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>> i'm fulfilling the legacyfi of barack obama and you're not. >> that would be a surprise to him. >> to providing healthcare to every man, woman, and child in this country. i wrote the damn bill, if i may say so. >> and while bernie wrote the bill, i read the bill. >> the problem, senatorea sanders with that damn bill that you wrote and that senator warren backs is that it doesn't trust the american people. >> i am proud that year after year i had an f rating from the nra. and as president i will not be intimidated by the nra. >> when 54 senators said let's do background checks. let's get rid of assault weapons and when 54 senators it failed because of the filibuster. >> the bottom line is this: donald trump, in office, on trade policy, you know, he reminds me of that guy in the wizard of oz, you know, when you pull back the curtain, it's a really small

dude.ea >> let us be clear, joe, in the united states of america, we are spending twice as much per capita on healthcare as the canadians or any other major country on earth. >> this is america. >> yeah, but americans don't want to pay twice as much as. other countries. d >> brian: as usual, the biggest thing the candidates competed over was how left they can go in many cases. joe biden, the man labeled as the moderate in the race declared that nobody in america should go to prison for a nonviolent crime. do you want proof? >> what's happened is that we're in a situation now where there are so manyha people in jail that shouldn't be in jail. nobody should be in jail for nonviolent crime. >> brian: exactly. so please let bernie madoff go and al capone if you are c still alive open up the gates.l that is joe biden being moderate. take another former obama ite julian castro launched a biden's mental fitness drawing gaffes from the

audience. >> you just said that you just said that two minutes ago. you just said two minutes ago that they would have to buy. in you said they would have to buy? >> wouldn't have to buy in. >> are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago? >> are you forgetting already what you said just two minutes ago? i mean, i can't believe that you said two minutes ago that they had to buy in and now you are saying they don't have to buy in. you are forgetting that. >> brian: joe turned to bernie i'm sorry i'm getting confused. dana hosts the briefing with dana perino. she joins us with the big winners, losers and nonentities. >> dana: nonentities. >> brian: hello, dana. it was hard to watch all those hours. >> dana: i gave them the first two hours. d i said if anything happens a in the third hour i willll find out in the morning. >> brian: let's start with the good. you have two winners? >> dana: first of all, overall i don't think that debate changed the dynamics of the race in any demonstrable way last night.rs

i would say if you forced me to pick two winners and did you, that's what your producers did earlier today. i think biden and warren come out pretty good. the media narrative for a long time and amongst other competitors of biden's have believed for a while that he is going to crater. w that he is going to stumble and that will be the end of his -- that did not happen last night and, in fact, i think he acquitted himself very well. warren, i think she set her several apart from bernie sanders ohio think is a nonentity. doesn't seem to matter. this is the third debate. bernie sanders keeps thaty. base of support but it doesn't improve.at and i think while he shouts, the statistics at you all the time. >> brian: every day. >> elizabeth warren says letet me tell you a story. let me explain why i'm here. i think that's why the two -- biden and warrenry probably come out the best out of the debate. >> brian: the decision by the warren camp not to go after biden and visa versa.

>> interestingly warren and bernie didn't go after each other either. the three frontrunners basically you think they were saying okay we are still going to be in the lead and while others might have had a better debate, i think booker had a fine debate. klobuchar did better than usual. beto o'rourke he had a better debate but i also think he closed off any future elected office for himself with his position on guns. >> brian: we will go into beto o'rourke in a lot of detail in a while. real quick, a push back on biden just a little bit. when he was asked about slavery and his comments he made earlier i'm not goingwh to be held accountable for the sins of my fathers and grandfathers and he ends up talking about schooling and playing records. >> dana: um-huh. >> brian: the difference between iraq and afghanistan? >> dana: i'm not saying he had a great debated. he didn't crater or crumble. i don't believe that his base of support is going ton' go down after last night's debate. i think it will actually go up. >> brian: you mentioned nonentity.y. bernie sanders says the same thing over and over again. >> dana: you heard it all on

