>> martha: that is to the story of tuesday october the first 2019 but as you know, the story goes on so we will see you back here tomorrow night. thanks for being with us tonight. have a great night. stick around for tucker carlson coming up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." there is often disagreement in washington. but if there is one thing that n this city knows for certain, it's that investigations of government officials are always a good thing. yes, they can be expensive, they can run through tens of millions of dollars. of course, they do paralyze the government, making it impossible to fix our most pressing problems of men we will also can see that investigations tend to destroy the lives of completely innocent pete newell but in the end, if anyone in washington caf that is well worth it. investigations are a search for

facts. anyone who stands in their way obstructs the truth itself. that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we send more than two full year is looking into the question of whether or not donald trump worked secretly as an agent of vladimir putin. it was never any evidence that he did that but haley clinton's campaign demanded a thorough investigation and as you well know, we got that investigation. in the end, the investigation and effect clear donald trump of claims that he colluded with russia but it also inadvertently indicated quite a few other people for unrelated crimes. we learn, for example, that quite a few senior law enforcement and intelligence officials think nothing of lying to the public. really lying to the public or of abusing their tremendous powersr political ends, we did that, we now know that. we also know the obama administration was perfectly willing to spy on clinical opponents in the middle of a presidential campaign. it did that come too. these are not small revelations, nothing like them has happened

in recent american history. so it would seem wise to get to the bottom of exactly what happened, who did it, and why. as it turns out, for the past seven months, the attorney general william barr has been trying to do just that. he is opened an investigation. it now you would think given everything you know about washington and its laws of the investigation that everyone in official d.c. would be drilled by this but you would be wrong because here's the thing. they are not happy in the slightest, they are outraged. former acting fbi director andy mccabe went on cnn today to complain about barr's investigation for it as it turns out, mccabe is one of the people attorney general will be investigate them. he thinks that simply outrageous. >> there is two primary questions that i think you have to ask care. the first is why is he doing this at all. the circumstances behind the opening of the russia case are not a mystery. i have testified under oath about them as early as december

of 2017. 2017. jim comey has made comments about them publicly, i have, we both have written books that touched on the issues, so with the circumstances behind the case are widely known. if they were entirely validated by the special counsel investigation. >> tucker: got that? jim comey and i already wrote best-selling books explaining our side of things so what is there to investigate? mccabe seemed completely serious as he said this. how dare the justice department not accept my word at face value despite the fact i was fired for lying? you would have to be lacking a certain, with the term here, self awareness to a case like that on television but mccabe was happy to carry them up by the way, they cnn seemed to agree with him wholeh. the story of this morning's "washington post" claimed unnamed federal bureaucrats grousing that they may be subject to the same oversight the rest of us could expect if we ever stepped out of line.

here is a direct call. current and former intelligence and law enforcement officials expressed frustration and alarm monday that the head of the justice department was taking such a direct role in re-examining what they view as conspiracy theories and baseless allegations of misconduct. got that? the allegations against me are baseless. i am claiming from behind the clothes of anonymity paired how jay you investigate this? to near what i said? it's baseless? call off your investigation! this is the part in the story where honest journalists might step forward, by the way, of all political backgrounds, and remind us that that's a pretty ludicrous response actually and that nobody is above the reach of the federal investigation. but no. the kind of journalist who would make that point seems to have retired or at least no longer works at nbc news. instead, we get hacks like this

siding with the nameless unaccountable bureaucrats against the rest of us. speak of the top law-enforcement official in the united states is spending his time amid all the great concerns must be on his plate coming pursuing what many people believe is essentially a conspiracy theory about the origins of the russia investigation. >> it appears it is the attorney general operating outside the normal gog channel to roam around the world and the intelligence community looking for ways to smear the people to presidencies as it is his political opponents. >> william barr could be as deeply implicated in what nancy pelosi has called the trump cover up as richard nixon's attorney general was in the nixon cover-up. tonight the attorney general of the unit states once again needs his own personally paid for criminal defense lawyer who might soon become the only person william barr can safely talk to in washington. >> tucker: he had had whatever that means. let's translate for you just to

