♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the united states says every fourth-grader learns as a meritocracy. what does that mean? it means that the leaders are not inherited their position, our leaders are selected on the basis of merit. their talents and abilities are identified and then up they go from there. only the smartest kids we are told to get into yale. like incandescent mines like cory booker and chris cuomo. nerds they call themselves with false modesty. the ordinary among us meanwhile go to rutgers.y in this country the hard truth is, and get used to it, pal. is the most impressive,hi

naturally rise to the top, that's what they tell us. do you still believe that or, are we starting to suspect that the whole meritocracy speech might be an elaborate justification for keeping mediocre people in charge? before you make up your mind on the question, consider russia. it's not the nation of russia that hasn't changed in a while,e russia is still a cold and vodka soaked and only marginally relevant place. at least from the perspective of the united states. consider how a ruling class views of russia. to them, russia is the single most important country in the world. nothing comes close! yesterday on nbc -- he's a poster child for the modern meritocracy and by definition a genius unlike you. he stopped a senator in his tracks at all but accused him of

spying for russia! watch this exchange. >> in december 2018 a ukrainian court ruled that ukrainian officials had violated ukrainian law by meddling in our election. that was reported in "the new york times."la >> according to "the new york times" a couple weeks ago, u.s. senators were briefed that actually this entire effort to frame the ukraine for the russian meddling of 2016, of which you just made this case that they've done it. actually, this is an effort of propaganda and this is a russian intelligence propaganda campaign.in in order to get people like you to save these things about ukraine. are you at all concerned you're doing russian intelligence work here? >> tucker: are you at all concerned? now that you put it that way. very funny. but what's funnier or weirder is, we now know it's not really a story.

it never happened, there was no collusion. russia didn't pack our democracy. the whole thing, and that's unexpected defeat in the last presidential election. we lost and we shouldn't have lost. from a star that has been the only argument that underpins the russian experience, conspiracy theory. and now thanks to investigation that the rest of us had to endure, that conspiracy or he had died. it was killed by robert mueller. and yet somehow it lives on in the steering accusations of her mindless public intellectuals and hair hats of the television anchor suite. you think people like that could be contrite and may be humbled after the mueller report came out and prove two years of hyperventilation wrong. no. they're more processed with russia than they've ever been. watch poor mouth breathing chuck

todd go full joe mccarthy yesterday. >> the fact that russia was so aggressive did not exclude the fact that president poroschenko actively worked for secretary clinton. now if i'm wrong -- my goodness. senator kennedy, you now have the president of the ukraine saying he actively worked for the democratic senator. you realize the only other person settling this argument outside of the united states is this man, vladimir putin. >> tucker: vladimir putin. are you now or have you ever been upon a vladimir putin? you would think -- they would say things like that out loud but of course they never do. not only are these people unwise and hysterical, they are also kind of dumb. d and because shifting mental gears is hard for dumb people, it turns out the entire staff at mbm bc is still pretending that

russia collusion is the most important story there is. it's like robert mueller never rodelivered his report. >> is a possible donald trump takes his belief in the world from the president of russia?tr he's acting as a russian asset. he's amplifying talking points put together by the kremlin. >> i can't come up with a plausible explanation for all of these officials wanted to turn our government over. >> the enemy is russia which seems to have consumed one of america's great political parties. >> the constitution is a piece of paper they would rather rip up or cut into segments rather than defend this country at all costs. the russians set this whole thing. >> we've left a good guy and have joined the bad guys in the world and republicans seem to bt okay with it. >> were left with a transnational crisis. we have the government led by a

kremlin asset. >> donald trump believes the words in his heart, the words of an ex-communist dictator, kgb officer rather than any person in america. we are inso danger. >> tucker: we are in danger. this is really irresponsible. keep in mind that everything we played youd aired in the past o weeks. if you exclude to debunk conspiracy theories, could any of these people actually tell you why vladimir putin is so bad? why is he so bad? he is bad! chuck todd says, speak slowly so i can understand. what makes vladimir putin worse than a whole long list of allies? let's try the king of saudi arabia for example. the people who run the emirates. the people who are on that payroll. why is he worse than them?mi they couldn't answer that. for chuck todd and the rest of the dummies, vladimir putin is isn't a real person with country

sapping that long ago. he's a living metaphor. he's the bogeyman. step out of line and you're a traitor in love with vladimir putin and! can we get its picture on the screen? please. the irony is that he does not hate america as much as many of these people do. they call the people traitorous because they're mouthing the talking points of vladimir putin. theyen don't know anything about russia. they don't speak russian. they couldn't identify three cities in russia! the rest of the world isn't that dumb. as demos they may be, not quite that. the french president, he has called nato "brain-dead" because nato exist to provide common defense and yet it has with the fall of the soviet union in 1991, nuclear entity. in the united states, he has said to have closer relationships with russia, not more hostile ones.

