much. that is "the story" fight in the november 15th 2019. as always, the story continues. we have have a great weekend asalways. tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it's the end of impeachment week one, the public hearings began this week in washington. democrats kicked off the spectacle on wednesday, you'll remember, by trotting out a state department each explaining how deeply upsetting it has been to have an american president control america's foreign policy. they hate that interestingly though none of them had seen the president commit any actual wrongdoing. much the same today. the star witness was the former ambassador to urk maria yovanovitch dismissed earlier this year by the president. testifying at impeachment hearing. so the only question object

table was and remains has donald trump committed crimes that would justify his removal as president of the united states? and fairly early on yovanovitch stated unequivocally as far as she knows he has not. >> do you have any information regarding the president of the united states accepting any bribes? >> no. >> do you have any information regarding any criminal activity that the president of the united states has been involved with at all? >> no. >> tucker: well, threw have it. no, i have no evidence of any kind that the president was involved in criminal activity. that walls her answer. and it should have been the last thing that she should today. everything after that was a waste of our time in a country with so many problems that time wasting is a sin. and, yet, maria yovanovitch kept going and going and going. by the end the hearing sounded by therapy session or extended meeting with the

h.r. department definition of health. the real offense turned out to be wounding the soul of a highly sensitive american ambassador. >> so just like that, you had to leave ukraine as soon as possible? >> yes. >> how did that make you feel? >> terrible, honestly. i mean, after 33 years of service to our country, it was terrible. >> tucker: how did that make you feel? that was a real question. how did that make you feel? if had you to choose a color to represent your emotional state right now, what color would it be? it went on like that for hours. c-span meets the shrink's office. >> without upsetting you too much i would like you to show you the excerpts from the call and the first one where president trump says that the former ambassador from the united states, the woman, was bad news, and the people she was dealing with in the ukraine were bad news. so i just want to let you know. what was your reaction you

heard the president of the united states refer to you as bad news? >> i couldn't believe it. i mean, again, shocked, appalled, devastated, that the president of the united states would talk about any ambassador like that to a foreign head of state and it was me. i mean, i couldn't believe it. >> tucker: yeah. without upsetting you too much. i was shocked, appalled, devastated that someone would criticize me. i couldn't believe it. now, keep in mind, this is the person we hired to represent our country's interest before a foreign government in one of the roughest regions in the world. shocked, appalled. pretty embarrassing. in fact, it's kind of scary. who is doing the screening over there at the state department? how many other neurotics currently hold ambassador rank? before anyone could ask that obvious and not guilty vital question adam schiff jumped in to rattle the witness still more. >> as we sit here testifying the president is attacking

you on twitter. and i would like to give you a chance to respond. i will read part of one of his tweets. everywhere maria yovanovitch went turned bad. she started off in somalia. how did that go? now the president in realtime is attacking you. what effect do you think that has on other witnesses' willingness to come forward and expose wrongdoing? >> well, it's very intimidating. >> i want to let you know, ambassador, that some of us here take witness intimidation very, very seriously. >> tucker: very intimidating. it's witness intimidation. witness intimidation. that's what it's called now when someone criticizes your job performance in a tweet. the gal, it's just terrifying. in the same country someone might step, in maybe from the media, even, to identify this for what it is, a grotesque joke. but, washington is no longer sane, so, instead, msnbc

spent all day praising yovanovitch as a holly victim ohole holyvictim of trum. >> this is a witness who is there not just as a fact witness as the witnesses on tuesday but as a victim. >> if you really walk in her shoes, the country she has gone to, the loneliness. >> yovanovitch is such a soft speaker, it really demands the attention of all these lawmakers. >> they're working against the straight arrow woman, i shouldn't call her woman because that's the president's language. this state department hero. >> the state department historically over the last 30 years has not exactly been where did you to find all the powerful women in washington. usually it was a lot of men. a lot of white men. i'm so proud of her. and every woman in america who has fought in a male dominated career should cheer for this woman today. i can get choked up when i think about what this woman has given. >> tucker: wow. did you hear that, america? the state department is,

