♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." an awful lot has been written about the eternal divide, the fracturing within the republican party. it's not all spin, by the way. some of it is very real. in a minute, we will talk to api republican senator who is gravely dissatisfied, angry with lindsey graham's leadership. doing nothing to get to the bottom of russiagate. the divides are real. at the same time, you almost never hear anything about what's happening with the democratic party. maybe that's because outwardly democrats are united in their loathing for donald trump. but inside the party, democrats in fact hate each other more, even more than they hate trump. how vicious and crazy has the

infighting within the democratic party become? let's put it this way. late last week, hillary clintonn publicly accused a democraticte presidential candidate of being a russian agent. watch. >> i'm not making any predictions, but i think they've got their eye on somebody who's currently in the democratic primary. they are grooming her to be the third party candidate. she's a favorite of the russians. >> tucker: later a spokesman confirmed hillary was in fact talking about tulsi gabbard of anhawaii. keep in mind that gabbard is a sitting member of congress. she is an iraq war veteran. she's currently a major in the u.s. army reserves and yet hillary said she's a traitor to this country and she's not the only one in american politics betraying the country. jill stein too. stein spent decades working as a physician in boston before embarking on a second career as a left-wing activist. last cycle, she ran for president that included a platform for the new deal, the normal list.

according to hillary, jill stein is also a russian agent. watch. >> they have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far. it's assuming jill stein will give it up, which she might not, because she's also a russian asset.t. she's a russian asset totally. >> tucker: "stein is also a russian asset." she and tulsi gabbard are russian assets.. some on the left are denying hillary clinton said that. she certainly did say. you just heard it and the tapein is online and you can listen for yourself.s and then she kept going. the president of the united states, hillary clinton explained, is being blackmailed by vladimir putin himself. >> donald trump is vladimir putin's dream. i don't know what putin has on him, whether it's personal and financial. i assume it is. >> tucker: in case you're trying to keep track at home, in

a single podcast, hillary clinton accused three separate people, one to her left, one to her right, one within her own party, of all being russian agents. she offered precisely no evidence for these charges, serious though they are. the one thing that all three of these people have in common is that at one time or another, they have all opposed hillary clinton's political aspirations. according to hillary, that means by definition they are traitors. remember, as you watch this, that hillary clinton is supposed to be a very impressive person. her fellow liberals have told us that since she graduated from wellesley college more than 50 years ago and then went on to yale law school and famously and married bill clinton, she is then and is now one of the best and the brightest. she is the adult in the room. that's what they always tell you. yet now we learned that they were lying about hillary all along. she not impressive. she is silly. she's reckless. she's not even very smart. like dumb people everywhere, she's got a weakness for bizarre conspiracies.

that's the real hillary clinton. and yet amazingly, her fellow liberals are still defending her. >> hillary has been dead on with so many things. she told us about russia. she told us about the probable interference during the debates. she was secretary of state. she has deep knowledge of world issues. i thought where is the lie? you have her being touted by people like fox news personalities like tucker carlson. >> russia propaganda machine has been propelling her, lifting her up since she announced her candidacy. >> she never denied being a russian asset. [laughter] that was the one thing that was missing from her response. you would think that would be the first line or two. it was not there. >> to your point, hillary clinton didn't name names. but it -- you have tulsi gabbard saying me, me, me. >> tucker: she never denied being a russian asset. that's the new standard. so she must be guilty.

that's what they are telling you on msnbc. n julian castro who, as of tonight, is still an actual presidential candidate essentially agreed. >> do you agree with former secretary of state clinton that she could very well be a russian asset? >> i'm going to focus today on my campaign and what we're doing. >> just to confirm, you did not say no. you didn't think tulsi gabbard could be a russian asset. >> i'm going to leave others to comment on that. i have no comment on that. gco >> at the very least, do you think it wasas appropriate for hillary clinton to insert yourself into the election inn this way? >> i have a lot of respect for secretary clinton. i will leave it at at that. >> tucker: what a robot. maybe that is why the room is empty behind him. we are not going to lie, it's not just democrats who've gone off the deep end. remember evan mcmullin, the guy bill krystol convinced to run for president in 2016.6. we were told that he was a serious, principled conservative, like everyone else. turns out he agreed with hillary.

