5:00 p.m. friday. crowds proceed testing for days are now celebrating in the streets live from puerto rico. watched the most trusted, thanks for spending the evening with us, live from washington i'm shannon bream ♪ >> this is a fox news alert from america's news headquarters i'm marry and revert in los angeles. you're looking at a live picture from san juan puerto rico where there is apparently cause for celebration at this hour. among the people on that island. the embattled governor there, ricardo rossello, has decided to throw in the towel and resign. rossello made the announcement minutes ago. it comes at 5:00 p.m. a week from this fry just days after rossello said he would not seek reelection and to step down as part of his proceed state hood party. but at the same time, he defiantly insisted he would not resign as puerto rico's leader

despite growing unrest among the pop lift there. monday they staged a massive rally shutting down a major highway in the capitol city of san juan. at one point police had to use tear gas to quell the crowd. rossello was facing public fury over be sentive laceed on line chat that showed the governor and his close advisors insulting women and mocking constituent including victims of hurricane maria that whole debacle now known as chat gate. protesters vowing to continue the demonstrations until he quit which just happened. they were accusing him and his government of corruption. they asked for his cell phone and those of his staffers as part of his criminal investigation. one of the men part of that leaked chat, his confidant and chief of staff announcing his own resignation tuesday saying

he and his family received threats. this underlying long smoldering anger over government corruption and mismanagement there that many there blame for a 13-year recession. a severe debt crisis there has also led to pension cuts and school closings across the territory. many people also resentful over puerto rico's slow recovery from hurricane maria. that hurricane devastated the island nearly two years ago and led to thousands of death. if you're just joining us embattled puerto rico governor ricardo rossello is resigning facing public feweror over an on line chat now known as chat gate that showed the governor and his closest advisors insulting women and mocking constituent including victims of hurricane maria. on tuesday a judge in puerto rico issued search warrants for his cell phone and those of his staffers as part of a criminal

investigation. and this has just happened moments ago. we heard a pre recorded video from now ex governor ricardo rossello letting the populous know that he had decided to go ahead and step down. this after a week of protests and people in the streets literally calling for him to step down as soon as he could. and today, an announcement was made this afternoon that he was going to go ahead and resign and then that was kind of drawn out causing feeble really put the pressure on him and say, you know, go ahead and do it, do it now, you know, we heard from other lawmakers there and puerto rico, like representative gabriel rodriguez, who said earlier, when they were still waiting to see if he was actually going to resign, he said, look, it's 5:00 o'clock, then 6:00 o'clock came then 7:00, he said you have to put a stop to this and basically speaking straight to the governor saying you're the only one who can bring peace to puerto rico today and tonight by going ahead and resigning and it

appears that that, indeed, is what has happened. so if you're just joining us again, embattled governor, now ex governor of puerto rico, ricardo rossello, just announcing that he is resigning as governor. he said just now moments ago, he said he was renouncing his post because he said they need to find someone that can complete the project, meaning the recovery of puerto rico. he called it a mission of recovery. he said after hurricane maria and all the strife they've been through, he is stepping down so people can unite and recover. also he says he hopes the decision will reflect what the people want, the will of the citizens. he says he wants peace and progress. and again you're looking now at a live picture from san juan, puerto rico, where there is apparently a lot of cause for celebration at this hour, as we mentioned that the embattled

governor there ricardo rossello, has now decided to throw in the towel and go ahead and resign, and we also have fox news corespondent jeff paul there in san juan who has been watching the protests as they have happened this week. jeff, if you can hear us, can you tell us what the mood is there right now? >> well, you can probably hear, there is a bunch of people out here very happy and they are singing right now as they celebrate what they have worked for nearly for two weeks, demonstrating, protesting, marching in the rain. and now, as you see, they erupt in celebration knowing that they wake up tomorrow morning in a new era of puerto rico. no longer will they have ricardo rossello as their governor. they wake up with possibly a new leader. now the line of succession goes as follows. the secretary of state would be the next person in line, but that person has already resigned. so the following person would be the secretary of justice, wanda