quote, a lot of men, a lot of white men, and that's the worst kind of men, according to accredited moron and former senator and now open racist clair mccaskill. yovanovitch is nothing like those horrible white men msnbc would like you to know. in fact, she lives at the very opposite end of the moral spectrum. among the sainted. somewhere between go and day and your average teenage swedish climate activist. that sweet spot of goodness. yovanovitch is the sort of person, in fact, or they told us this on cnn that it is, quote, a gift to know. remarkably poised, remarkably credible. democrats may regret not putting her in the witness chair first. >> this woman has ice in her veins. she has a spine of steel. she laid out, i thought, in brilliant detail who she was. this was, i thought, remarkable testimony. she is incredibly charismatic. >> wow was she a powerful witness i'm an american dream. i was appointed by ronald reagan. i have done this for years. i'm trying to fight the bad

guys. >> i covered the white house in the george w. bush presidency one of the gifts when you meet these people when you travel the world. >> in this age of trump, i'm genuinely shocked by his behavior with regard to this foreign service officer of three decades. to disparage her, to demean her in sexist overtones saying the woman over there. she made a mockery of his dismissals of the deep state. if this is a deep state, i bet a lot of americans looked up and said yeah, i will take more of that. >> tucker: oh, yeah. that's right. americans love the deep state. can't get enough. les vest even more power in the hands of shadowing intel officials who lie for a living and whose agendas can ever be fully known. if you spend enough time in walmart or dennys you will hear people say that out loud. americans are sick of this democracy thing. yet, at the same time, as cnn point out, americans also despise sexism. which, if you want a precise definition means, any criticism of a woman who is currently serving the interest of the democratic

party. so attacking, for example, kellyanne conway, that's not sexism, which is why they were able to do it yesterday on cnn. but criticizing ambassador yovanovitch for her work product, that is sexism. got it? okay. on to lesson number two that we learned today. what donald trump has done in ukraine is bribery. now how exactly is it bribery? don't ask a dumb question it. just is. it's bribery. listen to the geniuses explain. >> it seems to me that the president of the united states either committed extortion and bribery of a foreign official or attempted extortion and bribery of a foreign official. >> the devastating testimony corroborated evidence of bribery. >> she is right to use that word. it is bribery. >> there are any number of potentially impeachable offenses including bricial. >> the american people will hear evidence of bribery, extortion, the president using his office for personal gain. >> and this is a very strong case of bribery.

>> tucker: they have a new word bribery. a very strong case for bribery. actually, there is no case for bribery, that's why they only started using the word bribery this week after running the whole through through the focus group and find out bribery scariest description of what they want to find. however, the specifics don't matter. none of this matters. you know exactly what happened and everyone knows, democrats do too. decided on punishment three years ago, impeachment, they have been looking for the crime ever since. congressman louie gohmert represents the proud state of texas in the house of representatives which is currently impeaching the president. he joins us tonight. so what did you think -- here you had the press telling us that ambassador yovanovitch, who is undone by mild criticism from the president, i mean, she was shocked, appalled, immobilized in effect, she also has a spine of steel at the same time, how does that work? [laughter] >> it's amazing. and, you know, she -- to have adam schiff tell her oh

my gosh, you know, the president just tweeted about you, i think it was to intimidate you. well, the only way the president could have been intimidating the witness is if adam schiff were a co-conspirator in the intimidation because if he had just shut his mouth, she would never have even known it could have had no effect on her whatsoever. but, i mean, for heaven sake, and to hear all these liberal alt left media. some call mainstream. some call them alt left. to hear about white guys in the state department. let me add one against that liberal, liberal white guys. and they hate donald trump and actually there were about 70 people that were on a list that was given and it included the two staffers that ended up going to work and giving all the advice to they call him the