so does that make him a stooge is he a puppet of moscow? or could he just be rational leader, the kind that we don't have looking out for his country's interest. russia is not america's main enemy obviously. no sane person thinks it is. our main enemy as china and the united states ought to be in a relationship with russia aligned against china.ai china is the country that's currently murdering tens of thousands ofur americans everynd year with sentinel. it's depopulating parts of the country. it's pushing our life expectancy down. that's how profound a threat it is. they barely care, they won't acknowledge it. many of our politicians runic interference from the government. in california, they bow caught for the transgressions and

praise the dictatorship. michael bloomberg doesn't even do that. he denies china as a dictatorship at all. watch this. >> china is doing a lot. >> there still burning coal. >> other moving plants away from the cities. the communist party wants to stay in power in china and they listen to the public. when the public says i can breathe the air, he's not a dictator. he has to satisfy his constituents or he will not survive. >> he's not a dictator? >> he has aa constituency to answer to. >> tucker: speaking of stooges, the dictator is not a dictator. they dictator is not a dictator. that is disqualified. no one has noticed. bloomberg's comments have gotten not 1% of anything russia related. the president racing to climb a traitor?

that tape makes you wonder. most of washington is already in the tank for china. the emperors, they were supported by thousands of unix. the emperors are gone, but they clearly remain in case you haven't noticed. jim jordan represents the proud state of ohio. congressman, is it odd having served this country and live with therefore longer to see members of the press just going full joe mccarthy and accusing members of congress they don't agree with them doing their bidding? this come from? >> nothing surprises me. good to be with you. think about this. his white house is now working for vladimir putin, more sanctions on ross are ever before. it gave ukraine missiles which the previous white house, the obama administration wouldn't do. somehow he saying this is helping putin, that's the most ridiculous claim. ilaim have loved your monologueu nailed it.

>> tucker: i should say for the record that i'm totally opposed to these sanctions and i don't think we should be at war with russia. we should probably take the side of russia. if we have to choose between russia and ukraine, that's my view. >> tell me why -- it can't be both. so look. you have -- the obama administration, he said president trump -- i don't get their logic at all but, i don't get much of what they are doing. they've been putting the nation through over the last several months. >> tucker: wouldn't you think -- there would be at least a moment where people say,ou probably concede that we were we promised you collusion and we can't prove it, maybe we should concede that we were wrong and

not continue to bombard you with allegations. why haven't i done that? >> that would require some common sense and fairness. you never going to get that, particularly from the folks who are highlighting. you're not going to get that. frankly, that's the same we hear from the democratic party at adam schiff. he told us there was going to be collusion. there has been evidence of it, he guaranteed it would happen and when it didn't, he moved on to this whole ukraine story that we've now been living through. they never back up and apologized. they keep pressing forward and it's driven by something speaker pelosi said two weeks ago when she called the president, she called him an imposter. that is the problem. they havehe never expected tom mack accepted the fact that 63 million americans voted to make an president and electoral college landslide. they're out to get them and it

goes from one thing to the other and i never apologize when they're wrong. >> tucker: is getting too radical and crazy. thank you so much. i appreciate it. sean davis cofounded "the federalist" which has cover the russia nonsense from day one. he joins us. thank you for coming on. maybe this is not an unknowable question, but what is the obsession with russia? what kind of mind frame would you need to say that russia wast the greatest threat america faces? that seems insane. little andit's a sang and it goes to the fact that after the 2016 election when donald trump beat hillary clinton there was a psychotic mental break among thi collective mind where they couldn't accept that donald trump had fairly and squarely beaten hillary clinton. dad to come up with some sort of excuse, rationale to explain how the big bad orange man could have taken down their political savior.

they couldn't accept that she was unpopular so they had to come up with some of these increasingly bizarre political theories to explain the failure between her and trump. the more deranged and delusional they get, it's a real problem. at some point i wish they would sit them down and tell them they could get some help. >> tucker: america needs help, assembling a coalition to oppose the single most aggressive and fastest growing country in the world. the greatest threat to us which is china and why wouldn't we enlist the help of russia to do that? how is this not imperiling our national security? >> honestly i don't think a lot of these people care about national security. it's absurd to say, they might pd geopolitical flow of the united states, run by a mad man, but to sayo there the threat is absurd. it's clearly china. they're taking over wide swaths of the sea over there.

