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to the investigation. >> investigate the investigators! whether it's strzok and page, whether it's clapper and whether it's comey and all of these people. because terrible things went on for our country. c this was the worst hoax in the history of our country. >> mark: he may be right about that. for two years, media and political elites in washington went all-in on the russia collusion conspiracy theory. they've spent the last day shrieking that this investigation is actually the real conspiracy. >> it's alarming because we know trump is itching to politicize the justice department. conspiracy theory that they are trying to deflect attention away from, the entire impeachment proceedings.tr everything we know about this is totally bogus. >> vladimir putin has got to be loving it. >> absolutely. i think what's going on with

barr, and giuliani are trying to do, those aren't real investigations. d >> it's deeply troubling what bill barr is doing. >>ll you think he is acting as a partisan and attorney for the president,f rather than attorney general for the united states? >> absolutely.y. this focus on relitigating what happened in 2016, the election, isn't that what got the administration in trouble in the first place? >> it is, and it's a conspiracy theory. >> mark: [laughs] they are going bananas over this. andy mccarthy is the author of a splendid book, "ball of collusion: the plot to rig an election and destroy a presidency." were, is a federal prosecutor, and, presumably, he wouldn't be put on this case if there weren't at least the potential a for a criminal prosecution at some point. >> that's right, mark.ot

we are all hammers, and every fact pattern is a nail. the whole point of assigning all prosecutor to something is to look at it in terms of whether a crime was committed. and i would actually be quite surprised if anything in their day-to-day functioning, as it's been going on the last several months, is any different today than it was yesterday. in fact, i've had a chance the last couple of months to go around the country and talk about the book. i think what would've actuallyou surprised people is if you had told them the day before yesterday that durham was only doing an administrative inquiry. i think everybody expected that this w was being looked at likea prosecutor looks at a case. >> mark: one thing that's new about this is we've heard all these reports about cia employees lawyering up. and for the last couple of years, the fbi has been in the front line of fire.

when you look at it from the overseas end, with these mi6 characters, alexander downer, who ran australia's secret intelligence service when he was the foreign prime minister in canberra. these people, their connection with the united states would be through the cia, wouldn't it? in that sense, yet. is the cia on the hook here? >> it's sure would, mark. when you look at this and the full continuum of the investigation, the fbi and justice department are almost late to the party. this actually i think started as strands of foreign intelligence that came in to the government through the cia and that ended up with the bureau because the cia acted as a kind of clearinghouse board. it really goes back to the second half of 2015, after trump gets into the campaign. it's always been kind of a misunderstanding to look at it as if it were ever one

investigation up until the very end. it really was a lot about foreign intelligence and, you know, every place we operate in the world, particularly all the activity in the investigation that took place in britain, we coordinate with the foreign government in those places where there was a lot of forward activity here. i think that's where the real collusion was. >> mark: there is talk of actually sending subpoenas to brennan and clapper, who were the highest figures in the obama intelligence bureaucracy. is that -- because the theory there is slightly more than you were saying, which isn't that for intelligence came in, but that these guys in washington essentially outsourced elements of the operation to mi6 and others, and then let it filter back to washington. are we going to actually see cia directors and national

intelligence directors giving sworn depositions?ce >> well, i think you might see them as trial witnesses. they were called by congress in various proceedings that were relevant to this a lot of what i quote in the book comes from his own testimony. this is not like andy, figures out with the cia is up to. he also what he didn't say in his testimony he said on msnbc. i would think they are very relevant witnesses. >> mark: do you think he's actually perjured himself and lied, as seems to be cleared to most of us? >> well, i never try to get out in front of that. let's see what barr has.