whistleblower. he is not under statute. more proper term is gossip in chief. so the gossip monger in chief and the deputy assistant gossip monger, they consult with those two staffers that have been with nsc. and you might say there was actually a sell from intel, state. but, when the president made that call on july 25th, the noose was closing in on these people because he was going to get evidence of the corruption that involved ukraine as well as the united states and their effort to affect our election. and that's when the gossip monger in chief goes to adam schiff's staff and he didn't come up originally with the idea of a whistleblower. the staff did. and. >> tucker: right. >> it also helps provide him some protection for a little while. the courts will eventually throw it out. but, the noose was closing in. and the thing that the state department people were

really ticked off about, this president quit talking about helping ukraine and actually sent them lethal weapons they could use to defend themselves that infuriated, even taylor. and you can see in his comments. you read his tribed testimony -- >> tucker: is there some reason we are abetting a war between ukraine and russia. why are we taking ukraine's side in a war against russia? i don't understand that at all. what's in it for us? >> well, it can't be because the president is in co-hoots with putin. that's for sure. but we do have -- we do have an interest in seeing that russia doesn't keep expanding and taking in other countries. and, frankly, the only reason they invaded crimia, i'm sick of listening to that crap that they have been talking about in the hearing about oh, you know, trump wasn't helping and he was holding them hostage. no, the reason crimea was

invaded was because obama and clinton had her go over there with a red plastic button with the wrong russian word on it. but they wanted a reset. and the message there that putin got very clearly is, look, we know bush -- he overreacted when you invaded georgia and he did all these sanctions, well, we want a reset. we won't overreact when you invade anything. that's the message putin got. that's why crimea was invaded and these state department people -- >> tucker: that's totally fine with me. has no effect on america as far as i'm concerned. whatever. >> i understand. >> tucker: congressman, thank you so much. >> but the bottom line is the state department doesn't like them not going through them. thank you. >> tucker: that is true. i agree with that the last three days have made it pretty obvious that impeachment is not about what they say it's about fundamentally a policy agreement about permanent washington and the elected president. retired u.s. army colonel and author of the book

"margin of victory" joins us tonight. please put ukraine into context for us. we should care about ukraine's sniping with russia because, why? >> first, may i say one thing? >> tucker: yes. >> you never publicize private conversations between heads of state. you don't do it. >> tucker: yes. >> now we know why because they are widely misinterpreted, twisted, not understood, and they create bad relations between the two states. if we were to publicize all the private conversations between jfk and chris chris standoff between eisenhower and kristof, they would probably be devastating in their content to most people. people would nod understand it. >> tucker: why are we doing this? >> well, you heard louie gohmert talk about the man who is not a whistleblower at all who actually has a very checkered past that i think will come out over the next few weeks. you will hear a lot from the fisa report when that is published that will clarify some of the points that louie just made.

and it discover this is another, broadly speaking, soft coup and attempt to remove the president of the united states yet again. if you can't remove him, at least damage him in some way between now and the election. so i think that's very important to understand upfront. i have got to hand it to the democrats. because, this was beautifully staged, managed performance by yovanovitch. this is a christ-like figure. >> tucker: yes. >> who is being crucified by the satanic man in the white house. >> tucker: yes. >> that was the game that was played. and what we got out of it was he didn't commit any crimes. he hasn't done anything wrong. not at least as far as yovanovitch knows. she is very unhappy she was removed from office. >> tucker: that's the crux of it here. he hurt her feelings. i was watching cnn and msnbc today and that's a crime. you can't do that she is a u.s. ambassador. you can't criticize her. >> well, as far as ukraine is concerned, the people that preceded donald trump in office have been

absolutely insist tent from day one that ukraine must become part of nato. and the reason for the invasion of crimea the conviction in moscow this was going to happen. that then would become, that is crimea would become a base from nato from which it could project power against russia. that never comes up for discussion, but that's a very real concern. >> tucker: why would we do that? >> why did we bring in macedonia? why have we brought in bulgaria? >> tucker: there are at the people at the state department push be the united states to war against russia. >> they don't think they are pushing it towards war because they don't think the russians will go to war. that's where i think they are wrong. i think there is a red line out there. and we're very close to it. and the russians, whether we like it or not, are probably more paranoid than the left in the united states. >> tucker: yes. >> and they are quite capable of striking back at us. hopefully not on the nuclear level but it's real. and this is another reason why this whole ukraine