2016. he just is not going to get any more support. >> brian: so then we move to what you think are the losers. t she had the best rollout of anyone certainly with the most promise with the most interesting background thehe former attorney general of california now the senator from california kamala harris. you would say she did bad. >> dana: her answers weree bad. her lines didn't land. it seemed inauthentic. what i read today she is having a hard time with big money donors thinking that she can go the distance. and i imagine that they willg probably start thinking, you know, maybe biden is actually going to be the one that we support. i think she is having a lot of trouble. i don't see how she gets back out of it. >> brian: the question is, if she is not going to get back out of it, how does she kiss up to joe biden again sorry about that first debate. >> dana: there was a lot of vice presidential timber last night on the stage. >> brian: if i get the nomination i will eliminate

myself as the number two. what do you think the tactic? >> dana: somebody was eventually going to raise this question of has joe biden lost a step and julian castro decided it was going to be him. the thing is he went after joe biden and the audience felt like it was a low blow. it wasn't even correct. that isn't what biden actually said and it looked mean. and that's not what the democrats seem to want this time around. >> brian: theory? can i share it with you. >> dana: i love a theory, yes.de >> brian: i don't have much time buoy do you think people in the obama camp think biden lost his fast ball and gave him a wink and nod go for it and prove it. >> i think that was one of those things i'm thinking of running for president. you don't have to do that okay. we wish you the best kind of thing. and that they probably realize that there is not a lot they can do to try to help them. i don't think that the obamas will endorse before the convention. t this could go all the way to a contested convention next

summer which would be really fun. t i asked bret human what's it like to cover a contested convention he said never done it. it could be history making. b >> brian: there is nobody else to ask because brit hume has seen it all and he doesn't age. dana, i'm getting reports that you can start your weekend. can you confirm that? >> dana: yes., i get my dog back because he had to go to the dog sitter. anyway it's going to be a good weekend. thank you. >> brian: dana perino, have a good weekend. >> dana: s thank you. >> brian: beto o'rourke used the stage to defull-time himself as the most progressive candidate. is he going to send himself to take away your guns. >> are you are you opposing to take away guns and how would it work. >> i am, if it's a weapon designed to kill people on a battlefield, hell yes we are going to take your ar-15 and your ak 47. >> brian: it was a plan line before the night was overr beto's campaign was selling t-shirts with that line on top of it that's the only way you could conceive that he had this whole thingsh

planned ahead of time. as for beto's promise briscoe cain tweeted this my ar-is ready for you robert francis closed quote. beto very brave when promising to take away constitutional rights. immediately this is a death threat representative. clearly you shouldn't own an ar-15 and neither should anyone else. game on. o twitter took down kaine's remark a little bit later. beto bragged on cnn. >> you know i think twitter took it down because you have somebody with a weapon of war threatening to use it against somebody who is talking about gun violence in this country. that's exactly why briscoe cain should not have an ar-15. >> brian: really representative briscoe cain joins us now to explain. briscoe, have you had quite a day. are you rethinking your tweet or underlining it?t? >> we got to underline it

for sure, brian. you know robert francis, of course, the one who made the threat. he wants to rob millions of americans of their property. all right. he threatened to tropical depression on my property and the property of others or to kick down our door and take from us. what i wrote really is just another way of saying come and take it. many are familiar with that flag with the cannon calledd the gonzalez flag from 1835 here in texas. when we stood up to a radical federal government who demanded we give up our arms. and, again, all that was was saying come and take it. you mentioned that he made t-shirts and, of course, he is trying to fund raise off of this. he wants to maybe send a remark. actually go to my website briscoe cain.com and pitch in 15 bucks for ar-15 to let beto know he may have been in d.c. a little long. >> brian: of course i'm very familiar with that cannon. mexicans decided to wanted to take it back. mexicans wanted to take it back. they earned it and ended up keeping it. that's what you are referring to.