durham is a capable prosecutor. i think will get a window into it within the next three weeks or so as i anticipate will finally get this inspector general's report. >> mark: thanks for that, andy. michael flynn's attorney says she has proof that the fbi deliberately entrapped her client, and that the plot to entrap him went all the way up to then-director james comey. fox's gillian turner is on. >> good evening, mark. attorneys for president trump's former national security advisor michael flynn are claiming the government is withholding evidence of his innocence, flynn's attorney sidney powell filing an explosive new claim alleging fbi agents manipulated official records from flynn's 2017 interview which led to charges being arrested by investigators. flynn's attorney now urging the court to "dismiss the entire prosecution for outrageous government misconduct and hold the prosecutors and contempt." this is latest in a series of

attempts flynn has made to get the case thrown out after pleading guilty lying to the fbi on december 1st of 2017. in this 37 page long court document, the defense writes high-ranking fbi officials orchestrated an ambush interview of the new president's national security advisor. not for the purpose of discovering evidence of criminal activity, but for the purpose of trapping him into making statements they could allege as false. powell also insisting that this is no paranoid conspiracy delusion. the origin of this case is an fbi interview when flynn was asked about the conversations, but the former russian ambassador sergey kislyak. ultimately pled guilty about those conversations about tell that part of former special counsel mueller's investigation into president trump. earlier this month, federal prosecutors hit back,

calling the defensive filings so far, "a fishing expedition." the defendant's new counsel have sought to get the charges dropped, professed their client's innocence, and perpetrated conspiracy theories. all while stating the defendant does not intend to withdraw his guilty plea. now specifically, flynn's lawyer says fbi officials tampered with the fbi 302 form. that's a document agents use to summarize interviews. they are not saying, mark, who exactly they think manipulated that form. >> mark:k: that's very interesting, gillian. actually, those 302 forms are quite ridiculous, and at some point, the fbi should get rid of that and move into the 21st century. buck sexton hosts "the buck sexton show," and he joins us now. what's interesting about this is the legal pleading here makes it look as if they deliberately at

the highest level set out to create the conditions in which general flynn would commit a so-called "crime" by misremembering as it were. >> some of this builds on what we already know. we know the interview -- this could have been a logan act violation which anybody knows that it's not a crime anyone's been charged with. it was really an ambush interview. they try to make sure he did not inform white house counsel, make sure that he was not prepared for this, discover and see the fbi agents lied or thought heen was lying, where they hiding of exculpatory evidence after the fact and trying to use that they were able to pressure general flynn into a plea bargain right away, and now it's all done and over with. a federal judge can say hold on a second, maybe we need you need to take a look at this, hold people in contempt on the

prosecutorial side, and they should drop all charges and drop the guilty plea that general flynn has already entered. >> mark: they quote, right at the top of their brief this case from 1921, which basically says law enforcement should not be going around essentially inventing a crime to find someone guilty. that's actually not the job of law enforcement, to do that. what's interesting is the attention to detail they did in entrapping general flynn, including what looks like taking their d own rules. like these 302s, which is a stupid thing anyway, but they're meant to be written within five days of the actual event, and it's clear from peter strzok's so-called 302 that, in fact, he cooked it up sometime after.w >> one thing i knew when i worked at the p nypd, never spek to the fbi without a lawyer

present. you have to really be careful. why was after-the-fact notes be treated as enough in this case? there are no allegations those notes may have been tampered with, added to, some key context. a how is that enough to get someone on very specific lies when the whole problem here is whether or not the person remembered accurately, based on their own recollection, what they have been asked about? why not tape these interviews, by the way? it's quite bizarre, which is why some defense counsel insist on taping everything at the fbi. that's the comey maneuver, by the way. >> mark: you don't even need to go to radioshack and buy a cassette recorder and a more. >> everyone has a recorder. >> mark: that's the problem here, flynn was broke and he agreed to -- and did the thing you're meant to do with the feds. he settled. >> of course. and there was a degree of embarrassment, as well. incoming administration, he's a national security advisor, served his country for 30 years honorably. now he's being called a federal

felon. he wants to move past this and move on, but he can only base his decision making at this point on the information that should have been presented that would be exculpatory for him and if the allegation is true, the fbi has good files, exculpatory information should have been presented before he made this plea, and if it was not, people should be accountable for holding it back, just ask the family of senator ted stevens what that's about, and they should be a judge looks at this and says maybe this whole thing was a sham. i think the information points towards that. i think the whole thing against flynn should be dropped. >> mark: yeah, i agree with you. thank you for that, buck. it is time for somebody to do some serious work of quitting up federal justice. as buck said, this has happened before. elizabeth warren is the latest democrat candidate to promise an aggressive gun grab as president. wait until you hear what she's planning to take from you. that's just ahead. first, add another country to the growing list of geographical hot spots hunter biden is accused of a shady business in.e

we will tell you where he isn linked to corrupt dealings this week. that's next, as our special continues. ♪

