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's one thing that everyone who lives in this city knows for certain, it's that investigations of government officials are always a good thing. they can be expensive, they can run to tens of millions of $, they paralyzed the government and if we are being honest abouo it, investigations tend to destroy the lives of completely linnocent people. in the end, is anyone in washington can and will tell you, all of that is well worth it.

investigations are a search for facts, anyone who stands in their way obstructs the truth itself. that is why we spend more than two for years looking into the question of whether or not donald trump worked secretly as an agent of vladimir putin. there was no evidence he did that, as you well know, we got the investigation. in the end, the investigation cleared donald trump of claims he colluded withtr russia. it also does something else, it implicated quite a few other people for unrelated crimes. we learned that quite a few senior law enforcement and intelligence officials think nothing of lying tont the publi, really lying to the public, or abusing their tremendous powers for political ends. they did that, we now know that. we also know the obama administration was perfectlyig willing to spy on political opponents in the middle of a presidential campaign. it did that 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 has opened an investigation. now, you would think given know aboutyou washington and its love of investigations, that everyone in official d.c. would be thrilled by this but you would be wrong. because here's the thing, they are not happy in the slightest, they are outraged. former acting fbin director any mccabe went on cnn today to complain about barr's investigation. as it turns out, mccabe is one of the people the attorney general will be investigating he thinks that's completely outrageous. >> there are two primary questions that i think you have to ask here. 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. jim comey has made comments

about them publicly. i have, we both have written books that touched on the issues, so the circumstances behind the case are widely known. 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, what's the term here, self awareness, to make a case like that on television but mccabe was happy to carry it out. by the way, cnn seemed to agree with him wholeheartedly. certainly a common view in washington. 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's a direct quote. 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 cloak of anonymity. how dare you how investigate this? did you hear what i said? it's baseless! call off your investigation! i already wrote the book, i already denied it. 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. >> 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 doj 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 richardte nixon's attorney genel 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 whods might soon become the only person william barr can safely talk to in washington. >> tucker: yeah, 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 appearedo we should not be investigating powerful people. the people whose job it is to watchh 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 fbi russia collusion probe is global. confirmation tonight from am justice department official that attorney general william barr and u.s. attorney john durham were in italy last week as partt 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. italians or other foreign intelligence services. the special counsel report

describes a london-based professor with connections to russia who told campaign aide at 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 openin. the counterintelligence case. it made after the counsel report and before the phone call with ukrainian leader, president trump told reporterser he wanted barr to cast a r 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 to fox news that the report could come later this month.

>>bo tucker: thank you so much r 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 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, ithe 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 one at least on that level. >> tucker: that's remarkable. in checkable byf 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. >> i not at all. it's terribly poor. it's probably the poorest c country in europe at this point. it certainly is below russia in terms of per capita gnp whichin 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

is corruption in 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 gettingke rich from their connections in ukraine are really exploiting the poorest nation in europe and its people for money? >> this is where the swamp has consequences overseas 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 i $400 millionn 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. you 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 -- put that picture on the screen one more time. we had this last time.e.as 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 has a potential to be devastating for both parties in washington. what's likely to happen? brit hume is fox senior political analyst, thanks so much for coming on. this is one of those moments where it would be good to remind us oen what exactly the presidet

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 the accusation is.f >> 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 he is doing because when the subject -- when the issue comes up at 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 prosecutor got fired and that

looked pretty bad to 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 trump team says that he was withholding it back 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 guys and the rest of europe wasn't doing hisis part. i know that when senator rob portman who was in o favor of that age being released spoke to the president about this and the president was talking about withholding the aid,bo all he talked about in or conversation was he was bellyaching once more about europe not pulling its weight in this regard. so it's not at all clear that the evidence supports the accusation but that's where we are. >> tucker: you, i'm sure, heard doug mcgregor say that according to a russian

newspaper, obviously we haven't confirmed this, but the oligarch overseeing this energy company in ukraine was allowed access to the united states, taken off a 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 that step by the u.s. a government to the bidensn 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, hunter biden is far from theou only son of a famous politician to get a deal like this. 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 viceto president associated wita 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 presidenthi 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 this guy they were going to get the money and the guy was fired. 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.t. 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 the burisma board. >> tucker: elizabeth warren says she plans to rein in america's tech companies, maybe even unwind some of their monopolies. so why do so much of silicon valley support her? why are they holding fund-raisers for her? could it be they know she doesn't mean it? why are they holding here, it all starts with a simple...

