comedy summer 26, 2019. i will see you tomorrow morning at fox and friends. maybe take a nap, and] tomorrow night at 7:00. have a good night. ♪ ♪ >> good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" can i mark steyn in for tucker. i hope you have a terrific christmas, happy boxing day, or as i believe it is known in america, thursday. 2019 was supposed to be the year of impeachment. the democrat party spent years promising it, and it looked like they were finally going to deliver. the called witnesses, held hearings, summoned academics to deliver dull, pseudo-constitutional lectures, and the americans, bored enough to watch the proceedings live, and finally, last week, they voted to impeach president tru

president trump. and yet, the president still isn't actually impeached. a week after the vote, nancy pelosi still hasn't forwarded the articles to the senate for a trial, as is constitutionally required. impeachment has been put on hold. maybe all of the charade from the start. or maybe speaker pelosi, basking in the sycophantic praise of cable news talking heads. >> she has been masterful, legislatively masterful in holding her caucus, controlling her caucus. >> she is his kryptonite. she knows how and when to get in his face and pointer finger at him and humiliate him in front of generals and other men sitting at the table. >> for someone who has been vilified by the religious right for year, his entire time in office, taking the bible verse, love my enemies as myself, to heart. >> nancy pelosi provide of them cover end as one of the most masterful parliamentarians of our time.

>> she is someone that needs to be studied on how you do this right. she has managed to outmaneuver donald trump at every turn. i'm going to quote cardi b, she has dog walked donald trump at every turn. >> mark: wow. the masterful dog walker, nancy pelosi. that groveling may have been stomach turning, but it is actually an improvement over what o'donnell said on msnbc earlier this month. >> like so much that nancy pelosi does in her unscripted burst of eloquence, moral diggnation, this was multidimensional. there she was, standing up against hatred as her catholic religion has taught her to do since she was a little girl, and there she was, she seized the moment, as dramatically as any fiction writer could have provided for any fictional politician in a movie scene. you could feel, you could feel the power.

>> mark: "feel the power." if you say so. no doubt nancy pelosi finds all of this praise highly enjoyable. why throw it away by letting the senate take over the impeachment process and conduct a trial that could make her look bad? in silly? she has a better idea. already, her party is talking about introducing and voting on even more articles of impeachment. the impeachment of the week, with no senate trial insight. congressman matt gaetz presents florida, also on the judiciary e joins us tonight. congressman, i said, i think on christmas eve, instead of the no red santa tracker, no red ought to have impeachment article tracker, how long it is taking to do the 73 feet from nancy pelosi's office to the said no marks on it, somewhat over the jungles of new guinea right now, is she actually going to bring this thing home and

deliver it to mcconnell? >> nancy pelosi appears to be limping through the back nine of delivering the articles of impeachment. i think the regular folks in this country from its quite interesting to see in impeachment with first, no crime and a victim, but now, no transmission of the articles themselves. listening to that montage you had of the mainstream media giving nancy pelosi a proverbial cat bath, it just reminds me that the rest of us end up stuck with the hair ball with this sort of bizarre circumstance where just weeks ago, it was jerry nadler and eric swalwell saying things like nothing could be more urgent than this impeachment, swallow called it a crime spree in progress, and noe articles of impeachment like soe demented, nonsanta claus, not delivering the kids to the children. it's strange to observe. >> mark: it's weird, isn't it? the president had a good point in his tweet, because according to jerrold nadler, donald trump

is a threat to national security and needs to be removed from office. so why stick it in the bottom drawer and do nothing about it? >> well, it demonstrates that this was a political process from the beginning. we are about to turn over a new year, a new decade, but we continue to see the same politics, just by new means. what democrats have done as they are really cheap impeachment process to any disagreement about the utilization of presidential power, or any disagreement, a president's different type of approach to a particular problem set come all of a sudden becomes impeachable. when they say in their court filings that they are not done investigating articles of impeachment, i actually believe them, because they have no agenda for the american people, so they are substituting this process, these investigations of impeachment, for actual legislation that might improve the lives of the people that we are elected to serve. >> mark: doesn't that court filing really give the game aw away? it's one continuous investigation, just as russia