♪ >> mark: soon, it may be easier to make a list of countries that hunter biden isn't accused of corruption in. first it was ukraine, then china, kazakhstan, and the united states. now there are new questions about biden's legal work in romania, this time.

while his father was supposedly fighting corruption in the country, hunter was, by coincidence, hunter was this time providing advice to a real estate tycoon accused of orchestrating a corrupt land deal. on "60 minutes," joe biden try to dismiss the scandals involving his son by saying, don't worry, his son is not going to be a part of the new biden administration.in >> if i'm president, got elected president, my children are not going to have offices in the white house. my children are not going to sit in a cabinet meeting. you should make it clear to the american public that everything you are doing is for them. >> mark: yeah.am so don't worry, because hunter won't be in the white house. he'll be on the board of some company in the south sandwich islands. w emily larson is a political reporter for the "washington examiner" and joins us. emily, why would somebody accused of a crime, a criminal

real estate deal in romania, hire an utterly undistinguished american lawyer who has the surname biden? >> that's the insinuation. a lot of people are thinking hunter biden was hired by this lawyer because of his connection to joe biden at the same time joe biden was pushing against corruption in romania. j just as he was pushing against corruption in ukraine. joe biden can say he doesn't want his children to be serving in the white house or attending board meetings, but he's also being judged on what he did when he was vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency. he wasn't able to answer at the debate last week why it was okay for him to have a son serve in the position as vice president but doesn't want them to serve like that when he is president. >> mark: the way hunter seems

to follow daddy around the globe, so biden is made the point man and next thing you know, hunter is getting 50 grand a month from some ukrainian company. next, biden becomes the point man on romania, and suddenly, an accused man in romania is extremely eager to hire hunter biden's mediocre legal services. isn't it weird, this synchronicity that obviously smells ridiculous here? >> certainly, strange synchronicity. the bidens say they did nothing illegal and did nothing wrong. there is a lot of interpretation whether they did anything wrong. there's a lot of democrats who think maybe biden should've interviewed with his son's business dealings, kept him from this appearance of a cooperative conflict of interest, if not a direct conflict of interest.

not only is he tangled up in this legacy, big, powerful, bigy legacy democrat type dealings, but he's also lacking in fund-raising, he has frequent stumbles on the campaign trail, and a lot of democrats are trying to look to see if they can find somebody better. >> mark: i don't know why he's lacking in fund-raising, because you think hunter biden's direcotorial stipend from in burisma would help that. speaking of democrat candidates, elizabeth warren has revealed her gun-control plan, as you might expect it means less freedom for you, more power for her. >> we should be doing background checks. we should be taking weapons of war. i've read a lot about ammunition limits, and i think it's a good idea. >> mark: senator warren adding her voice to what's already on the agenda for every type democrat candidate.

>> to gun owners out there who say, well, a biden administration means they are coming for my guns... >> bingo. you are right if you have an assault weapon. >> do you believe in the mandatory buyback? >> i do believe in buybacks and i'll tell you why. they are weapons of war. with no place on the streets of civil society. >> yes, we are going to take your ar-15 familiar ak-47. they will not be used against fellow americans anymore. >> mark: elizabeth warren is joining the party.k- a former army ranger, snapper, sniper, attorney, firearms advocates, and he joins us. thanks for that, ryan.n. let me ask you this, because she is proposing to do things like increase the tax on ammunition. for example, it would be up to 30%. and, in effect, treating it i guess the way we do with gasoline and cigarettes. and gradually making it prohibitively expensive. something you have to think

