thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report." fair, balanced, and unafraid. christmas eve, merry christmas. we have you covered on fox. keep it here. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," merry christmas week and this time of year, what is a sincere and faithful christian look like to you? how about a narcissistic former mckinsey consultant who passionately supports late-term abortion. is that the image you conjured in your minds eye?ks but looks can deceive because mayor pete buttigieg says he is exactly that. a faithful christian. indeed, he claims to be so faithful that he literally knows which political party god supports. >> it is by no means true for christian faith or any faith

requires you to be a republican, especially in these times. so-called conservative christian senators right now in the senate are blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage, when scripture says whoever oppresses the poor taunts their maker. >> also important we stop seeing religion used as a cudgel, as if god belongs to a political party and if he did, i can't imagine it would be the one of the current president in the white house. >> tucker: ooh, he is a preachy little guy, isn't he? the best part is, he is likely the most faithful christian many political reporters have ever met. he might as well be st. paul. can't tell the difference. similarly impressed after "christianity today",ll bashing the trump administration for not admitting more refugees into the country, called for the president to be removed from office for being immoral,

christians, the magazine proclaimed, to have a voile duty to align with the party that openly despises a christians. most actual churches ignored that, but cnn was thrilled and gave thee network a chance to lecture stranded air travelers about the topic they know least about which is christian theology. watch as they explain that real christians vote democrat. >> why get behind a man who makes a mockery of your faith? i certainly don't think most people do not think he makes a mockery of our faith. >> does he practice any of those things? >> most people who are not evangelicals like you talk about my faith. let's talk about your faith. you are catholic. does he make a mockery of the catholic faith? >> if he said he was catholic, he would. he does not practice humanity, decency, he does not love mercy, he is intentionally unkind, he is mean toec opponents. he puts himself before the collective and he doesn't honor his oath. i don't understand how people

who believe what you believe get behind somebody who does not. >> tucker: wow, another preachy one. they are getting preachy on the left. but embedded in that exchange is an interesting and valid question, why do faithful christians overwhelmingly support a president who is not himself a faithful christian? it's an interesting question and the answer reveals a lot but cnn doesn't want to know the answer perhaps because they are implicated in it. so instead they ridicule and attack, as you just saw, certainly approach on msnbc were someone called lynette lopez came on to explain that churchgoing evangelicals are actually immoral. >> evangelical political activity has not always been in line with the teachings of jesus christ. and it is quite possible that this is an awakening because there are christians who see the

full loyalty of evangelical christians, they are giving their loyalty to the president and not to god. >> tucker: uh-huh, in other words, evangelicals are idolaters, trump is their calf and msnbc has grave concerns about their souls. and if you believe that, you want to listen very closely to the reverend al sharpton as he delivers his sermon on the matter. watch this. >> they are reason they are so offended as he is exposing all of them that they would take the shameless con men over the principles that they are preaching in the holy season as we celebrate jesus. they would sell jesus out if they felt they could get something from it is the inference he is saying from the editorial and that has had on imany levels. >> tucker: that was al sharpton on television denouncing somebody else as "a con man."ea

we have reached peak orwell, can't get more dishonest than this or more hilarious. let's hope this brand of insanity dies with 2019. what's going on here? why all this noise about christianity, something the lefh suddenly cares about. in fact, the opposite. america's religious landscape is changing and changing fast. according to pew, in 2019 for example, 77% of americans identified as christian. just ten years later, only 65% of the country identifies as christian. the nonreligious percentage has grown from 17% to 26% over the same period. these changes are happening across the political spectrum but they are particularly profound in the democratic party. just a decade ago, democrats said they were 72% christians, today that number is 55%. one-third are nonreligious. among the party's elite, the numbers are much more stark than that. black voters are still one of