here's his take on all this. "i believe it's true. tulsi gabbard is with the russians and the russians are with tulsi gabbard. she confirms it every time she opens her mouth." again, no evidence whatsoever. so then trump weighed in. keep in mind trump is not on the same side as tulsi gabbard much less jill stein but he weighed in and they said no, he didn't think that two of his politicalh opponents were spies. well, that sent washington into conniptions. david frum declared that denial itself proved conspiracy. "trump last night defended jilli stein and tulsi gabbard against charges of russian influence. he wasn't supposed to do that. he was supposed to pretend they were not all on the same team." [laughs] so it was all set up, according to david frum.m. tulsi gabbard at the soviet embassy in mexico city? it's lunacy but not accidental.

it's lunacy at the service of a purpose. last friday we had congresswoman gabbard on the show and she explained as well as anyone has. watch. i've never heard anybody at hillary clinton's level say something like that. >> the reason why she's doing this is because ultimately she knows that she can't control me. and then if i'm elected president, if i'm the democratic nominee and elected president, she won't be able to control me. she won't be able to manipulate me. she won't be able to continue to work from behind the curtains to continue these regime change wars that have been so costly. >> tucker: in other words, it's about power. that shouldn't be a surprise to you or me or anyone, because in washington, everything is about power. for generations, a small group, bipartisan group, has led the country and they've run it into the ground, if we are being honest about it. they've mismanaged the economy h in case you haven't noticed. wasted american lives in pointless wars abroad.

they forced weird and irrelevant gender theory on a baffled nation. while hundreds of thousands of americans died of drug ods and they paid no notice at all to that.s they didn't care. we've never had a worse set of leaders in the country. that's what the drama is about and that's where the volatility comes from because our leadership is terrible. it's not surprising that this group, the ones who wrecked the country, don't take criticism well. don't like the program? you must be a spy. jill stein knows the drill. they've done it to her for years and she joins us tonight. dr. stein, thanks very much for coming on. i should say at the outset, i don't think we agree with each other on very much, but we are still very happy to have yout on the show because i think you've been maligned. i wonder if you've thought about why they are doing this to you. you're not a russian agent. why are they calling you one? >> well, clearly this is a ludicrous unhinged conspiracy theory with no basis in fact which is intended to distract

from the many reasons that the democrats lost the 2016 election including that they neglected wisconsin, they elevated donald trump as part of the pied piper program to get a beatable candidate for hillary to run against. that they didn't run on change. hillary ran as kind of the symbol of the power structure in america. the economic and political elite. so it's no surprise. but going deeper and i think tulsi has mentioned as well, this is really -- hillary's rant is exhibit a for the way that the cold war is used to stifle dissent, to crack down on people that are not toeing the line in the mainstream of this incredible military industrial complex which is kind of jerking us all around and dictating our foreign policy. and also yeah, it's feeding the

war machine instead of really addressing the crisis that we are facing. the dnc is really painting its progressive competition as the enemy as if they were trying to lose the election again. >> tucker: everything you've said makes total sense. amazing that 28 years after the fall of the soviet union, they are still running the russia play. but what kind of effect has it had on you? it's not like hillary clinton's saying i don't agree with her views on health care. you know what i mean. or her global warming plan makes me nervous. she is saying you are betraying our country.r so you live here. what effect has it had on your life? some people must believe you are an asset. >> yes, and you know, this has been... the rumors and lies have been thoroughly debunked, including that i was investigated by the senate intelligence committee to whom i gave all my relevant communications, emails,

documents, interviewed with them as well. there was no "there" there. these lies and rumors have long been put to rest. a lot of it is based on a very deceptive photograph where i was actually attending a communications media conference with the bbc, china broadcasting. with the largest broadcaster -- this was a legitimate media conference and i was there to share my message: peace in thece middle east and the nuclear weapons ban and a global climate green new deal. that's what i was there for and they show the photo at the table where putin marched in for a moment without a translator. and then suddenly yes, suddenly i am putin's best friend. how about the photos of hillary and putin whispering to eachi other in which lots of money changed hands.

