night. martha will be back from france on monday. i'll be back on "fox & friends" tomorrow early. check it out. tucker is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy friday. there is so much going on these days. things are so crazy. that even some of us who are paid to follow the news for a living forget to stop every once in a while and ask the most obvious questions. there are a lot of them. for example, how did the party that hates old, straight white men choose as its front runner one of the oldest, straightest, whitest men in american politics? it's kind of remarkable. baffling, actually. joe biden who is that man must be thinking the same thing. holy smokes! how did this happen? what can i do not to screw it up? he is a lucky man and he knows it. watching biden you get the feeling he doesn't know what is going on, he doesn't know

the answer to the questions. biden is spry and energetic but he is from another generation. born a year yeah before d-day. if elected he would be older on inauguration on the next oldest president, ronald reagan was, when he left office. he is old enough to be a.o.c.'s great grandfather. so when they throw out an ideological litmus test, joe biden doesn't argue. he just agrees. the latest test is about abortion. since 1976 the law called the hyde amendment prohibited the federal government paying for abortion. for more than 40 years the law supported strong popular support. overwhelming majority support. including from joe biden. even people who call themselves pro-choice understand it's wrong to use taxpayers' dollars to fund something like abortion. but a small group of progressive activists disagree. and they know the core

political truth that repealing the hyde amendment would be a windfall of the taxpayer money for planned parenthood. and planned parenthood funds democratic campaigns. so in the last year they successfully bullied every leading democrat in america to parroting their line. watch. >> i will repeal the hyde amendment. it's the amendment in law that makes it impossible for low-income women to access the care they need. >> the hyde amendment is a direct assault of the black and the brown communities like the ones i have been representing. >> if you visit our website you will see the commitment to repealing the hyde amendment. >> as president i will make sure that we repeal the hyde amendment. >> i don't support the hyde amendment. i will lead the fight to have it overturned. >> tucker: uh-huh. so, pause for a second. throw out the rhetoric. try to think through the reasoning. cory booker's reasoning for example, if you can call it "reasoning." he is saying not using the tax dollar to prevent black and hispanic children being born is an assault on black and hispanic neighborhoods. so for the record, this is

true, cory booker has exactly the same position on abortion as the ku klux klan does. joe biden by contrast had a different view until last night. at a speech in atlanta he announced he is now in favor of the taxpayers-funded abortion. watch. >> for many years as u.s. senator, i have, i have supported the hyde amendment like many, many others have. but circumstances have changed. i have been struggling with the problems that hyde now presents. i can't justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need. if i believe healthcare is a right, as i do, i can no longer support the women that makes the right dependent on someone's zip code. >> tucker: well, that was a hostage tape. the circumstances have changed, says joe biden. which circumstances? let's be specific. according to a report today in "the atlantic," biden changed his mind after the campaign took a call from alyssa milano the left wing actress and

professional unhappy person. if she wants taxpayers funded abortion, joe biden will deliver it. whatever it takes. it does make you wonder, what wouldn't biden do? ma are his limits? is there any proposal that joe biden wouldn't get behind as long as it sounded new and hip and progressive? for example if the woke community demanded a ban on heterosexual marriage, would joe biden support that? how about the transgender animal rights? is he for those? whatever they are. where is joe biden on the testosterone tax to fight global warming. that sounds progressive. federally funded tampon dispensers in men's room. for the record we made up most of the issues. they're not real. but they sound real. this is 2019. soon they may be real. we called to the biden campaign to see where the candidate stands on those things. they haven't responded yet. but if tomorrow you wake up and read biden endorses

transgender animal rights you know he wants to be president or alyssa milano is for them, too. matty is joining us tonight. thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me on. >> tucker: so, this is probably without precedent i think in presidential politics where alyssa milano changes -- single handedly apparently changes the front runner room on a long-standing 40-year position. >> you and i probably share frustration when the republicans don't learn from the mistakes of the past. but the democrats have a proclivity for this as well. look at what happened under obama and biden. by taking hints from the left, being intrigued by the hollywood left to say the coastal elites should set policy for us, they decimated the democratic benches and they got rid of all the democrats that were in charge across the country in the past eight years when they were in charge. they put a republican house in charge, republican senate in charge and got trump elected. if the democrats want to keep taking crews from the hollywood elite and the