the country's most christian blocks, and that's why african-americans are by far the most reasonable and moderate among the loading blocks of the democratic coalition, by far because they are the most breligious. but they are not in charge of the democratic party. probably unfortunately. the people who are overwhelmingly white and havee degrees from the ivy league. whereho are they? many of them are aggressively anti-christian. may be why they want to force the catholic charities to fund's birth control and catholic hospitals to perform abortions. it's why they spend a decade crusading, hassling chick-fil-a because they donated to a handful of traditional christian charities they thought were immoral. just leave them alone. they couldn't help themselves. they truly hate traditional christianity. it's why some of their lawmakers openly speculate that judges may be ineligible for the supreme court because they believe in god. if you're wondering why they are willing to support this

president despitee his personal lives, he is not the enemy of christians. in fact under certain circumstances, he will protect christians. for people whose values are under assault every day by w powerful forces in america, and that is not overstating it, if you are one of them, you know. that means everything. is bad enough to be lectured about christianity by cable news morons who don't know anything about it, but what's happening in the broader country is much more threatening. the left presumes the right to lecture the people at despises for the sin of not voting for them. this may shock some democrats but most christians don't think they have a religious duty to be destroyed by people who hate them. they don't. the man you saw getting lectured over on cnn is the host and is written biographies of martin luther.

he's also written children's books. he joins us tonight, thanks so much for coming on. >> great to be on. and i don't want to correct you but that's a humor book, not a kids book, just to be clear. >> tucker: it is for the witty kids in your life. >> because it is not nasty, you can give it to h children and a lot of people give it to children but i think we should start here. i think we need to laugh more and they are actually meant to celebrate this president and what he's doing. so many people in america that are thrilled at what this president is doing, so it becomes laughable when someone like chris cuomo who i like personally but when he talks about the president putting himself before the collective, i thought man, what world are we in when we are talking about putting yourself before the collective as a great sin against the christian faith? it's a little kooky.

>> tucker: i never liked jim and tammy fae, certainly were preachy, but the christian left has gotten even more preachy than tammy faye recently, what is that? >> let me tell you something. all of the televangelists were not at their core preaching. that is a caricature that evenn you and i in our bubbles bought into this and when somebody on cnn for example is using the evangelicals as the whipping boy, as a scapegoat scapegoat du jour, they're doing the same thing, pushing forward a narrative that casks all serious christians as nothing but hypocrites, as transactional hypocrites. >> tucker: jimmy and tammy faye if i can just say as a christian, i don't think they were serious. >> that's another issue but what i'm trying to say is when i was on cnn and they were talking aboutnotr why do evangelicals support trump, it's a way ofpp demonizing religious people and saying you are nothing but

hypocrites, anyone who has standards and talks about those moral standards is nothing but a hypocrite and then when you show love to someone. >> tucker: on what grounds do they make that case? this is a party, leadership certainly aggressively anti-christian. now they're telling christians that they are not good christians.. >> that's the point. it's a one-way street. if you have no values or you say it's fine to kill babies up to the ninth month, it is fine to do anything you want and then to push it on little children in schools, fine to do all that, the moment anybody says i actually have a standard that it don't want to be preachy about it but the standards are importantt to me, my faith is timportant to me, they immediatelyly cry hypocrit, immediately cry moralist. the mainstream media usually fundamentally doesn't understand people of faith, number one.m number two, some of them are

actively and explicitly opposed to faith. they see it as threatening to them and when you talk to folks on cnn or msnbc, they have an animus towards people of faith. they somehow feel that if you get any power, you're going to oppress them and do horrible things. i argue precisely the opposite that real christians in america are for religious liberty for everybody, not to protect christians. so it becomes complicated but it's fairly simple. we've been seeing this for at least 50 years. >> tucker: at least. thank you so much for that. nancy pelosi is always quick to tell you she doesn't hate the president, not at all. she spent three years trying to destroy his presidency and him as a person, but she's actually very sad for him and prays for him constantly.id in fact, if weren't in congress, she would probably found her convent just to pray for the president. >> i don't hate anybody.