they're belligerent towards our allies and their stealing our goods and trademarks and intellectual property. their rushing and illegal drugs and opiates and flooding the nation. there are huge threat threat militarily and it's absurd anyone would ever look at russia or any other country and say that there a bigger threat. we need a single unified cohesive plan to counter china pbecause there are the threat r the next century. >> tucker: that is for sure. sean davis, thank you for that. richard goodstein is a lawyer and former advisor to bill and hillary clinton. a frequent guest, thank you for coming on. just the other day, some of our finance plutocrats were over in china sucking up to xi jinping and the elderly fascist leadership of that country which is flooding our nation with deadly drugs. nobody said anything about it which was totally cool. why is that all right? >> the fact of the matter is i

think they look to the government to be the ones whether it's about flooding thee the country with fontanelle or other things, they look towards our administration and they're wanting in that regard. should they be? if you're a business person and want to be a stand up, should say something. >> tucker: this is not like ash small esoteric thing, this has like the head of every fund in new york, every bank. every private equity guy. they're all over there doing this. to they all went we've gone over there were russia, to think someone would say this? >> every private sector entity has certain morals they want to observe. >> tucker: why should they be allowed to do that? two countries that were questioning with sanctions. neither one has murdered 50,000 americans, we have no -- we have

no call for sanctions. why is that? >> what you talked about on the first 15 minutes how russia is harmless or better than that. putin murderous journalists, he murders opponents and people in the u.k. he attacks our democracy and somehow, they're like boys will ebe boys. no. people don't see b that. >> i don't want to live in his russia. i live in d.c. for a reason because i like it here. saudi arabia also murders journalists. saudi arabia has a much greater effect on the foreign policy ever has. half of washington is on the payroll? that is fine and the democrats and republicans, they're both fine with that and nobody says anything about it because the long hypocrites. >> i think a lot of people in the private sector said something when he was basically

murdered and hacked. the fact that this administration didn't is shameful. >> tucker: why don't we spent a full hour? a list of the names that d.c. residents, republicans and democrats. why don't we do that? if you had russia influence in washington to the extent, that would be a full blown crisis. >> the problem -- when our president says he trusts putin, kgb putin over our intelligence agencies, that's a problem. when he says i don't know why we russia would attack our democracy and the next day thinking were all, i meant to say wouldn't hear that's a problem. when nancy pelosi says all roads lead to putin, she's onto something. >> tucker: do you think russia has a bigger threat to the united states or is china? >> you asked me that before.

i don't think china is out to undermine our democracy. they're not offended by our democracy as before. putin -- >> tucker: they're not as offended. who hacks more government agencies, russia or china. is it even close? it's not the same league. >> mueller and the committee, the national security staff working for donald trump all say russia is the one trying to undermine our democracy. i'm not saying chinai' is blameless -- >> tucker: are they stooges? they've overseen the greatest sellout. i would say that richard burr is part of the problem.bl yes i would. i would say more broadly that what you see in the past 20 years as a systematic betrayal of america by our elites beginning with china's admission to the wto. our entire sector collapsed, a small number of people got rich

doing it and they'd never been punished for it and they should be. if it includes republican senators, good.rs >> i'm seeing everyone and the republican is pointing their fingers. >> tucker: i agree with you. thank you. joe biden is still pulling at the top of the race, why is that? some amazing and baffling statements from joe biden which thankfully are hilarious. don't miss it. we'll be right back. ♪

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a small-time delaware gangster from a wilmington pool. the whole thing was so weird that nobody noticed until just the other day that biden was saying a lot of other weird stuff too and exactly the same time. stuff about hair for example. >> and by the way, you know i sit on the stand. e i get hot, i have hairy legs. that turned blonde in the sun. and the kids used to come up and reach in to the pool and rub my leg down so they could wash the hair come back up again. i learned about roaches and kids sitting on my lap, and i love kids jumping on my lap. >> tucker: it's hard to know what to add to that so will keep moving on and we won't focus on that too long. at spine tingling. he also claimed he is ready to take on kim jong un thanks to

their many past interactions. >> putin has no illusions about whether i know him or not. the same with the president of china, xi jinping. we spend a lot of time with these folks. they know, they know. and they know that i know. >> tucker: it's possible he has, but not on this plane of reality. he's never met kim jong un. maybe he's getting old and forgetful, may be this is a new avant-garde art form. its performance art! he's pulling an andy warhol on the house. whatever is going on, it wasn't the right time for a new campaign slogan. you know what it is? no malarkey. no malarkey! the kids will love it.