make it totally clear. powerful people are telling you that they should not be subjected to oversight appeared we should not be investigating powerful people. the people whose job it is to watch over the powerful people and hold them to account, they agree. no oversight required. you ever feel like nobody's on your side? maybe it's because nobody is. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins us with more on the latest on the attorney general william barr's investigation into what just happened. catherine, get to see you. >> the investigation into the genesis of the 2016 2016 fbi ra collusion probe is willful. confirmation tonight from a justice department official that attorney general william barr and u.s. attorney john durham were in italy last week as part of the case due to source close to the process tells fox news that earlier this year bar got the runaround from senior intelligence officials about the multi-professor and whether he had connections to u.s. italian or other foreign intelligence

services. the special counsel report describes a london-based professor with connections to russia who told campaign age george papadopoulos that moscow had dirt on hillary clinton in the form of thousands of emails. those claims what the collusion flame with the fbi later opening the counterintelligence case. it made after the counsel report and before the phone call with ukrainian leader, president trump told reporters he wanted barr to cast a wide net. >> the attorney general is one of the most respected people in this country. >> i hope he looks at australia and i hope he looks at ukraine. i hope he looks at everything because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country. >> there is a second investigation by just a department inspector general michael e horwitz into the surveillance warrants and renewals targeting the trump campaign but the scope of that investigation is narrow and horowitz cannot compel from testimony at a source close to the process tonight suggested

fox news that the report could come later this month. >> tucker: inc. is so much for that catherine herridge. on about and somehow got a corporate board seat on a ukrainian energy company. why? well it seems obvious. the purpose would be influencing his father was bright vice president at the time and whose portfolio included ukraine. joe biden when asked about it presses deeply incurious he says it wasn't corrupt arrangement because he never spoke to hunter biden about the arrangement. yet as we reported last night on the show, there's photographic evidence of biden on a golf outing with both his son hunter and a man called devon archer who was another member of the burisma board. what does this add up to? doug mcgregor has deep knowledge. he's a former u.s. colonel and he joins us tonight. thanks much for coming on. you're familiar with the region and washington. what do you think was going on

here? >> i think we know now and in fact for your information, moscow has now recently published an article backed up by documents that go into detail that we can't hear about the bottom line is the oligarch who was responsible for appointing mr. biden to the board and his friend archer devon, it seems that he was banned from traveling to the united states and then magically after the appointment to the board occurred, suddenly the ban on this man's travel to the united states was lifted and his suspected criminal activities and shady business practices were suddenly ignored so if you're looking for a quid pro quo, it's pretty hard to argue that there wasn't a quit broke well at least on that level. >> tucker: that's remarkable. in checkable by the way. >> absolutely add to this you have to add a whole range of other things. billions of dollars over many years of ukraine disappearing into private banks, one owned by

this particular oligarch and 5 billion, 4 billion we are not really sure he may have been lost. it was supposed to jump-start the ukrainian economy. so the whole problem with the corruption of ukraine is pervasive. >> tucker: ukraine is not a rich country. >> not at all. it's terribly poor. it's probably the poorest country in europe at this point. it certainly is below russia in terms of per capita gnp which russia is at 68 in ukraine is far below that. things are not getting better but the best barometer of what's wrong ukraine is the use. they have suffered an enormous exodus of human capital out of the country. millions have left and these are the people with the education, with the ability to leave and get jobs. there is an estimated 2 million in poland and they recently pulled a 1.5 million that are legal at least in small numbers and the top reason for leaving

as corruption and ukraine. a third of them has said they will never go home because they think corruption is hopeless, it can be eradicated. >> tucker: so politically connected americans who are getting rich from their connections and ukraine are really exploiting the poorest nation in europe and its people for money? >> this is where the swamp has consequences over sweeties as well as here at home. somebody like hunter biden is literally stealing from the ukrainian people. that's what really is tragic about this and it doesn't stop with him. we could spend a lot of time talking about many politicians would been involved in one way or another but a good example is this recent military aid package. we are providing $400 million in aid. sounds like a great idea until -- unless you are ukrainian in the military and you will get loose and you see most of the equipment you are supposed to buy is coming from the united states and most of it is not what you need. much of it is not terribly useful to you. he would rather buy other things

based on your experience. things that you can use immediately. still who is benefiting from this $400 million aid package? we have to go to the senate, look at the senators who sponsored it, the people in the house who sponsored it, the u.s. defense in the streets, it is kind of a recycling of american money but it's not necessarily going to profoundly benefit the ukrainian military establishment. >> tucker: the deeper you dig, everything in his half -- we had this last time. we asked the biden campaign for comment on it and of course they haven't responded all. doug mcgregor, thank you for that perspective. fascinating. tantalizing. between the biden's and the president, president trump, the ukraine drama as a potential to the devastating for both parties in washington, what's likely to happen? greg, thanks so much for coming on. this is one of those moments where we'll be good to remind us