>> yes, absolutely. >> were you astounded orin were you expecting him to make a statement like that because in texas, the most pro-gun state in the union, perhaps, although very concerned about mass shootings, obviously, were you wondering why a former congressman in that stateng would make that statement or were you expecting it? >> well, he actually made a statement similar to that recently. i tweeted something similar on september 5th. twitter didn't take it down. and it's just amazing. because really he is the one making the threat, flight all we are saying if someone wants to take it from us, they will have to, right, do it and maybe we could say from our cold dead hands. and you do recall the flip flop, right? people keep pointing it out in his failed senate race he was saying no one wants to take your guns. people are trying to say americans are panicking and freaking out.. now here we have a presidential candidate wanting to rob us and steal our rights. disgusting. >> brian: so far it's been -- according to what we use as a criteria four plus

dead in a public setting without any underlying crime. a i asked since 2009, protect day, how many assault rifles, ar-15s or ak 47s were involved in mass shootings there has been 44. and they were involved in 11. so, do you blame the rifle, the handgun, or the shooter? s. >> well, it's of course the shooter. we need to be going the correct way on firearms, right? and protect -- we need to at least reform laws that allow for women, you know, under threat of violence to be able to carry for their own personal protection.r i have to ask the government for a license or jump through hoops. it's safer. i know you know that and your listeners know it as well. of course it's the guy. you know what? it's the driver. remember beto's when he tried to flee from police. we should be taking his license away and not the guns from law-abiding citizen. >> brian: if you are saying if you look at his writings in high school and track record maybe he would be -- fall under the red flag law? >> hey, i'm not going to go

there though. i actually don't like red flag laws. i care more about due process.ik as much as i may not like beto o'rourke his constitutional rights should be protected just like everybody else who doesn't agree with me. >> brian: finally just to underline it, were you threatening him today? >> no, absolutely not. it's come and take it. their threat was against americans. >> brian: okay. lastly, el paso, he says, changed him. odessa, of course, is horrific. how do you process both of those issues. >> those are sad things. and but what beto has done by the way, my family is under police protectionan right now. there is g.p.s. out -- state police force house and death threats that have come against us. i process it? d look, we need to heal, but the way to stop violence is not to take guns and property away from people. >> brian: your family sunday death threats? you have gotten death threats? >> yes, yes. all day long. very disgusting things. and being docked. i was docked. my business partners were doxxed. making threats against my d

children and family think are so tolerant the left, right? >> brian: i get the sarcasm. he says he didn't know your name before this briscoe cain, he knows you now. thank you so much. >> thank you, brian. >> brian: knowledgeable about gun rights or gun laws as anyone i have ever met. dana, he made that statement last night that t-shirt is ready to go. you mentioned -- briscoe just mentioned he had flip flopped i had forgotten that from his senate run. - where is this conversation heading? >> brian, i'm so glad you are talking about this. everybody knows briscoee cain's name now. the t-shirt, i am absolutely amazed that a lawmaker that someone running for the highest office in the land would actually try to raise money off of a threat to the public. and i want to be really clear about this.

when you tell law abiding americans that you are going to forcibly steal their lawfully owned and responsibly usedd property, that is a threat. and saying that no you are not, i want to be able to defend myself in return. that is not a threat. telling someone like beto o'rourke had been doing is a a threat of promised action. and i mean, i want to take everyone back to one of the earliest attempts at mass confiscation of firearms in the united states. and this was wounded knee. so i don't know if that's what democrats and beto o'rourke are trying to move us towards. i sincerely hope not. i hope they respect the law of the land. i hope they respect the constitution. but, i just find this talk reprehensible. i think that the party needs to show where they are with americans and condemn it. >> brian: so i will use the word trigger and, of course, it's appropriate here. it's a trigger for republicans in pro-second amendment which everyone should be if you endorse the bill of rights. they say it's a slippery slope.