what other slayings today adapt to show their the campaign of the future? or joined by mark steyn. no malarkey! [laughter] >> he paid some fancy consultant $30 million. that's fantastic. they did focus groups on other ones. i believe they tried out, they know i washed tour which pulled quite well with african-americans i believe. they also want for the, no horsefeathers to to work. that tested quite well with muslim millennials. they tried the no fat doodle tour and that actually worked well with some feminists lesbians and the final one -- no cockamamie, federal, dag nab

it to work. it pulled really strongly with undocumented transgender's. i waited all my life for a hairy legged candidate and this is -- this is a critical lane and the democratic primary. we talk about the socialist lane, the more socialist lane, but the hairy leg lane has been wide open since he instrument himself shaving his legs back in august. and then using an arugula exfoliate to moisturize. he saw there was an opening for a legged candidate. >> tucker: to me hairy leg scream toxic masculinity, it's almost the definition. >> i think you're getting too hung up on it. there is absolutely nothing

weird about sitting a 7-year-old boy on your lap and inviting him to smooth down your leg hair and watching it rise again. the 7-year-old boy, the junior lifeguard at the pool, young kim jong un who was there for an exchange program. that's how he knows him and that's why kim jong un has seen the legs that he is terrified of joe biden. >> tucker: whoever that kid is suspecting he's consulting his lawyer. as this -- i'm duty-bound to ask you this, does all of this help or hurt joe biden in his day j job? >> i think it helps him because if you weren't crazy and talking gibberish we't would be talking about how corrupt and strange he and his family are. i originally -- when he said it was the no malarkey to work, i

thought that was noah malarkey who is the chairman of charisma. he actually wanted to come on the iowa tour, but hunter biden wanted to charge them $47 million. that's why it's the no malarkey tour. >> tucker: i should let our viewers know that none of this is scripted. you have no idea what the questions are, whatever is on the top my head and those are your responses. >> it's like a biden campaign appearance come alive. >> tucker: mark steyn, thank you. despite all the tape we just played you, which is real, joe biden remains competitive in the democratic race and one reason of that is that even democrats are frightened by the options. over the weekend, pete buttigieg was apparently mayor of a small town and the midwest nodded along while a member of the audience explained that there is no such thing as an illegal

immigrant because america is an illegitimate country. illegal immigrants are reclaiming what was taken from them in the first place. watch mayor pete's head nod as this person speaks. >> whenever people say we call people illegal aliens in all these things that are not human and certainly not christian, why can't we just own and america that the people that are trying to come from mexico here are coming back to land we stole? the reason we took the land was because people wanted to keep their. we have to have some historical clarity. >> tucker: keep in mind that's one of our christian leaders. okay. tony cast as a radio show host in a state of indiana and a longtime watcher of mayor buttigieg. are you surprised by this?

mayor pete nodding along with whoever this character is goes on? >> no one who actually listens to pete buttigieg is surprised. he's a radical. he's in lockstep and policy with lisbeth ward and sanders and he believes an medicare for all. he doesn't want to confiscate the guns, but he wants to grab them. he doesn't want medicare for all, he wants medicare for all who want it. it's only about how fast he wants to go in these policies. he comes from this very radical place. they try to paint him as a centrist and as a moderate, but if you're nodding along with the idea that he put out there. the reason people are coming across the border is because there are reclaiming there, that's not a moderate position. that's a radical position. >> tucker: it's also factually untrue. what is he saying, the conquistadors have a profound claim on taxes?

it doesn't make sense. the referent is not a historian. whoever that guy is. why didn't he say, what are you talking about? that's dumb. >> he doesn't push back because he believes, he's desperate for the vote and the black vote. he knows he has a problem. south carolina is abysmal. reverend barber is someone who put together the moral impeachment rally. these are people who are very much -- i should say mayor pete is in favor of that. when he was mayor there was a pro-life center that caught it and got zoning approval and he vetoed it. he vetoed it and south band, so this is very much there to tryy and whack symantec. some pseudo-intellectual. you bring up a very good point on no actual point is made and there is no truth in the claim that he's making. it's malarkey.th