vasquez. but there is some concern about that this could lead to a constitutional crisis. so doesn't seem like the people out here right now exactly worried about that, because they are celebrating the thing that they have all called for, the thing that many of these people out here saying have unified this island. that they wanted ricardo rossello to resign, and finally after days and days and days of protest, they got wa had they wanted. back to you. >> and if you're just tuning in, we're just looking at what were protesters in the street who are now celebrating as the news that the governor of puerto rico, ricardo rossello, has gone ahead and resigned. he just did it moments ago. he said he did everything he could, but that he felt he had no choice but to renounce his post. he said he would do that a week from friday so he can take care of any unfinished business there and that now he hopes that the country will come together, the state, rather, will come

together and find a new leader and that it will bring peace and progress for the folks there in puerto rico. thanks for joining us, we are now going to go ahead and join tucker carlson already in progress. . >> very ineffective defense of his own work. >> from a democratic perspective, to me so far it's been a best of a bust. >> a lot of democrats in particular used the d word and branded this a disaster early on. >> tucker: at the very least we now know the truth about robert mueller, a mysterious prosecutor with unchecked power revealed at last to be a dash old man blinking in the sunlight once his curtain was pulled away. a sad coda to the long and ridiculous russian saga. an absurd story but not a harmless story. this years' long sha raid deeply hurt this country, it corrupted our most important institutions, divided our people, but worst of all it distracted all of us from

our real problem which are legion, get in the car tomorrow morning and drive five hours in any direction in this country, stop frequently, look around. how's america doing do you think? now remember that all the sadness you just saw on your drive, the drug zombies and the homeless people, the payday loan places, the boarded up buildings, all the slow motion disasters unfolding unmistakenly all around us, all of that has been completely ignored for years in favor of some stupid invented stories about russian spies that never even made sense and didn't even happen. a ruling class did that. they did that to you as a distraction. they do not deserve to rule, that much is clear. congressman louie gohmert was at today's hearing. you're about do hear from him. watch as gohmert questions mueller and that colloquy quickly turns into sniping. watch. >> and if somebody knows they did not con spire with anybody

from russia to effect the election and they see the big justice department with people that hate that person coming after him. and then a special counsel appointed who hires a dozen or more people that hate that person, and he knows he's 90, he's not corruptly acting in order to see that justice is done. what he's doing is not obstructing justice, he is pursuing justice and the fact that you ran it out two years means you perpetuated injustice. >> i take your question. >> time has expired. the witness may answer the question. >> i take your question. >> tucker: congressman louie gohmert from texas joins us. thank you for coming on. you were there, you spoke to the former special counsel. what was your assessment of his

condition, of what he said after talking to him? >> well, he is older. he's lost a rung or two on the ladder. but i was telling our guys early on right after he started, there's no question his staff has been telling him, if you mention the report, he's going to ask you which volume, which page. he's going to take up as much as your five minutes as he can. you know, taking him time, gee, what was that? so i found some of it was an act. some of it, you know, he's just an older gentleman. but that does not excuse him putting this country through hell as a special prosecutor dragging this thing out. i don't know if you're aware but back last summer, i was on with harris faulkner and she was saying well, rudy giuliani's saying he's going to be done before the end of the summer, he doesn't want to effect the

election. i said he doesn't know muller like i do. this guy's going to keep this thing going as long as he can and he's certainly not going to end it before the 2018 election. i knew the guy. i knew he wouldn't do that. he would probably have continued if we hadn't had a strong attorney general come in and see that he had nothing after two years. this is my speculation, but i think if weissmann had been left to his own purposes he would have kept going on and on. >> let me just clarify something congressman. >> sure. >> so you're saying that, from what you know from the information he gathered, he could have wrapped this up before the midterm election in 2018. >> yeah. he was careful to say he wasn't going to answer when he knew that there was no conspiracy, collusion, whatever you want to call it but the law calls it conspiracy. he wouldn't say but it was clear he knew early on and in fact, we all knew way back, over a year

ago, that there was nothing there on the conspiracy with the russian agents, that it was a bunch of garbage. he could have ended this back then but he chose to effect an election. it was also clear from the hearing today that weissmann must have been the driving force in all of this. >> exactly. exactly. and that, i think that's been clear for a long time but it was crystal clear today. >> yeah, it was. >> congressman thank you for that. >> it is tucker thanks for your clarity. you've seen it all along. >> congressman tom mcclintock of california accused mueller of trying to conduct a political case rather than a legal one for impeaching the president. watch. >> why did you suggest russia was responsible for the troll farms when in court you've been unable to produce any evidence to support it? >> i am not going to get into that any further than i already have. >> but you have left the clear impression throughout the country through your report that it was the russian government behind the troll farms yet when you're called upon to provide

