♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." last weekend, a horrifying stabbing attack at a hanukkah party in muncie new york. listen to the daughter of one victim described the aftermath of that. >> he had a fractured skull. he has been sliced through his neck. he has a shattered arm. the doctors do not have high hopes for him. he may never -- if you wakes up, he may never be able to walk, tall, or even process speech

again. >> tucker: awful. so far, the coverage of the attack has focused on the rising number of violent anti-jewish incidents in new york and across the country, as well as on thomas' own psychiatric issues. we must be honest, there was another factor at play and that was ideology. thomas was only on the street in the first place because politicians long ago decided to side with criminals over normal people in new york. by the time he began stabbing strangers in the synagogue, thomas had already been distrusted arrestedseven times in some case assault, resisting arrest, and killing a police animal per the only jail time thomas ever received was in 2013 on a drug offense. able to kill a police animal and never go to jail. in other words, gave us plenty of warning. the people in charge of protecting us just decided to ignore those warning.

he joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. how did this happen? >> listen, i've been talking about this for the last year where i think the city, the state of new york is irresponsible in creating these laws where they are not holding people accountable. on january 1st, 2 days ago, you know, we created -- we signed into law and its coming to an effect where people that burglarized, that rape 3, rape third class, a number of violent crimes are now being considered nonviolence, and people are not held when they get locked up. they are just turning them around the right through turnstile. i think -- this is a demonstration of how the city is going to implode if they do not fix it. and fix it fast. you are going to have people

like this out on the streets. >> tucker: most of what you are saying is intuitive. it's obvious. normal people know it instinctively. so why the change? was there a groundswell of support for letting people out of prison or not putting them in prison for killing police animals, for example, or rape? and how did we get here? >> i think it's the left-wing liberal socialist push willie villa denies the police, we embolden the criminals. we let people out. there was a criminal justice reform push -- here's the bottom line. there should be criminal justice reform. people who do bad things belong in prison. we put rod blagojevich, the governor of illinois in prison for 14 years for talking about politics on the phone. you have people committing violent acts, violent acts against others, and they turn around and let them out to go out and do it again the next

day. and the next day after. you had a woman committed three acts of violence in three days and she's been let out every day after. >> tucker: so you started on the new york city force, the police department, when new york was dangerous. took over running the department when it became safer -- it was still safer after you left, and you're seeing it move in the opposite direction. it almost seems like we know what we need to do to make the city safe but we are not doing it on purpose. >> do you know what, tucker? nobody knows how to fix the city and reduce crime better than i did, than i do, because i was there when the renaissance occurred. but it looks like this mayor and this governor, they are trying to diminish and destroy all the programs that were put in place that reduce crime by 65 -- violent crime by 65-70%,

homicide by 70-75%. what they did in this, with these new laws, letting people back out on the street? it's going to diminish quality of life and it's going to enhance violence. >> tucker: it shows you what political leaders can do to damage, the damage they can recreate all of our attention is on a national face but you have a mayor, a mayor of a city causing remarkable damage to people. >> listen! all you have to do is look what happened in the last week. in the last 24 hours. this thing should be reversed. the mayor should be screaming out of his mind to get it reversed. he's not out there. he's not doing it. it endangers the public. it's irresponsible. it's dangerous to the police officers who put their lives on the line on a daily basis to go out and arrest people. it's a shame. >> tucker: it's depressing.

thank you so much for that. as you just heard, new york city appears to be doing everything it can to create more grafton thomass. new year's day, new bales law cash bail have now been eliminated for almost all misdemeanor and nonviolent felony cases, even violent felonies are included. what does it mean? it means that crimes like burrell korea, stalking, petty assault, drug offenses, and arson and robbery are no longer fail crimes. in the words of governor andrew cuomo himself, the guy behind this, criminal defendants will be back on the street right after being arrested. initial offenders will be able to commit more crimes after being immediately caught. there is no incentive showing up for court so many will disappear. who benefits from this? it's hard to see who benefits from it except the people getting out of jail.