led into ukraine, and maybe trump was on the phone to some guy enter giga stand, and we can put that on hold for next week's impeachment. basically, they have been doing this actually since before he was in office. it worked only in that it is super infused the republican base for 2020. >> i can tell you here in the state of florida, our support for president trump has only intensified when we see these efforts to delegitimize not only his presidency, but our political movement for a positive america, for a newfound sense of populism our country, and now, i think you can look back to the time directly after robert mueller's testimony, where they wanted to impeach justice kavanaugh. they wanted to impeach bill barr. it's like they got impeachment fever and there is no cure. let's turn over the calendar in 2020 and agree to look the wreck and people first and our country first, not just have the revolving carnival of

impeachment would nancy pelosi as the ringleader? >> mark: that makes too much sense, congressman. you know how it is, what impeachment is never enough. is like a box of chocolates, you have to have a second or third. thank you very much for joining us tonight. according to a new "politico" report, top democrat insiders are beginning to believe that bernie sanders may be their best hope of defeating president trump next year. but how can that be? for years, the parties talking heads have been saying that bernie and those like him are unacceptable because they are white men. >> in my opinion, we don't need white people leading the democratic party right now. the democrat party is diverse and should be reflected as so in our leadership and throughout the staff, the highest levels. >> i will point out, though, and, another white male, i'm very suspect of that this year, going into a democratic primary, with women doing well in the african-american base of the democratic party, i'm not sure

it is the time to nominate a white man. >> for this modern democratic party, it's going to sit back and say, really? we want a 76-year-old white man? >> mark: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez recently endorsed bernie sanders, and in response, cvs interrogated her. how, they wanted to know, could she endorse a person with the wrong skin color? >> i'm going to be a little blunt with you, congresswoman, and don't take offense, senator, but as a woman of color, white back an old white guy? and is this the future of the party? >> we have to come together come across race, cross gender come across generations, across a class in order to establish our basic system of rights. >> mark: senator sanders himself seems to have noticed what is going on in his party. at a recent democratic debate, he helpfully reminded the moderator that he had the wrong pigmentation, as well as the wrong age and sex.

>> he also said "if you look at the world and look at the problems, it's usually old people, usually old man, not getting out of the way." [applause] senator sanders, you are the oldest candidate on stage -- >> and i'm white, as well. >> yes. >> mark: jason nichols is a professor of african-american studies at the university of maryland. he joins us. professor, the last time we spoke, you were all excited about the minority candidates, the women, the candidates for whom the healthy glow of late middle age had not yet fled their cheeks. how did it come down that your party is reduced, almost a product choice of three geezers? you can get it in any color as long it is white, to modify henry ford.

>> again, here's the thing. i'm more concerned about who is going to better the lives of the majority of americans, and that would include people of color. and also, we have to think about the fact that the democratic party, if you listen to the clip that you played with simone sanders, she was talking about leadership within the party. tom perez is a dominican american from maryland. we've got other leaders and people who have run for office, more women and people of color in congress than ever before. and none of them are republican, or very few. i think that a party is diverseg to people of color and two women, and that is the strength of the party. but what we need is somebody with conviction. that is where i think bernie sanders has got a lot of strength, because he has been the same his entire career, unlike many of the other people that have run. >> mark: let me put it this way, though. the last time we spoke, that was when there was a little bit of chitchat about bloomberg, and you weren't interested in him at

all. you've got these three guys who were born during the chester archer administration, or whatever it was, so you basically got the moderate geezer, the soviet geezer, and you've got the nanny state geezer. it's like game of codgers, dancing with the coots. how can you just have a party where the leading candidates, whatever lien you are looking at, all of these old guys and the supposedly more fashionable candidates can't get beyond 2, 3, 4%? >> again, part of this is about consistency, and who has been the same their entire careers? i think -- i was excited, at on. one of the things you saw about her, besides running a poor campaign, was the fact that she seemed to, you know, assert certain things, and later on,