actual evidence in court you failed to do so. >> well. >> and it's starting to look like, you know, having desperately tried and failed to make a legal case against the president, you made a political case instead. you put it in a paper sack, lit it on fire, dropped it on our porch, rang the doorbell and ran. >> one of the great images at today's hearing, tom mcclintock represents the state of california and joins us tonight. congressman thank you for coming on. you raised one of the most interesting points of the day. we changed our entire foreign policy on the basis of some of the ideas contained in this report, some including the russian troll farm allegation as you, almost alone, pointed out are not substantiated at all. we don't know that's actually true. why is nobody else saying that. >> it's not just me pointing it out. as you know there's a court case going on right now in the district court of dc where an indictment was brought against the so-called troll farms for election fraud.

the defendants say, wait a second, you guys published this entire report linking us to the kremlin. there is no connection. the judge said, fair point, that's prejudicial, department of justice show us your evidence linking these troll farms no 0 the russian government. and the doj says, we don't have any evidence. that is stunning. >> well, it is stunning considering russia is an actual place with nuclear weapons and, by the way, could be our ally in the fight against islamic extremism or dine a or other actual threats to our national security and is not partly because of allegations like this. why did so many people in washington, including a lot of republicans, congressman hurt i saw today, fall hook, line and sinker behind this russia must be behind everything. >> because that's what the mueller report strongly implies that the russian government was

behind these internet troll farms. what we found out on may 28th during these court hearings is they don't have any evidence. the judge said, this is awful, i'm going to consider contempt of court citations against the government. the very next day is when robert mueller called his press conference, and in that press conference in one line he very cleverly separates out the allegation that the troll farms were connected to the russian government from the rest of his report. i asked him, did that have anything to do with the court hearing the prior day, he said, no. i'm sorry, that really doesn't pass the smell test. >> no, it really doesn't. this is such a scandal that's been ignored by everybody and god bless you for bringing it up. congressman thank you very much. >> thank you. >> believe it or not, cnn was once a semi serious news network some of us used to work there, then an entertainment producer jeffrey zucker took over. he's often wanted to run as a

democrat, he bragged about it, and decided to use cnn as his political mouth piece. net result, more than any other media company by far cnn promoted the absurd russian hoax day and night for years. at times his puppets openly excluded with robert mueller's prosecutors. for one example mueller clearly tipped off cnn before stone's arrest in florida. there was a crew on the scene before dawn to humiliate zone as armed federal agents barged into his home at 6:00 a.m. for purposes never clear even until this day. congressman chris stewart of utah asked about that during today's hearing. here's how mueller responded. >> you anyone to provide information to the media regarding the roger stone storm, including cnn? >> i'm not going to speak to that. >> to borrow a phrase from mueller himself, he certainly did not exonerate his team. congressman stewart joins us tonight. congressman thank you for coming

on. what did you think of his angst to your very straightforward question? >> well, i think i thought the same thing that most americans watched, frustrated by it. it was clearly within the guardrails of things he would and would not talk about and i think it was important for people to know, were individuals within the special counsel leaking information, and, by the way, tuck, if you noticed, i made this point before, in every one of these cases, all 25 of them, it was always information that was detrimental to the president. it was always embarrassing and meant to againish him. they never leaked anything that exonerated him to use the word you just used or seemed to indicate that there was innocence involved. it was always negative information. and i think the american people deserve answers to this. >> what's so striking is this nut case federal judge amy berman jackson now told roger stone if he speaks up in his own defense, he will go to prison, not allowed to talk in public at all period. and yet it's clear the government was leaking against him. so he can't speak -- his first

amendment rights are null and void but the government can leak against him to hurt his reputation? what country is this? >> that's exactly the same feel i have, what country is this. for heaven's sake you always have the right to defend yourself, you always have the right to go to the public forum and tell your side of the story, especially, tucker, as you just pointed out, when the government isn't muzzled, the government hasn't been held back on this and even when they are held back, many times they leak information anyway. you look at this and, by the way, mr. stone, who's a bit of a character but someone i've gotten to know a little bit, he's not the only one who's been treated in this way. >> i know. you're right, there are so many. why is it so hard to get an answer from the government, which we pay for, they work for us. at least theoretically, to get an answer to the question, who did they leak to and why. >> and not just that question, but virtually everything we've been asking for two and a half or three years now.

