>> we don't have time to tell you the full midnight hero stor tonight, but i am tweeting it out you are going to love it. most-watched, most trusted, mos grateful that you spent the evening with us. have a great weekend. >> welcome to tucker carlson tonight. how much more can america take from the activist left? is there a limit to the abuse ordinary people are willing to endure from the social justice. how long before normal people start pushing back a little bit? a little closer tonight to answering those questions freight jury in ohio has ordere to pay $44 million in damages t a family that the college defamed in a hate post. the school also paid the victim 's legal fees. it was a rare but totally unequivocal victory for reason and decency against the forces

of lunacy and chaos. we would like to celebrate it tonight as we head into the weekend. the story begins back in 2016 when an underage student used a fake id to buy alcohol from a store called gibsons food mart and grocery. the man behind the counter alan gibson refused the sale. the student then tried to steal the bottle so gibson called the police prayed when cops arrived they found the student into of his accomplices beating gibson on the ground. those are the facts of the case. no one has disputed them. the students pled guilty. the case should have ended they are, but because the student wh shoplifted from the store is black, over lint attempted to manufacture a hate crime out of it. swarms of progressives descende on gibson's bakery and accuse the family of racism. watch. >> we are here today because yesterday three students from the african community were assaulted and arrested as a result of a history of racial profiling.

>> all of this was slander. none of it was true. that the dean of students, meredith romano continued to provoke the mob appeared she distributed pamplin's defaming the family calling them racist. in e-mails released during the sheet attacked her own colleagues who defended the gibson's and discussed unleashing the students on gibson's bakery. college administrators tried to put the bakery out of business they canceled the long-standing contract with the college. it nearly worked by the way. the gibson's took no salary for two years think late off most o their staff. they almost shut down the business. they then use their suffering for leverage in negotiations fo the college offered to reinstat the lucrative contract if gibso would drop charges against the shoplifter got gibson's refused and said they fought back and i the end they one. a former jury they whined that

the $70,000 a year of school couldn't afford the judgment. that turned out to be yet another library tax documents reveal the school has more than a billion dollars in assets. phil jacobson is a professor at cornell law school and is the publisher of the he covered thi case from beginning to end virtually the only person to do so. he joined us tonight. >> thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me on. what you think having watch thi from the first aid to the last, what do you think the message t the jury was sending? >> a think the message the jury was sending is that all lives matter frankly. that the lives of this bakery, the lives of people who get up at three in the morning to put the baked goods that the students eat in the dining hall matter just as much as anybody elsberry and the truth matters because these are people as you pointed out who did nothing

wrong. they literally we're just minding their business that morning when they called the police on some shoplifters. because of the crazed social justice is called social justic movement on our campuses, they were immediately designated an oppressor in parts because of their skin color, in part because they are the owner of the business and they were put into a pigeonhole of someone wh must be racist who must be engaged in racial profiling. nobody seemed to actually care about the fact that these are students who actually did shoplift. i think that's what's so outrageous about it and i think you noted it in your opening that these are just ordinary people. they did not put themselves out of the arena. this isn't like the other socia media mobs we've heard about where someone sends out a tweet and all of a sudden there is a mob against them.

no, these are literally people who got up, probably at 3:00 a.m. that morning and did absolutely nothing wrong but that campus further and campus zeal to express some sort of outrage at the system visited them. i think that's the thing that i so chilling about this. >> children of privilege attacking the working class. what's going to happen to the fascist will she keep her job you think? >> i don't know, but there is phenomenon in academia of feeling up. the president of oberlin colleg at the time that this all happened essentially got a promotion. he is now the president of pace university and much bigger institution. i don't expect anything to happen and the important thing here is that i don't think the college got the message in thei closing statement to the jury a to why they shouldn't get

punitive damages, the attorney said we have gotten the message you sent a message loud and clear. i don't think for a second they have gotten the message. just today the president sent out in all campus e-mail saying they're going to continue to fight this and they believe the did nothing wrong. i think this is an outrageous circumstance and i think we nee to remember this is a fifth-generation bakery. these are the people who get up at three and 4:00 a.m. when students are just getting home and i think that is the outrageous thing about this. this can happen to anybody. it's not just a campus phenomenon. gate maybe if they would shut the school down they would get the message. >> thank you for your reporting. the democratic presidential contenders doing their best impressions on the campaign trail. the candidates a contest to tak most radical positions again on the issues for they can win the