lots of money. very big money. >> tucker: she is rich and you are not. she can defend herself and you can't, which is why i wanted to have you on. we appreciate it. richard goodstein is a lawyernt and former advisor to bill and hillary clinton. not, we don't think, a russian asset, but we'll find out. are you or have you ever been a, russian asset? >> i was sure this segment was going to be about the exoneration of hillary around emails and the state department. i am shocked that we want to talk about this. >> tucker: hillary clinton accused a military veteran, a sitting member of congress to be a russian asset. we are pretending she didn't say it, but she did flat out. they haven't denied it and bernie sanders just a few minutes ago denounced hillary for saying it. i'm thinking what the hell is this? >> well, i'll tell you what i think. i bet i know tulsi gabbard better than most people in the clinton orbit. i was an early promoter for her. i was gaga for tulsi gabbard shortly after she entered the house, big fan.

it's explicable that she's the only democrat that interviewed for donald trump, with donald trump for a job. she's the only democrat that met twice with the war criminal assad. she's the only democrat who says the democratic party is a warmongering party, of the people running for president. you go down the list. she is super -- syrian and russian talking points. >> tucker: so she met with the person who saved the christian population in syria and she criticized the democratic party -- so that means she's a russian asset? maybe it means she disagrees with you. >> i think jill stein probably takes credit for almost single-handedly tipping the election for donald trump and the fact is in michigan and wisconsin, her votes were the difference. hillary wins without jill stein. >> tucker: that may be right. w i'm not here to argue the electoral outcome. what i'm saying is that you should, if you disagree with someone, address the substance of the argument that person is making and not accuse that person of betraying his or her

country, which is what democrats are doing and actually the lowest thing i can imagine. >> what i think troubles democrats is when they hear the rhetoric from tulsi sounds like straight out of the russian playbook. and even her, she's the only -- the only democrat who -- >> tucker: hold on. that's a serious thing to say. give me one example of something that tulsi has said that out of the russian playbook. >> she's the only democrat who put out a statement saying that mueller concluded that there was no collusion between russia and the trump campaign. that's not what mueller said. he said he couldn't establish it because frankly all the witnesses were a bunch of liars. >> tucker: she said something that you disagree with about the mueller investigation so she's a russian asset?t? do you see how crazy this is? >> it's not crazy. that's what the russians want everybody to believe. >> tucker: maybe she concluded that.

i would argue that assad has, obviously he's a war criminal, as you said, and that's true in some ways. but it's also true that the united states doesn't have an interest in staying in syria. does that make me a russian asset? >> are we only partially interested in war criminals? >> tucker: what i'm interested in is keeping american servicemen from being killed and i'm interested in the christian population in the middle east because i'm christian. it's really simple. he saved the christians of the region and i think that's worth acknowledging. >> what's happening now is the result of what's happened in the past week.ha all these people from isis who were in captivity are now set loose and when donald trump says we are 7,000 miles away, so are the people that took out the world trade center. so congratulations. t they are on the loose. nice going. >> tucker: huh? took out the world trade center? we are unfortunately out of time. at the start this year, senator lindsey graham took over as the chairman of the senate judiciary committee and from the beginning graham promised to use his powers as chairman which are substantial to get to the bottom

of the russia investigation. how did it start? as well as the bottom of other efforts of the american bureaucracy to control american politics. here is the promise. >> we're going to call them before the committee. did they try to invoke the 25th amendment to take the president down? did they get a warrant against an american citizen using information that they know was flawed? did they taint the clinton email investigation because they are afraid if they indicted her, she would lose the election and they wanted her to win.af you're going to get answers to that to the best i can give them to you. >> tucker: that's at general promise but graham got more specific. he said he would find the truth with a series of actions. he would probe whether or notld top dod officials plotted a bureaucratic coup. he said he would subpoena andrew mccabe and rod rosenstein if necessary. so far, graham's tenure has been defined by total inaction. he has subpoenaed neither mccabe nor rosenstein, nor has he launched investigation. now his inaction extends to the