what exactly the president stands accused of doing. >> he stands accused of using american aid as a lever to get the ukrainian government to investigate the bidens for the purpose, it is alleged, of helping trump campaign. that is basically what the applicant the accusation is paid at >> tucker: is that a credible claim? >> it is not clear from the evidence presented so far that that's what he is doing. if you are suspicious of mr. trump and think he is a bad guy and you read the record of that phone call, you might infer that. but you also might very well not infer that because it's not at all explicit that that is what n the subject gasket when the issue comes up and the mention of the bidens, he asked for a favor. that's not the first thing he asked where though paid only later in the conversation does he then bring up the question of looking into the bidens and he's quite vague about it. he says you know, you might look at that because i've heard the

guy got fired and that which prevented me. that was the end of it. it's not clear at this point tonight. we know that some aid was withheld for sure and was later released. the trond team says that he was withholding a dog because he was concerned that the united states was carrying the burden in europe once again and putting up all the money to help these guye wasn't doing his part. i know that when senator rob portman who was in favor of that age being released spoke to the president about this and the president was talking about withholding the aid, all he talked about in our conversation was he was bellyaching once more about europe not pulling its weight in this regard. so it's not at all clear that what the evidence supports the accusation but that's where we are. >> tucker: so you i'm sure her doug mcgregor say that according to a russian newspaper obviously, leaving him from

this, but the oligarch overseeing the energy and ukraine was allowed access to the united states taken off i cannot visit list after the vice president's son joins the board. if that turns out to be true, which we don't know, if it does, is not meaningful? >> it would be meaningful if we could connect dad's death by u.s. government to the bidens in some way. we might be able to do that, we might not, we don't know. >> tucker: we should also say this is common in washington be at hunter biden is far from the only son of the famous politician to get a deal like this but why would a foreign company pay someone like that?

>> basically for the same reason that these companies of washington pay lobbyist. they consider it in a sense self-defense. they're looking for ways to advance their self-interest so that you get someone by the name of biden on the board, that might help you. that doesn't establish that biden, youngblood and himself, didn't corrupt. it doesn't establish that joe biden didn't corrupt on his son's behalf, it does seem to suggest this however. if you were going to tell the ukrainians, as then vice president biden did, that you are not going to get this aid and less you find this particular prosecutor, and you've got the son of the vice president associated with a company that figures in that prosecutor's investigation, that on its face is a conflict of interest and is improper. even if there was good reason for asking that the prosecutor and the investigator be fired because it looks wrong, biden is a lawyer, his sons a lawyer, both of them should know better. the obama administration should've known better than to have the vice president be the point man on this thread which, as you've seen, the vice president brags about. he talks about how i was over there and i told him i was leaving in six hours and if they

didn't fire the sky they were going to get the money and the guy was fired. steel and the tough thing again. >> by the way, the next time you show that picture, you might point out the guy you were talking about is them on the far left because there is no way to tell that. he's the guy in the dark blue shirt on the far left there. the one that's right. devon archer was another member of this organization. thank you. elizabeth warren says she plans to rein in america's tech companies, maybe even unwind some of their monopoly. so why do so much of silicon valley support her? why are they holding fund-raisers for her russian mark could it be they know she doesn't mean it? we will investigate after this. ♪

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>> tucker: senator elizabeth warren in massachusetts has caught up to joe biden in the polls in both iowa and new hampshire. it's pretty clear that she has the party's frontrunner. one reason could be that she has promised to break up america's gigantic terrifying and all-powerful tech monopolies. >> i'm deeply concerned right now that the space around company is like amazon, facebook, google, is now referred to by venture capitalists as the kill zone. so my view is, break those things apart and we will have a much more competitive robust market in america. that's how capitalism should work. >> tucker: it's a good idea but some people are taking it seriously. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg is worried about it. newly leaked audio shows him