nomination by winning over the mob. here is a half a dozen of them coming out in favor of race reparations. proposed a bill to study the reparations. >> would you sign that bill? >> es. >> i firmly support the bill to create a commission to study reparations. >> would you sign the bill for reparations? >> es i would. i already support it. >> they're are things we need t do that it been a long time in coming. one of those is to move forward with reparations. >> robert woodson is seasoned veteran of the road president

and founder of the woodson institute. always honored to have him on the show. i thank you for coming on. >> pleased to be here. >> the idea of reparations has been following around for decades. most democrats running for presidency support it, what do you make of the idea of reparations for slavery? >> i think it's fools gold. it demeans both whites and blacks. to black americans, you can oppression. also, it sends a message to black america that somehow your destiny is determined by what white people do what white people give you. and not what you're able to do for yourself. so, it is undermining. also, tucker, it's really something that has by people with six-figure incomes living in gated communities with their

children in private schools. when you go into st. louis and was there this weekend where there are 19 people shot and killed over the weekend, they are not talking about reparations as an answer to tha challenge. i just think that it's a virtue signaling for white candidates and for some white guilty people , it's an easy fix. it is very crippling to the nation. crippling. >> so, hypothetically, if we we're to get it tomorrow, some reparations scheme, do you thin that there would be fewer shootings in st. louis? >> no, i don't think so. the very fact that the nfl wher the average salary is like two or $3 million five years after they retire, 70 percent of them

are bankrupt, so i'm not so sur if it doesn't work for rich people what it's going to do fo poor people, but again, it's a distraction. there is study after study in the black communities conducted by the joint center for the liberal black think tank. when blank america asked what are the issues most important t you it's jobs insecurity reparations only shows up 8 percent with three separate polls, but by these people on television, the candidates, pandering to the black communit and they assume they don't have to speak to the legitimate need and back black americans jobs, better healthcare, for neighborhoods not being gentrified but instead they can just pander and walk through th civil rights board. it is pandering, it's insulting to black america and as i have said, i have suffered my last

rich angry black and my last guilty white person. that's it. >> i don't think i've heard it as powerfully expressed as you just did. thank you for joining us tonight . >> thank you. >> there is a serious self-awareness crisis in america . reporters spend their days griping about trump on twitter and attacking the president on msnbc. amazingly, they don't think their bias. we will break that down after the break. during our father's day sale! like savings of $40 on this cuddeback moonlight ir game camera. and save $70 on this garmin etrex handheld gps. your adventure starts here.

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>> the justice department is trying to get to the bottom of how exactly the russia hopes th collusion hoax took off and wha role our intelligence agencies played inn promoting it. that investigation is underway now and it's terrifying to many in washington until officials are used tto answering the questions for anyone. they don't like it. the national media meanwhile to serve the interestst of the powerful and in particular to protect the intel agencies and they of course rushed to their e.defense. nbc for example used former cia director john brennan unlimited airtime to dispute propaganda his latest conspiracy theory about how the president can tur off law enforcement and the cia. piggy i'm concerned about the upcoming presidential election. it's clear that the russians interfered to help president trump in 2016 is he turning a blind eye to that because he doesn't mind if the russians

involve themselves again to try to enhance his prospects for reelection? it's really quite unnerving to think that this president, mister trump can in fact turn off law enforcement capabilitie if t they pose a threat to him personally. >> fit is a ridiculous thing to allege. of course he got no pushback from the msnbc anchor sitting o the set at the time. any oversight of the intelligence agencies is troubling. >> you know this report in the new york times they i mentioned that the justice department is now questioning cia officers as they review this russia investigation which is troubling yo. >> it is troubling because this cia kind of operates in their own world. >> es, you just don't do it. they operate on their own birds are not in the chain of command.