ukraine saga. kurt volker reportedly has given closed-door testimony. two weeks ago graham said ifif democrats didn't release a transcript of volker's remarks, he would summon volker before the senate to testify.cr we are still waiting for that to happen too. r we've asked senator graham repeatedly to come on the show to explain this, among other things. we've never been successful in getting him here. instead tonight we are joined by senator rand paul.er he served with senator graham. represents the commonwealth of kentucky and has a fantastic new book out called "the case against socialism." rand paul joins us tonight. thank you for coming on.uc >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: i don't want to be unfair to any particular senator but i would tell you that i hear a lot from our viewers. what's the answer? how did it start? lindsey graham is the committee chairman. he claimed he would get to the bottom of it and why hasn't he? >> not just any senator can do this. i can't call a committee hearing and drag these people in. senator graham has the power. c

he's the chairman of a powerful committee, judiciary committee. yes, i've encouraged him publicly and privately to do this. i would like to see john brennan come in. i want to see brennan testify and i would ask him very i pointedly did you talk to the british intelligence agencies and did you set up spying by foreign intelligence agencies on the president or the president's campaign? i think he did and i think that's against the law. i've talked to people who are convinced that these people, while they may be deceitful, they are sort of, you know, so officious that they probably -- paperwork they filled out and phone calls probably have a record, but i think he did call the british agents and i think he did get them involved. i also think it would be interesting to know. christopher steele and the steele dossier, did he talk to russian agents? that's been a rumor for over a year now. that he was getting information from russian agents. so everything the democrats have accused president trump of doing, you know, investigating a political rival with a foreign country, all those same questions should be asked of the democrats. did they do that to trump?

>> tucker: that's exactly right. we are being told we have no right to know the answer after two years of sitting patiently listening to this nonsense about russia. n so lindsey graham is at the center of this. you want to give him the benefit of the doubt but the question remains, why hasn't he done this?fo it's within his power to do it and he hasn't done it. what's the answer? >> i think we have to wait and see. i think he wants to get to the bottom of it, but you're right he needs to exercise his power. we've been waiting a long time on this.f some people, i'm not going to say senator graham, but there are other republican senators appear whose allegiance is more to the deep state than it is to the president. w i do think senator graham does like the president and wants to get to the bottom of it but a lot of us want to see it get started.keo we want to see subpoenas. you don't want to see everything being done in secret on the outside and then they parse out what they want to parse out. most of those people that are testifying over there could equally be asked to testify over here. but really i want to see brennan come in. i want to see him under oath, i want to see him under oath. >> tucker: i see a pattern here, though.

again, i don't want to be mean to senator graham who i've known for long time and i think is smart and capable maybe that's my frustration is he is smart and he is capable. and when he goes on cable news, not on this show but on others, and he makes these claims i'm going to do this. i'm going to do this. i'm gonna do that, i'm fighting for you. then he doesn't. he is another example. here's lindsey graham promising us voters in america he's going to get to the bottom of the raid on roger stone's house.ot >> my job is to provide oversight to the department of justice as the judiciary chairman. somebody needs to watch those who watch us. mueller, do your job. these tactics are unacceptable given the level of threat. i'm sending a message to them. you are accountable to the congress. they better answer my letter. if i were them, i would. >> tucker: so he didn't in the end get to the bottom of the raid on roger stone's house. why shouldn't we feel aggrieved? >> he needs to use his clout,

and only he can do it. sometimes they give the argument, they say, well, we only want to do it if the democrats will do it in a bipartisan way.th but it doesn't have to be that. simple majority can vote to do anything in the judiciary committee.it i think every one of those members will vote for hearings. i think there should be very high-profile hearings on this. there's a lot to investigate. how they originally got the fisa warrant. i want to know that because i don't want anyone else in america to be abused by a government the way the president was. this could happen to anyone. >> tucker: i'm wondering if this is something to do with another issue unrelated directly to these issues which is foreign policy. senator graham, as you know, really probably the most aggressive neocon in the senate. he's butted heads with the president over this. they are currently arguing about syria.it i wonder if his disagreement with trump on foreign policy questions has caused him to slow walk some of these investigations. >> there is an establishment in foreign policy and also in the intelligence community. the intelligence community truly