i was raised in a catholic house and i don't hate anyone. not anybody in the world. as a catholic, i resent you using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me. ii don't hate anyone. i was raised in a way that is ae heart full of love and always prayed for the president and i still pray for the president. i pray for the president all the time. so don't mess with me when it comes to words like that. >> tucker: senator johnha kennedy represens the state of louisiana. why not just say what soso cleay true, if you're the speaker, i don't like the president and i am trying to boot him out of office by force. why this "i am praying for him" stuff? >> i think that would be more honest on the speaker's behalf, i listened to the clips you played. i think it's a mistake to mix partisan range with religion,

christianity or otherwise. i think the proposition that christians are monolithic in their political beliefs is shallow. i think it is sophomoric. i'm a christian. i helped found a little methodist church. l i can tell you many of my fellow members support president trump. with some, he's about as popular as head lice. i mean, i'd give you an example. the president is a disruptor. he speaks very bluntly to the manager elite. the entrenched politicians, the bureaucrats, the academics, the members of the media, the corporate phonies, the people that think they're smarter and more virtuous than the american people. is that unchristian? i guess you could teach it round or flat, but christ spoke truth

to power. the beauty of christianity is that christians don't believe they are perfect. that's why they are christians. and number two, my faith tells me, as a christian, and it's hard in washington, d.c., i remind myself of this every day, just don't hate. you can disagree, but don't hate. but unfortunately, there's a lot of partisan rage and that's on whether you're a christian or not. >> tucker: that is on both sides, i think you're absolutely right. that's real. it just is too disingenuous for me to sit and listen to people who really would dismantle the traditional christian church and are actually trying to lelecture faithful christians about how they've gone astray. i don't think they have a right to do that.

>> i have heard some democrats, i'm not saying all democrats, i haven't heard too many republicans, but i haveng heard some of my democratic friends mock people who believe in god and who believe in the second amendment, who believe in teaching their kids morals, who believe in the military. i'm not saying that's a doctrine of the democratic party, and maybe there arehe soe republicans who do that. if they do that, they are just as wrong as the democrats, but i remember a presidential candidate one time calling a bunch of people deplorables. i remember a candidate mocking americans for believing in god and guns. i think that was the way he put it. this is america, you can believs what you want, but i think i'm not going to say they are

unchristian, but i think that is unchristian behavior. i probably, in washington, you get called up, i've said some things that are probably unchristian, but just speaking for me personally, i have enough trouble paddling my own canoe but i try to remind myself every day, don't hate. you can disagree, but don't hate. >> tucker: amen. that is a christmas message we can get behind, thank you so much, good to see you tonight. merry christmas. democrats have been fantasizing about impeachment since the day trump took office but now at the last possible moment after voting through two counts of impeachment, they are holding back, haven't forwarded the articles of impeachment to the senate meaning according to some scholars, the president isn't technically impeached. one of the weirdest states to play ever. they are worried it will not be "fair." >> leader mcconnell is

plotting the most unfair impeachment trial in modern history. >> senator mcconnell is not because heg fairness is admitting that he is anything but impartial. >> if he wants a kangaroo court, a kangaroo court is not a trial, that is a process that you go through to legitimize what you know to be unfair and in some instances illegal treatment. >> tucker: stephanie grisham is the press secretary and joins us tonight to clarify a point that has people confused, thank you so much for coming on tonight. is impeachment going on? has the president been impeached?at has he not? what's going to happen, what is this? >> it continues to be a crazy sham and continues to be something i don't think any of us understand. the great thing about this whole thing is that when nancy pelosi goes low, our poll numbers keep