she would have to walk it back. she couldn't decide what lane she is in. biden has been in the same lane his entire career, as has bernie sanders, and i think that is their strength. and, again, i think the problem is -- and this is the funny thing about the right, the right wing oftentimes talks about black people wanting black candidates, but you notice -- or black people supporting black people, and that being a race-based think more brown people supporting brown people. but as you can see, we are more concerned about supporting people that are going to better people's lives, rather than the color of their skins. but i've heard republican actually say that if alan keyes were white, he would have been president of the united states. 's as a matter of fact, it's the right was more concerned about the skin color of their candidates than it is the left. >> mark: in the spirit of boxing, i think i will let you get away with that. i will tell you something, the

young people are crazy for bernie. he looks like justin bieber to them. you may have a point there. thank you for that, professor. the "home alone" movies have become christmas classics, and famously, in "home alone 2," a certain future united states president makes a brief appearance. ♪ >> excuse me, where is the lobby? >> down the hall into the left. >> thanks. ♪ >> mark: he ran that hotel pretty well, actually come in those days. canadians who tuned into the cbc to watch home alone 2 this year saw a slightly different version of that movie, and in the cbcs cut, donald trump was edited out. according to the cbc, the scene was cut to make more time for commercials. of course, those motives don't exclude each other. if it woke capitalism means anything these days, it's that there is no conflict between

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>> mark: congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez wants to have absolute control over the u.s. economy, health care sector, and a lot more. so far, it hasn't happened, and according to aoc recently, that failure means that america must be a backward fascist country. >> what we are living in right now is not an advanced society. a society that allows people -- >> fascism, that's what it is! >> it is fascism, what we have. what we are evolving into, as well. >> mark: well, john daniel davidson's political editor at ""the federalist"," and he joins us. john, do you think aoc actually knows what fascism is? >> no, it's just a scare word.

it just means, as you said, the government, the democratic party, doesn't have control over health care, education, the major industries, the green new deal is never going to happen -- that's all it means. it doesn't have anything to do with actual fascism. >> mark: actually, mussolini had control, pretty much, over all of that, and he was a fascist. at one point, it would have been unusual for a member of congress in either party to say that the united states was fascist. she also said, which i thought was actually as striking, that americans shouldn't settle for just being 10% better than garbage. which, again, would be -- just a few years ago, would have been an unusual thing for anybody to say about the country they represent in the national legislature. what is actually going on here, with where she and her party or

sliding? >> you know, earlier in that same speech, she complained about america not being an advanced society, because it doesn't matter how much gold you amass, you know, if people aren't taken care of. it was a perfect illustration of the economic illiteracy of the left. the economic and historical illiteracy of the left. nobody is amassing gold. gdp doesn't stand for gold deposit pile. that's not how the economy works. >> mark: scrooge mcduck. >> scrooge mcduck isn't swimming around and piles of gold. the americans are investing it. they are creating jobs. that is my wages are going up, that is my employment is down. that is how the real world work. these people are out to lunch on the stuff. >> mark: millions of people around the world and in america know what fascism is, because they grew up under it, they lived under it, and they know the difference. what's unusual about aoc is the

sort of things she says seem to be accepted as completely routine our younger voters, essentially by voters in her own age block. >> it's strange. the left-wing of the democratic party, the socialist democrats that aoc kind of represents and speaks for, that are gathering under the banner of bernie sanders now, they don't like america. they are anti-american movement within the democratic party that is growing in power, and we are starting to see them take over a major political party in this country, and it's scary, because what they want for america is the opposite of what america is all about, which is freedom, capitalism, prosperity. that's not the america they want. >> mark: that's all of which aoc calls garbage. don't settle for 10% better than garbage. that would make a great campaign slogan. john, thanks very much to you.