why is it impossible to get answers from the government about the fisa process. the fbi and department of justice honest about their application to the fisa? we could go down the list of dozens and dozens of questions. and by the way, something that i've never really understood, and that is, this administration is in power. you look at some of these individuals and think, hey, look, we're trying to help you. we're trying to facilitate truth and transparency, if hillary clinton was elected president i could understand why we've hit so many road blocks but a couple times i think i don't understand why our own team is making it so hard. >> it's a fair -- you're infuriating me all over again. i keep waiting for this russian noen sense to end. congressman thank you so much for that thank you. >> robert mueller didn't seem very familiar with his own report. so if he didn't write it himself and clearly he didn't, who did write it? catherine herridge has that next. also hear directly from the president as our expanded

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>> weissmann was untruthful and weissmann got caught just like he did with arthur anderson where he lost in the supreme court 9-0. his aides were very untruthful and they put mueller. and they put mueller -- not at all. they put muller in a very bad position. his aides put him in a very bad position. >> we're continuing our coverage of robert mueller's testimony today on capitol hill. during the hearings, robert mueller repeatedly showed an apparent lack of familiarity with the report and some key individuals in it. to be clear the report that his name is on. someone wrote the mueller report. he clearly didn't. who did? fox chief intelligence corespondent catherine herridge

joins us tonight. catherine. >> at times robert mueller seemed tone deaf to the politics of his own investigation and the fact that so many members of his team openly supported hillary clinton and donated to democrats. today, republicans singled out andrew weissmann, mueller's so-called pit bull prosecutor who went to hillary clinton's election night party in new york anticipating her victory. and weissmann praised senior justice department official sally yates who openly defied propped's travel ban in early 2017. weissmann, who we believe wrote the report, sent an e-mail of congratulations after yates refused to defend the president's order. >> i can't imagine a single prosecutor or judge that i have ever appeared in front of would be comfortable with these circumstances where over half of the prosecuteial team had a direct to the person being investigated. >> let me put on the table, that is we hired 19 lawyers over the period of time. of those 19 lawyers, 14 of them were transferred from elsewhere

in the department of justice. only five came from outside. >> mandated special counsel was to investigate russian election interference but mueller testified it did not extend to the opposition research paid for by democrats and used to secure a warrant for a trump campaign aide. >> director mueller can you sedate with confidence that the steele dossier was not part of russian's disinformation campaign. >> as i said in my opening statement, that part of the building of the case was -- predated me and by at least ten months. >> my intelligence contacts report that it's standard for the russians or any foreign intelligence service to collect information about both campaigns, so investigating the source of the dossier was really counter intelligence 101 and, therefore, a major gaffe in the mueller report, tuck. >> that's for certain, a fascinating gap you might say. katherine harris, the great

katherine harris, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> good to see you. the mueller report was supposed to be the product of two years of dedicated investigation and cost at least 25 the dollars enough to buy a european palace or three bedroom condo in san francisco. but despite all of that money, your money, hundreds of times they simply cited major press outlets rather than original finding. >> i think you relied on media. i had alike to know how many times you cited the washington post in your report? >> i don't have knowledge of that figure. >> i counted about 60 times. how many times did you cite the new york times? i counted. >> again, i have no idea. >> i counted about 75 times. how many times did you cite fox news? >> i -- as with the other two, i have no idea. >> about 25 times. i've got to say, it looks like volume two is mostly regurgitated press stories. honestly there's almost nothing in volume two that i couldn't

already hear or know simply by having a $50 cable news subscription. however, your investigation cost the american taxpayers $25 million. . >> kim strassel is on the wall street journal editorial board she has been on the story since the first day and really one of the most incisive critics and analysts during the russia investigation. that ares for coming on. take three steps back and assess what you saw today from robert mueller. >> well, what i saw from robert mueller was not what democrats wanted. let's step back and remember, why did they want this to happen? they wantd the sound bites and wanted to relaunch the impeachment conspiracy theory going ahead and having hearings on that. and he, i have to say this. for all of some of his other failings today, he clearly prepped hard on that. he did not give them the opportunity to that they wanted, and he did not, in any way,