going high, so that's a fantastic thing. i think the people that are leading this crazy effort are going to go down in history as the people who weaponized impeachment and this is going to go on for years and years to come, other presidents can now get impeached over policy disputes. so we will see what happens, has to get it over there to thet senate because the impeachment isn't going to be valid. not going to be legitimate in the eyes of the american people and when it does go to the senate, it will be what we've been saying all along, the president did absolutely nothing wrong. >> tucker: but as it is in a holding pattern where it remains, it seems to be if anything helping the president and his reelection. so are you anxious to get it to the h senate? is the status quo hurting you, do you think?hu >> no, i would say the president has said over and over again that he would like to get it to the senate. i don't think anybody wants it to have the word impeachment

attached to their presidency and he has said that a few times so of course we would like it to go to the senate so that we can show that he did nothing wrong. we can push back on all of the lies that they were telling in the house. i want to say the irony that they are holding these articles because they are worried about fairness. it's ironic, hypocrisy abound, i don't know what she's thinking, i think she doesn't know what to do actually. >> tucker: i think what you just said is absolutely right. she is caught between warring factions and she is stuck, i agree. thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you, merry christmas. >> tucker: merry christmas. elizabeth warren beating upp on poor pete buttigieg for inviting millionaires and billionaires to his wine cave for fund-raisers. here's an interesting fact, warren herself as a wine cave. but barack obama likes her

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>> tucker: during the last democratic debate, senator elizabeth warren went after mayor pete buttigieg who runs some small town in the midwest and his appeal to the wall street wing of the democratic party. watch this. >> so the mayor just recently had a fund-raiser and that was held a wine cave full of crystals andis served $900 a bottle wine.

billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the united states. >> this is the problem with issuing purity tests you cannot yourself pass. senator, your net worth is 100 times mine. we need support from everybody who is committed to helping us defeat donald trump. >> i do not sell access. i don't do call times with millionaires and billionaires. i don't meet behind closed doors with big dollar donors. >> senator, your presidential campaign right now as we speak is funded in part by a money you transferred, having raised it at those exact same big-ticket fund-raisers you now denounce. >> tucker: man, it's hard to know who to root for. on the one hand, buttigieg is a shill for creepy finance types, no doubt about that and it's disgusting.an on the other hand, elizabeth warren is a full-blown

hypocrite. full blown. lobbing boulders from a home made of very thin glass. according to the hill newspaper, president obama himself has been going around speaking to top democratic party donorsl reassuring them, don't be put off by her attacks on the rich and while warren may have knocked buttigieg's $900 wine, her own campaign has held fund-raisers at restaurants but most expensive bottle of wine goes for $6600. how is that for a wine cave? a radio host on the authorra of "what really happened" joins us tonight. sounds like she's got her own wine caves. >> she does and as you said, people living in glass wine caves shouldn't throw stones at other people. the campaign said they will only

serve wine that was worth $49 a bottle, and this is how out of touch she is. most people would think that's pretty pricey for a bottle of wine, but she is totally tone-deaf to the way americans live. when she first ran for the senator, she said please, go out and speak to the people behind you at the wine shop. excuse me, the cheese shop, do you go to cheese shops? >> tucker: i'll be totally honest. i love the fromage. so if there was one near me, i would definitely go. but that's not the first thing that would come to mind. i do love the cheese though. let me ask you as an expert on elizabeth warren as if someone, how'd she get so rich, where i d all the money come from? buttigieg said you're worth 100

times what i'm worth, how? >> this is another thing, she claims she is from the ragged edge of the middle class and there is just yetla another piee about her in "the boston globe" today. they i talk to herst brothers who are all older than her and it turns out that one of her brothers was angry when she began calling her own father a janitor. her own brother was angry about it. but what happened was when she first ran for the senate in 2012, she said a few cases here and there and that's all, and then on the campaign trail even earlier thie year, saying i was a lawyer in private practice for 40 minutes, that was the exact time when it turns out now that it's pretty clear the other candidates are doing opposition research on her, she admitted she did 56 cases where she made $2 million. $2 million. that's not a huge amount of money for a lawyer over 20 or 30 years, but she is not the