is the deep state. the deep state has an enormous amount of power to look at individuals, and so when grahamd and i have fought these fights in the past, i have always fought for having warrants where a real judge in public has to, you have to present probable cause. lindsey has always fought for allowing these to be done secretly. these fisa warrants, allowing americans to be caught up in it. there may be a concern that if we look at the intelligence deep state, as we find out things, their power may diminish and there might be a philosophical difference that he wants to maintain the power and the intelligence community. >> tucker: it may be, and i bet you the voters of south carolina disagree with him on that. >> i think voters want to know what happened, what they did to the president. >> tucker: senator, thank younk so much. appreciate it. if you watch television, you know the world is on the brink of armageddon. democrats tell you that constantly.

why do they fly on private airplanes? nothing is worse for the environment but they do it anyway and they're doing it more than they ever have. we'll investigate it. mark steyn responds just ahead. ♪ by macklemore and ryan lewis]

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>> tucker: the democratic presidential race is setting a lot ofof records. no contest in american history has been this focused on climata change. almost every candidate has a plan to spend billions or in some cases trillions of dollars on some form of green new deal.. this newfound climate activism comes with another odd trend. a taste for private jet travel.

it's never been like this in any presidential race. in the past three months, the democratic field has spent $2.2 million flying private. joe biden's case, flying private amounts to more than 5% of all campaign spending. it's almost like he's running for president so he won't have to fly commercial. daniel turner is the executive director of power of the future. he knows a lot about the subject and he joins us tonight. mr. turner, thanks very much for coming on. you hear people, not enough but occasionally people like me say it's an outrage that you, on the one hand, demand sacrifice from the population in the name of climate and the other, fly private. put some flesh on those bones. why is it ridiculous for a climate change activist to fly private? >> every one of the candidates running for office has embraced the green new deal and a tenet of the green new deal is the abolition of fossil fuels. they said they want to render jet travel obsolete. they want to bring us to a place in the economy were oil and gas are no longer allowed to be used

as resources. and you would think that they would reflect that in their personal life. you think they would start to at least in their campaign put your money where your mouth is. it's a simple expression. the fact that they are doing this is shows what a bunch of liars they are. >> tucker: by their own logic, if you believe that carbon is a pollutant, and they all do, they are really harming the earth. >> yeah, according to their theory.ar according to their logic, they are doing a tremendous amount of damage. just because they don't want to drive from des moines -- >> tucker: how much damage? >> there's a statistic that the average flight, private jet from london to new york is what the t average american would spend in carbon for an entire year. one flight. private jet. that's why we have these global climate summits because they are always at exotic and fun resorts and all these people take private jets.se that's why it's so funny that they can't ever carpool together, or jet pool, they are spending so much carbon which is their enemy so that philosophy says one thing but then their life, the way are living. >> tucker: i don't understand.

so if you really believed a third of what you said, then you wouldn't charter a plane to fly from nantucket to martha's vineyard, as i think hillary once did. you wouldn't bomb around the country in one of these little planes. >> joe biden spent almost a million dollars. pete buttigieg spent almost half a million dollars.ol here's a fun fact, elizabeth warren and bernie sanders both say they want to make fracking illegal on the first day in office. by executive order, they want to make fracking illegal.t half of our oil comes from fracking. if we got rid of half of our oil and there are millions of men and women who work in this field besides their jobs being eliminated, what would that do to air travel? the cost of all goods and services and the cost of food et cetera. so they embrace a political perspective that would destroy the economy and raising prices. on the other hand, they will jump on a private jet. w >> tucker: because that's what they are like. by the way, i don't even do that. i'm not a climate activist at all. i'm the opposite. i fly coach. i did today. i feel guilty. it's wasteful.