when you want to contain, when you want to curtail and dance around the edges, it's the beginning of taking the guns away. when he comes out andd actually says it, what does that do to the debate? h >> yeah, i know. well, exactly, what does that do to debate. the talk that i have been hearing from this particular party is not one of good faith. i mean, these are individuals who are purposefully conflating terms. brian, when they use phrases like weapons of war they are talking about all semiautomatics. let me ask this question and i hope mr. o'rourke can answer. when he is talking about going out and confiscating all ar-15s. what about k wars sks or all the other platforms or specifically the ar-15 platform or specifically the lower 223, 356 caliber but yet is he totally fine with 3006 and 308. if you are going to talk about these issues you need to demonstrate a working knowledge of these issues. otherwise it, would be like me, brian, regulating the nfl. i know nothing about football.e i would say something to the effect of well let's ban all pastel colors on the field because i don't like pastel

colors. it would be stupid. lawmakers when they're talking about restricting our rights they need to show the respect of understanding the issue about which they t are ledge a little.an >> brian: i will give you the best sports analogy like somebody on the outside worried about head injuries in sports. no more of the big guys tackling the little guys is that okay?y? no it's not possible.ea >> there you go or toughen up. get a sticker helmet. >> brian: work on that for another segment.r dana, your knowledge is extremely needed. i think beto o'rourke hurt any chance of anything getting done from the white house with the republicans agreed by making that statement because is he going to lose a lot of popular support. >> yeah. beto o'rourke just tried red flagging americans. i hope all of those republicans this is red red flags get you. >> brian: dana, thank you so much. >> thank you, brian. >> brian: last night's debate another tough one for joe biden in my stems. will he even hold it together until iowa? we will discuss that next. watch.h. this play the radio. make sure the television -- excuse me, make sure you

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♪ >> brian: just a few years ago, barack obama was the left's champion, last night kind of the villain and that was bad news for joe biden when jorge ramos pushed him on deportation of illegal immigrants. biden had to back away insisting hey, i was just the vice president. i wasn't responsible. >> vice president in an administration thatnt deported 3 million people, the most ever in u.s. history.

did you make a mistake with i those deportations? >> the president did the best thing that was able to be done. >> how about you? >> i'm the vice president of the united states. >> brian: okay.. it was just one of many episodes that made you scratch your head a little bit. i thought it was a long night for the democratic front runner as you know earlier dana perino thoughtg it was really good. let's find out what lisa booth thinks fox news contributor and joins you now. lisa, first off, was this good or bad for joe biden? >> so i think it's -- t remember david axelrod said after the second debate for joe biden basically the goodai news is for joe biden this is the best he can do. the bad news is for joe biden this is the best he can do. i think it's sort of the same. he has not had any stellar standout performances in anyny of these debates. >> brian: right. >> he has kind of glided by. here's the thing he can. p because he is tied to the obama legacy. i think you cannot under estimate how important that obama legacy is for him. that is essentially what is propping up his candidacy and what protects him from

all these gaffes and mistakes he has made. >> brian: he can't have it both ways and say i was just the vice president and when they like something that president obama did and well i was with him every step of the way. and 100 percent right. >> that's what vice president biden is doing, right? he runs an ad in iowa, basically touting, being tied to the obama administration vice president. he ran a pre-debate ad yesterday also doing that with him and obama hugging. and so but then he divorces himself on the deportations thing and this is what castro had to say about that. >> but my problem with viceca president biden and cory pointed this out last time is every time something goodod about barack obama comes up, he says oh, i was there, i was there, i was there.ou that's me,he too. and then every time somebody questions part of the administration that we were both part of he says well, that was the president. i mean, he wants to take credit for obama's work but thought have to answer to any questions. >> and he is right. so when asked about mass

deportations no, i was just the lowly vice president. nothing to do with that however, he also says this. so listen to this. >> by the way, barack and i and president and vice president we provided money for voluntary busing. >> he pulled out of thee paris climate accord, which barack and i helped put together. >> that's why barack and i fought so hard to continue to see your funding. >> barack and i agreed we were going to give him the chance. >> he is actively working to undo every bit of the progress president obama and i and our administration did. >> so he is clearly trying to have interest both ways. we need to build upon obama legacy and extension of that when it comes to bad things mass deportations immensely unpopular amongst the left i didn't have anything to do with that you can't have it both ways. castro seems to be the only one calling him out on it. biden was asked about reparations comments he made previously about segregation