new york resident tiffany harris assaulted three orthodox women in brooklyn. harris was arrested, charged, and released. sunday she was arrested in charge with another assault and she was released again. new year's eve, guess what she did? she got arrested for a third time for this time she's finally being kept in custody. that's new york. making it clear that if they take power in washington this fall, they'll make the rest of the country every bit as inviting for criminals. watch this. >> i have been a leader in the united states senate in saying that we need to get rid of the cash bail system. >> they are in jail because they are too poor to avoid cash bail. do you understand i am saying? >> we are going to end cash bail. >> they should get rid of cash bail entirely. >> how about we stop making property a crime. no more cash bail. this is crazy! >> tucker: is this what the country wants or needs, is as a

peaceful place where half a decade, criminal justice reform has been one of the chief obsessions of our ruling class. eliminating bail is one prong of the offensive that they are wagering. they are also demanding shorter prison sentences, fewer cops in over police neighborhoods, whatever that is, voting rights for violent criminals in prison, and more. these policies enjoy guilt support from guilt ridden fully assess the human toll of these policies. we have the numbers. here's what they are. in philadelphia, a city we've taken a close look at in the show direction of soros funded d.a. larry krasner, the most in a decade. people died as a result of these policies been more than 100. it's not just in philadelphia for baltimore had 348 murders

last year. that's the most since 1993. at a per capita level, is the deadliest year on record involved in baltimore. in 2014, dallas had only 116 homicides. this year, after the far left john cruz i promise not to prosecute laughs thefts, the murderrate went up . 1557 homicides recorded last year, this year charlotte reach that number before the end of june and it just kept going. the city finished with 108 murders on the air, that's the most since the early 1990s but t washington, the nation's capita? in 2012, d.c. had 80 murders. only two years ago, there were 116. this year, 2019? 166 murders. see a trend? you should because it's everywhere but we could spend half the show reciting the stats of city after city. st. louis, raleigh, louisville, cincinnati, we could go on and

on. across the country, in city after city, murder rates have surged dramatically compared with just five years ago. this is happening. not fake statistics, the most real. even cities were violent crime has not surged, san francisco, for example, facing an epidemic of shoplifting and car robberies that has made life unbearable for many taxpayers. we've got a series of that running next week which you don't want to miss. normal people do not want criminal justice reform. they want criminal justice enforcement. they've always wanted that. why aren't they getting it? heather mcdonald thought aloud about this question for she's the author of the book "the diversity delusion," a frequent guest on the show. thank you for coming on this show. i don't think there's any topic on which there is a greater divide between what the majority of citizens of all parties, all colors say they want, and what they get from the people in charge.

why is it complicated for our leaders? >> because they are on the grips of a false narrative which says that the criminal justice systems is racist, this massive wave of the incarceration, decriminalization is being done in the name of racial justice. guess who those homicide victims are overwhelmingly? blacks. law-abiding blacks. the criminal justice system, tucker, is not racist. the incidence of people in prison is because of crime, not the skin color. prison today remains a lifetime achievement award for persistence in criminal offending. you have to work very hard to get yourself sentenced to prison, and yet the elites are convinced and they are trying to persuade the rest of the world that america's systemic racism is willy-nilly, throwing black people in prison and throwing away the keys pray that simply not the case.

>> tucker: i can't resist pointing out that at the very moment, when we are literally letting arsonists go free, roger stone is facing life in prison for what? it's not even clear. the political penalties have got stiffer, but the penalties for violence and mayhem have almost disappeared in the a lot of cases. but again, there is no constituency for this outside of, like, small pockets of affluence on the coast. normal people are not for this but they've never been for it. how do our leaders get away with it? >> the universities are the source of this narrative that says everything about america today is defined and created by racism. i guess the public does not have a voice. if we get a rise in crime like we did in the '90s, it's going to swing back again. right now, we are living off the law enforcement reforms that

