. after dominating 32 nights in a row and winning $2.4 million, jeopardy champ james hall tower finally lost this week. he did not surpass the all-time recordul hall haul. how short was the question susan lee? >> see, 58,000. >> tucker: first of all, how could you know that. second, so coveting, i'm impressed. issue right >> after high-fiving the new champ, walked away with winnings

of $2,284,216. some 68,000 short from jennings record, $2.5 million. >> i waited until you finished the question... i think the review will show she's a little quick on on the trigger. >> tucker: do you know what? i am always -- i fulfilled the wishes of the judges, let me say that. i'm not involved in enforcing the rules at all. merely marrying that and carrying out their orders, and they say that was fair. 1-1. going into question three. a weatherman in dayton, ohio, and rage viewers recently not because of his hurricane coverage but because he dared to interrupt a popular television show. which show was? jesse watters? >> i'm embarrassed that i know it, but it was "the bachelorette. >> tucker: you should be embarrassed! we

>> viewers of the bachelorette, complaining about a local weatherman breaking in their tv show. >> we have viewers saying already, we aren't going back to the show, folks! this is a dangerous situation. sick and tired of people complaining about this. >> wow. >> tucker: where you one of the people who complain? >> no, i don't live in dayton. if i were living in damon, i would be calling him up. >> tucker: you are a brave man man. styrofoam, plastic bags, straws for this week, beverly hills became the first city in america to ban which product? susan? >> tobacco. >> tucker: was it tobacco? >> beverly hills california, the first city to stub out cigarettes for good. they ban cigarettes, chewing tobacco, and electric cigarette sale starting in 2021. the policy is expected to exempt

some high and cigar bars. >> tucker: wow. susan lee for the win. 2-2. the final question! speak of this always happens to me. >> tucker: it comes before you expected. multiple choice, you have to wait until all the options have been listed. apple the company unveiled its t latest computer mac pro. immediately it was mocked online because it looks very much like a certain kitchen appliance. what does it look like? a toaster, a microwave, or a cheese grater? >> she voluntarily! >> i did not! >> susan rang in early. so it's going to jesse watters. >> cheese grater. for the win. >> tucker: is it a cheese grater for the win? >> what do you think that is? that is the new mac pro. and it's caused an internet

sensation because a lot of people say it looks like a cheese grater. >> tucker: we were wondering! jesse watters... >> i'm impressed. >> tucker: you are being penalized for buzzing in early. >> congratulations. >> thank you! >> final judgment here! >> tucker: a win for you be very impressed, we'll send you the coveted erik wemple mug and we got so many requests from viewers who want an erik wemple mug, you can get your own made in america. go to tuckercarlsoncapsoff.com and get your own aaron wemple mug.n. it honors a guy on our website. great to see you both. congratulations. that's it for final exam. pay attention to the news all week long. tune in next thursday to see if you can beat our experts. will be right back.

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♪ >> tucker: very strange things are happening to american tourists in the dominican republic. recently some died as a result. trace gallagher has been looking at what is going on and joins us with the latest. >> tucker, no evidence connecting any of these deaths or illnesses but it's difficult to explain. 41-year-old miranda checked into a hotel on may 25th and got a drink from the mini-bar and collapsed and died. dominican republic officials say it was a heart attack. the family didn't buy that. 5 days later a sister hotel a man and his fiance were found dead. in their room and officials say they died at the same time. and because nobody is buying that, they are looking at possible carbon monoxide poisoning. a years ago a 51-year-old woman

got a drink at the mini-bar and also suffered a heart attack.511 and the colorado couple says last june they got violently ill telling cnn they were poisoned. watch. >> blood boiling. t's too coincidental with the symptoms we had to stay quiet about it. >> she was poisoned by a chemical used in the insecticide. the hotel chain cited the ambassador and we have 2.7 million americans that visit every year making the statistics very rare. and finally u.s. citizen tammy lawrence daily said last january she was assaulted by a man wearing a hotel uniform. listen. >> you could not tell who i was. solid black dried blood. all over my face.

>> we didn't want to show you that picture. the hotel doubts her story esaying she only went public after not getting $2 million. compensation package, tucker. >> tucker: thanks. chicago police have released 2, 9-11 calls his manager made. in the first call the manager said he is calling police because smollett didn't want to. >> i just need the police to come by. i work with an artist. i don't want to say his name. he [bleep] went to subway and some guys jumped him or something like that. i want to make sure he is all right. i'm scared and i don't know what it is. they put a noose around his neck. >> tucker: turned out they didn't put a noose around his

neck. every week we learn more details. what do they add up to? >> this is true. >> we have a document dump from dthe state's attorney office wo dropped the case last week. it was 500 documents. with the gold transparency, she said, but what has come out of it, it only raised more questions. contained in that document dump was evidence that the state prosecutors met with jussie smollett attorneys to decide on the language that they were going to present to the press beforeo they dropped the case. the point was to make it not sound like jussie smollett was guilty. this is very strange stuff. i would not expect the chicago d.a.'s officei to reopen this case.t this is obama country. a lot of people have been following this case for a long time. they have questions about why the federal government hasn't

stepped.th among the biggest concerns is the chicago police department concluded in their investigation that they believe that jussie smollett sent letters to himself. if you remember the studio where empire is filmed. in those letters contained a white substance. not only did jussie smollett allegedly fake his head crime but faked a terrorist attacks against his workplace.tt where is the federal government on this? a guy in florida sent devices to democrats and he is facing life in prison. jussie smollett did the same thing. >> tucker: that's an excellent question and impugned an entire group of americans. people with certain skin color or political affiliations. this was not just a fake attack on himself. it was an aggressive attack on other people. >> exactly. the man tried to drive a bigger wedge in this country and tried to start a race war.is imagine if this happened in the summer

in warm weather months would be there will be riots? in the streets of chicago? it was negative-20 when this happened. it is such a heinous and despicable crime but this man is protected by everyone. we have the chicago police department filing a civil suit against jussie smollett for $130,000. a lot people don't think that's enough. civil suits the burden of proof of lower than a criminal case. of since everyone basically knows he's guilty, there is that on the horizon. >> tucker: there is a lot going on. at the height of this, robin roberts at abc interviewed him allowed him to talk about how he was a victim of racism. and she said beautiful, jesse. has she apologized for that? >> of course not. i believe she still has a job making 7 or 8 figures. she still has a job.

all of the media personalities who bought into this still have jobs. they have been silent so far. it's astounding that journalists don't believe in being journalists anymore. they are activists. that is why we are glad to have you on the show. >> tucker: thank you. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez warned this planet only has 12 years left thanks to global warming.re it turns out she may have given us more time than we have. an asteroid schedule to pass by the earth in 3 days, it's wider than a football field. if it hit the earth, if would explode with the effect of a thermonuclear bomb and obliterate on area bigger than new york city. but as fast as estimate there is only a 1 in 7,000 chance it could hit the earth. assuming their model is connect. good luck. enjoy yourself.

we will be back tomorrow night. have the best night. 8 p.m. the show that is the sworn enemy of of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. in the meantime, sean hannity live from new york city. >> sean: i just swallowed water and it went down the wrong pipe. [laughter] >> tucker: that was fast. >> sean: i was just waiting. tucker, great show. thank you.it busy news night. welcome to "hannity" at this hour. we are tracking huge multiple breaking stories. on multiple fronts. we start tonight with the massive development out of the mueller witch hunt. tonight more evidence emerged that bob mueller's report was nothing but pure political garbage with errors put there on purpose. john, some