about buying. >> absolutely. it's disgusting. we already have an excise tax on firearms and ammunition. between 10 and 11%. that's already a huge burden on the firearms industry. why should people that don't necessarily support guns care? it's because it's a fundamental right. we are taxing if in the mental a fundamental right, and by making things more expensive, all you are guaranteeing is some people that might need a firearm for self-defense the most that can not afford it no longer have the opportunity. i think it's horrible. >> mark: the thing about it is doesn't seem to bear any relation to what is used in some of these mass killings that everyone is upset about. if you look at the virginia tech one, for example, that was handguns. >> absolutely. >> mark: the same with the parkland shooting. if you look at what ms-13 are doing, they are terrorizing communities all over the united states just using machetes. so, this seems to be one of

these utterly purposeless things in order to get this guy or other guy, you are going to be ensnaring thousands of legal, peaceful gun owners. >> exactly right. we all like to point out that criminals don't obey laws. by definition. even beto o'rourke was caughto like that where he would have no answer to make criminal obey laws. the tolerant left, when they attack me after i appear on here, they say should we give up them, should we have no laws and give up for criminals? that's not what i'm saying. what i'm saying is criminals don't obey laws, i don't say let's not have laws but i say let's make sure the laws we are putting in effect aren't unduly burdening law-abiding citizens like these kind of laws well. i don't even know what a weapon of war is. it's scary to me when i haveso o many politicians out there calling for socialist principles that tend to lead to bad

outcomes for countries and their people, they are jumping straight ahead and trying to ban the guns now. >> mark: something change with the democrats. go back to john kerry 15 years ago, if he was campaigning in rural states, he'd make a point of going and being seen duck hunting, somewhat implausibly. i think he's the only chap i've ever known go deer shooting in new hampshire, crawling along in his belly, which isn't the way most of my neighbors do it. they seem to have abandoned i those gestures. they are becoming an especially explicitly anti-gun party. >> definitely right, mark, andui think you don't have to go back that far, a year ago i was hearing, we aren't coming for your guns. not everybody is trying to come for your guns. i sympathize a little bit. don't get me all the hate mail for it. i think they are trying to do the right thing. none of us wants mass shootings, none of us what the criminal misuse of firearms. so i just hope the heart is in the right place, but they are

horribly misguided on how they are going to do, and i think they backed themselves into a political corner, where they are now having to jump on and admit what they want to admit all along, which is to take some guns. >> mark: isn't this the extreme version of the worst sort? if you look at the tsa, for example, that makes a point of treating your nonagenarian granny exactly the same way as some guy who has come back from a madrasa in pakistan, when you create laws in which 100% of people are assumed to be guilty, general laws of universal application, you're just wasting tons of police time with law-abiding people, aren't you? >> you're absolutely right, and i think the next level further than you're bringing up now our red flag laws. those things scare me bad. those things we are hearing on the campaign trail, i don't think they are going to be able to get away with it. red flag laws, though? i think they have too much support. they aren't jumping on the second amendment, they are jumping on the fourth and may be others. >> mark: that's certainly

true. thank you, ryan. instead of helping drug addicts get clean, philadelphia is planning to give them special places where they can go and inject. that is just ahead. and also, one of the world's most elite universities is going to war against a modern plague, it's not ebola or drug-resistant tb, it's clapping. that's next on tonight's "tucker" special. ♪ ♪i believe, i believe

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[cheers and applause] >> mark: welcome back to tonight's special. we apologize for the footage we just played there.me my producers tell me it was actually a very offensive clip because it showed people clapping. so if you are traumatized, do feel free to sue us. this week, oxford university's student council voted to abolist clapping at all future commencement ceremonies because the practice is offense to the hearing impaired or those with "sensory sensitivity." instead, audience membersse are supposed to use so-called jazz hands, so graduations will look like the world's largest 19th century minstrel show. but if only jazz hands are acceptable, that would exclude the blind.