coastal elite, that is great. but i think it gives them more where we are now, republicans controlling the different state houses in the country. of course, a lot of power in d.c. >> tucker: i think that is right. people are -- i'll admit, i'm ideological. i see the world in those terms. but most people aren't that ideological. and scary wild-eyed idealogues terrify them. >> when it comes to the hyde amendment, for one i find it interesting that i'm a washington, d.c. policy person we have the democrats who are running for president talking about this minute policy issue that is an appropriations rider every year. that is pretty wonky stuff. the reason hyde amendment has been uncontroversial for better part of half a century, it prevents funding of the taxpayer abortions. that means it prevents taxpayers for the unwitting beneficial of the tax policy to pay for something they object to, that they have a conscientious problem with. they don't have to pay for that. that has been a democratic and

the republican position for many, many years. >> tucker: sure! as far as i can tell, we looked at the numbers today. the hyde amendment still has overwhelming support from the voters. there is not a ground well of support from the normal people. even pro-choice people. >> 59% of the people in the country think they are pro choice but only 39% think people should have the taxpayer dollars used to fund abortion. it falls more if you talk about forcing medical professionals to perform abortion against their own objection. those are the things at risk when you let the taxpayer dollars used for something morally objectionable for broad swath of the country. >> tucker: this is pure conjecture, because the biden campaign didn't get back to us today when we asked. where do you think joe biden stands on transgender animal rights? >> i don't know, tucker. here is the thing, i can't emphasize enough how radical this shift is from joe biden himself in particular. remember, obamacare? remember how it was a b.f.d. according to joe biden himself? the price of getting obamacare

done was the hyde amendment. they were pro-life democrats who objected to the fact that there weren't enough protection in the healthcare law. they said to president obama we won't vote for it unless we have the protections. what did president obama do? rather than put in the law he signed an executive order to enshrine the hyde amendment applying to obamacare. so just in the space of ten years biden gone from that being the single most biggest accomplish. of his administration when he was vice president to saying it's not acceptable. >> tucker: that is absolutely fascinating. is anybody attacking obama for doing that? >> we'll see. >> tucker: it's great to see you. >> good to see you. >> tucker: twitter, facebook and youtube justified banning users on the grounds they promote conspiracy theories! but they don't have a problem with the conspiracy theories. what they care about is suppressing opinions they don't like. do you need proof? this is a popular conspiracy theory repeated on television day in and day out for months on end. the theory is that the real governor of the state of

georgia is not brian kemp. kemp is an imposter, a fraud, maybe a lizard man wearing a human suit. the real governor of georgia is someone completely different. stastacey abrams. this is popular. watch. >> without voter suppression stacey abrams would be the governor of georgia. >> if this country wasn't racist, stacey abrams would be governor. >> i don't need to tell georgia about this. stacey abrams ought to be the governor of georgia. when racially motivated voter suppression is permit and districts are drawn so politicians choose the vote, we cannot truly say we live in a democracy. >> tucker: keep in mind, just as a factual matter there is no evidence for anything. not one point you just heard. none. and we looked.

nothing personal here. there is no evidence. but the biggest proponent of the lunatic theory is the person at the heart of it. abrams. last night she said this -- "you don't have the right to vote in the state of georgia. we have the opportunity to possibly think about maybe being able to participate in the right to vote in the state of georgia." keep in mind, stacey abrams went to yale. deranged. georgia has more registered voters than ever in the history of the state of georgia. almost 7 million. in 2018, the voter turnout was 57%. increase of 14% over the previous gubernatorial election. okay? 1.4 million extra people voted in georgia in 2018. compared to four years before in 2014. it was one of the highest turnout mid-term elections in the history of the state of

georgia. those are the facts about what happened. racially suppression. nuts! so it is a conspiracy theory. it's driven by narcissism, and entitlement and childish whining, which are the driving forces on the left, as you know. it turns out, stacey abrams lost an election. it's happened before. it happens to thousands of people in america every year. but instead of accepting that she claims the entire system is rigged. narcissism on parade. it damages democracy more than any russian facebook ad. why aren't youtube and twitter banning abrams and kamala harris and seth moulton for pushing the dangerous conspiracy theory? they're against the conspiracy theories, right? so get to the bottom of that we are joined by national chief correspondent ed henry. hey, ed. >> great to see you. you make very important points. because when you go through this, there should not be voter suppression.