california has become the left's political liberatory, as democrats have a new idea, they will give it a test drive in the golden state first. the result? america's most unlivable state. needles and feces piling up in counseling and cities, and homeless camps dominating entire neighborhoods of the metropolis. now, president trump is threatening to take action. on christmas day, the president tweeted "governor gavin newsom has done a really bad job of taking care of the homeless population in california. if you can't fix the problem, the federal government get involved." christopher russo is a research fellow at the discovery institute and a contributing editor at city journal. he joins us. christopher, aside from the politics of it, the homeless

situation actually is declining nationwide, but accelerating out of control in california. >> it is. over the last ten years, homelessness nationwide is down about 16%. 35 out of 50 states have managed to reduce the number of people on the streets. but what you have seen is very curious. the states of california, oregon, washington, you've seen it explode, and this is happening really for rhetorical reasons. one, because of out-of-control housing crisis, paired with permissive policies that really enable public campaign, public drug consumption, and homelessness almost as a lifestyle. now you have a situation that is really reaching that point of no return in the state of california, more than 100,000 pe streets. in los angeles county alone, it's now 59,000 people. that's essentially a small population that is really no feasible plan coming from any political leaders to make progress on this. >> mark: people say california is a nice state to be homeless in, because the weather is great, so it's not like they are homeless in maine or

new hampshire. but you notice that florida and texas and arizona don't have this problem. so it's not so much the weather. there is a political factor here, too. >> yeah, that is a political choice. you see that same principle at play, writ small, we have the city of los angeles, san francisco, seattle, that have doubled the number of homeless folks in the last few years. and smaller cities, the outlying areas, that have a compassionate enforcement approach, they are enforcing the law, making homelessness a top policy priority. they have actually managed to reduce it, while the bigger cities that have the most progressive, the most permissive policies, don't seem to be able to get a handle on it, and the real lesson from the homelessness crisis is the policy matters. if you have a policy of unlimited permissiveness, ruinous compassion, you are only going to compound the problem, no matter how much money you spend. >> mark: it's kind of the

opposite of what they used to call the broken windows theory, isn't it? because there are more and more crimes committed by the homeless population, that essentially are unenforced in most californian cities. so that they are surrendering, ceding control of the streets to this population. >> that's exactly right. one study that came out this year detailed in seattle, washington, homeless individuals make up more than 50% of all police bookings in the city of seattle. despite being less than 1% of the population. so what you have is a real denial on the part of civic leaders. you hear in their rhetoric, it's all about housing, we need to build more affordable apartments, that will solve the problem. but at heart, what is happening as this is a human crisis. the of the intersection of addiction, mental illness, property crime, and kind of human despair that is being concentrated in these coastal cities. and like you said, it's a nice place to be homeless, or it's a nice place to be among the very

affluent, and what you are seeing is that california's coastal regions are increasingly becoming an almost neo-feudal society, where if you're in the top 1%, you're doing great, and if you are in that bottom, you know, 10%, you are just going through the meat grinder of these policies, and you may end up on the streets. >> mark: and some of those actually -- when you say neil-feudal, some neo-feudal diseases are coming back to those streets. christopher, thank you for that. you probably noticed the tremendous decline of san francisco in recent months. crime, homelessness, garbage, human waste have surged. but ordinary people still can't afford to live there. we sent a camera crew to chronicle the decline of san francisco. they found incredible things. thrift and drug dealing in broad daylight, powerless police, local citizens desperately trying to live normal lives amid worsening chaos. our new series will show you

everything they discovered. american bespok "american dysto" debuts in the new year, right here in "fox news @ night" seven. don't miss it. earlier this year, the left rallied to defend the city of baltimore against a trump. now that city is about to have the deadliest year in its entire history. that's next, plus, michael bloomberg, one of america's richest men, so why is he using prison labor to make calls for his campaign? we will try to find out. that is coming up after the break. ♪