>> tucker: good point. thank you. john kerry told us the other day it's time to treat climate change as seriously as the

>> tucker: the left wants

power as you know, that's a given. that's the whole reason for existing, really. the problem is finding a good excuse for seizing power. these days their favorite excuses is climate change. that's something that you are willing to precisely define and for good reason.es john kerry launched a new anti-glow big correlation called world war. the only way to would make this war is to give the left total control over the economy, your country, and your life. our voters actually ready to give up power over their life to john kerry and france? a new poll suggests may be there or not. justin haskins, thank you for coming on. given the sense of the public's view, john kerry and others are totally unwilling to have a conversation rooted in science about climate change.

they speak in hysterical generalities. they claim to be in charge across the world ends. what is the public think of that? >> what we found in our recent poll is less than half of all likely voters despiteat all of e efforts in hollywood by the left, the efforts and academia, political losers like john kerry is anvince people there existential climate change crisis heading our way. 80 years in the future or 12 if you believe alexandria ocasio-cortez. despite half of that up less than half of likely voters say that they believe there is a human caused climate change crisis and it's much less than half of independents. these are the people that democrats need to win. i don't mean to give them political advice but if they have any chance at all of winning in 2020, and yet they don't seem to get that memo. >> tucker: what i don't understand is if this is world war, a war against climate change. he single largest polluter is

china so we should be at war with china and these are the apologists. it doesn't make any sense to me. try to unravel it if you would. >> makes no sense. john kerry said they need to mobilize an army. here's what you can do with that army. invade china, invaded india. those of the people who are producing significantly more co2 emissions than we are here in thee united states. they're causing a climate crisis. >> tucker: so they are for declaring war on themselves but not for the people causing the crisis. >> absolutely, they would do anything for political power. this has nothing to do with saving the planet from a climate crisis because they know if you don't believe that co2 emissions are causing that, i don't believe it is. they know there is nothing we can do here in the united states.ed absolutely nothing. nothing that europe can do.

it is all on the hands of china and india and countries like that and you never hear john kerry speak a word about that. it's all about what the united states has to do. he wants us to commit economic suicide in order for him to have more political power. ultimately this is what it's about. >> tucker: you sound like bloomberg making excuses about the fact that china is building new coal powered power plants. that's okay with mike bloomberg, even as he tells us he's concerned about the climate change. it's confusing. >> it is confusing if you are trying to approach this with logic. this isn't logical, it's all about power and control. and right now, china is not a convenient enemy. a convenient enemy is russia. if russia was doing all of this you can bet that narrative would be completely different. >> tucker: but they're not! vodka doesn't cause a lot of

co2. thank you. cities across america are getting dirty year, more dangerous thanks to radical pro-criminal prosecutors. why is this happening? it's happening because certain people are paying for it. we will tell you who they are and why, after the break. ♪ [ electrical buzzing ]

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♪ >> tucker: in cities across the country left-wing extremists are becoming of all things, prosecutors. they are getting elected on ans, agenda that favors criminals over decent people and undermines the rule of law. how is this happening? is there suddenly a grass national groundswell of support for crime and lawlessness? no, there is not. most americans believe in order and they always have. what's happening is an end run around democracy. a small group of left-wing mega-donors is drowning local elections with tidal waves of

cash. as it turns out, that works.s. it's not very hard to do. we've already told you about the hungarian bornou billionaire george sorosos got a pro radical elected district attorney and philadelphia. violence and that said he wentme on. that's what happens when you stop you stop enforcing the law, people die and in philadelphia they have. by any measure the larry krasner experiment has been on ugly disaster. they'd like to bring it to your account and they are trying to do that. last month a longtime left-wing activists was elected d.a. and san francisco. they ran on the promise to make an already filthy and disorderly city even dirtier and more chaotic. he pledged to legalize, public

and living on the side lock and dismissed the prosecution of gang members as explicitly racist. he promised to do with tax bill entirely in case anybody missed the point, supporters at the election party chanted, f the police! this was too much for a lot of people. to tear down the justice system, only the criminals drives. in the end, he was elected anyway, if only by a narrow margin. how did he do that? with the backing of silicon valley's ruling class he won the support to people like caitlin crigger, the wife of the instagram's cofounder. living parity of a silly out of touch rich lady gave him $27,000. it's hard to imagine she wouldn't have done that if she had the possibility of living with the consequences of it but of course there wasn't any chance of that. d she was a billionaire. she could live behind the gatesu and protected by her own police force if she wanted to.ou