we don't have evidence of it. there shouldn't be voter fraud in georgia or anywhere else. if that is what the democrats want maybe they will get behind the voter i.d. laws that republicans have talked about for a long time. in every race, house, senate, gubernatorial races the votes are ultimately counted. at the end, there is a winner or a loser. and then everybody moves on. otherwise it's dangerous. how do i know that? i know that is it a direct threat to democracy if you don't accept the results because hillary clinton told all of that, all of us that in 2016. at the final debate in nevada, when donald trump seemed to hesitate about whether he would accept election results hillary clinton -- i'm quoting her -- said, "it's a direct threat to our democracy if you don't accept election results." what is happening here? whether it's abrams or kamala harris or hillary clinton herself who has been traveling around the united states, traveling around the world to suggest that the election was robbed from her because of the

russians for the better part of two years or more. so she laid the marker down, hillary clinton, that it is a direct threat to the democracy if you don't accept election results. she said that. it's in the transcript. you can look it up. here we are more than two years later and the democrats are not accepting results in georgia. if you tell them they are wrong, they will say you are racist. >> tucker: did you go to harvard? >> no. i can guarantee you i didn't. >> tucker: i didn't either. i can't remember where i went but i'm positive it wasn't harvard or ivy league schools. some of the least bright people went to ivy league schools. seth moulton went to andover and harvard. how did it happen? chris cuomo went to yale under grad. this is not a meritocracy. can we be honest about that? >> stacey abrams is seen as a rising star. she lost. beto o'rourke lost the senate

race in texas but is a winner to democrats. all of a sudden, remember his star has faded a bit, of course, but only a couple of months ago he is on the cover of "vanity fair" and the next great hope. the next obama, we were told. all because of the hype. but remember, he lost the senate race in texas. abrams lost in georgia. they are two of the brightest stars. what does it say about the bench for democrats? >> tucker: we went to columbia. i'm obsessed with this. what is going on at the admission offices at the ivy league schools letting in people demonstrably dumb. >> we need a tucker carlson investigation. it's coming. >> tucker: we do! good to see you. >> have a good weekend. >> tucker: the president threatened tariffs last week and they are days away. mexico believes them. they are scrambling to reduce illegal immigration. details after the break. we're the slowskys.

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and i don't have any money but i'd like the taxpayer to finance a flight across the country, how would they respond? >> they would respond telling me i wasn't going anywhere and i wasn't getting on a plane. but like other things -- i mean my wife has been stopped four times in the last four times we have flown. she has a lot to say about this. security and the law enforcement professionals will tell you, tucker, name you carve out exceptions to all the security rules and to the security technology you will eventually have trouble. one of the days we will have trouble. we are living in a society now where we have judges and the politicians who sit behind walls and fences and have the guards and the gates and the guns to protect them. but now we are deciding to put people on planes that we don't know about. they haven't been vetted. we don't know them. they haven't gotten that part

of the process we knowing aabout them. we are violating our own rules because of the people who were killed in the world trade center and we are fighting a war on terror. this is a government responsible for keeping us safe and actually it isn't. >> tucker: so we don't know the identities necessarily. you are spending your whole life in law enforcement. knowing about somebody is isn't that the first step to assessing the threat that person may pose? >> absolutely. that is the reason for the procedures in place. honored for so many years. now because of immigration and the politicians can't reach decisions how to deal with this, mounting the numbers of the people coming across the border they decided to get people out of here. judges gets in the way. they don't care about the problem either. certainly not the security part of it.

this problem will only get bigger because no one wants to chair about the consequences of this. terrorists are experts in something that is important, immediately spotting vulnerabilities. a concern i have had for two or three years is you see the dynamics that the terrorist organizations act like intelligence agencies. they do surveillance and they do work to get ready for what they want to do. our vulnerabilities show up. you can bet they know them long before you and i did. they knew about the problem long before we did. and they are going to take vam of it one day. then what will we do? do we have the democratic party impeach the president because he didn't protect the country? this is more unimaginable all the time. >> tucker: they just don't care. terry, it's an honor to have you on. always is. thank you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: less than a week from now the tariffs that the