>> mark: over the summer, democrats acted outraged when president trump called baltimore a dirty, dangerous disgrace. but the president's words were totally accurate. now, baltimore is on the brink of having its deadliest year ever. the city is just a few homicides away from eclipsing its recent high of 342 murders a year. since baltimore's population is declining, this year is likely to have the highest homicide rate in the city's history. to fight the violence, the city is considering a desperate measure, deploying special surveillance plans to spy on residents. rafael manuel is the deputy director of legal policy at the manhattan institute, and he

joins us now. rafael, just to explain what is going on here, these surveillance planes, basically monitoring citizens from the skies, that's very orwellian, isn't it? >> it does sound orwellian. the track patterns of outdoor drug markets, open-air drug markets, where a lot of the violence is stemming from a net city. one of the things new york city benefited from when they took on the attack on crime throughout the '90s, it pushed the drug market indoors. what that does is takes potential targets off the streets. these are people that are going to be shot at, and raises the transaction cost of certain kinds of crime, that's what they're trying to get with the surveillance. >> mark: something like 70% of those involved in homicides have derived from the drug trade, basically. >> that's right. baltimore released some interesting statistics about its 2017 murder suspects. 70% of them had a prior,

drug-related arrest, which is interesting to clear a lot of the reformed crowd, especially marilyn mosby, the progress of prosecutor, has really focused on scaling back drug enforcement, and the idea is that drug offenses are nonviolent, so these are kind of innocuous behavior. >> mark: victimless crime. >> exactly. what they are failing to understand as there is a significant amount of overlap between people playing in the drug trade and people driving the violence in that city. drug enforcement can actually be an effective protectable attack on violent crime itself. >> mark: right. and here is another mind-boggling statistic. 36% of these perpetrators are actually out on parole or probation. >> at the -- >> mark: at the time they going to kill somebody. >> that's right. >> mark: we have all of these laws, but the criminal fraternity seems to know that the system is no great threat to them. >> exactly.

this is one of the big misconceptions about the tone of the criminal justice debate in the united states. the tone gives the impression that the criminal justice system is this overly trickling in, kind of orwellian entity that oppresses people left and right. and a lot of cities across the country, baltimore being one of them, people are going soft on crime. maryland as a state has d carson rated significantly in recent years. they cut their prison population by 10% between 2016 and 2017, and that means more meals on the the streets, which is perfected in these numbers. >> mark: three felonies, you are in jail for 49 years, but the criminals come on like the public, no, as a matter of policy, those are never enforced. >> the reality is the united states, only about 40% of felony convictions result in a postconviction prison sentence. 60% of the time, you are not actually went to prison, and we need to go to prison, only about 40% of prisoners serve a year of their time comes they are on the street relatively soon, which is how you get come in a city like

baltimore, a situation we have offenders with ten priors coming at 36% of homicides are committed by people on parole. >> mark: is this going to get worse before it gets better? >> i hope not. we know what to do. me know how to attack this mod model. problem. we have models like the city of new york. i think it will take political will. >> mark: thanks a lot, rafael. michael bloomberg entered the democratic primary late and has his work cut out for him trying to catch up. in a recent ad, speaking of the incarcerated, bloomberg touted his credentials as a job creator. speak of this guy gets things done. bloomberg build a global news and information company by taking on of the toughest competition, creating a 20,000 jobs. mike's steady leadership will build an economy where everyone can get ahead. >> mark: "everyone can get

ahead." and when they say everyone, they mean it. this week, bloomberg's campaign admitted to employing prisoners in oklahoma to make phone calls on bloomberg's behalf. robbie sauve is a senior editor and author of the book "panic attacks." he joins us now. the bloomberg campaign has several connections with the oklahoma penal system. what actually is the objection to what mayor bloomberg accidentally found himself doing, using prisoners to make campaign calls? >> yeah, i think every one, right, left, and center, is going to agree that it doesn't look good. may be perfectly legal, but i don't think it looks ethical. to be using people who are locked up, to be making calls on behalf of your campaign. i mean, what kind of statement is that about your campaign, if the people you are getting excited about, literally they have no choice but to even leave