>> don't ever take coach. >> tucker: the core goal in all of it is to lord it over you and control you. >> there are men and women in small towns who work in oil and gas and coal in these noble professions who are constantly denigrated by these candidates.s their jobs are on the line and if they do not practice what they preach. they are not worthy of our vote. >> tucker: that's for sure. daniel turner, thank you. succinct and powerful. check out daniel turner's great new piece going up onnk foxnews.com's opinion section later tonight. the democratic party's taste for private jets is a little strange, as we've said. they've used up all the private air miles to fly around more in the country of the existentialve threat. >> climate change is real. it's an existential threat to our country. and the entire planet. >> nato is about the common defense. the biggest existential threat is climate. >> climate change.e. it really is the existential threat. >> we're going to have to address the most existential threat to our nation and the world. climate change.

>> on climate change, the greatest existential threat that we face. >> we are facing a climate crisis. it represents an existential threat to who we are as human beings. >> tucker: the greatest existential threat, says beto. what does that even mean? the kid went to columbia. he can't even speak clear english. is it an existential threat, whatever that means, or is it not? or do top democrats to see their own comfort is more important?t? author and columnist mark steyn joins us. what do you think? >> hey, tucker. you know it's interesting to me is they always talk about the interior of the country as flyover country. basically the bit between jfk in new york and lax on the west coast. in fact, it's actually gotteny worse. it's now become private flyover country. it's noncommercial flyover country for these guys. and they say well, it's because of the campaign. f you are having lunch in

new hampshire and then you're doing a supper event in iowa. that's not actually the case. since the 2016 election, bernie sanders has spent 400 grand on private flights.he in other words, between the 2016 and the 2020 campaign, he spente 400 grand flying around on private -- well, presumably by some miraculous arrangement. >> tucker: bernie sanders, the one who hates rich people and who hates billionaires? that guy?ar >> yeah. he flies around like a head ofh state. against what you were saying at the top of the show. we have the worst elites, one of these elites got right inn the last quarter-century. one of the reasons is they don't live among us. bernie doesn't actually want to -- you said you flew in coach on an american airline, which is a miserable experience thanks to government

regulations. bernie doesn't want to have to endure that and he doesn't want to have to find himself in row 73 on a center seat between you and sean hannity. that's his worst nightmare. he doesn't want to -- >> tucker: [laughs] >> one consequence of this is that they're not actually living where the american people live.i they are flying. these are candidates nobody's ever heard of. there was a guy, i can't remember his name. if you excuse me, i will look him up. steve bullock. do you know what he is polling? .3% in the polls and the number, he doesn't have name recognition in his own house. and yet he's flying commercial. this is simply the fact that they do not want to live as the people they purport to rule. >> tucker: his wife doesn't recognize him. [laughs] mark steyn, always great to see you. thank you. ronan farrow's new book, as you

know, because we've covered itee on the show, shows the lengths to which nbc news went to protect harvey weinstein and matt lauer. those might not have been the only sexual misconduct allegations the network l suppressed. new allegations out tonight. we'll unpack it just ahead. ♪

>> tucker: the sexual misconduct allegations that derailed harvey weinstein and matt lauer weren't exactly secrets. a lot of people knew. they just didn't see anything. why? thanks to ronan farrow's new book "catch and kill" we know why. powerful people protect them. people like noah oppenheim and andy lack at nbc news assiduously protected harvey weinstein, if you can imagine protecting harvey weinstein. it apparently wasn't limited to them. an article for "the daily beast," sil lai abrams says even after the weinstein story broke, nbc suppressed her own allegations of sexual assault erielle davidson is a writer at "the federalist" and she joins

us tonight. w thanks for coming on. outline what these allegations are. i should say they are allegations. i don't know the truth but i'm interested. >> there's definitely allegations and we have to be careful when we talk about sexual assault in general, but what i will say is that this is really catching on the momentum of ronan farrow's book "catch and kill." an entirely brand-new story that nbc essentially buried sexual assault allegations. they learned of them and did not pursue them. they did not expose them. there was actually a point in which they had an opportunity to air an interview with the new accuser and they opted not to. >> tucker: that would be on joy reid's show on msnbc. the accuser said she was ready to go on the show and that joy reid's staff told them that it was canceled. >> right, and actually nbc dragged their feet in the mud for about three months. essentially abrams approached