didn't do any audio for them, wouldn't read his own report for them, and he certainly would not agree with some of their overstatements about the characterization of his report, for instance, that trump had committed obstruction of justice beyond a doubt. >> tucker: interesting. do you think that democrats -- clearly we know what they wanted, they wanted a pretext for impeachment. but how could they have miscalculated so very badly? >> well, i think that this was their only shot. think about it. the report was a complete dud, okay. the party is also hopelessly divided over there between the sort of crazies that are desperate to impeach trump, parts of the resistance, and then the calmer heads like nancy pelosi who know that that could be terribly bad for them politically. so those who really want impeachment, this was their last gasp, get mueller out, hope they gave up great sound bites, gen

up the troops and they didn't stop to consider the manageability of a hearing like this or the fact that he had no interest whatsoever in putting himself in the middle of a political fray and was definitely careful not to do so. >> tucker: wouldn't, i'm not a lawyer, but at least in the movies, rule one of cross-examination is knowing what the answers are going to be. so wouldn't they have gamed this out? they just completely destroyed their case for impeachment. they humiliated themselves. they made it crystal clear that the whole thing is a hoax, no? >> oh, yes. i i think the only person in washington perhaps more happy about the appearance is perhaps nancy pelosi who doesn't want to go down to impeachment road and he made it easier for her today. i just think in general they didn't know where else to go with this. the report did not help them out. and think about how disingenuous this was in a way, too, tucker. we have been hearing from the day he put out the report was all they wanted to do was talk

to him so they can ask him about the underlying evidence. there was no questions like that today. all there was was attempt after attempt to get mueller to agree to publicly say that trump had committed a crime. >> to what end? i mean they're such buffoons. >> yeah. >> destructive. >> well it may end now. >> yeah. i think it will end now. i think we can say that conclusively and that's at least one piece of good news. good to see you tonight. >> you, too. >> tucker: at the peak of the left's mueller mania, people sold robert muller prayer candles, the elderly worried they would die before getting a chance to read his report. remember that story. celebrities did the christmas holiday to make it about the man they named muller-claus. >> we wish you a mueller christmas and an impeachment next year. >> we wish you a mueller christmas, we wish you a mueller

christmas, and impeachment next year. >> indictments will come to you and your kin, indictments for christmas, and impeachment next year. >> tucker: now even the most starry eyed children mustment, mueller-kleist doesn't exist. mueller clause isn't real. even the man who hates trump so much he strike to the electoral college, the man who destroyed his reputation and revealed himself to be a complete buffoon. that man nonetheless called today's hearings a disaster, many others reaching the same conclusion. chris plant hosts chris plants show on radio you should listen because it's fantastic joins us tonight. chris how bass was this for the democratic case. >> half way through i was waiting for him to reach upped the table, pull out his thermos and pour himself a bowl of soup.

this was tragic, disastrous. i feel sorry for the man, he wasn't up for the task. it was mean. >> yes. >> my friend marty suggested nadler should be charged with senior abuse from what we witnessed today because it was horrible. all just designed to be a television show. people didn't read the book, they say. like all americans are supposed to read 448 pages of a government report. so they wanted to make it into a tv show or a movie. and they tried and their star fell flat on his face. and let me say also that, and, god bless mr. mueller, but the democrats and the committee were not up to the task either. they were ill-prepared. they didn't have what i thought were intelligent questions, they didn't move anything forward. whatever it is they were trying to achieve, i don't think they achieved it. mr. mueller really deflected almost every republican question with a that's not within my purview, the word purview was used more times today than any

other single day in television history and he really didn't answer any questions about the important stuff. and so now america hangs on pins and needles waiting for the next big government report. >> tucker: he couldn't. and i'm glad you made the point about cruelty. because that's really what it was. that's what nadler did. i kept thinking of mueller's girls, he has a couple of girls, watching their dad fumble around on television when he really ought to be, you know, sitting on his dock in maine or whatever doing something an old man would do in the summertime and nadler makes him do this. it's just awful, awful what he did. >> it was all just warmed over, nothing new. the democrats didn't have anything new. it was all fake. all just a terrible television show. and you know what they're going to do tomorrow? they're going to subpoena more people. they're going to talk about more indictments. they're going to keep dragging out -- they've crazy glued themselves to this russian collusion fantasy and they're not going to let go of it because honestly they have nothing positive to say.