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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 companies 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 warren's anti-facebook agenda. other democratic candidates meanwhile are tramping through silicon valley to raise cash. fox correspondent gillian turner is here with more. >> 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 presidencycy wod pose an existential threat to his company. >> it was who thinks it rightt answer to break up the company, 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? yeah. >> 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. >> warren was quick to respond, she tweeted what would really suck as if we don't fix the corrupt system that lets giant companies like facebook engage in illegal anticompetitiveac 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.le 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 dollarss 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 hall 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 facebook ad space since july to promote her candidacy. >> tucker: but she wants to break up the evilil company. gillian turner, thank you for that. the impeachment drama in washington has temporarily distracted everyone from the ongoing democratic primary but h 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 campaignhi and f 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 whole thing because i learned early on from you you should always read these long magazine pieces to pick up things.m 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 democraticc 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 elizabethde warren o'dowd. she had arguably the best summary of all the candidates. 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 trump 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 whatia 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 t 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 try to dirty up the biden campaign. they are looking at elizabeth warren and even president trump

himself said i thought i had her with the pocahontas thing. looks like this week it came from one of her 202020 democratc rivals having old videos resurface of her having said 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 the top seat. n >> tucker: interesting. is there any other -- this is truly speculative but that's what we do. that's exactly right pray let'sh 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 warren by the time it'su 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 , raise $25 million in the third quarter. that is not somebody who isi dropping. 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 got his friend bon jovi to help him out. 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 youu 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

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>> tucker: actor jesse smollett got away with his fake hate crime thanks to the intervention of the state's attorney kim foxx. it turns out the prosecutor was himself a donor to kim foxx's campaign.. how does that work exactly? we find out with matt finn in chicago tonight. >> we have yet another twist in the jesse smollett saga. it turns out the special investigator assigned previously donated $1,000 to kim foxx. that's the state attorney at the center of the jussie smollett 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 jussie smollett case.

he can charge him with the same or even criminal charges and he can bring charges against anyone he discovered committed the crime, that includes cook county state attorney kim foxx. if you recall, kim foxx had suddenly refused herself from smollett's case. later, there was outrage when kim foxx's office suddenly dropped the charges against jussie smollett. 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 a fund-raiser that back in 2016 in which webbb himself cut foxx a $1,000 check. webb said he doesn't recall attending this fund-raiser or making a contribution. kim foxx says the office continues to cooperate with the investigation and after a hearing on friday, dan webb has recuse himself or a new special prosecutor could be assigned to. stay tuned. >> tucker: amazing. thanks a lot.

jussie smollett 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 hateful intolerant country despite evidence. last week a sixth-grade girl in a state of virginia claimed the three boys attacked her at recess. this became a national news t 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. w quote, black virginian girl says white classmate cut her dreadlocks on the 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 tar 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.nt >> 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. good for them. we have far less sympathy forhe the media in all of this. this isn't a one offense.

it's a pattern. they did it after the 2016 election, 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. they're deliberate efforts. and the press abuts this. they drive it. they do it over and over and over again and when they are caught feeding 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 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. 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 that trump has caused 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? who said let's get this little girl in front of the camera and inflame the entire nation about racial hatred when something like this happens? they put her in a position where kids alliance grew up and they are supposed to learn that's wrong and to be punished in proportion to what has happened. maybe get a suspension or something and then they get on

with their lives. 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'sth impossible to measure. >> tucker: the point you're making is such a smart and valuable one. the next 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 a lie 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. if you control for population size and counties, he visited counties that have more people in them so of course there is

more hate crimes, the there was just as much of a hate statistical correlation drops to zero. crime increase in counties where hillary clinton visited but thit again, they are bigger counties. it was a headline that every major media outlet man with based on this completely false study. ilhan omar talked about it and probably tons ofke 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. people can find reasons to hate each other and we don't wantpe that to happen but we shouldn't be adding fuel to the fire when there's much less than what is >> tucker: especially on actually being claimed. ethnic grounds. if i'm mad at you because we disagree on something, maybe we we'll agree someday. but if i'm mad at you for something you can't control, it's never going to get better. so it's reckless to do this. 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.a. 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 in depth exclusive investigation on that question next. ♪

♪ >> tucker: today unfortunately marks the two year anniversary of the las vegas shooting. that was the t deadliest shootig massacre and modern americahe history.