trashing oren's anti-facebook agenda. other democratic candidates meanwhile are tramping through silicon valley to raise cash. talks correspondent gillian turner as he was morbid >> good evening. so in this new leaked audio, mark zuckerberg is caught red-handed telling his staff what he really thinks about silicon valley investors sweetheart elizabeth warren here he feels a worn presidency would pose an existential threat to his company. >> it was who thinks it right answer to break up the company, and income as she is -- if she comes the president, i would that we have a legal challenge and i would bet we win the legal challenge. does that suck for us? he had paid a zuckerberg doesn't stop there. he says warren policies aren't as bad for bottom line, they are bad for democracy. >> it's just breaking up these companies, whether it's facebook, google, amazon, that's not actually gonna solve the issue and it doesn't make election interference less

likely, it makes it more likely because the companies can't work together. >> worn was quick to respond to it she tweeted what would really suck as if we don't fix the corrupt system that lets giant companies like facebook engage in illegal anticompetitive practices. now, this is a familiar scene from war and any other 2020 democratic hopefuls. they say big tech has become too big. the social media companies are spying on americans, stealing data, and fake news bots are corrupting american democracy. yet, for all the trump talk and press to regulate and rein in these companies, the candidates can't stop going to take their money. as of tomorrow, there will have been a total of 16 fund-raisers across the bay area in just six days for six different democratic candidates. all raising millions of dollars. biden, pete buttigieg, harris, booker, amy klobuchar, all cashing in this week with major fund-raisers and sources tell

fox news it represents the biggest silicon valley campaign donation a whole of the entire primary season so far. tucker, it's a two waste repaired warren's campaign, despite all the criticism, facebook has spent nearly one and a half million dollars buying face back add spades since july to promote her candidacy. >> tucker: but she wants to break up the evil company. gillian turner, thank you for that. the impeachment drama in washington has temporarily distracted everyone from the ongoing democratic primary but impeachment is also certain to have a political effect on the race itself. the question is, not to be vulgar, but who benefits most? with dana perino, one of our all-time favorite people, it's good to see you today. the conventional view which is to say my view, service view, is that biden is not helped by any story that gets us talking about his son's board seat with the ukrainian energy company and that elizabeth warren is probably the beneficiary of

that. you think that's true? >> i think the question surrounding hunter biden are going to come up at some point for the binding campaign and if you think back, it was july that the "new yorker" magazine, they had this really long feature piece about hunter biden and i didn't get a ton of attention. i read the the whole thing beci learned early on from you you should always read these long magazine pieces to pick up things. this is going to come to it whether it came from president trump or from perhaps one of his rivals on the 2020 scene come on the democratic side, it was definitely coming so they are going out to deal with it sooner or later but there is a beneficiary and it is elizabeth warren o'dowd. she had arguably the best summary of all the candidates. she is raising a lot of money. she has now, and my opinion, the de facto leader of the democratic party until something else happens and with impeachment, she could kind of skilled two birds one stone because trumpet impeachment has like this toxic fallout. it encapsulates biden but it

also for many people has completed the radicalization of the democratic party. they are now on a war footing and she can kind of sit back. she doesn't need the media attention right now like others do. like you look at what kamala harris try to do by having a campaign shake-up or that's nothing to do when you are trying to get attention for your campaign and she didn't have a great fund-raising effort. it was fine. bernie raised 25. pete buttigieg raised $19 million. something had to give and elizabeth warren i think is content to sit back and let other people try to get some attention while she prepares for this month's debate. >> tucker: do you think the trump campaign believes that it? do you think that they believe elizabeth warren is the person likely to face him? >> i think from what i can tell, they seem to be prepared for any eventuality. they are happy to have the two started dirty up the biden campaign. they are looking at it was with

warren and even president trump campaign south even said i thought i had her with the pocahontas thing. looks like this week it came from one of her 2020 democratic rivals having old videos reservice of her having set her parents had to move because of her mother's cherokee background and stuff like that. that's going to come back around but for now i would say elizabeth warren is definitely in lid top seat. >> tucker: interesting. is there any other -- this is truly speculative but that's what we do. that's exactly right pray let's be honest. i agree with everything you said. if you had to pick one candidate on the democratic side who had a shot of coming from the outside and lapping was a bit worn by the time it's over, who would that be? >> when you say outside what do you mean? >> tucker: i think most people believe elizabeth warren is gonna be the nominee at this point. >> i think that's pretty early. i wouldn't doubt -- i don't think bernie sanders is going to get it either however he's holding his own purity raise $25 million in the third