business needs to be treated differently. first thing we announce ukraine is not going to be a member of nato. we want to facilitate a solution. let's sit down and find a solution that will work for both the russians and ukrainians, that's what zelensky, the new president, really wants. >> tucker: it's all so crazy. thank you so much. ambassador yovanovitch's vendor has nothing to do with impeachment washington is still obsessed with it. plus, roger stone was convicted of supporting the wrong presidential candidate today on seven counts. he faces the rest of his life in prison. we will speak to his daughter after the break. final exam was bumped by a presidential rally. don't miss our weekly news quiz. we have it tonight just ahead ♪ ♪

>> every day it seems like the left's total obsession with race, gender and sexual orientation, things that don't change, is getting more intense and weird. it's so bad now that they can't even stop themselves even while trying to impeach the president. so it's exposing high crimes and misdemeanors, which is what the constitution calls for them to do. friday's impeachment hearing somehow ended up being a moral fable about gender. "the washington post," jeff bezos rag ran this headline, quote: for trump yovanovitch's testimony brings moment of reckoning on gender. never explained how exactly. what morons. members of congress, though, agreed with that assessment. watch. >> i have four little girls in my life. and as i sit here thinking about them and as a woman i cannot be prouder of you and

i consider you an inspiration for women around the world. >> thank you. >> tucker: a former federal prosecutor and doj official and a woman by the way. we should point out because it's essential. just kidding, joins us tonight. francey, thanks for coming on. what is the sex of the witness have to do with impeachment? >> tucker, had has absolutely nothing to do with her job or her testimony. in fact, she should be insulted that shy was being treated in any way different than the men who testified on wednesday. and she was treated differently. the stories about her were different. let me tell you something as a federal prosecutor, no jury treated me differently, well, actually, maybe they were a little harder on me than he this were the male prosecutors. it's not like i could cry and somehow that would make my arguments better a or

more insulting and sets women back decades. when you are talking about wanting quality, then treat me equally. i do not need to be treated with kid gloves and i do not need someone trying to get me to cry on demand so that somehow i will engender sympathy. it's insulting. >> tucker: it also doesn't seem material, exactly. so, if the question is, is trump rude sometimes? well, yeah. and, okay. but that's not an impeachable offense. nobody claims that it is. this hearing is designed, rear told, to discover whether or not he committed a high crime and misdemeanor sufficient to root him from office. her being a woman, him being rude like, that's a non sequitur. that's not relevant at all, is it? >> well, it isn't relevant. tucker, president trump insults everyone. he insulted john mccain after he was dead. i routinely get insulted. i wrote a column this morning for the hill and i was called a bimbo in the comment section. >> tucker: yeah. >> am i going to cry about that?

do i expect someone to say they are sorry and pat me on the head or treat me differently, it's ridiculous and insulting. it has nothing to do with trying to impeach and remove the president of the united states. and, frankly, ambassador yovanovitch ought to object to this treatment of her. >> tucker: it's infantilizing. this is a u.s. ambassador, one of the roughest regions in the world, and she spent a lot of day telling how much her feelings were hurt by a naughty tweet. it did not make you confident in the state department, not that i had any confidence anyway but, still. francey hakes, great to see you tonight. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: impeachment buffoonery continues on capitol hill. it continues to destroy lives. former trump advisor roger stone was found guilty today of witness tampering, lying to congress and another charge. lying to congress. by the way, they can't be charged with lying to you, which they do every day, but if you misspeak, and you

have got the wrong political sympathies, you can spend the rest of your life in prison. now, in case you weren't certain, this was all driven by political spite. consider, this stone is 67, a threat to no one. prosecutors still sought to have him imprisoned until his sentencing in february. by the way, he is gagged and can't even speak about his conviction in public in public or else they will send him to jail immediately. so we're -- instead, we are happy to be joined tonight by adrienne stone, his daughter. she joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. so, have i misstated that that your dad is not allowed somehow, unlike everyone else in this country, to exercise his first amendment rights and talk about what happened today? >> absolutely. and i can't either. that gag order spreads to the family. and his friends. and it's been extremely isolating. and has had a chilling affect not being able to share with other people what is going on and what we see. >> on what grounds are you? you haven't even been accused of a crime.