hardscrabble up from poverty lawyer that she claims to be. just everything about her is phony, and she seems to think she can c get away with this whether it's talking about her son going to private school when he didn't and being fired from the public teaching job which she didn't, she was outid there bloomberg, she wanted him to release all the women who sued his company for various forms of sexual harassment from their nondisclosureus agreements, she said we needed transparency. don't you think you when i and everybody else needs to see her employment applications for harvard and the university of pennsylvania law schools so we can see whether or not she really did apply claiming to be a native american? >> i think we know the answer, thank you to your great reporting on that, your bulldog reporting on that. howie carr, thank you for joining us tonight. >> merry christmas, tucker.u

>> tucker: merry christmas. hoping to have a respite from politics, don't count on it. if you have relatives who support bernie sanders, they have released a family persuasion guide that gives scripts so they can shoehorn politics into every last moment of the christmas season. feeling nauseous? there's a reason. mark steyn, thanks so much for coming on. set the scene here. here is alexandria ocasio-cortez the dumbest person i've ever seen. but that aside, at a bernie rally. this is the tone they are hoping for, watch this. >> it is not an advanced society. a society that allows people it is fascism. what we are evolving into as well.

>> tucker: [laughs] so bernie wants you to discuss the nature of our fascist society, our nonadvanced society. are you going to? >> well, basically, alexandria ocasio-cortez is right that bernie sanders supporters think that their parents and grandparents are fascist, racist, homophobes, and their parents just think the kids are stupid, but they can be stupid in a diverting way and that's a choice of sleeping during christmas dinner over the price is right for listening to your kids say she talks a lot of sense about how fascist america is and we should all be more like venezuela where they are so environmentally enlightened, they've abolished toilet paper. i don't know in terms of entertainment over the christmas

lunch, i don't think it persuades anyone. what's so sad about these young americans is that bernie is in fact their surrogate father or surrogate grandfather, i don't think there's a self-respecting middle-aged man across the fruited plain who wants his kids saying dad, you are so square, why can't you be more like bernie? i don't think that's a particularly helpful message over the christmas dinner. >> tucker: so i have to ask you. the last conversation we are going to have in 2019 coming up, is it going to be crazy or less crazy, do you expect? >> i think the crazy button is going to accelerate. basically, this whole wine cave controversy now, if you actually -- i thought when obama said eight years ago look at the

way the price of arugula has gone up, that was crazy but this idea now that they are arguing about the precise point at which you have blue-collar credibility over the price point on a bottle of wine is fantastic. we are not in iowa yet. by the time you get to new hampshire, it's going to be nutso off the charts. >> tucker: now you're making me look forward to it. i was fearing it before, but as usual, you put everything into context and it made me feel better. mark steyn, have the best christmas. amen. along with impeachment, congress is only other priority has been. passing a trillion dollars spending package which actually happened. we will give you a glimpse of what just happened in your congress after the break.

>> tucker: congress had another priority before the christmas break, passing a gigantic trillion dollars spending bill the details of which no one learned anything about until after it was already done and was never even debated. to tell us what was in that bill, we are joined by the founder and ceo of american majority. ned, thank you so much for coming on.

we've heard that somehow amnesty is in the bill? for liberians. what is that and why? >> first of all, the omnibus is a dumpster fire in a big middle finger to the american people. i have to say this really quick, we elected trump to veto these things, not to sign them. and it is immoral to continue using the american taxpayer as an atm for the ruling class, but there is amnesty for 4,000 liberians, corporate subsidies forr renewable energies, even included money for gun studies by the cdc. we have continued funding for planned parenthood. we continue to have abortions through obamacare, even included the one that just got me, ombudsman for i.c.e. detention centers that can harass and undermine i.c.e. agents while they arema trying to do their jobs. it was incredible but typical d.c., 2300 page, 1.424 trillion hours