they have nothing affirmative to say: . >> is there a constituency for this? honestly there will be partisan disputes, you followed the numbers, is there a large group of voters who really want them to continue with this. >> no. certainly the polls don't indicate that and most democrats have moved on from this russian collusion thing and if they hadn't yesterday they certainly have by close of business today. because this is, honestly this is not what our government is for, not what our media is supposed to be doing. this city and the access, the new york/washington access, is really a catastrophe for the united states of the american public, the freedom loving people everywhere. >> you're exactly right. i hate to agree with you but you're absolutely speaking the truth. >> go ahead. >> i'm going to. thank you. the democratic party's top presidential candidates have been demanding impeachment for months. did they learn anything from today's hearings. you probably know the answer to

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>> their party is in shambles right now. they've got the squad leading their party. they are a mess. this was a devastating day for the democrats. the democrats thought they could whip an election like this. i think they hurt themselves very badly for 2020. >> tucker: so that was the president of the united states, obviously he has an interest in expressing a certain point of view about the hearing today. truth is most people who watched it reached the same conclusion donald trump did, the one he expressed, a disaster for the democratic party and their impeachment agenda, as one left wing person said today, it's

over, no impeachment after today. but the people running for president may not know that. they live in a totally alternate reality. they're on the road, they're completely cut off. and by the way her all weird anyway, they're running for president, they're ego maniac by definition, they crave the adulation of strangers, not normal people. and prone to fantasy in the first place, these are the same people saying keep the border open and give free healthcare who everyone who moves here so they're easy to convince of untrue things. naturally still full steam ahead on impeachment. listen. >> now president donald trump did everything he could to obstruct justice. >> you read the mueller report and you see quite clearly that he spells out behaviors, deceit, instructing people to lie and cover things up. >> what are your thoughts about the fact that muller feels the president is not exonerated from obstruction of justice. >> that's kind of what he wrote

in his report and he is not exonerated. look, we know for a fact that the president did everything that he could to obstruct the muller investigation. >> tucker: bernie sanders speaking even more slowly than usual. lisa boothe is a senior fellow and frequent guest on this show we're proud to say. she watched today. lisa boothe i understand the people running for president are on the road, hard to catch up with the news, i've been there i get it but they also seem unusually unwilling to readjust their perceptions to suit reality if you know what i mean. >> i do but it's intentional tucker and that's the key point to keep in mind. the reason they're doing this is because they're running in the democrat primary, those are the voters they're concerned about right now. that progressive base that wants to impeach president trump even if it's the detriment to the party as a whole. and you contract that tucker to what speaker nancy pelosi has been doing. she doesn't want to move forward

on impeachment because she wants to protect the democrat majority in the house and she knows that majority runs through districts that president trump won in 2016 and the problem for democrats is that president trump has two important things going for him. one an incumbent, two the economy is strong. so they have been desperately hoping that robert mueller and both the report and his testimony today would somehow do irreparable harm to president trump but it simply just did not happen. >> tucker: yeah. i understand the strategy completely but at some point, and it's not that far off, one of these, in fact it's a year from now. one of these candidates is going to be the democratic nominee and is going to have to pivot and appeal to the whole country. this is pretty late to pretend they can impeach trump. >> for us, an objecti be surfer yes. but if you're a part sane democrat who despises this president, you want to hear what you want to hear, let's impeach

the president. but what we know and the majority of the country that watched today knows they did damage to that impeachment. one, muller was a terrible witness. even david axelrod admitted saying it was very painful to watch him in a tweet. second, muller himself said today he was able to conduct and conclude his investigation unhindered. third i think the substance of the investigation was really called into question, particularly even looking at the facts that aaron zebley was sitting next to him, a i guy who represented justin cooper a top hillary clinton aide who both set up the private server and destroyed evidence, also what representative rad cliff pointed out is the fact that president trump was denied his presumption of innocence by mueller and his team. so for those three reasons, mueller did a lot of dodge democrats' impeachment narrative snail sure looks that way. thanks for that explanation, lisa boothe. >> i always appreciate being on. thank you. >> thank you. in a resurfaced interview from