president is promising to impose on mexico starting at 5% will be imposed in response to the crisis at the border. now there is evidence that mexico, the governor of mexico may be acting to halt the flow of migrants in this country. mexico deploying thousands of its troops to the southern border with guatemala and negotiating a possible deal to force central america asylum seekers to settle in mexico rather than in the u.s. mexican police arrested a man named ireno mojiko who is organizing migrants to the united states. hector garza is vice president of the national border patrol council and he is joining us tonight. thank you for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: give us perspective on this arrest. of the caravan organizer. who is he, what is he doing and why was he arrested? >> the organizers, they are not organizers, they are

smugglers and they are responsible for pain and suffering and the death that occurred with the migrants because they have been promising, making the false promises to the migrants they can come in the country. they have been allowing this. the guys are held accountable because they are to blame for what is happening on the southern borders. the worst crisis in history. >> tucker: that is my question. we see caravans coming north. migrants. some of them are desperate to leave their country. it looks organic like one day they decided to come here but you are suggesting that really this is being organized by the people like mojika, the one arrested. >> yeah. there are groups, visa without borders. mexico is complicit on what is happening on the u.s.-mexico border. every single day the illegal immigrants line on the u.s. mexico border and in plain daylight they come across to the border. the agents can't do anything

except to take them to the processing area and release them in the communities. it's very, very clear that congress is not acting. they are not doing their jobs. p.m. trumso president trump is g pressure on mexico and i think it will work. >> tucker: you think it will be helpful to have mexican troops on guatemalan border? >> of course. mexico has done it before. they were involved in activities but for some reason if you look to february and march, mexico, the government of mexico, the police were escorting them in the united states. bringing them in buses, escorting them from southern mexico to the u.s. mexico border and aiding and abetting illegal immigrants to come in the united states. with this pressure, we know it will work because it will hurt them in the pocketbook. now we know the history, mexico has a long history of corruption in the government. once we hit their pocketbooks that is when we'll start seeing the changes. >> tucker: you said that the

federales are escorting them to our border to come nil legally is never covered by the american newspapers infuriatingly. there is a debate over who is funding this, the so-called "organizers." you are calling them "smugglers" who embedded the illegal immigration in the country. they are getting money from the liberals in this country. do we know who is funding them? >> so, there is a lot of talk about open border advocates in the united states. some time back we saw report and video of people handing out money to the migrants. the money is used to successfully come in the united states and ask for asylum. which we know many times, they are fraudulent claims. so we are glad that president trump is getting serious about the tire rants on mexico -- tyrants on mexico. if they are not a good neighbor we encourage president trump goes up to 25% to protect the borders. >> tucker: maybe we could indict people who are abetting the violation of the laws.

mr. garza, thank you. that was really interesting. i appreciate it. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: we have brand new information tonight on the series of strange deaths and outbreaks of the violence that apparently have been occurring in the dominican republic and hurting american tourists. we'll tell you after the break.

>> tucker: the news moves fast. seconds ago the president tweeted this -- "i'm pleased to inform you that the united states of america reached a signed agreement with mexico. the tariffs scheduled to be implemented by the u.s. on monday against mexico hereby indefinitely suspended. mexico in turn has agreed to take strong measures to stem the tide of migration through mexico to the southern border. this is done to greatly reduce or eliminate immigration from mexico to the united states. details of agreement will be released shortly by the state department. thank you."

remarkable. we'll follow the deal. if it holds would obviously be a major victory for the administration. and for the country. there are new developments tonight involving the mysterious goings-on in the dominican republic. many threads and trace gallagher has them all in hand. >> we now have detailed autopsy results in and the mystery gets deeper. may 25, 41-year-old miranda schaupp-werner checked in the bahia principe la romana and got a drink from the mini bar and collapsed and died. five days later, a maryland couple staying at a sister hotel on the same property found dead in their room. now thed the dominican governmet said the americans died of hemorrhaging, water on the lung and enlarged hearts. all three died of the same thing and two died at the same time. toxicology reports are still pending that may shed light on whether they consumed anything that might have led to the death.