perhaps the only solution to this is impasse is to shut down oxford university entirely. gave the world adam smith, margaret thatcher, oscar wilde, countless other luminaries. at this rate, it will be producing no more. i would've never tried to give mrs. t jazz hands because i know what mrs. thatcher would do that, oscar wilde is another matter. congresswoman katie hill conducted a lurid affair with one of her own staffers. now it looks like she may have paid her thousands in consulting fees to keep her quiet. and when itn comes to nocturnal consulting, we turn to our chief after hours freeway consulting investigative reporter, trace gallagher. trace, this one is all yours. >> mark, the allegations against democratic congresswoman katie hill are piling up. the house ethics committee is investigating whether hill recently had an intimate relationship with her legislative director graeme

kelly. katie hill denies the relationship with kelly but fully admits to being involved with her campaign staffer, 24-year-old morgan desjardins. in fact, they were in a three-way relationship known as a "throuple," whicha came to light after "red state" published photos. it apparently ended badly when katie hill moved from california to d.c. and let the others behind. but federal election commission records show that since april of this year, hill's campaign paid morgan desjardins more than $13,000 in consultancy fees between 2017 and 2018, made around $15,000 as a senior campaign staffer. hill and desjardins have been seen in intimate photos made by "the daily mail.y but "the dailyen mail" has been sent a cease and desist demanding the publication remove the photos.

hill believes her estranged husband is trying to sabotage her career. the husband and desjardins accuse hill of being abusive. meanwhile, how speakerse pelosi who pushed for policy changes in the house after the #metoo movement has been silent on the katie hill controversy. our producer asked if she asked her to step away from the post and so far no response. >> mark: thank you. you may think this is a sleazy sex scandal, but in fact, there's a public corruption aspect of this if the lever is getting paid. whoever leaked these photographs is, in that sense, a whistle-blower. i think that's the term theyey e these days. trace. the wise leaders of philadelphia have a grand plan to assist a te

city's homeless: help them inject drugs. it's about to launch the united states first ever save inject in sight after a judge injection sight, after a judge ruled that such a site is perfectly fine under federal antidrug laws. at least one of the democrat candidates, he wants to take it nationwide.st >> after you save someone who is od-ing, bring them back to their house and the o.d. the following week. we need to decriminalize opiates for personal use, we need to let them know that it's not a personal failing, this is a systemic government failing and we need to open up selfs safe-injection sites around the country because they save lives. >> mark: erin elmore is an attorney and a resident of philadelphia and she joins us. erin, is philadelphia looking forward to this safe injection site? >> mark, first of all, i have to say, did you ever think we live in a world where plastic straws were illegal, clapping is illegal, but heroin is perfectly acceptable? i'm losing my mind over this. >> mark: no. >> though having said that... >> mark: that's a very

interesting point, because democrats, as we saw with andrew yang, are far more interested in actually facilitating this habit than they are about, say, sipping coca-cola through a straw. >> absolutely. i will tell you this is a very contentious issue in philadelphia. they want to open it in a place in kensington, which used to bed a terrible neighborhood but now it's totally gentrified. hardworking philadelphians have made this a beautiful neighborhood with bustling restaurants and shops and beautiful homes and schools and playgrounds for children. what they want a to do is they want to come in here and allow criminal drug addicts to inject illegal drugs. when you bring illegal drugs, you bring drug dealers. this is horrible for this done the community for hardworking philadelphians. our governor, i don't think he's for it. i hope he's not. but our mayor is for it.

by the way, he just came out in support for elizabeth warren to sure you are who we are dealing with here. antipolice, pro-criminal district attorney larry pratt there is for it. former governor, a democrat, also for it. however, marx willa is the city councilman in this district not for it and thank god we have people like u.s. attorney mcswain who is going to fight this tooth and nail.th >> mark: ed rendell seems to think this will actually diminish addiction, but if you look at vancouver, who's had this for 15 years now, first city in north america have this, they have the same number of opioid deaths, same rate of opioid deaths as west virginia. and i understand philadelphia has three deaths a day right now. vancouver, with its safe injection clinic, currently has four deaths a day. does it do anything to stop people dying from this stuff? >> no, mark, it doesn't. the best way to prevent overdoses from heroin is to have people stop doing heroin. get these people treatment.