2018, i will and omar told al jazeera that america ought to engage in racial profiling of white men who she blamed for most of the deaths within this country. in the same interview omar said american shouldn't worry about young muslims leaving her state of minnesota to fight for isis oral sha bob. i have to pause. we're not making this up. this is real. omar said the real concern was the rhetoric of local politicians which apparently drove these young terrorists into terrorism. in short, ilhan omar is a lunatic. an embarrassing blight on american politics but hopefully one that will eventually pass. recently the group judicial watch filed an ethics complaint against omar, asking for a full investigation including tax fraud, marriage fraud and immigration fraud as well as perjury. tom fitton the president of the

judicial watch joins us. thanks for coming on. what do you hope to find from congresswoman omar. >> whether she's a crook or not. the house ethics committee needs to begin the process of figuring out whether the strong evidence of marriage and other criminal activity, or marriage fraud and other criminal activity is accurate in terms of, she did it. and, you know, we've had blog, you've had them on, talk about their comprehensive investigation. her left wing home town newspaper has basically said these allegations are out there. she hasn't disproven them and has raised more questions than answers. and it's about time for the house ethics process to begin to work. now, i say that, knowing that the house ethics committee is split evenly between democrats and republicans, but the american people are probably going to want the house to make sure that ms. omar, who may have committed marriage fraud by marrying her brother, and then

we know for sure that she was signing incorrect tax returns. so the extent of the criminality needs to be explored. and the house needs to do it, but the justice department, the department of homeland security and the irs need to do something as well. this is -- you know, she's been protected from this scandal by the big media for a long time and we have to lift that protection. she's not above the law, you know, and this isn't about her crazy socialism and her anti american statements. this is about whether she follows the basic rules that other americans would be subject to severe scrutiny over if they were seen to have broken them. >> tucker: scrutiny she's accused of coming to this country under false identity, marrying her brother, clearly she lied about it, she said she was married in her faith tradition, she wasn't, she was married by a christian minister, then credibly accused of committing perjury lying about all of it. so why isn't the administration

on this with both feet? are people afraid to be called racist. >> i don't know, maybe they're doing an investigation and not telling us. but going back to your first point, we're not even sure omar is her first name. that's how crazy this is. i've been doing this for 20 plus years and this is about the most significant congressional scandal by a member that, you know, i'm aware of, you know, you have to go back to traffic con back in ohio to come up with something so far out. but in terms of the scope of the potential criminality, this is pretty significant and the question is, if this doesn't go forward, it's probably going to be because democrats are protecting her. so they tell us today at the mueller hearing, because we know they don't believe it that no one's above the law. the question for the house democrats is, is ms. omar above the law. >> right. they said that today. but, of course, that's the one thing they mean least of all. >> that's right.

>> because they have a whole bunch of people they believe are above the law. tom fitton, thank you. >> thank you. >> the entire framing of robert mueller's investigation exposes how corrupt it was from day one, american innocence is supposed to be assumed, not guilt. but to democrats in the congress, americans are not quote fully exonerated and therefore guilty. congressman james sensenbrenner blasted them for this. watch this. >> there are a couple statements you made, you said this is not for me to decide and the implication is this is for this committee to decide. now you did word the word impeachable conduct like star did. there was no statute to prevent you from using the word impeachable conduct. and i go back to what mr. rad cliff said, and that is, is that even the president is innocent until proven guilty. my time is up. >> tucker: well, that's it right there. congressman sensenbrenner joins

us. thank you for joining us and raising that joints. it's not a defense of any specific politician, it's a defense of the center piece of our justice system which is the presumption of innocence. why is that getting lost? >> well it's getting lost because the democrats want it to get lost. after sitting through this hearing today, i think it's over. case is closed. let's have the country move on. we've got a whole lot of things to do, crisis at the border, deficits, fiscal responsibility, healthcare. i could go on and on and on. but chairman nadler and the left wing of the democratic party, you know, is absolutely zeroed in on impeachment. good luck getting that after the performance today both in the judiciary committee and in the intelligence committee. >> tucker: i've got to ask you, since you were there. a lot of us, i'm not sympathetic to mueller personally to be honest but watching today i felt sorry for him. do you think democrats knew his condition and forced him to come