quarter. that is not somebody who is dropping. it biden's numbers have gone down quite a bit. i don't think kamala harris really looks like she has it there. cory booker for example this past weekend, he had to do an emergency fund raising plea for $1.7 million. he rented bon jovi to help them out. he ability it makes it into tom steyer, the big billionaire, mr. impeachment, mr. climate change, he's gonna be on the debate stage as well, this field is not actually narrowing down very quickly but i think that my change by thanksgiving. >> tucker: i'm enjoying the heck out of it. may continue for many moons. dana perino, thank you. good to see you tonight. once again, the media turned a supposedly hate crime into a national story only to find out the crime was in fact a hoax. that raises the obvious question, why does the media keep falling for these hoaxes? should there be consequences for

lying to your readers and listeners and viewers again and again and again? that's next. ♪

>> tucker: actor jesse smalley got away with his fake hate crime thanks to the intervention of the state sick attorney can socks. it turns out the prosecutor was himself a donor to kim fox's campaign. how does that work exactly? we find out with matt finn in chicago tonight. >> we have yet another twist in the jesse smalley at saga. it turns out that is special and get investigator assigned previously donated $1,000 to kim fox. that's a state attorney at the center of the jesse small it scandal. attorney dan webb is a revered prosecutor and former u.s. attorney. he's considered unbiased and no-nonsense and was assigned by

a veteran judge in august to review the entire jesse small at k spirit he can charge him with the same or even criminal charges and he can bring charges against anyone he discovered committed the crime pair that includes cook county state attorney kim fox. if you recall, can socks had suddenly from the smallest case. later, there was outrage when kim fox's office suddenly drop the charges against jesse small at. now, a status hearing this friday will decide if a new special prosecutor needs to be reassigned because it's been revealed by dan webb law firm hosting fund-raiser that bounced back in 2016 in which webb himself cut fox a $1,000 check. webb said he doesn't recall attending this fund-raiser or making a contribution. kim fox says the office continues to cooperate with the investigation and after hearing friday, dan webb has accused himself or a new special prosecutor could be assigned to. stay tuned.

>> tucker: amazing. thanks a lot. just a small it was not the first phony hate crime in this country. it likely won't be the last. fake hate crimes have become routine here. it become routine because our credulous media rushes to believe them, all of them. they want to believe that america is a hayes flow intolerant country despite evidence. last week a sixth-grade girl in a state of virginia claimed the three boys attacked or at least at recess. this became a national news story in the press referring to racial lysing as they do so much. most people don't spend their lives thinking about race but the media does. "the new york times" wrote this headline. quote, black virginian girl says white classmate caught her drip got dreadlocks on the playgroun playground. they are eager to tout any story that backs up that story line. it's also true that the second lady sometime teaches at that school in virginia and so the story was also used to tower her

by association. >> a 12-year-old african-american girl said three white classmates pinned her down and caught her dreadlocks. the wife of the vice president, mike pence, she teaches there. >> a black sixth-grader said she was pinned down by it white classmates who cut her hair. >> a 12-year-old virginia girl says she has traumatized after three of her white classmates pinned her down and cut some of her dreadlocks off. >> vice president mike pence his wife karen teaches art part-time at this school. >> tucker: after whipping up even more suspicion and race hatred, the press found today that this, like almost every other hate crime that's being headlined in recent years, was fake. yesterday the girl's family admitted the allegations were untrue and they apologized. it good for them. we have far less sympathy for the media and all of this. this isn't a one offense.

it's a pattern. they did it after the 2016 election with the covington catholic boys but they did it this week over and over and over again the press in fact about hate crimes because that's what these are. they are hate crimes. they aren't false accusations. their deliberate efforts. and the press abuts this. they drive it. they do it over and over and over again and when they are caught eating a lie, they pretend it never happened. they face no consequences and they do it again just weeks later. it's not a victimless crime peered all of us are victims. it hurts the country. it makes people hate each other. it divides them on the basis of skin color which is the worst way to divide people. bobby sauve is an associate editor and author of panic attack and wackos in the age of john. let me ask you since you are, i think, the living expert on fake hate crimes. why do they follow an unchanging pattern? it never changes.