the building? so i don't think that sends an enthusiastic message of a nation ready to fall in love with michael bloomberg and convince people to vote for him, right? >> mark: no, i hate it when you get campaign calls, but you sort of always assume it is a genuine volunteer, and when it's not, you kind of assume they paid, you know come out of work actors or somebody to do it. the idea that it is a guy -- he's locked up in jail and has a choice between sowing mail bags or hammering license plates or making telephone calls for michael bloomberg, it doesn't seem like a good comment on the health of his campaign. >> no. may be, in some ways, it's somewhat symbolically fitting for bloomberg. i mean, this is someone -- he's not an ideological, far left person. i guess he is a sort of centrist. but centrism can be authoritarian in and of itself. this is a man who wanted to

arrest people for drinking extra large soda, for consuming fatty foods, for consuming flavored tobacco products. i mean, you name it, it's not good for you, mike bloomberg thinks you should go to jail for using it, or someone should go to jail for selling it to you. so there is a prison beam underlining this campaign. >> mark: if i recall correctly, john kerry wound up having to get rid of his telephone call team. it had been outsourced to a call center in ontario, which last time i checked, wasn't an american state, but it is in the dominion of canada. what you think looks worse: having to have your campaign calls made by canadians or jailbird's? >> [laughs] i think this is worth, although neither are good ideas. you're not creating american jobs in the carry case, you are not quitting while paying jobs, because these are people being .

i don't object, by the way, to prisoners having something to do besides sitting in their cells, board, not bettering themselves or learning anything, but i don't think working on campaigns is the kind of thing the prison system should be doing. again, i think that strikes basically everyone as improper, if not illegal. >> mark: that is not the least redemptive. thank you for that, robbie. we should note he is basically bought himself 5% in the polls, and all of the other people struggling to get to 2, 3, 4% without his money. tucker will be joining us for a special appearance with the great singer-songwriter of american pie, hi, hi, mr. american pie, don mclean and tucker up next. ♪

♪ >> mark: here he is. here is tucker. he just sat down with don mclean to talk about the meaning of don's great song, "american pie." here is what happened. ♪ the day the music died ♪ i started singing ♪ bye, bye miss american pie ♪ drove my chevy to the levy with the levee was dry ♪ >> tucker: it's been a most year since's be 21 was never one trance in america, but still ubiquitous. everywhere. sometimes the lyrics even get referred to on cable news shows. >> that is the democratic party's position. if you're not sold yet, if you suspect there are some links missing from that logic chain, nancy pelosi has something people a dense cluster of familiar phrases designed to

convey the impression that were found for thinking is taking place. like that old don mclean song, "drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry." doesn't mean anything, but it kind of moves you anyway. >> tucker: then we started thinking about it, and we realize maybe that is not fair. "american pie"'s lyrics may mean something. to find out, we go to the man who wrote them. probably the most famous songwriter in this country, don mclean joins us tonight. mr. mclean, thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you for having me. i watch your show often. >> tucker: thank you, i appreciate that. this is a question every person who has ever driven on an american interstate has asked him or herself. where is the levee, and what does this mean? what do the lyrics mean? >> well, can i just take a moment and explain, there are many poems and songs in folk music, certainly, that are not

particularly, exactly prosaic. that's why they are poetry. but i have an idea -- i have no idea for a big song about america, and i didn't want to write "this land is your land," or some song like that. i came up with this notion that politics and music flow parallel together, forward, through history. 's of music you get is related somehow to the political environment that is going on. >> tucker: yes. >> and in the song "american pie," the verses get somewhat more dire each time, until you get to the end. but the good old boys are always there, singing, singing "bye, bye, miss american pie" come almost like fiddling while rome is burning. this is all in my head. it started to turn out to be

true, because you now have a kind of music in america that is really more spectacle, it was more to liberace than it does to elvis presley. and it is somewhat meaningless and loud and bloviating, and then we have this sort of spectacle in washington, this kind of politics, which has gotten so out of control. and so, the theory seems to hold up. again, it was only my theory, and that is how i wrote the song. that was the principle behind it. >> tucker: so he set out to write, as you said, a big song about america. and boy, did you succeed. 50 years later, you know, it's one of the most famous songs ever written in english, and one of the most resilient and resonant. we are still listening to it every day. what kind of reaction do you get from people to the song now? >> well, the song has been part