so he talked about the need for more money for schools and teachers and somehow he ended up talking about this. >> play the radio, make sure the television -- excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night. the phone. make sure the kids hear words. a kid coming from a very poor school -- or a very poor background will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time they get. >> there thank you, mr. vice president. >> i'm going to go like the rest of them do twice over. >> criticized comment one showing the age talking about record player and also some of the things he said previously or prior to that t because he talks about the fact that parents don't know -- african-american parents don't know what to do with their kids, i'm paraphrasing here. they need help. some on the left saying that's a don't deaf comment and not happy with joe biden's response talking about reparations. >> brian: not the first time a politician has not answered a question. >> not going to be the last. >> brian: pair phrased you said 20 or 30 years ago i'm not going to be penalized

for my father and myou grandfather had done in the past. i'm worried about now. then he went on to say poor kids don't hear enough words. and let's put on the record player.. if i am a voter or if i'm a democratic strategist and do you this stuff for a living, or did. i'm worried about the way he loses himself.in i'm worried that he gets so confused. he can read a prompter but every single event ends up in a problem. this is a pattern. >> lisa: see, this is where joe biden has been under estimated including by myself is that the support still for president obama and being part of thaty legacy. look at his support among african-americans, it is so strong. you look at states like south carolina where is he doing so well.is particularly because african-americans make up about 60% of the electorate there.in so i wouldn't under estimate how much that obama legacy matters. o >> brian: lisa booth, thanks so much. see you soon. we're not done yet. democrats went hard on immigration last night in a way they agreed with

president trump. there is a crisis at the border. to them the crisis is that it's too hard for migrants to get to america. >> the democrats and republicans alike voted to build a wall that has produced thousands of deaths of people trying to cross to join families or to work a job. >> we immediately surge to the border all thosejo people seeking asylum. they deserve to be heard. that's who we're. >> a system right now that cannot tell the difference in the threat posed by a terrorist, a criminal, and a 12-year-old girl is not a system that is keeping us safer and it is not serving our values. >> brian: you always wonder when you see politicians out there what it means for the people who actually do this for a living likeyo mark morgan, is he acting commissioner of customs and border protection under president trump. he was chief of border patrol under president obama.a. i want an expert because as a person that is in this country i think most americans want a secure border. were they sounding like

people that could secure the border? >> absolutely not. and, look, brian, this is not -- i'm not a politician. i don't want to be a politician. as you said, i've been in law enforcement for a long time.ou and i have been involved in thisn issue. this immigration issue for a long time. this is not a manufactured crisis. we are not turning people away who have legitimate asylum claims. and if they want to talk about what's going on right now w because of a broken asylum laws, the only people that are benefiting from those loopholes are the cartels. they are a multi-billion-dollar industry. because of our laws and because congress fails to dodo what they need to do to change those laws and protect this country, it's the cartels who are getting rich. they are the ones exploiting this vulnerable population. that's the truth. that's what the american people need to understand.ul >> brian: so people whoo say wow, have you got to have an t open heart. you know, president trump,p, and the people that work for the trump administration, these people are walkingg thousands of miles. they wants a better life.

why be so hard-hearted. what do you tell them? >> so there is two things. first of all, we have a legal system, brian. this country allows more individuals to become citizens and into this country than any other nation in this world. that's a fact. and the other thing, we care about this vulnerable population because we are saying don't mortgage your house. don't give thousands of dollars to cartels and be taken advantage to have make this journey. if you are truly seeking asylum and truly being persecuted what we want you to do is seek relief from the first country you get to. that's what they would should be doing. they shouldn't be taking this dangerous treknt cost multiple countries risking their lives to come to this country. seek asylum and seek it from the first country. >> brian: if certain people get their way they will give free healthcare to illegal immigrants. what will that do for the flood at the border then? >> brian, that's a great

point. and this is what the american people need to know. we always are talking about pull factors and incentives. with each additional element such as that, driver's license, free education, a free healthcare, it only continues to add to the pull factors, add to those incentives to risk their lives, to pate cartels, to make this dangerous trek. we know the majority of individuals are economic migrants. what we want to tell them is do this in the right way. do this in a safe way. when we continue to do this, we're actually incentivizing these individuals to risk their lives. >> brian: you have.zi >> anna: recidivism if you watch any more debates. i'm forbidding you to do it. you were the right person for president obama and you are the right person for president trump. thank you so much mark morgan. >> thanks, brian. >> brian: jorge ramos made it very clear last night how he feels about president trump and politics. why wasn't he a debate moderator? shouldn't he be fair and balanced so to speak? we will discuss it next. ♪