joy-ann reid with these allegations and said i want to come forward with them and joy-ann reid said okay let's do it. they did the interview in january of 2018 and then this is what's kind of weird, tucker. in april of 2018, they told abrams, they said you're going to have to take your story elsewhere. o we're not going to go forward with the interview. >> tucker: interesting. the channel that leaked the "access hollywood" tape and pretended that trump was a russian spy for two years suddenly found themselves worried about journalistic ethics and was going too far. is that what they are saying? >> it seems to me there aree different standards being supplied for different allegations. if you recall when a kavanaugh accuser came forward, julie swetnick, nbc had no problem giving her an exclusive interview even though nbc could not actually corroborate her story.

meanwhile, abrams comes forward to nbc and says i have a story for you and they don't go forward with it. >> tucker: she says she's been sexually abused, assaulted, harassed by a famous entertainment executive. >> by a famous entertainment executive but also by a host of "extra." the host from "extra" was in the nbc family. it premieres on various networks owned and operated by nbc. so it goes to show that nbc is comfortable airing allegations if they are against the right type of people. if it is against someone within nbc's family, they are not willing to go forward. >> tucker: that doesn't sound like journalism to me. >> no, it's not. it's really one of those issues where you say this is incredibly damaging for nbc's credibility. going forward, when we go to the news, we hope that they are going to actually report the news, that they're not going to pick and choose heroes. that's exactly what seems to be happening here. >> tucker: of course.re the people around the place are still there. >> absolutely. >> tucker: amazingly. p

talk about no accountability. thank you for that. great to have you on. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: the new developments tonight in the second life currently being lived by congresswoman ilhan omar. it's interesting. we have details. plus, bret baier has a new book out about a critical moment, in thehe pivotal moment, second world war. it's a really interesting read. he's here for his first interview about his book. that is next. ♪ what are you doing back there, junior?

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her double life with a married campaign aide. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher has more. >> d.c. consultant tim mynett was hired by ilhan omar to pick up her groceries, take out her trash, keep overnight watch on her home. it appears they are dating. as the daily mail says when it snapped a few rolls of film, the couple is more or less living together whenever she is in d.cf when tim mynett filed for divorce, his estranged wife has said his affair with omar dated back to when he worked on her campaign. tim mynett denies it. when omar filed for divorce two weeks ago, she too denied thee relationship but now the couple is reportedly considering their own marriage once their respective divorces are final. there might be a few legal issues along the way. conservative watchdog groups have filed complaints with the federal election committee because omar's campaignfi reportedly paid tim mynett and his firm $230,000 for things like fund-raising and travel expenses. the question is whether the

money was used to fund the affair which is not allowed.th then there is ilhan omar's relationship history. she married a man in a religious ceremony in 2002. they separated in 2008 and thenh legally married last year. of course, omar has also been accused of marrying her biological brother so he could obtain american citizenship. in early october, omar denied splitting with the man until ofb course she filed for divorce a few days later. >> tucker: thanks, trace. when he's not hosting "special report" bret baier is a passionate reader of history. his written books on ronald reagan and dwight eisenhower. he has a new book out, may be the best book. "three days at the brink." we are proud to have bret baier on tonight for his first interview on the book. congrats on the book. it's been sitting on my desk. i read almost all of it.

it's packed with all kinds of details. even if you think you know a lot about this period and i thought i did, so many things i didn't know. fdr was a great golfer. i didn't know that. anyway, i recommended strongly. why are these three days, the tehran conference, why is it pivotal? >> the allies were literally at the brink.it they could've lost world war ii. november 1943 is when this conference happened. hitler was on the march in europe. the u.s. has had minor success in the pacific against the japanese but that could go the other way. fdr and churchill realized that they really need to get stalin on board. he has taken massive losses in stalingrad and the red army has been fighting hitler for a long time.os there is a chance in fdr's mind that stalin could go the other way and side with hitler and then the war is off. so stalin says you have to come to tehran, that's the only place