>> no. >> tucker: much less tried for one, much less convicted of one. how can a judge amy behrman jackson take your first amendment rights away. >> i'm not quite sure yet. i haven't figured it out. i supposedly have been lifted three days before. >> tucker: today, meghan mccain tweeted roger stone rot in hell. and lots of other people on the left gloated over your dad's conviction. is the judge going to sanction any of them? >> no, not at all. but he is looking at spending the rest of his life in jail over what i saw in court i will to share with you after february. but it doesn't seem right to take somebody's entire life away over some bickering. i don't see where anybody was physically hurt or he harmed anybody. >> tucker: no. >> but to take our -- you are just not punishing him. they are punishing our entire family.

they are taking away our rock. they are taking away my mother's life partner. i'm concerned about her and her security. and things aren't going to be the same. >> so the president pardoned two people today, i believe. the president also, of course, signed a law not that long ago that, in effect, pardoned a lot of crack dealers and also some rapists out of prison. and, yet, we are hearing that certain people around the president possibly son-in-law, maybe not, are telling him no, you can't pardon roger stone. even when the president has come out and said publicly i think this is a travesty. what's your view? do you think the president will. >> roger has so much support. he really does. he has a lot of support. he has been around in politics for his entire life. and to take him away, it would be a huge loss for everybody, for republicans all over the world. he thinks 40 steps ahead of

most political analysts out there. that's why he gets invited to go to harvard and to oxford to go and speak about what he knows about his skills. and it would be a loss not only for our family but for everybody. this has been a horrific experience. >> tucker: this is wrong. this is travesty. the president said it today. and i think -- i honestly do think. >> it is. >> tucker: after watching a series of people, some of them not deserving at all get pardons from this white house literally, i think people are going to be watching really carefully to see if your dad is pardoned. i'm going to be. >> i can only ask -- i can only ask and i do. and this is -- if he can, donald trump, if you can hear me, please save our family. he does not deserve this. nobody deserves this. and after february, when everything is said and done, i would like a lot of people to look at the money trail and where this all started

because this shouldn't happen to anybody. nobody should have to lose their life to what we have just experienced. >> tucker: yeah, for supporting the wrong candidate. >> there is a lot more to come out, but obviously can't talk about it. >> tucker: thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. i so appreciate it. thank you, god bless. >> tucker: thank you. well, it's very easy to stay in this country legally if you want to, as you know, but some are determined to game the system even more. authorities say a group of immigrants fake add robbery in order to get immigrant visas. details on that. plus it's friday, dan bongino joins us for his weekly news explosion, a particularly violent news explosion this week and hilarious. stay tuned. ♪ prior to going to aspen dental

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>> tucker: the families of 9/11 victims are still trying their best to make the government care as much

as we can as the wahhabist who run saudi arabia. more on the lawsuit seeking to expose the full truth of saudi links to 9/11. >> survivors of 9/11 and their family members banding together in court to call out the justice department for protecting the saudi government. and by extension the al qaeda terrorists who killed nearly 3,000 people on u.s. soil. at the heart of their complaint, a classified report from 2016 that details everything the u.s. government knows about the 9/11 attacks. reports the justice department is refusing to make public. one survivor at the hearing in new york city today says it left him feeling nauseated. >> our fbi is clearly protecting the saudis, clearly protecting them by not releasing this information. after 18, 19, almost 20 years now later, there should be no national secrets, security secrets anymore. >> one explosive detail in that report, the name of a saudi co-conspirator who allegedly ordered assistance