a year ago, a colorado couple staying at the same resort got violently ill. when they got back to the u.s., they were diagnosed with being poisoned by a chemical used in a pesticide. and because of all the headlines, a maryland woman has new doubts about her husband's death last year. david harrison was staying at the hard rock hotel when he got violently ill and passed away. his cause of death? yep, water on the lungs, and a heart attack. watch. me and my family are devastated. we went down there to celebrate our anniversary and have a vacation. i came home a widow. >> a new york woman who stayed at the bahia principe claim she vomited blood after drinking mini bar soda that had bleach in it. e wrote it off as a simple mistake by housekeeping. now she thinks something more nefarious could be going on. tucker? >> tucker: at this point you

don't know. trace gallagher, thank you for that. we are joined by the assistant deputy director of the f.b.i. thank you for coming on. >> thank you. >> tucker: do you see a pat pattern here? >> it doesn't make much sense. it doesn't pass the smell test. there needs to be a major investigation. it would be simple to look in this thing. i hope we get into it. we will see what happens. the people didn't have simultaneously heart attacks. i'm sorry. it doesn't work like that. >> tucker: what do you think -- i mean to the extent you are comfortable speculating what are the range of the potential explanations for this? >> i think environmental is a huge one. i used to work in this part of the world. the restrictions we have up here in our country on pesticides and cleaning material are pretty significant. down there, they are pretty liberal. there are certain things in pesticides.

if you have been to one of the resorts they spray all the time. that is a possibility. but frankly, tucker, this could be a pretty easy investigation to conduct. if you have been in that part of the world you know that the security apparatus with regard to the video surveillance is amazing. basically, you are under video coverage from the time you walk out of your room at the resort until you are back in at night. you have a pretty good record of where people go, what they are doing, is anybody following them around or what is happening. that is a good place to start. the other place also is the toxicology reports. it's one thing to have the fluid in your lungs but what caused it to get there? we need a u.s.-led investigation. the u.s. has a presence there. they have a d.r. i was there for a while many years ago. f.b.i. needs the investigate. there is jurisdiction to do it. after the jonestown massacre congress gave the f.b.i. the authority to investigate

murder of individuals that are u.s. citizens out of the country. so the f.b.i. needs to go down there and do this and do it quickly. i will tell you, if i haves a person in authority in the d. -- if i was a person in authority in the d.r. i'd want it done. i will kill the tourist rate. forget if it's something criminal but they need to get to the root of it and find out what happened. i wouldn't that hard. i hope they get on it quick and i hope we find out exactly what happened. >> tucker: so nobody trusts the police in the d.r. especially the locals don't trust the police in the d.r. i was there. and they are vocal about that. >> but they do trust the f.b.i. the f.b.i. can get a lot of things done there. >> tucker: can the f.b.i. just come in and say we are doing this investigation? >> we do it all over the world. absolutely it is. it is in the interest of the government -- if the police are corrupt or not, they likely are, the government because they depend so much on tourism, and american

investment that they need to find out what happened and clear it up. is there a possibility of the civil litigation? yes. but it is better than the alternative. always the truth is better. better to get the people in there, the professionals that have the resources do it. find out exactly what happened. i think you will find, i'll bet you dinner it will be environmental. >> tucker: interesting. the idea you could be killed by pesticides in your hotel room is shocking. thank you very much. >> thank you, tucker. always a pleasure. >> tucker: something is going on in the dominican republic. and this show would like to find out. so we are launching a joint investigation with the friends at "fox & friends" to send a team down there to the d.r. you will see the live reports on the morning show on fox and this show exclusively that starts this monday. well, for years the press had been -- i don't think it's too strong to say "consumed" by the desire to destroy the president. now they are trying to tell us they are not political actors.

okay. we'll assess after the break.

>> tucker: robert mueller says he plans to retire to private life after the remarks a week ago. but now former top f.b.i. lawyer says mueller may have to testify publicly to sell the idea of impeaching the president. meanwhile, there are new details on a big raise and a bonus that the d.o.j. for system reason gave to the now disgraced official bruce ohr. catherine herridge breaks many stories and she is here. >> they said they believe mueller would testify without a subpoena and that testimony would help the democrats push for impeachment.

>> it could get a clear sense and help the american people understand. that is what this is about at the end of the day. >> but last week the special counsel told reporters in his only public statement he doesn't want to testify and he won't go beyond the four corner of the russia report and he considers the 448-page report his testimony. also, these records were released today after judicial watch sued the federal government over a key player who handled the anti-trump dossier. the record show justice department official bruce ohr got a $28,000 performance bonus while the russia case was ongoing. our reporting found that ohr acted as a back channel between the dossier author and the f.b.i. records show nellie ohr deleting e-mail from her husband's government account. she did russia investigations for the same research firm fusion g.p.s. behind the dossier. i tried to get ohr's side of

ththe story. >> mr. ohr were you acting alone or did you have authority from a justice department official? how did your wife benefit from the dossier contract? did you have a conflict of interest? >> these newly released records don't show why they got the contract and they are not returning our request for comments. >> tucker: thank you. there is a frenzy designed to bring down the president but don't worry, they are telling us, we are not biased. we promise. at a recent event, rachel bloomenstein said, "we are in no way anti-trump." which is hilarious from the "new york times." but now they are sort of trying to prove it. the "times" barred reporting from appearing on rachel maddow show or don lemon show on cnn because they are both too partisan.