also, a study that showed that 10% of people that go into these safe injection sites, only 10% of these people get into treatment. the rest of them just spiral down that abuse paradox, if you will. it doesn't really do the things they want it to do. all it does is hurt communities. by the way, in these communities, you are normalizing drug use for children. they think, there is the place that people go to use drugs. as you know, and now fentanyl is inby heroin. it's 5,000 times more potent than heroin. the medical professionals that are handling it could get hurt, and the people in the communities, if they came in contact with it, they could die. who are we really helping year, here, honestly? we are putting heroin addicts above hardworking members of the philadelphia community and it's reprehensible. rsrs >> mark: we want to get ahead of the fentanyl epidemic, tens of thousands of americans died from fentanyl manufactured in china.

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>> mark: scientists have some good news for the planet this week. the hole inoo the ozone layer hs shrunk to its smallest size on record. according to researchers, the hole shrank due to higher than usual temperatures in our stratosphere. but they say the higher temperatures have no clear connection to global warming. they also say the whole should they also say the hole should be completely cleaned up by 2080, which is interesting because according to the distinguished physicist alexandria ocasio-cortez, the world is going to end in 12 years, and we are all going to fry.

they are constantly flying around in jets to warn us about that, but it turns out that planet is more complicated than the act of his class things. maybe safe to get those spray on deodorant canisters down from the attic again.o the opioid crisis is the deadliest drug epidemic in u.s. history. over the past decade, it's killed more people than all of america's wars since world war ii combined. the primary culprit is the synthetic drug fentanyl, and most fentanyl is made overseas specifically in china. china claims of trying to halt exports ofim fentanyl, but how true isal that? tucker spoke with him recently. >> tucker: you spent a lot of time looking at this one critical issue. god bless you for doing this. we could have a long conversation about why a lot of people aren't doing the same thing but you aren't. you did.d. sum up, if you would, china's

role in the fentanyl trade? >> well, over 90% of the illicit fentanyl that is killing americans is made in china. and chinese chemical and pharmaceutical industries are huge, so it's pretty out of control, and china's government says it's too out-of-control for us to be able to stop it. what they are not saying is china's government offers tax rebates for the export of fentanyl and fentanyl-like drugs. >> tucker: as a result of that policy, more americans are dying every year than they died in the entire vietnam war..tha and yet, we, in this country, don't really see it as an act of aggression by china. why do you think that is? >> well, china is not one thing. they are bureaucrats at all levels, some are legitimately trying to crack down, doing with the u.s. is

asking. but, more provincially, there are others, want their exports increase. ultimately, that's what the rebates areha for. china wants to encourage its exports of its chemical industry to grow the economy. and so, in some sense, one hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing. >> tucker: s right. how does this drug enter the united states? >> it enters the united states in two ways. one is directly through the mail. so the united states postal service, fedex, deliver these drugs right from china to people's doors. the other way is through mexico. the mexican cartels order these drugs from china and ship them up through the u.s. border. >> tucker: hmmm. in what way, is fentanyl already made? > both. mexico lacks the skilled chemical industry to mak make fh

fentanyl to. these import the fentanyl precursor from china, make it the rest of the way, and send it up north through the border. >> tucker: is there anything the u.s. government can do to stop this drug from entering the country? >> it's extremely difficult. through the mail, president trump hass demanded more searches of these packages, but there is such an incredible volume, millions every month, it's impossible to search all of them. and, you know, you talk about ia border wall and things like that, but from mexico it mostly just comes up in people's cars smuggled in gas tanks, fake seats, all sorts of ways. so it's extremely hard to stop it from getting into the country. >> tucker: those of us over 40 remember well the government's response the crack epidemic which was to flood media with