>> brian: thursday's debate four different moderators stand out to a degree jorge ramos.s. ramos made it obvious how he feels about the u.s. president and u.s. politics and prompted pete buttigieg to call half thehe country racist. >> 8 out of 10 latinos in texas for another mass shooting this is according to a new poll.>> president calls mexican immigrants rapists and killers try to ban muslims from entering the country. build the wall and send her back. do you think that people who support president trump and his immigration policies are racist? >> anyone who supports this is supporting racism.. >> brian: okay. joe concha writes about the media for the hill he joins to us react to that plus thehe performance of the other moderators and joins us now.o joe, what's your reaction to that.er i was shocked at the point

of view we are getting from the guy asking questions. >> i wasn't so much shocked because we have known, brian kilmeade, that this is jorge ramos. this is who he is. he is not a journalist. he is an activist. is he a partisan. here's what he had to say in 2016 before the presidential a election. he said donald trump is thee most divisive, polarizing, and disrupting figure in american politics in decades and neutrality is not an option for journalists when covering him. so if you are abc news and you see and hear the things that jorge ramos has said in the past and then you say you know what? let's make him a moderator just like msnbc put rachelt maddow in the moderator seat. just like cnn put don lemon in the moderator seat. this is why the american public isn't learning too much from these debates because they are being asked questions that are really speeches being given by activists and partisansed and we are not getting to the core issues. even ramos last night asked senator warren should american foreign policy be

based around the principle of climate change? this isn't journalism this is a joke, brian. >> brian: it is. a couple other things, joe. i'm very curious when rahm emanuel opens up on the sunday show this week with george stephanopoulos and says what are democrats doing insulting president obama and decriminalizing people crossing the border and offering free healthcare he says that's not what democrats believe. it just so happens that abc never asked any of those questions. never said do you believe that decriminal saling's of the border? do you believe that all immigrants illegal should get healthcare answered yes and went right back to insulting the previous president. buff they avoided all of that. >> it's amazing the questions that weren't asked last night, brian. you look at any poll, whether it be from reuters and up sews. whether it be from gallup. when you ask the american voters what issue is most important to you when going into a presidential electionhet we didn't get companies it's the economy stupid for nothing back in 1992. it's the same election cycle every time.

none of those four moderators last night brian said this word jobs. in other words, how are you going to create jobs if we do go into the recession that biden, warrenin and sanders say and the media for that matter say we are going into? also, the word deficit never brought up once or federal spending. or anything really resembling taxes or the economy.ng and that's what matters to people most and instead now we have had five debates and all of them have been aboutos social issues for the most part and not about theat things that matter to people in wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan and the rest of the country. >> brian: absolutely. the other thing to keep in mind, too. deficit could be a weakness for president trump. they might have welcomed that question. meanwhile, joe, anotherth thing, federal prosecutors recommended charges this week against former acting director of the fbi andy mccabe. cnn had a pretty interesting reaction to that news. what do you make of it? >> well, they didn't have much of a reaction when you looked at their prime time last night, for instance. remember, prime time on cnn, a unlike, say, fox, fox,

that's the opinion side of the newspaper, so to speak. tucker, or sean hannity or laura ingraham. those are opinion hosts and that's fine becauses because the newspaper has the opinion side and news side. cnn, anderson cooper, chris cuomo all listed as anchors therefore news programs. last night none of those programs broached even for a second the news around andy mccabe. and then if you even go on to their website or on their twitter feed, they have a headline that says that mccabe is going -- may be under indictment. yet, they don't mention until seven paragraphs down in the story that oh yeah, by the way, he happens to be an employee at this network. the bias of omission and that's the most insidious bias you can have.e >> brian: recommended him for criminal indictment. four times he lied, according to the inspector general.l. one time under oath and one time on tape answered still got the job.b. so, believe me, if he gets exonerated and they don't press charges that will be