of their lives now. you know, i'm part of their lives. and the albums that i made in the 1970s go along with that, but of course, the kingpin is the song "american pie." and really, all roads lead to rome in my show. i sing the american songbook, songs that i've written, whether it is "castles in the air," "i love you so," all of the songs -- >> tucker: "hunter wood." >> all roads lead to "american pie" at the end, usually, and it's a summing up of everything that is going on. i don't really do a set, you know, i've been doing this for so many years, that i kind of make up a new show every night. but i just tell you one thing about yourself that i've noticed? and that is that you do something that nobody else does. you get a guest on, and then you ask them a core question, and i

think that nobody else does that. it's a very well thought out question, and nine times out of ten, the guest can't answer it, which makes it very amusing and fun, because you don't get into the whole thing going everywhere he wants you to go, you make them come to that question, and that is very philosophical. that is socratic. and i love that. i think that is terrific. >> tucker: i really appreciate that. the basics are what matters to me. i'm a very basic person. don mclean, it is an honor to have you on tonight. thank you so much. i can't tell you the number of times i thought about you alone in the car, and it's great to finally meet you. thanks very much appeared >> well, thank you for having m me. >> mark: i'm glad don mclean mentioned "wonderful baby," that is a great song. hasn't been a holly jolly christmas for the creepy porn lawyer. when he was on cnn every day, he came over like a supremely mega lawyer. the prosecutors now say that was

all a sham. all of that coming up next. ♪

♪ >> mark: the pound lawyers take quite a tumble from the days when he was a feature on cnn. of going on trial, attempting to extort. of according to the prosecutors, creepy pond lawyer launched the daring criminal enterprise with a lifestyle of fast cars, fancy

restaurants, and private jets left him $50 million in debt. chadwick moore is a new york journalist and he joins us. people mocked tucker's praise of the sky, but, he nailed the essentials of the guy when cnn r him and he thought he was a credible presidential candidate and will play. it was >> come he was so up there, he could take up dance healing like stormy daniels was doing, and then a thousand dollars and i'm sure that the review or the rainbow lounge would be happy to have them. of he has plenty of lonely liberal women fans of the same women i'm sure will be writing him letters in prison should he be convicted.

[laughter] >> mark: he will get way too in there. of i've never been at that lunch just for the record. let me ask you this, we must take this man's fate seriously. his lawyers are now arguing that when he demanded that nike pay him 22 and a half million dollars, he was simply exercising his first amendment rights. shaking down nike's protected speech. >> writes, yes, there debating t he at a fast and rich lifestyle is trying to start a class division for when the jury pool comes. okay, sure, but, we see these guys and he was there and he was america's sweetheart for a very long time on cnn. brian still there, obviously, famously called a very serious contender against the president. he never took off the ground because he could be using campaign donations to pay off the debt the alleged debts i should say, but he's

absolutely in the media, look how they jump and run and they pretended it never happened. on cnn over 100 times and representing stormy period of speed to the fantastic thing is, he did not actually file any tax returns for 2011 and 2017 but he was making up to five and half million dollars so he's very muh a typical democrat in that sense and that's boundless concern for the man and all the rest of it. he is occupied with himself. >> he certainly seems to have the physical shops though my chs , and then trying to muscle a private into playing for it. >> mark: he has. we will follow this and see how it goes but certainly not going to be flowing any private jets again anytime soon. chadwick, thank you for that and that's about it for its 1 two in

each night. don't forget to dvr the show as well. good night from all of us here in new york, you're in for a treat this day, ms. tammy right now. >> thank you, i appreciate it and thank you everyone welcome to sean hannity's program, this is "hannity," i'm tammy bruce in for an entry for sean. house democrats are just becoming a shock in one gigantic life for weeks, pelosi's, shiff, they told that president trump must be impeached as quickly as possible. they called him an imminent danger to the democratic republic and they forced him to vote in record time. now, speaker pelosi is still stalling. she is still refusing to send the articles of impeachment to the senate. president trump is calling her out and today he tweeted "the radica