maybe she does. the same is true of elizabeth simons, daughter of hedge fund leader james simons. they gave him $25,000. if you sense a trend here that's because there is a trend here. you'll find the discussio destrf california has been paid for by the very rich. they have long been a major force in left-wing politics. the more they despise themselves, the more left-wing they tend to be. the costability in their class. people who amass fortunes incrementally over time through hard work and innovation typically have conservative instincts. people who have made huge piles of quick cash and finance and technology do not. people like that understand they put the lottery. they can't say that out loud, they have to pretend they earned it all fair and square. deep down i know that's a crock. there are winners and awful scam

and they know that and feel bad. they fund radical causes designed to destroy the society that made them rich. money to chase a blue dean is the equivalent to paying a secular indulgence you pay the price in the end. this is how california got it passed, prop 47 downgraded a long list of felonies to misdemeanors including any theft below $950. crime has surged. the bay area, the train system, violent crime has doubled, murderers, salts, they have jumped by 115%. the city of san francisco now has more property crime than any place in size in this country. why? because criminals understand the rules ande they know they can't be punished. authorities and sacramento say members of shoplifting rings bring calculators to stores to make sure their thefts come in

under $950. the law allows them to steal within unity. how did it happen? you know the answer. the money left by the election. george soros put in almost $2 million behind proposition 47. the son of a billionaire storage tycoon, he gave a 1.2 million. the netflix ceo chipped and a quarter million as of the venture capitalist. former facebook president shawn parker it 100,000. the wife of facebook cofounder gave 150,000. he went to harvard with mark zuckerberg, a fact that allowed him to become a billionaire while still in his 20s. moskowitz and his wife are now reportedly worth more than $12 billion. now if that sounds like a lot, possibly an obscene amount for 35-year-old who separately done anything, moskowitz agrees with you or pretends to agree.

"we are stewards of this capital he told the business insider. it's pulled up right around us now. it belongs to the world." because all that money belongs to the world doesn't mean the world cuts to decide how it is spent. dustin and carrie moskowitz make that call. like some money they could care less about what happens toim ordinary people in the normal parts of america. thanks to the projects they fund, the streets are dirtier and more dangerousts but within the gated tranquility of their world, they feel like incredibly good people. empathetic, virtuous, enlightened. that's what matters. in fact, it's all that matters. lisa page plodded with her boyfriend to stop a trump presidency and now she is talking out loud for the first time. i'll tell you what she says, next. ♪ clinically proven ingredients

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♪ >> tucker: lisa page, former fbi lawyer, sent a bunch of text messages during the 2016 campaign, and then we never heard from her. today we did hear from her. what did she say? trace gallagher knows the answer, he is here to tell us. >> former fbi attorney lisa page says she is done being quiet while the president of the united states calls her names. his attacks are "sickening."si "it was so hard not to defend myself and let people who hate me control the narrative. back." i decided to take my power

back." conservative critics wonder why she decided to control her narrative by giving her first interview to molly jong-fast of "the daily beast." an anti-trump journalist who often mocks the president on twitter and says hillary clinton's presidential loss was the worst night of her life. during her interview, lisa page defends her text messages with then-fbi agent peter strzok, with whom she was having an affair. in 2016, writing, "trump is never going to become president, right? t?ght!" and strzok responds "no, no, we will stop it. i want to believe the path you threw out, that being deputy director andrew mccabe, that there is no way he gets electedi but i'm afraid that we cannott take the risk. it's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event that you die before your 40." lisa page says that texts were taken out of context, though she fails to explain the context.

this is before michael horowitz is said to put out his report on the origins of the trump-russia investigation that some believe will be damning. finally we should note that we don't know where lisa page is currently working, but we are working on it, tucker. >> tucker: trace gallagher, 3:00 p.m., anchoring all this week. i'll be watching. good to see you. back tomorrow, 8:00 pm, sean hannity right now. >> sean: all right, tucker, thank you. welcome to "hannity," we start with a big breaking fox news alert tonight. tonight bombshell story surrounding the deep state and the upcoming fisa report, expected one week from tonight. this might explain everything. remember, we were supposed to be getting the fisa report in may, june, july, august, et cetera, et cetera. remember, ag barr said he expected the report in may. if the report we are learningct about tonight is true, we might now have an explanation for the entire hold up. look at this. "the washington post" is reporting that attorney general bill barr has expresseds

disagreement with a key finding in the upcoming inspector general report surrounding the origins of the probe. first, that is a