it's troubling when you ask questions to the cia. that's not allowed. americans faith in the news media has collapsed over the past decade and as you just saw there are good reasons for that. nothing is more justified than peoples loathing for the press. the media have read botched reporting in missed big stories they no longer hide their bias, amazingly in the face of all of this many of the journalists responsible for destroying thei own business are unaware of wha they've done. here for example is cnn speakin with jim acosta complementing one another on a job well done. >> if anyone democrat or of who it regardless is if you hold a position of power we are going to question you about it whether we like it or not predicate we're here to hold their feet to the fire and just because we are approaching doesn't mean were anti- trump and as i write throughoutt this

book and i try to close it out on a hopeful note, we are not the enemy of the people we are defenders of the people. we're not here to spin things o color things a certain way, we're here to give the people reliable accurate information o a daily basis. that's what we all come into work every day. >> no one's ever accused jim acosta of being a genius, but even by our estimate it's prett shocking he so proud of himself here is an example of the hard-hitting fair-minded reporting he was talking about. >> let me ask you this, what yo say to your critics who say tha you are creating a national emergency that you are in order to get your wall. >> do you think i'm creating something? piggy as these incredible women who lost their daughters and their sons. >> the border crisis was

concocted by the president for political reasons. >> you think that trump has obstructed justice by what you've seen. what is holding him from impeachment then? will you make me gentlemen's, eabut that trump will be impeacd ? >> he is not going to be president on january 20th of 2021. i want to get it right. you think he'll be impeached fred. >> s. >> thank you. >> he writes for reason magazin he is the young radicals in the age of trump and he joins us. robbie, the reason i want to talk to you is because you are would say a great at puncturing

obvious myths. so the press is what it is, the have taken a highly partisan very aggressive position agains the sitting president, fine. but white not just admit it, wh lecture the rest of us about whether ornot their objective. >> that's exactly the issue. a lot of people in media are biased, bias, but be straightforward about it. my ideology informs what i writ about and take that with a grai of salt when you listen to me t. and when you read me. but the people you're referring to, i mean their smugness is just so consuming. they really believe that there t just holding the powerful to account when it's clear there and anti- trump entertainment news network. like this isn't news at some point it's literally just providing entertainment and fodder for people who already hate the president and they'rera not going to ask critical questions of the segment you're

just talking about there not going to ask any of these intelligence officials about th mistakes that led to us or turning would be a into a nices training ground, having to intervene in syria more than we have, so if we were going to hold the powerful to account, w wouldn't just be parading these people on tv and letting them talk about how much they hate trump. >> in fact, they assiduously suck up to power. how do you explain they continued the continued presenc on cable television? the former head of the cia? you would have a series of questions for john brennan, rea questions about things he has done, things he has lied about the. but they just let him spew his talking points of.. >> i remember not so long ago progressives, liberals were skeptical of military authorities of intelligence of thee ready's of authorities in general and one and wanted to call those people out.nm

now the anti- trump figures would let them talk about trump is bad in oak, we can't questio the cia, all things of that nature because again, it's entertainment. they have this insistence that they are right, if you're sayin there'she something wrong about their approach, you must va. tons of the american people hav turned against them, their confidence in the press, their lack of confidence in the press is at an all-time high. you would think that would caus some self reflection. it clearly has not. i think this book is as powerfu as you could ever haveos that t has prompted no self reflection on their part whatsoever. >> desperately unhappy people. really quickly, i don't want yo to put in the position where yo can't you have to play shrink, but i can't relit. you think they believe it when they tell us it's all about the facts. we're here just to give you the facts. do they know they're lying? they know they're lying, right?

>> i think people can convince themselves that onthey are not lying even when maybe deep down they know they are. if the incentives are that powerful, if everyone is going, their viewers or someone is going to tell them no, you're s great, we loveng what you're do there is the temptation they ar to believe the best myth about yourself that you can come up with.e that's what i suspect they're doing. deep down they probably know we've taken this far beyond wha any reasonable person would hav asserted is actually talking truth to power. >> never believe the myths abou yourself, that is roll one. great to see you tonight thank you. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> developments out of the dominican republic we now know more about why americans could be dying there that is next. also a mysterious object spotte in the skies we had ufo video straight ahead. starkist.

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>> information tonight on what might be causing the tourist desk in the dominican republic. trace gallagher has that story for us. >> our corporate the new york post is reporting that investigators are looking into whether the tourist to diet and the dominican were poisoned by bootleg booze. whether it contained any dangerous chemicals. that's important because we kno three of the eight americans di drink from the hotel many bars. on tucker carlson tonight touring a minibar in a and a hotel where one of the american died. we don't know if the other five drank from many bars, but it appears and that the fbi in

particular is going back and reanalyzing toxicology results to see iff there are more commo links. the latest american touristy dies is who turned 53 last weekend. her son said he is getting very little information. seven of the eight americans wh died in the dominican had a heart attack and or pulmonary edema. we don't yet know the last person because of death, but al the tours we know about died very similar causes and two of them died from the same thing a the same time. all of which is exceptionally unusual. >> thank you for that.