to the hijackers but to this day remains free and faces no charges. >> the third man was the individual who tasked handlers in los angeles -- excuse me, i'm a little out of breath, handlers in los angeles, he was their boss, boss, who provided and tasked them to help the hijackers in los angeles back in 2,000. >> the saudi regime has for decades denied any involvement in 9/11. both the fbi and congressional investigators have directly linked two saudi officials to hijackers. the family's attorney agrees. >> we think that the evidence and the material and the documents show a direct connection to saudi officials. >> now, the name of that third saudi official is already known to a handful of victim's family members who say straight up that is not good enough. they say the feds should dignify all americans by

naming the terrorists, tucker, who attacked the homeland on 9/11. >> tucker: you think? i think. you are not allowed to say but amen. gillian turner, great to see you tonight. >> you bet. >> tucker: it's a story so nuts and unlikely it could only happen in something like america's immigration system where crazy things do happen quite a bit. according to the sheriff's office in kings county washington, where ceilings is, a group of about 10 immigrants carried out elaborate fake burglary against themselves. why did they do that? one of the many visas that we offer to foreigners is called a nonimmigrant visa. it allows a foreign who is a victim of a crime in the united states to stay in this country for the sake of assisting authorities in solving the crime. now, see this crime was fake, of course, the hope was that the case would never be closed and they could stay in this country long term, forever. jason has been following this story. he is the seattle radio show host and he joins us tonight. jason, did i describe that correctly? i mean, it's almost like out of a movie, this story. >> it's insane.

and obviously this a crime that freaked out a whole bunch of people it. happened outside of seattle. we don't normally see these kinds of robberies where, in this case, it was alleged that two men in masks, one with a handgun, went into bob's burgers and tear achy, this restaurant, they held people up. they tied people up. they sexually assaulted two of the female victims before getting away. and the story was that some customer wandered in and noticed that this had happened, called 911, and then obviously king county sheriff's deputies took this incredibly seriously. they had a specific cryption of the two individuals. they had a car and license plate. and it turns out it was completely a hoax. and they found out pretty quickly that it was a hoax. and during the investigation, they discovered, yeah, this was so they thought, they would qualify to have a u visa which says under certain circumstance, under certain crimes, you are protected from being deported because you would have to participate in the actual, you know, justice system to

go after these bad guys. now, in theory, when you think you are not actually going to be deported because there is not actually a crime but they think there is a crime, it means indefinitely they would be able to stay here, now, the ironic part about this story is now that they figured it out, right? they haven't yet pressed charges and the expectation is there are going to be some charges. well, in washington state, and in king county and in seattle, we are sanctuary. we have sanctuary policies. which means even after they are convicted and let's say they do some jail time, they are unlikely to actually be deported anyway. because we will not participate with ice and we won't turn them over. >> tucker: even though they faked the crime, and tied up seattle area law enforcement trying to solve a crime. >> yep. >> tucker: that they committed, they won't be turned over to the feds for deportation? >> they will not be -- they can't be turned over because of our washington state sanctuary law. it's absolutely ridiculous. and it's dangerous. >> tucker: it's also mass cism so you can see what's going on. there are people who hate

our society and are seeking to destroy it, obviously. jason rants thank you for joining us tonight tonight thank you for that explanation. creepy porn lawyer is back on television. if you can believe it, not in the way he would like to be back on television. is he not sitting across from brian steltzer on cnn. we will tell you what he is doing. time for final exam weekly news quiz back after one night delay due to the rally last evening. that's just ahead. stay tuned. ♪ ♪ - [spokeswoman] meet the ninja foodi pressure cooker, the best of pressure cooking and air frying now in one pot, and with tendercrisp technology, you can cook foods that are crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. the ninja foodi pressure cooker, the pressure cooker that crisps.