but lemon is saying it's not partisan. watch him be nonpartisan. >> are you listening? the president of the united states is a fraud and a con man. >> tucker: that is the nonpartisan don lemon. the one that thinks m.a.g.a. hats are racist. >> the m.a.g.a. hat carries a certain connotation that provokes a conditioned reaction from many people, especially for marginalized people. when you wear that m.a.g.a. hat you are saying build that wall. >> tucker: uh-huh. okay. but don lemon is not partisan. he just defends violent criminals from antifa. >> it says it in the name. antifa. anti-fascism, which is what they were there fighting. listen, there is no organization that is perfect and there is violence. no one condones the violence. but there are different reasons for antifa and the neo nazis to be there.

one, racist, fascists. the other group fighting racist fishists. therfascists.there is a distinc. >> tucker: it's in the name! he is a completely serious neutral journalist. watch his most neutral moment recently. >> you know what they say about gambling? casino gambling, right? the house always wins. well -- not always. not if it's a trump casino. c'mon! who loses money at the casino except for the person gambling? not the owner. because i'm good enough. smart enough. and dog gone, people love me. >> tucker: man, that is a weird show!

sean davis cofounded the "federalist" and we had him on earlier in week i think. he is great. came back. great to see you tonight. if you're don lemon, i mean you host a prime time show. it's okay to have opinions. why not just admit that you hate trump and you are a democratic partisan, which he is transparency. why not just say so? >> he is trying to beat out the "spongebob squarepants" reruns a night. what does a guy have to do? >> tucker: good point. >> there is nothing wrong with a perspective and have a point of view. the problem is when we lie about it. they just won't be honest. i don't know if they think we are stupid or their audience is stupid but they are biased and we know it. they know we know it. time to acknowledge it and move on. >> tucker: i didn't think i have spent a minute this year being mad at rachel maddow. i don't agree with her but she is straightforward about who

she is. she is not lying about it. wouldn't it be easier, wouldn't it be better on the conscience, wouldn't the ratings be higher if cnn would stop lying about who they are? >> absolutely! you can see it in the ratings. that is why msnbc is doing as well as they are doing. they are honest. saying we are left wing partisan and not ashamed of it. cnn in many ways is more partisan and delusional than msnbc want to pat themselves on the back to pretend they're independent arbiters of facts when they're partisan hacks. >> tucker: to look around and say there is a distinction between the news and primetime. we do, famously, but they don't. it's not all clear where their reporting starts and ends and where the opinionizing starts

and ends. it's all bleeds together. >> so much of the reporting is opinionating. that is the damaging thing that is happening in media now. the narrative has been made the most important priority. when you have a narrative you want to push it doesn't matter if the facts are there or not. you are going to cook up the facts. so cnn decided they have the narrative that orange man bad, bad orange man has to go and it doesn't matter what reality is. that is what they will stick to. there is a reason people don't trust them. there is a reason the media ratings and the credibility are in the tank. and the organizations like cnn, they are primarily responsible for it. if they were just honest about who they are and what they want people would cut them a lot of slack. >> tucker: i completely agree. it's the lying. the cover-up. the insulting disingenuousness and the falseness. makes you want to throw a beer bottle through the tv. last thing, if you see don

lemon will you just tell him to be who he is and fess up and stop lying? >> i see him all the time. i'll tell him that when i see him again. >> tucker: i knew you would. great to see you tonight. >> thank you. >> tucker: the end of the week. we'll end this week as we end every week. with the explosion. dan bongino's news explosion! the three craziest stories of the last seven days ranked after the break. when you're not able to smile, you become closed off. i felt withdrawn, alone... having to live with bad teeth for so long was extremely depressing. now, i know how happy i am. there was all the feeling good about myself that i missed. i wish that i had gone to aspen dental on day one and not waited three years. at aspen dental, we're all about yes.