anyway? that's my read on it. >> i think you're going to have to ask the democrats on that. i've known bob muller since my chairmanship of that committee 15 years ago and today he wasn't the person he was five years ago. now whether or not the democrats knew it and tried to put a good face on it, i don't know. you know, the fact is is that, you know, i kind of felt sorry for bob mueller. >> me, too. >> because he evaded questions about a hundred times and, you know, he was their star witness. if i was sitting on a jury, you know, i wouldn't put a lot of credibility into him. >> tucker: unbelievable. we know you have to go vote. congressman thanks a lot for joining us tonight. >> yeah, see you later. >> well, the hearing today finally end this russia hoax once and for all or will it continue to haunt america? mollie hemingway, who has been our corespondent on this story since the very first day, joins

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the president and the country. can't miss hannity tonight at nine. >> i think robert miller did a >> i think robert mueller did a horrible job, both today, and with respect to the investigation, but in all fairness to robert mueller, he had nothing to work with. i don't think there's anybody that would say he did well. i looked at your people, they are saying, it was devastating for the democrats. the performance was obviously not very good. he had a lot of problems, but what he showed more than anything else is that this whole thing has been three years of embarrassment and waste of time for our country. the democrats had nothing, and now they have less than nothing. >> tucker: there was a lot that was sad and frustrating about the spectacle we saw today. it also seemed like the end of something big. so to close out our hour, we want to turn to someone who has

actual mastery of the russia story, a person that is the great mollie hemingway, senior editor at ""the federalist"," very frequent guest on the show. she joins yesterday. you watched all of those, what do make of it? >> well, it was really interesting. we were told for years that you could not criticize the special counsel or robert mueller in any way, precisely because that's what we were told. robert mueller has such credibility. yes, he had hired 13 democrats and no republicans to run this investigation. those 13 democrats were close allies of hillary clinton and in some cases donors are lawyers for her. but you could not criticize, because robert mueller, who was a nominal republican, was beyond reproach. what we learned today was that robert mueller is not very familiar with the investigation that he was the figurehead of. the entire question of russian collusion,f. we were told for years that donald trump was a

traitor who colluded with russia to steal the election. then we were told that he got upset about being called a traitor, and that might be obstruction. i don't think that case was well made today. people keep trying to keep us from asking questions, but i think now more than ever, people need to knowom how this special counsel was set up. how are the people take for it? how did they understand their job? out of the investigation, the hessia hoax begin? these are questions that robert mueller was unable and unwilling to answer today, but people will need those answers. >> tucker: the fact that he made baseless allegations against russia, and i know, having been accused of being a handmaiden to vladimir putin, maybe i shouldn't say this. but there is something inuriating and really wrong about changing our foreign policy on the basis of lies. i mean, is that of concern as? well? >> even people being upset about foreign policy. we learned that the special counsel was set up, in part,

because bureaucrats opposed the foreign policy that voters put in place by electing donald trump. >> tucker: exactly. >> that is not appropriate. such a threat to rule of law. that is something that can't be allowed again. it's not a matter of if you like trump or you like his foreign policy. just about whether bureaucrats get to decide our government and how we do things or whether the people to. >> tucker: exactly.ve that's the attack on democracy. hiding in plain sight. yes, our democracy was hacked, by our own bureaucrats! mollie hemingway, you have a gift for clarity and i am so glad you displayed on this show. thank you thank you. >> thank you. the attack on our democracy is real, and it came from within. that's the lesson. we are out of time tonight. we'll be back tomorrow. 8:00, the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. we'll be back every night in the

service of those values which will not change, despite the facts. have a great evening, we have a surprise tonight. continuing the cupboard, live at 9:00, four seconds from now, the great sean hannity. >> sean: your clock is off but who's counting? great show, tucker. >> tucker: not me, man. >> sean: good to see you. welcome to "hannity." yes, we begin with this fox news alert. the witch hunt is gone. itun is buried. the real russia investigation is only beginning. now today's hearing capped off what will now go in history as one of the single biggest, most epic embarrassments in history, in american history. what happened today should shock the conscience of every american. the liars in the democratic party, their cheerleaders in the media mob, they have been exposed yet again. you can never trust these people, ever. for t