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nobody remembers him. all time champion on jeopardy was asked to name the creepy porn lawyer and he couldn't do it. watch. this this lawyer's star rose while repping stormy daniels but fell after he was accused of trying to extort millions from mike nike in 2019. [buzzer] his name quickly forgotten. alex trebek wasn't exactly precisely right. it's not that his name is forgotten. it's that people never knew his name in the first place. jeopardy wanted some obscure other name for the creepy porn lawyer but if you watch this show you know he goes by only one title. so who is this creepy porn lawyer. >> well the world's creepiest porn lawyer has gotten famous. we mentioned the creepy porn lawyer you have heard about. the one you have seen on tv threatening people. you may have heard husband cover the creepy porn lawyer. it's all about the creepy

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successful contestant in final exam history. >> hear that. >> fake news. >> tucker: he is unbelievable. kind of laid back. you wouldn't think he would like drop the hammer like he does. >> jesse: i'm smarter than i look. thank you, tucker. >> tucker: trendy. you know the rules for the sake of the audience repeat them. hans on buzzer. i ask the question the first to buzz in answers the question. wait until i finish asking it before you answer. that's key. you can answer once i acknowledge you by saying your name. every correct answer is worth 8 points. each incorrect answer subtracts a point from your total. best of five ins with. does the math make sense? >> yes, it does. >> yes. >> tucker: let's get state-of-the-arted. multiple choice. all the options presented. here we go. roll prompter, please. the question is this. residents in tom river new jersey under attack by a gang of violence birds. birds are taking over the town, destroying infrastructure, so say news reports. what kinds of birds are

these? are they a, mute swans, b, wild tuckerys, or c canada geese? bell. >> tucker: jesse. >> b, wild turkeys. >> tucker: like your favorite band of bourbon. >> residents say the gangs of tuckerys traveling together from house to house terrorizing one neighborhood. turkeys in the driveway blocking traffic, scratching cars, and chasing residents. this thanksgiving, when turkeys on the menu, apparently they fight back. >> tucker: this is what happens when people stop bird hunting. they are everywhere. >> jesse: got to get katie out there. >> katie: got to shoot them. >> tucker: another multiple choice this time. on her recent tour, madonna, the singer with one name, has been making the audience wait for two hours before getting on the stage. obviously the fans are furious. madonna says she doesn't care what they think.

what was her arrogant message to angry fans? was it a, a queen is never late? was it b, ima donna. deal with it. or was it c, the existentially curious claim time is irrelevant? katie? >> katie: c, time is irrelevant. >> tucker: something like a french philosopher would say is it c, time is irrelevant? [cheers and applause] >> a queen is never late. >> katie: dang it. >> tucker: incorrectly quoted madonna. lose a point. you went up in my personal estimation. >> katie: going to the gulag now. >> tucker: if you would have known that i would have thought less of you. congratulations for not knowing it. question three, senator warren, not a multiple choice. warren unveiled new campaign

merchandise $25 mug that she says contains the tears of what group of people? jesse watters? >> jesse: billionaires. >> tucker: she is selling billionaire tears mugs is that true? >> it is time for a wealth tax in america. [cheers] i have heard that there are some billionaires who don't support this plan. all we are saying is you make it big, pitch in two cents so everybody else gets a chance. [cheers] >> tucker: two cents? 25 bucks for a foreign made mug. jesse watters, nice. >> katie: can you redistribute that i like warren now. redistribute your points to me? that would be great. >> jesse: no. >> tucker: that is the worse plan. question four, another multiple choice. after a long-term ban, the u.s. marine corps just announced it's lifting its prohibition on marines doing what while in uniform? is it a, wearing sunglasses, b, chewing gum.

c, using umbrellas? >> katie: my buzzer is not working. >> jesse: this is a guess but i'm going to go with a, wearing sunglasses. >> tucker: a, wearing -- have the marines banned wearing sunglasses. >> military ending the 200-year-old tradition of making marines tough it out in the rain. they are now allowed to carry all black plain umbrellas while wearing service or dress uniforms, but they must hold them in their left hand so they can still salute with the right. >> katie: nice rules. [buzzer] >> tucker: i don't know if i'm for that something kind of cool about umbrellaless marines. multiple choice and worth two points. that means we're currently at 1 to negative one. so we could get back to par which is to say pretty much even, i guess, right, depending upon. this. >> jesse: yeah.