why? to go the media seizes on these things the second they hear about them without any care to actually properly investigate then because they believed -- - they want to believe this narrative about america, that it's the most hateful place that's ever existed, the trumpets because it, it fits exactly with their political bias. so they don't even i think i imagine sometimes that these things could be made up even though as you pointed out, a lot of times they are. in this case, who thinks to themselves, a really awful incident between a bunch of kids, but it should be turned into national news? why question mike who said let's get this little girl in front of the camera and inflame the entire nation about hatred when something like this happens? kids like i'm a kid's corrupt, and they are supposed to be able to learn that's wrong and to be punished with in proportion to what happened, may be a suspension or something, and then they learned from that and get on with their lives but because you decided this girl

should be on television talking about this, now she is going to be subject to all of this hatred. who thinks like that? like this needs to be something the entire country needs to get itself worked up about? it's impossible to measure. it's doing the point you're making a such a smart and valuable one and i guess the next point would be, what is the effect on the country? if you persistently tell people that they are swimming in the notion of race hate, that everybody is inflamed with bigotry, which is totally alive, by the way. you tell people that, what is it do to how they feel about their neighbors and how they feel about america? >> will then incredulously believe things like -- i mean "the washington post," all sorts of media outlets where and with as a couple months hate crimes have spikes like 226% in towns where eric trump hosted a political rally. it tends to be that trump visiting counties have more people in them so of course there's more hate crimes.

the statistical correlation drops to zero. there was just as much of a hate crime increase in counties where hillary clinton visited but this was a headline that every major media outlet runway based on this completely fall study study and of course people are leaving it. ilhan omar talked about it and probably tons of people in the country who believe that and just like you said believe that about their neighbors, their relatives, the people they work with, and we should not be driving people to hate each other beware people can find reasons to hate each other and e don't want that to happen but wt be adding fuel to the fire when there's much less than what is actually being fined. >> tucker: especially on ethnic grounds. if i'm mad at you because we disagree on something, maybe we will disagree someday, but if i mad at you because of something you can't control, that's never gonna get better. so it's reckless to do this. >> i think a lot of people end up believing that there isn't because of this stuff every time. it blows up, and backfires just

like a boy who cried wolf problem. >> tucker: virtually all of the 9/11 hijackers came from iran. no, sorry, iraq. wait, they came from saudi arabia. members of that country's government may have in fact assisted them on 9/11. yet today, saudi arabia is such a close ally of the united states that we may go to war with iran which had nothing to do with 9/11 for their sake. how did we get here exactly? an index exclusive investigation on that question the next. ♪

>> tucker: today unfortunately marks the two year anniversary of the laws of vaguely shooting. that was the deadliest shooting

massacre and modern america history. authorities in two years have been unable to find a clear motive. so what have we learned if anything? cheap breaking news respondent trace gallagher joins us tonight with that. >> the fbi looked at hundreds of videotapes and listen to hours of 911 calls and interviewed dozens of witnesses not to mention scarring every detail of the shooter's life and yet two years later there is no motive as to why steven paddock opened fire on a music festival killing 58 and wounding more than 800. considering the fbi's report into the school shooting of sandy hook was 1500 pages, the report on the vegas shooting, three pages. the only theory is that paddock was an aging man in declining health with troubled finances who may have been looking for a way to gain infamy. over the course of six days, stephen paddock brought 23 bags to his hotel room and in those

bags he carried 23 weapons and enough ammunition to fight a small war. his shooting lasted 10 minutes in which he fired more than a thousand rounds using a dozen different weapons, many of them equipped with bump stocks that allowed semiautomatic firearms to mimic the motion of a fully automatic. 50 pounds of explosives were also found in haddock asked leading some to believe that he was planning to escape the hotel and pull off a legal finale but the fbi believes paddock set up several cameras outside of his hotel suite so that he would know when police got close and take his own life which he did. also unanswered was why the local police response was so slow and why they waited more than an hour to storm paddock's room. the final report from local police also offered no motive and few answers. i talk about all of this case and a lot more in our new documentary called the las vegas massacre and that is airing now

on fox nation. the one fascinating stuff. was he redoing that trace. that's one of those stories we keep around. thank you for doing that. after 18 years of war, he would think the united states would be winding down in the gulf. at times it seems to be weak on the brink of bombing iran. we are doing it primarily to protect saudi arabia. in washington, the saudis are overwhelmingly considered by both parties to be one of our closest allies. the strange thing is, saudi arabia has part closer links to the 9/11 attacks then saddam hussein ever did. much less, iran. iran had nothing to do with 9/1 9/11. saudi arabia meanwhile was it so connected to 9/11 and that the families of many 9/11 victims are seeking justice, payment, as recompense for the saudis role. no how exactly does the country