>> if you listen to the morons on cable news, the trump administration is the most right-wing regime it's in evangelical bureaucracy. >> after talking to the people, watching the people, listening to theo people the statue of liberty i think is leaping righ now.me >> this is the united states of america, it isn't germany. >> donald trump increasingly looks like hitler. >> this is a policy that is inhumane, they are the tactics that have been used through history by the worst purveyors of pure evil including slave tradersla including and terroris . >> what is happening here is a sin against god. >> barbara boxer, ladies and gentlemen. of course they're lying in the

most cynical possible way they almost always are in real life, there's nothing right-wing abou this ministration social policy. for example did you know that ice right now maintains a special housing unit for transgender illegal aliens? hard to believe. it's true. we know it's true because they have been bragging about it recently the agency even sponsors classes to help transgender migrants appear mor feminine. here is the government video to prove it. this is a self presentation class we're going to learn abou hair and makeup and how to present yourself to the public so your femininity is more apparent than just someone looking at you and questioning what your gender is. >> giving fashion tips to men who dress like women who snuck into our country illegally is a priority, their applet happy to spend a lot of your money doing

it. meanwhile for american citizens things get worse life expectanc declines half of new million people sleep on the streets every night heroin addicts line the sidewalks of our once great cities but at least the federal government can play for specialized detention center fo transgender migrants in new mexico. 30 million americans don't havel health insurance and millions more pay way more than they can afford for health insurance. they get all the free healthcar they want that includes mental health services and dental. can you afford dental insurance? if not, you might want to seek asylum. itit could be worth it for the amenities alone prayed there is ibur indoor basketball court an the library and their free time they sing opera. for real. ♪ singing

>> when the migrants aren't listening to opera, or singing opera, or learning how to be more feminine they're getting free legal aid that the government invites to visit the detention center bread. >> program for access to legal services which is part of the legal aid organization. we're not affiliated with the government we come here every tuesday and thursday to give yo information about this asylum process and help you prepare fo your cases. just over a clear, this isn't some kind of sting that we did or reporting that we did these are videos that ice is bragging about, they are on twitter. we know about this because the federal government, they want u to know about it they are proud fof this. life for transgender illegal aliens is much better than it i for many american citizens.

it's not surprising. you can tell who are government really cares about and it is no you. the department of homeland security says the chinese made drones could bebe spying on you and sending the information bac to the chinese government. the author of the fantastic boo the 100 year marathon trains a secret saturday to replace america as the global superpowe and we're happy to have him on with us again tonight. thank you for joining us. is this a credible concern? >> is, i think it is what homeland security is pointing out is that these drones and by the way there's up to 2 million that operate in the united states 80 percent of which are made in china, but basically one company. these drones all have hookups t the internets and they go to servers in china so every time you upload a drone whether it's a look around the pipeline or check your ranch and see where the cattle are, all of that fee

is going back to china. with artificial intelligence, i the chinese want to they can assemble a picture of large parts of america, what's happening with the airline flights or crops, or nuclear power reactors, anything they want. homeland security is warning about this. part of the problem is it all started with the u.s. government , our army bought drones from china. the army doesn't do that anymore , they put out a memo to stop itsrs years ago, but their surveillance of the united states is really quite extraordinary. back we thought china was going to be a democracy and a free market like us, but now that china is more in the hostile category, i think people are very concerned with this massiv surveillance of our country. >> if china canan control the d coming off of these drones, it could controll the drones themselves presumably.