>> tucker: a viral video this week shows a wild animal in china that appears to have the face of a human. what kind of animal is it? is it a an alpaca. is it b, a carp. is it c an otter? >> katie: this is not working. this is rigged. >> jesse: it is b, carp, tucker. >> tucker: it's a human-faced carp. you are a savage with the button. i think that's part of it. >> katie: right. >> tucker: is jesse right. is it b, a carp? [laughter] >> katie: it's really creepy though. >> jesse: that's scary. >> tucker: how did you know that? >> jesse: we did it on "the five." >> tucker: this is what happens whether you have nine different tv shows. you know all the trivia. >> katie: good game. >> jesse: thank you. >> tucker: i told you katie, he is really good. >> katie: if i were a democrat i wouldn't concede the game since i'm not you

win. >> jesse: thank you. >> tucker: we are out of eric wemple mugs at the moment due to overdemand from america. you are getting a mouth breathing baseball cam. you want to get punched out in movie theater wear this cap. >> jesse: i will wear that at home. >> tucker: good to see you katy and jesse. pay close attention to the news all week. tune in on thursdays to see if you are worthy of eric wemple paraphernalia. we will be right back. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: it's friday and you know what that means if you keep track. news explosion with dan bongino the former new york city cop and author of the great book "exonerated" here to give us top stories of the momentous week. dan bongino, hey, dan. >> this was a tough week to pack three stories into the

two minute drill news explosion tonight. but i will try. i will do my best. my first story because i think it's kind of comically sad is elizabeth warren is proposing some tax rates you know for billionaires and millionaires upwards of 100 percent, tucker. as i wrote down here. >> tucker: maximum, i think. >> yeah. right. nothing like unwittingly working for the government 100 percent of the time. ive a question for you even though it's a news explosion segment. tucker, seriously, is there anything in your life you work harder to finance than you get less from in return than the government? i'm going to throw that out there. >> tucker: why live in the district of columbia so i get not one thing. >> neither do 99% of other americans, either. especially for 100% of your time. story number two. finally, we have a news outlet doing what used to be called journalism trying to track down the whistleblower. great. you must be saying this is fantastic. biggest story of our time.

no, no, no. not that whistleblower. it's the whistleblower who outed the poor reporter on abc who reported on the epstein case. that whistleblower. they are trying to track that person down. that's a big story. but the whistleblower who started impeachment overthrowing an election, forget that. that's a sacred cow. nobody is allowed to talk about that of course. right. so i see people in the back. story number one. the impeachment circus continues. i have to make this one quick. but this is fascinating. we have now had three witnesses who must think, tucker, they are at some kind of a motor vehicle auction or something. it's impeachment trial and, yet, all three witnesses, taylor, went and yovanovitch went after -- there is actual a high crime or misdemeanor all seem perplexed by the question and come up with a remarkable answer of, no. i don't know what they think this is. car auction? what do they think they are doing here? >> tucker: the president was rude. that was a news flash. donald trump has bad

manners. dan bongino thank you. that was particularly explosive version. good to see you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: back monday at 8:00 p.m. sean hannity is next. ♪ >> sean: hi, welcome to hannity, so the schiff show is back in action. the circus remains in town. today, another national disgrace. what we saw, again, every american needs to see this a b.s. pathetic show trial, zero substance, zero facts, zero -- get, this first-hand knowledge. nothing. zero. zip. nada. and, of course, no due process. we got a judge, jury, and executioner, his highness, we got the compromised, corrupt, coward, congenital liar, adam schiff, oh, he was in rare form today. take a look. >> ms. stefanik. >> thank you, mr. nunes. ambassador yovanovitch, thank you. >>