to read through it emma got to make a decision, i wish i could tell president trump you cannot drain the swamp if you continue to fund the swamp. >> tucker: it continues the war in afghanistan after we learned the people prosecuting that have been lying to us about it, but that it prevents the men fighting the war from chewing tobacco unless they are 21. the whole thing seems demented, who wrotehe this? >> it is demented. we decided you have to be 21 to buy tobacco but you're old enough to go fight on foreign soil, clearly old enough to go make idiotic decisionsh and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on worthless degrees but you can't smoke cigarettes. we spent 4.2 billion for afghan security forces but could only find 1.4 billion for our southern border wall but somehow we also managed to find half a billion for a border security in

jordan of all places. come on. at some point, this is why he was elected, this is immoral behavior and we continue to go along with it as though it's just how things are done in washington, d.c. we sent him to d.c. to say no what he should have done is said i'm not signing this. i will only agree to a clean six-week continuing resolution, we will come back from christmas in january and we will have a conversation about this monstrosity.nd but i'm not going to sign this. he told us last year he was not going to do this again and yet here we are. >> tucker: really quick, did any republicans on the hill fight this thing? >> i know ted cruz and some others were trying to fight it but one of the things that happens is it's put together in the middle of the night, given very little time to respond to it. how do you read through 2300 pages with all of your staff, either agree to vote on this, you only have so t much time.

there were some, chip roy in the house and others but at a certain point, the incredible thing is they are using our taxpayer dollars to bribe members to then vote for the overall omnibus. incredible and unethical and i would say corruption, layered in corruption. >> tucker: slathered in yet another layer of it. i agree. ned ryan, thank you so much for that depressingly accurate summary. senate democrats in the state of virginia are promising to take people's second amendment rights and trash them. across the state, county sheriffs are pushing against that. one of them joins us after the break.

♪ >> tucker: bolstered by their

stranglehold on washington, d.c.,'s suburbs,is democrats took complete control of virginia state government this fall and they are acting fast already pledging to use their power to remake the commonwealth completely. one of the chief targets is the guns rights tradition, same as america. lawmakers are planning an assault weapons ban assuming they can define an assault weapon, magazine size restrictions and much more. and some would like gun seizures the problem is that most of virginia's counties remainva conservative and sensible. officials in those places are taking inspiration from the left doctrine on immigration and declaring themselves sanctuary counties for gun rights.ti page county is one such place. chad cubbage is the sheriff. thank you so much for coming on.

>> thank t you for having me. >> tucker: tell us, if you would, what you plan to do if democrats in the statehouse begin enacting these restrictions on the second amendment? >> we are hopeful that our legislators are listening. we are having town hall meetings here throughout the valley and we are having thousands of people show up to thesehe town hall meetings to voice their concerns. we just hope that they are listening in richmond and our legislators will not go through with these deals. >> tucker: so presumably the chief law enforcement official in page county, virginia, tell us specifically, the assault weapons round are they a major crime problem for you? in your county?fo >> no. we do not have a problem

with that. in areas like page county, a lot of people will go out on a saturday evening and have a cook out and do target practicing and things like that and they will even hinder a parent taking their child out to hunt at an early age.t so these are unconstitutional. >> tucker: so you are hearing -- they are absolutely unconstitutional, you are right of course., you're hearing some democrats say if you set up a sanctuary county for gun rights, then they're going to use force, one was suggesting bring in the national guard to make you obey. what is your response? >> well,ns like i said, i am hoping that they are listening in richmond. my staff and i stand ready to protect the citizens of page county from their rights being infringed upon.