>> they could hijack the drones yes prayed that is technically possibleni. >> so why isn't there something we should be really concerned about? >> welcomeme the three congress including mark meadows and joe jordan have written to homeland security asking for more detail about how widespread this has gone. it's a bit of humor from china, the company is called bgi. by the way, it's right down the street near hong kong. they have announced well, anybody whot doesn't want to participate in this program can just turn off the internet connection and not send the dat to china. so that is the first chinese response. just like you can do it on your iphone except oh wait, you can't. the controls are fake. so the data is going back to hq whether you like it or nott.

so, just quickly, and overview here, if drones are a concern, how much technology in this country is made by and therefor controlled by china? >> no one seems to have an exac count as i said, nobody carried in an era of peaceful wishful thinking about china. but if they get control of our 5 g, if they got a very extensive share of our rural network and wi-fi connections, a lot of rural america is put together b one single chinese company. they also can take that data to china and analyze it. so this whole problem, though surveillance of people, i think first began to come to everybody's attention when the chinese were doing it to their own people to million of them sort of in concentration camps and this facial recognition feature and you can analyze anybody anywhere in the city by

a camera looking down. you can see that face get its background, gets it social credit score and combine that with drone pictures and other things that happen elsewhere in the world prayed to somebody just types and doctor carlton i china and massive amounts of information about you can come out varied may be what they do it that they want to send your christmas card or be friendly. >> or maybe not appear he. >> i can imagine it's impossibl to. >> chinese drones are not the only thing spying on you. it turns on and the losses than the gone fishing event-- with fee crafts, giveaways, and free kids' fishing at our catch and release pond

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>> new lawsuits allege that amazon is usings the device to record children illegally without their consent of course alexa is doing exactly that. the point is it's always listening. the federal trade commission is investigating a separate complaint about another amazon product the device called the echo dock kids addition. that complaint accuses to collect sensitive information about children that parents don't have the ability to delet should any of this worry you? not at all says amazon. you can trust relaxed. everything is fine. now count backwards with me fro hundred. you getting very sleepy. the department of defense exist to protect america through foreign threats, but it's also

in massive consumer of tax dollars come of the biggest really and for that reason concerns about corruption are always there the reason to ru believe over the past couple of years some of the pentagon have worked to enrich amazon are really the worlds just company. in 2017 the pentagon announced in billion-dollar cloud computing contract rate according to critics the contract wasn't actually competitive it was designed fro the very start to be fulfilled by amazon and all monthly by amazon. several defense secretaries aidesfe had prior professional ties to amazon, a key official working on the pentagon's computing program was carrying neout secret job negotiations w amazon even as he worked on the pentagon's program. and we can report exclusively tonight on this program that in march 2017 before the cloud computing contract was announce secretary maddox at the secret dinner in london with the top cloud sales executive teresa carlson.

we spoke to congressman mark meadows about the amazon deal recently. >> we should say that this contract is not yet in place, with amazon, but i think it is the largest, it's the largest government contract of its kind ever. >> it is. >> when you're looking at $10 billion come, but we spend more on defense than any other nation by multiples of ten, and when we look at this, $10,000,000.01 contract that wad designed to be given to one particular vendor with perhaps inside negotiations, at least someone who is employed with amazon. whether it is amazon or any

other company, this is a critical component. it is something that needs to b looked into. secretary maddox met with the same as unofficial but then the pentagon tried to keep the meeting secret is if it were some national security secret which of course it's not. why wouldn't they be open about that? >> when you look at a procurement process, it should be open and transparent and competitive. when you look at keeping somebody as high as meeting wit a potential bidder of a contrac of $10 billion and even beyond that, there are some suggestion the department of defense inspector general is looking at this in terms of possible conflict of interest, so whethe it would be with or other individuals, we want to make sure that the american people get the best value for their

dollar and you can't do that if you're designing a contract to go to just a onego bidder. >> do we trust amazon to provid this service, to keep the pentagon's data. it's not an american company it's a publicly held multinational with ties to china . n we're comfortable with that? >> it's not a matter of the company because we've got obviously national security protocols we put in place, but tucker, you know better than most people that if you are trusting in washington, dc to he get it right, often times they don't. you mentioned at the top of thi hour what you have is basically he department of defense that doesn't great job of defending our national interest and yet, it is so bloated across the potomac here that we have got hundreds of thousands of people that candidly are not necessarily investing in the american taxpayerfi dollars and

the in the most wise and efficient way. >> ed ten billion-dollar noncompetitive contract. that brings a few bells i would say. thank you very much for staying on with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you, tucker. >> look at this. it is video of a mysterious white object hovering over the fabled area 51. hikers scaled a nearby mountain to capture video of the secretive u.s. air force facility. it shows in norma's new airplan hangar. he says he wants congress to hold hearings on how much exactly the military knows abou ufos depending they been studying this secretly for decades probably no responsible person in the west that knows