the lead story on cnn all night. and they will come out of hiding. >> probably. >> brian: joe concha, thanks so much. let's talk a littlel entertainment and little legal.>> felicity huffman learned her punishment today for her role in the varsity blues college admission scandal. trace gallagher has all the details next. plus, tucker will rejoin us for the fires raging through the amazon forest. is it t a manufactured crisis? we will have more on that in just a moment. ♪ eth 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. like yes to flexible hours and payment options. yes to free exams and x-rays

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>> brian: welcome back, actress felicity huffman got her daughter into a better college she doesn't deserve to get into. today she got her punishment. trace gallagher handels all breaking news.

what happened? >> appearing before a judge huffman was nervous and tearful, brian. apologizing to the students, parents and colleges impacted by her actions saying she was deeplynt ashamed and did more damage than she ever imagined. w huffman attributed her actions in part to the bewilderment of being a mother. the prosecutor shot right back saying motherhood does not make you a cheat and a felon. a the judge agreed that trying to be a good mom was no excuse saying the college system is already distorted by money and privilege and, yet, for huffman that doesn't enough. she took one more advantage for her child. judge also noted that huffman admitted responsibility. has apparently regained her moral compass. she will now serve two weeks in federal prison. pay a $30,000 fine. and perform 250 hours of community service. the jump noted without this sentence the community around hutchman would ask why she got awith it. the actress is hoping to serve her time at alll

serve her time at all women's low security prison in northern california. after leaving the courthouse today huffman said there are no excuses or justifications for her actions, period. and she hopes her family, friends, and community will forgive her. remember, huffman is the first parent to be sentenced in this c scandal. full house star lori loughlin and her fashion designer husband are charged with paying a half a million dollars to bribe their daughters into usc. they have pled not guilty. and are fighting the allegations but could face up to 40 years in prison. >> brian: wow. so we are going to be going back to you for that. that's going to be a lot more serious because she couldn't have been more contrite. trace, thanks so much. meanwhile, it is time nowus for tucker. >> tucker: well, for weeks now press outlets around the world have acted like a world ending catastrophe sun folding in the nation of brazil. after a wave of fires in the amazon rain forest celebrities in the united states and europe went on a twitter rampage.

they tweeted photographs of rain forest fires attributed to brazil. many of which were actually years old. all of this, of course, is political.ch it's in a coordinated attack on the brazilian president newly elected. is he a populist whose government is frequently compared to that of donald trump and he is about as popular with rich people around the world. ernesto the foreign minister of brazil he says the fires are no different from fires that have been going on in the rain forest for decades. only now being used as an excuse to attack brazil and undermine the new government. he joins us tonight. thank you very much for coming on tonight. so, as a factual matter, put these fires in context for us. in the united states, we're being told that this is a new phenomenon and it's a result of the government's unwillingness to acknowledge climate change. >> it's great to be here, first of all.

it's not at all true.e, this is normal phenomenon every year in the time of the dry season there are fires. partially natural occurrences and partly farmers clearing land already been cleared before. and in some way, it's also a illegal fan fess stationon we want to combat. basically the amount of fires, we are -- this year it's on average compared to the average of the last 10 years it's more than last year but it's half of what we had in the years of 2004-2005 when we had the leftist government in brazil. back then no one said anything. no one cared about it. normal. this year, different government, suddenly -- >> tucker: may i stop you right there? so you are saying that the fires this year, if i heard you correctly, are one half the size the fires that brazil experienced under the previous government. do you know that to be true? >> if you take the years