it's not law enforcement's place to infringe upon the rights of law-abiding citizens. it is our obligation to protect them from those types of things being done. and i am thankful we have a president that supports the second amendment and believes in the constitution. >> tucker: sheriff cubbage, i hope it doesn't come to that, you seem like a very reasonable man and i don't think i've ever heard anyone say as you do clearly, they exist to protect our rights which is a wonderful thing to hear, thank you so much for coming on tonight. >> hey, thank you for having me and god bless you. >> tucker: god bless you, merry christmas. for the past couple of months, the press has expended tremendous energy defending hunter biden. to the ordinary observer, biden's job on the board of burisma looks suspicious. no previous experience in the natural gas industry.vi didn't speak ukrainian and yet

he made millions. why did they pay him? maybe part of the reason is his father was overseeing the obama administration's anticorruption efforts in ukraine. after hunter biden got his job, his father successfully demanded the firing of the ukrainian prosecutor who could've investigated him. a normal person might look at that and think that's a little suspicious, definitely may be corrupt. looks criminal actually. according to nbc news, suspecting any of this is a "debunked conspiracy theory. you would have to be an idiot to think otherwise, according to nbc. but if hunter biden did nothing shady in ukraine, it would at least be a break from the standard practice in the united states. in court documents filed monday in the paternity case he is facing in the state of arkansas a whole different story. but the mother of biden's child says that hunter biden is currently facinghe multiple criminal investigations.

here's news. according to the filing, hunter biden is linked to investigations for fraud, money laundering, and counterfeiting. what exactly does that mean? we are not sure. c the documents were compiled by a private investigator. they say the money laundering scheme involves biden's work with burisma. interesting. how will those allegations fair in court? we will have to see. it's possible nbc news will file an amicus brief saying he doesn't have to support his own child because the mother is touting the conspiracy theory. what shills they are.. they should be embarrassed. but they're not. cnn acts like some sort of resistance but they are the opposite.y deeply entwined that they were caught giving baseball tickets to top fbi officials. is that legal? no, it's not. we have details. - 10 years ago, we started legacybox.

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♪ >> tucker: the whole point of freedom of the press, the reason founders are so keen on it publications can speak freely and hold powerful people in our society to account. that is how things should work. it's not how they work in real life, as you know. the press is on the side of the people they cover. they are from the same world. they want competing outlets and

ordinary day americans censored as they serve propaganda for the ruling class for which they are a part. this is not speculation. ask anyone and they will come -- confirm. and representing the relationship between media, it is not things like hiring jim clapper as a national security analyst, which is almost unbelievable, but stories like this one which has gotten no attention. here it is in 2016 an fbi assistant director of public affairs michael horton given two tickets to a washington nationals game by a respondent of cnn. we don't know the name, but the court papers revealed the person works at cnn. the doj inspector general questioned him about this. he lied under oath and falsely claimed to have paid for the tickets. the investigation revealed that he received tickets from a "new york times" reporter. of course, this is de facto bribery of a federal employee broke the law.

he could have been jailed or fired for cause, but needless to say, he wasn't because in washington, no one ever is. he retired early without further consequences. cnn has not been punished either even though reporters was -- just remember what happened. every time cnn tells you federal agencies above suspicion or any time they tell you good reporting and good instincts were the reason they were on hand, the fbi agent's predon arrest. they are liars, as you all know. they are not looking out for your interest. they are not critics of america's most powerful people. they are allies. they are on the same team. they are against you. just another little piece of evidence.. it's true, unfortunately. that is it for us. i wish we had more time going into christmas week. we will be back at 8:00 p.m. the show that is the sworn c enemy of lying, pomposity smugness, and groupthink.8:

have a great christmas with the ones you love. good night from washington. for those of you busy with family tomorrow and wednesday we wish you again merry christmas.or dan bongino is sitting in for sean hannity. >> thank you very much, tucker. welcome to this special edition of "hannity," i am dan bongino in for sean. for the hour, we will highlight the failures for the democratic party. and we will start with the impeachment fiasco on capitol hill. as we speak, nancy pelosi is demanding a political ransom in exchange for turning over the articles of impeachment for the u.s. senate.e. and the majority leader calling it absurd. check it out. >> are you surprised to have been handed two impeachment articles from the speaker? >> yeah, believe it or not, the papers have to be physically brought over to the senate. we cannot go forward until the speaker does that.