i'm going to meet. 6,000 miles away, fdr travelsha across the ocean, the u-boat infested waters. churchill, stalin, fdr meet for the first time at the soviet embassy. they plan an operation overlord which we now know as d-day. that changed the war and changed the world. >> tucker: the logistics of it must've beenen remarkable. the winter in '43 at the height of the war. from washington to reiman tehra. >> it was the secret effort because there were assassination attempts all over the place. fdr gets on his presidential yacht, the potomac, they meet up with the uss iowa, the naval destroyer, the newest in the fleet. he is put on there. he's in a wheelchair. they get a modern elevator ontoo there. onto the ship. they start the trek. it's escorted by other ships. while they are over, heading over, they tried to do an exercise to show the president

of the united states how good they are at the u.s. navy. the next ship, the william s porter, simulating an exercise, accidentally has a firing mechanism in one of the torpedo tubes and fires a live torpedo at the uss iowa. the captain turns the uss iowa towards the torpedo and the thing misses the bow just barely and explodes about 1,000 feet off. fdr is thrilled. he claps. but the captain realizes that he could have lost the president and all of his joint chiefs of staff on that one ship. that's just one of the little nuggets.is >> tucker: that's just remarkable. i have to ask you. do you think fdr understood who stalin was? historians have said that fdr was naive about joseph stalin. >> i think he knew what stalin was, ruthless dictator. he bent over backwards to try to make this alliance happen. churchill was far more skeptical

of stalin. fdr had a little bit towards the end, a god complex, that he could solve everything. he believed he could keep stalin in a corner and contain him, even after the war. what happened was after the yalta conference, he goes back to the u.s. and dies. stalin is emboldened and that's the beginning of the cold war. he essentially takes over eastern europe. >> tucker: left truman to deal with it. bret baier, fantastic. this is a great book. i think anyone watching gets a sense of it. thanks for coming out tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: be sure to watch bret's special. it airs on fox and a director's cut version is available on fox nation. we want to tell you about anir obscure twitter account called pierre delecto. very concerned with defending mitt romney and attacking his enemies. why do you think that is? we'll tell you after the break. mitt romney and attacking his enemies. why do you think that is?

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: sean hannity interviewed the president today. larry king used to say, an interview is amazing. it starts in just a minute, p bt the first time we would like to tell you about an obscure twitter account from a man called pierre delecto. if that sounds like an adult film actor, we didn't choose the name. but if you look carefully atct pierre delecto's twitter account, pierre delecto really concern himself with defending the fragile honor from the senator from utah, mitt romney at "the washington post," romney he was called spineless, but he shot back at jennifer take a breath. you can acknowledgehe the people who agree with you in large measure to measure even if not in every measure. two weeks ago, brit hume suggested mitt romney was an unreliable ally. and loyal to president trump's person, right, brit?

if you are wondering who this pierre delecto's character is, we have a shocking surprise for you, he is, in fact, mitt romney. what tweets did pierre delecto like? mostly ones by mitt romney, quoting mitt romney or mitt romney a paragon of virtue. he also likes to be bashing donald trump or attacking mitt romney secretly dislikes like newt gingrich.tu but in real life, you will not call for overthrowing president trump by the 25th amendment, but as pierre delecto, he likes to tweet it might be a good idea indeed. in other words, exactly the kind of account you would expect mitt romney if you talk toor hi. it doesn't express daring or interesting ideas or a display secretly concealed, but instead a relentless log and passive aggression. it is exactly in every sense what you would imagine. of course, it is.

[laughter] that is it for us tonight. we will be back tomorrow night at 8:00. >> the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and group think. see you tomorrow. ♪ b ♪ >> sean: and tonight, welcome to "hannity." i am live in washington to see the swarm, the sewer, broadcasting outside of the white house where just moments ago, i had the opportunity to sit down for an exclusive one-on-one interview with the president of the united states. the entire hour, you will hear what the president has to say about pelosi, about adam schiff, biden, the corrupt media mob, and what took place with his call with ukraine. we cover a wide range of issues with the democrats ongoing secret soviet style, what i call impeachment attempt to the situation in the middle east. no topic was off limits so without further ado, here is