and the government get to ignore this and what is the natf america's relationship with saudi arabia? we decided to take a closer look at that question. here's what we found. >> in response to the king's request, the president has approved the deployment of u.s. forces paid to stick it out was secretary of defense mark esper announcing a deployment of troops to help our partner in the region. not a lot of americans view saudi arabia as an ally. chris yancey, new york city farming, lost his father on 9/11. >> i think you make and people should know what the involvement of saudi 9/11 was before we commit to being there ally. >> tucker: he's 1 of thousands of family members of 9/11 victims doing saudi arabia. their lawsuit states that saudi arabia knowingly provided al qaeda with supports,

financing, and resources that were material substantial and critical to the success of the september 11th attacks. >> for years, saudi arabia through its charities had been funneling money to al qaeda to get ahead in saudi arabia to rise in the government you need to show -- >> tucker: a heavily redacted 2012 report shows that support the saudi officials gave to two hijackers. they gave the charcoal al qaeda members assistance and daily activities including providing money and helping the hijackers get flying lessons. >> many saudi government officials were in cohorts if you will with several of the 9/11 hijackers. >> tucker: in a sworn declaration in 2017, retired fbi special agent stephen moore stated that the hijackers would have had zero chance for success without a support structure waiting for them.

the family still want more information declassified about saudi involved and then and feel as if their own government has betrayed them. one would like to think that the fbi worked for the american people not the interests of saudi arabia. >> tucker: the justice department region recently started state secrets in national security refusing to declassify 2012 fbi report that contains saudi ties to 9/11 hijackers. in that same court filing, the doj decided it would only release the name of an individual who directed two saudi officials to help hijackers under protective order. >> the obstacles the government has put up just for the truth is very disheartening. steel and u.s. government has not been keen to hold the saudis to account in the wake of 9/11. shortly after the 9/11 attacks, the bush administration a lot more than a hundred saudis, including numbers of the bin laden family to leave the country on chartered airplanes

and two years ago the trump administration cautioned a retired fbi agent who would been working for the 9/11 families. >> i couldn't believe my former employer was telling me not to give assistance to the victims of 9/11. to me it was unconscionable and it really disturbed me. >> tucker: that's an understatement, unconscionable. we asked the fbi about ken williams claimed that he was told not to work on 9/11 families and they told us they are not common to the do that. they can do that they just refused comment that we will continue to file this lawsuit for as long as we have two. one of america's most liberal cities is banning. where are they doing that? at the sake of gender equality, of course. tammy bruce, next. these musical ♪ (melissa) somebody would ask her something and she would just walk right

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♪ >> tucker: the left's campaign against science in general and biology in particular has already claimed quite a few

victims. here's a new one -- . portland, oregon, is abolishing, the purpose is to remove arbitrary barriers between the sexes for the sake of gender neutrality. tammy bruce hosts "get tammy bruce" on fox nation. was there a ground swell of report for this? >> whether it's a transgender bathroom issue or this, nobody wanted this to change. transgender's weren't crying for a bathroom change, -- this is going to be the case of the men's bathrooms as well. here's the reality -- donald trump is delivering jobs, prosperity, and the future, democrats are delivering wet toilet seats. now at least men will find out what it's like to walk into a stall or a bathroom and have the toilet seat up or not and that's

the other issue. separate from the inevitable bathrooms humor, this is serious. bathrooms are the one intimate personal space in public space, it's a desperation to create a gender-neutral framework which is false. we've been listening to the climate science apostles for years now, we are being told listen to science. let's try that, except in this instance, they don't want us to listen to science when it comes to biology and physiology. there are many different people in the world -- i'm one of them. i'm a minority, and we are part of a minority in a larger framework. i don't think anyone wants us all to be homogenous and all to be the same. we understand the differences

and this is an unnecessary attempt to be too woke. >> tucker: i knew you would take it to the deeper level. tomorrow, 8:00 p.m. come of that that is the sworn and sincere enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. >> sean: i'm so thankful you were not insincere. great show, great to see tammy. welcome to "hannity" with a fox news alert -- every single constitutional, freedom loving american, you need to wake up. right now, this is an all hands on deck situation. you've got the mob and the media, the radical democratic socialists, they have collectively lost their minds. they don't even care about the damage they are doing. if they get their way, they will destroy everything this country stands for. the new greendale on top of it all and breaking tonight we have