2003 to 2005, more or less, it was double what we have today. and. >> okay. so i'm assuming that's true. i haven't checked. but if it is true, that means a lot of people are just lying about what's happening in brazil right now.e >> that's true. information is out there. the european commission themselves. they commissioned the study that was just out one week ago showing exactly what i said. we are on average more than last year half of what we had some years ago. so not only us saying that also international data and nasa data, european union data. fabricated the crisis and sell a solution. the solution they want or some people want is to limit brazil's sovereignty over the amazon. and maybe have access to the

riches that we have there, through the mineral resources we have there. they fabricate a crisis that doesn't exist in order to sell a solution they were thinking about in the first place. >> tucker: what's interesting is that, of course, it's not simply brazil that has jurisdiction over the amazon basin it's also colombia and peru. you haven't heard anything about colombia or peru. it's all been focused onyo brazil. >> exactly. >> tucker: why do you think that is? >> for the same reason. peru has a little bit of fires, colombia not enough. it's interesting because bolivia had maybe more occur runs this year. no one said anything about bolivia because it has a left wing government. you see by that the political aspect at play and not the facts. all we want is to show the facts. apparently that's not what people want. because it doesn't combine with their narrative.tuck it's nice to hear what the brazilian government has to say about this thank you so

much. >> thank you so much for the opportunity to be here. >> brian: wow. meanwhile it's friday and that means it's time for dan bongino's news explosion. our favorite former secret a b service agent will be here to comment on last night's debate and other top stories that happened this week. let's take a wide shop and bring up the music. ♪ ♪[upbeat music]

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>> brian: it's friday. time to close the week out with america's favorite guy. dan bingino. the news explosion -- dan bongino. stories crazy this whole week. are you ready, dan? >> that's a lot of pressure. america's favorite guy. it better be good. yes, i am ready. it started like a slow news week but it ended hot. here are my three best stories of the week. story number three first. kamala harris giving it a go

with the old comedy act last night during debate. i guess she's trying to rescue this floundering presidential campaign. she threw out poorly timed, awful jokes, one about trump being the little dude in "the wizard of oz" then an executive order to take your guns away. someone asked her about the constitution. she laughed it off. that was a joke too. it wasn't funny. dave chappelle, your career is fine. don't worry about kamala harris. elizabeth warren. one of these things that's frustrating about these candidates. i did thft r this last week with de blasio, they're like professional boxers the way they can duck a jab and a question. they never answer a question. elizabeth warren was asked directly if her health care for all which is really going to be health care for none plan would raise middle class taxes, she went on this five-minute diatribe and never answered the

question. let me answer it for you all. whatever she told you is a lie, ok? your taxes will go up. there is no money fairy, america. news flash. the viewers notice there is no money fairy. doctors don't work for free, the janitor in the hospital doesn't work for free, somebody's got to pay for this stuff. at least good republicans -- we have our problems too but good republicans are honest. these democrats will not tell you the truth. it's infuriating watching that last night. >> brian: no doubt about it. at least joe biden called out bernie sanders on one thing. >> story number one. at what point with cnn do we acknowledge that this is reality tv, that this isn't a news network any more?

astonishingly they blew it again. they reported earlier in the week about this spy story that the spy had to be exfiltrated from russia all because of the evil donald trump. petting mr. biglesworth on his lap that he shared information with the russians that ironically, brian, had been reported on, the same information by cnn a month earlier. you can look that up, folks, it's over, guys, i get it, you're pandering to 10 people in an airport in east tunafish but it's not a news network. they blew it again. unbelievable. >> brian: they jeopardized the security of the person they think was the russian asset that is now in washington. hell to pay for that. you kept your blood pressure low. go out on a date with your wife. >> my favorite night of the

week. >> brian: that's it for our show. dan bongino. watch the show every night. my book, "sam houston: the alamo avengers." i want to see you. >> sean: this special edition of hannity, trump versus the left. the d.o.j. inspector general michael horowitz has pleted his investigation into fisa abuse. attorney general barr is reviewing the documents. according from the house judiciary ranking member, congressman doug collins, after barr is done reviewing the report it will then be released to you. we, the people. the general public. this is a culmination of a months, months-long investigation by the d.o.j.'s watch dog into rampant abuse of