59 people died that day, including the gunman stephen paddock. authorities in two years have been unable to find a clearrsna motive. so what have we learned if anything? chief breaking newsr 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 scouring every detail of the shooter's life and yet two years later there is noo 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. s the only theory is that paddock was an aging man in declining health with troubled finances who may have been looking for ai way to gain infamy. over the course of six days, stephen paddock brought 23 bags to his hotel room and in those o bags he carried 23 weapons and enough ammunition to fight aoo small war.e

his shooting lasted 100 minutes in which he fired more than a thousand rounds using a dozen different weapons, many of them equipped with bump stocks thatou allowed semiautomatic firearms to mimic the motion of a fully automatic. 50 pounds of explosives were found in his car, leaving someo to believe he was planning to escape the hotel and pull off a lethal finale. 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.

>> tucker: bless you for doing that, that's one of those stories we should keep probing. 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. why are we doing that? 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. thebo strange thing is, saudi arabia has far closer links to the 9/11 attacks than saddam hussein ever did, much less iran. iran had nothing to do with 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. so how exactly does the country and the government get to ignore this and what is the nature of

america's relationship with saudi arabia? we decided to take a closer look ats that question. here's what we found. >> in response to the request, the president has approved the deployment of u.s. forces.wa >> tucker: that was secretary of defense mark esper announcing the deployment of troops to help our "partner" in the region. not a lot of americans view saudi arabia as an ally. chris, a new york city fireman, 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 their ally. >> tucker: he's one of thousands of family members of 9/11 victims suing saudi arabia. their lawsuit states that saudi arabia knowingly provided al qaeda with support, 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 youl need to show -- fealty to usama bin laden. >> tucker: a heavily redacted 2012 report shows support the saudi government officials gave to two hijackers. they gave the two al qaeda members assistance in daily activities, including providing money and helpinghe the hijackes 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 involvement 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. they are choosing to side with the saudis. >> tucker: the justice department recently stated secrets in national security refusing to declassify a 2012 fbi report that contained saudi ties to 9/11 hijackers. in that same court filing,g, 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. >> tucker: the 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 allowed more than 100 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' claim that he was told not to work with 9/11 families and they told us they are not common to the do that. they can do that they just refuse to comment. we will continue to follow this lawsuit for as long as we have two. one of america's most liberal cities is banning urinals. why are they doing that? at the sake of gender equality, of course. tammy bruce, next. ♪

♪ >> tucker: the left's campaign against science in general and biology in particular has already claimed quite a few victims. boy scouts and the girl scouts among them. here's a new one.

urinals. portland, oregon, is abolishing, the purpose is to remove arbitrary barriers between the sexes for the sake of gender neutrality. how to assess this? tammy bruce hosts "get tammy bruce" on fox nation. a reason to subscribe. she joined just tonight. was there a ground swell of support for this? did people ask for this? >> whether it's a transgender bathroom issue or this, nobody wanted this to change. nobody was having a problem. transgenders weren't crying for a bathroom change. women weren't crying for the bathrooms to 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

bathroom humor, the fact is 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, certainly the last couple of weeks, where 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. look, there are many different people in the world -- i'm one of them. i'm a sexual minority, and we are part of a minority in a larger framework. and that's okay. 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.

we appreciate that. tammy bruce, thank you. back tomorrow, 8:00 p.m., the show that as this one and totally sincere enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. sean hannity live from new york. >> sean: i'm so thankful you were not insincere. tucker, 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, these 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. oh, yeah, the new green deal on top of it all. and breaking tonight, we have major new