more about the subject the nickel always happy to have him on the show. thank you for coming on. any sense of what this object might be hovering over area 51? >> no, it is a fascinating piecn of footage, but unfortunately i is just too indistinct for us t really reach a definitive view on it. i hope that we will be able to get further enhancement and analysis over the next few days and weeks. maybe it will give some answers. of course ufo aficionados they may be it is the real thing. others say no, it's probably ou own secret next-generation aircraft or drone. one of the explanations for the many sightings by u.s. military aircraft of the unidentified objects is it possible that the

are american, that there is som part of the military that is testing aircraft the other part of the earth military don't kno about? >> absolutely. when you deal with highly sensitive, compartmentalized programs like this very often and government the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing having said that the, some of the things going on in our skies at the moment give me cause for concern. someone or something is flying these things against our fleet. this is a time of international tension which will affect the nanavy and we need to find out, it's american, russian, chinese or something else, congress

needs to be taking if this isn' an issue for the armed services committee and the intelligence committee, i don't know what is. . >> why isn't it an issue question my. >> the good news is that c the senate armed services committee have been looking at this, they have interviewed some of the pilots and radar operators who have been involved in these close encounters, but harry reid has obviously called for more than this public hearing h sprayed i would support that. hacking, i would turn up and testify myself, let's get it ou there. >> i fervently hope that you're invited to do that. great to see you as always. thank you. >> thanks. what did and jim acosta at cnn have in common?? the one thing they are both featured in this week's edition of news exclusion after explosion after the break. everyone's got to listen to mom.

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it's friday, that means it's time for dan bongino's news explosion. our favorite former secret service agent a new york city cop, here with the top stories of the week. at dan bongino, ladies and gentlemen. good to see o you, dan. >> tucker, always good to see you. we have a bonus, four stories this week. let's get right to a third story number 4 is a really sad one: what's going on in the dominican republic? upwards of seven dead american tourists and a horrible incident with "big papi" david ortiz. really fantastic baseball player, i admire. the fbi is down there, let's hope they get to the bottom of this. let's see i what's going on, its in the dominican republic's best interestvi to get to the bottomf this, as well hear that story number 4 for the week. all right, moving on, from the humor pile here. let's lighten this up a little bit. every american's favorite b congresswoman, and i say that with a wink and a nod, aoc wants

a raise. but she has a very interesting explanation for this. we have video of this, right? play the video. >> members of congress, retail workers, everybody should get cost-of-living increases to accommodate for the changes in the economy. it may not politically be popular to say, but honestly that is why there is pressure turned to lobbying firms, cashing in on service after people leave. it is not even a raise, it's a cost-of-living. >> it's not even a raise, tucker. its crumbs, buddy. $4500 a year. and it's not like, remember tucker. [laughter] socialism is never good for the socialist, remember that. all right, story number 2, jim acosta writes a book about -- wait for it -- jim acosta!, this is -- this is -- we are living in pete acosta right now. this is peak jim acosta.

this book, it's not about "the new york times" failure to cover the soviet union in the ' 50s and '60s. the book is literally about jim acosta and his experiences with donald trump. tucker, here you make an appearance there, he's upset you didn't go to summer slam with him on a bush when you saw him. i guess he wanted some physical confrontation, which is just, again, totally peak of the cost of. >> tucker: i don't yell with people i disagree with politically. >> i don't either, it is not personal. story number 1, collusion and confusion. what is going on? we were told pre-trump interview that getting any information from the russians was a bad thing. post-trumpsd interview george stephanopoulos, everything is okay if you get everything from the russians, tucker, as long as hillary clinton paid for it, no worries. f new rules, tucker, if you pay for the information from russians, it is okay. there you go. >> tucker: right, as long as you solicit it, it is fine.

if they solicit you, it is treason.erer >> what has two thumbs and agrees with you? this guy. >> tucker: we will be back monday, 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. have the best weekend with the ones you love. ♪ >> jason: welcome to the special edition of "hannity," trump versus the west. trump versus the left. i'm jason chaffetz in for sean. for the hour, we will reveal americas left obsessively push an anti-trump conspiracy theories, all while covering up clear and unbridled misconduct at some of the highest levels of the federal bureaucracy. this week, democrats and the media mob teamed up for another round of fake moral outrage. this time over a statement from president trump about foreign opposition research. the president emphasized he would pass off nefarious material to the fbi, but