antidrug statements, propaganda really, but it had an effect. you don't seeug anything like tt going on now. this epidemic basically is unfolding in silence. why do you think that is? >> i think people are starting to realize, because they have seen their own loved ones killed, that drug abuse is a disease. and you can tell kids not to take drugs, just like you can tell them not to have sex, and the intentions may be all well and good, but we've seen it's not effective. >> tucker: so because it's difficult, people don't try? >> well, i think there are some good changes being made. there has been a move towards more care, towards not arresting the really low-level offenders, treatment. but, we're really the tip of thu iceberg. a lot of people started from taking oxycontin and these others prescribed from the

doctors, and these are law-abiding people, when the prescriptions ran out, found themselves buying street heroin. >> tucker: they are enslaved thank you for coming on in the book you wrote on fentanyl. appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> mark: amazing.. importing death from china by mexico. it is friday, so time for the dan bongino news explosion! the former secret service agent will explode out our special by listing his top stories of an explosive "newsweek." that's next. ♪

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♪ >> mark: it's friday, and that means it's time for dan bongino to explode. this show's favorite former cop and author of the book "exonerated: the failed takedown of president donald trump by the swamp" is here to round up his top stories of the week. go get them, dan. >> thank you, mark. always good to see you. let's start with story number three.he listen, mark, i've been getting awfully tired of this fake, faux impeachment, not impeachment, i don't know what you want to call this thing. a bunch of g.o.p. congressmen got a little bit tested at this thing too and tried to storm the gates! of a secret hearing adam schiff and jerry nadler were holding.g. i've never seen impeachment like this in my life.

the constitution is pretty clear. the house of representatives has the sole power to impeach. it doesn't say jerry nadler, adam schiff, the speaker, nancy pelosi, the house of representatives -- plural, mark! i know liberals have a tough time with english and things, but plural.ow >> mark: you aren't supposed to impeach the guy -- they thought storming the adam schiff was the worst things and storming bastille. it's a revolution act! >> we need cell phones outside of the skiff, we need cell phones outside! good call!ne [laughter]s story number two, are we looking at try, try again, try again, again? hillary 2020? who knows. mark, sometimes it's time to take a hint. give them a little wink, time to move on.

this thing may not be for you. i left politics. it wasn't my bag of doughnuts. i can't believe this. a staffer kind of hinted on one of our shows that there is not a 0% chance, small chance that hillary could jump in again. could you imagine another shot at the title for hillary clinton? >> mark: oh, come on!! ninth time is the charm, dan. you know it! >> she still hasn't figured out the rules, mark. she thinks the popular vote wins the presidency. she probably still thinks the atlanta braves won the '96 world series against the yankees because they outscored them the first two games. you want to get the rules them before you think about running again.ouut just to note. >> mark: what's your top story then, dan? >> top story of the week has got to be john brennan, who clearly is downing pepto-bismol like

after a university of florida football game. this guy is terrified right now and mark, he's terrified for one big important reason. i like to joke around during this segment, but this is important. this guy is in a lot of trouble. he has said openly and publicly on networks, cable tv and otherwise, that he didn't see the dossier until december.nd anybody can read it, mark. but that's not possible because he briefed harry i reid in augu, which for liberals who have a tough time with the calendar is before december, and when hey briefed harry reid, harry reid wrote a letter with the fbi about that briefing containing information, mark, that only appeared month late, the dossier, brennan said he didn't see into december. in some limited circles, mark, we call that a problem. and johnny b is in a world of trouble right now. m get the pepto, johnny. you are going to need it. >> mark: dan, thank you. you are absolutely right on that, because thank you for that explosion. that is it for tonight's

special. boom. tune in each night at 8:00 for the show that's the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. p don't forget, you can always dvr us. tucker is back monday. ♪ >> jason: welcome to this special edition of "hannity." t deep state in panic.. i'm jason chaffetz in tonight for sean. at this hour, we are inching closer andea closer toward a reckoning. fox news is reporting that the durham probe into the origins of the russia witch hunt is a criminal investigation.s that means u.s. attorney general john durham has the power to subpoena and filed criminal charges. keep in mind, according to reports from thehe "washington examiner," four notorious deep state figures are wrapped up in the investigation, including obama's cia chief john brennan, obama's director