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>> tucker: the greatest graphic in television. sorry to brag. it's dan bongino's news explosion time. he is here to present the top three stories. dan bongino. >> in a tie, no less. what do you think >> sean: you look great. >> thank you. i'm filling in for sean next. i'll just roll with it. here are my three favorite

stories of the week. i want you to know i just did this on the fly. >> tucker: yes! >> big #winning for the maga movement and trump who appears due to the recent tweet to have won concessions from the mexican government on immigration crisis on the southern border. i appears that the tariffs that were going into effect on monday but he had to sign legal paper implemented this weekend but looks like the threat of the tariff was must enough to get a signed document from the mexican government. another win for trump. you highlighted the border on your show repeatedly. it's a crisis and always been a crisis. now at least trump can hang his hat on a victory there. nice job. infrastructur >> tucker: it's amazing. interesting to see what the reaction will be. >> the russians did it! putin was involved! you're half kidding but we

know the reaction. trump is horrible! >> tucker: how can you be against united states prevailing over a rival, mexico? it should make you happy if you are on your side. >> i'm want to say something but i want to keep my job so i'll leave it for another time. over beer i'll tell you what i really think about that. it assuming you are on our side and some people aren't unfortunately. story number two. joe biden. who is evolving at such a rapid rate he should be in the new x-men movie. he may be developing new powers like magnito or something. this is the first flip-flop-flip i have seen in a long time. not 180 or 360. it's a 540. well done by biden. what happened? biden came out in 1976, two hours after i was born. only in politics for a few minute. i'm 44, of course. i say it jokingly. in 1976 he supported the hyde amendment, ban on the federal funding for abortion

procedures. he flip-flopped on it the other day. he backed himself up. yes, i'm supporting it. then nobodied again and then flopped again and now he is not for the hyde anymore. this is what happens when you cave to the progressive left. he has a long campaign in for him if he thinks every position taken that is mildest centrist, if he is going to flip on every one, he might as well do it now. it would be over for him before it starts. >> tucker: for sure. i agree with that. >> story number one. the overseas trip for president trump. you'd never know it by the media coverage. the speech one would have of the finest he did -- was one of the finest he did. the celebration was the finest generation of men we may see in our lifetime in the united states. his speech lauding their accomplishment. a tear-jerker.

to be fair some gave him credit for the speech but the majority of the coverage about his successful trip overseas the europe trip, tucker was about the trump balloon. the balloon, by the way, by the impression of msnbc and cnn you would think the balloon was the site of 62 football fields. it's a ridiculous balloon like they make at a kit party, as big as the bouncy house. but on the tv, it's like the size of 72 football fields because that is what they want you to believe. the media cannot give up attacking this guy. >> tucker: who cares about that? dan bongino you are the best. thank you for ending our week on a note like that. >> good to talk to you. >> tucker: you can catch him in the next hour. sitting in for sean. new york city mayor bill de blasio's political campaign off to a tough start. he is not going to be president of the united states but he is still pretending it

could happen. now the new york residents trying to get annoyed by the whole thing. this past weekend -- this coming weekend, rather, de blasio skipping the puerto rican day parade to campaign in iowa. a city councilman reuben diaz from the bronx says he thinks that de blasio's decision is "disrespectful and abandonment of the city." of course he is absolutely right. de blasio has abandoned the city. councilman diaz should look at the bright side. de blasio abandoning new york is the single best thing he has done as mayor. we hope that de blasio commits more to the presidential campaign. keep fighting, mayor. stay in iowa until january. stay on the campaign trail until convention. don't give up. new york needs you. if des moines. that is it for us tonight. we are out of time. like sands through an hour glass. everything goes faster than you think it will. we'll be back. monday. 8:00 p.m. eastern the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and group think.

have the best weekend with the ones you love. get off your devices if you can. breathe in the smell of june. good night from washington. "hannity" is next with dan bongino at the helm. see you monday. ♪ welcome to a special edition of "hannity" "justice in america." i'm dan bongino in for sean. we'll start with a fox news alert. just minutes ago president trump announced he is suspending the threat of economic tariffs against mexico. after the country agreed to take tough legal action against illegal immigration. we'll have full coverage of this coming up. but first we begin with the big breaking news from catherine herridge who is reporting u.s. attorney john durham is "dialed in" to his ongoing investigation in the origins of the russia witch hunt. according to sources durham is asking the right questions and getting to