said policing matters, incarceration matters, and we've gotten lazy. the elites are back in the saddle and it's going to take a lot of thousands more black lives lost to criminals who should be in jail before this gets turned around. >> tucker: may i ask a quick question quick mike when bernie sanders, somebody like him stands up and says the only reason these people are in jail is because they are poor, demonstrably false. i've never heard a republican candidate or any republican officeholders say that's a flat out like him actually. we have the numbers, you are wrong for it why do they never stand up for simple law and order? >> they are scared. they are absolutely terrified of the racism charge but i was in a house judiciary committee hearing that talked about the criminal justice system. i was very disappointed in the republicans. they spouted bromides about our men and women in blue without actually combating the lie that the criminal justice system is racist. as for the idea that cash bail affects the poor, listen: in

new york city, only 7% of misdemeanor arrestees have any kind of bail set for them, that's because they have long felony arrest records and only .6% of misdemeanor arrestees are actually in jail. most people are put on the streets anyway, and this bell reform law is a solution in search of a nonproblem that's going to create more crimes. >> tucker: there you go with your statistics. we appreciate it, though. thank you so much. >> thank you, talker. to be with another democrat out of the presidential race and once again the press is distressed by this. calling democratic primary voters bigots for not supporting him. are they? plus joe biden saying putting coal miners out of work is no big deal, they should just learn to code. can they? [chuckling] that's next. ♪

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>> tucker: there is awful lot of news tonight, but we want to pause and a knowledge something is happening in the democratic presidential race. julian castro is out. other words, this morning he was still running for president. that's how effective his candidacy was. the only time he had any intention at the first of a credit debate back in june where he addressed the pressing problem, one of biggest problem the country faces. how do biological men get abortions? >> i don't believe in re-productive freedom, i believe in reproductive justice. what this means is that just because a woman or -- let's also

not forget that someone in the trans community, a trans female, is poor, that means they shouldn't have a right to exercise that right to choose. >> tucker: so there was that. he won a vote or two with that unusual argument. his other argument is that voters should vote for him based on his identity. the video announcing the end of his candidacy opened and closed with a line in spanish which basically said it all, but for me because of my background and because i speak spanish. the irony though is that julian castro actually can't speak spanish -- [laughter] totally fraudulent! nothing wrong with not being able to speak spanish. proof that we used to be for that. but the vision of actual assimilation has no currency in the modern democratic party where people are constantly divided up by skin color, nationality, gender, and

language, so instead we need to play up his views on immigration which honestly were kind of extreme. watch. >> instead of building a wall or closing the border, we should choose compassion instead of cruelty. speak of the feeling from the administration is we are in a full-blown crisis and they are overwhelmed by it. >> i do not believe there narrative. i do not believe the b.s. >> we should decriminalize people who are coming here crossing the border. we need to increase the number of refugees that we take into this country. if we are not careful, we do not get this right, in 20-30 years, this nation is going to be begging for immigrants to come to this country. >> tucker: begging. if you are not, you are not grateful. you are a bad person. as we said, he's out of the race and over at msnbc, they are taking it hard. pointing to the latest evidence that the democratic primary electorate is racist.

>> julian castro, the only latino running and his campaign today, the democrats even less diverse in the earlier part sure of kamala harris, there are going to be five white candidates on this next debate statement is that sustainable for the democratic party? spewing dana perino is the first person we go to to figure out what's going on in the race. dana, you keep hearing from democrats there is a grave disappointment in their own primary electorate, suggesting they are bigots for supporting, i guess, biden and bernie print what you make of that? >> i wonder if the media organizations will send out reporters across the nation to find out what actually is happening in this country as they did after the 2016 election results. the thing about julian castro is he gave the dnc convention speech back in 2012 and became the candidate of tomorrow. but he was the candidate of

tomorrow for so long that it became yesterday. he never was able to get a foothold and the two things you point out, the two major policy positions on abortion and on immigration, he never got enough support that those policies were actually scrutinized. if you think of someone like elizabeth warren and medicare for all, that got the full treatment. but julian castro ever since 2012 thought he was going to be on the stage, may be the nominee. i think he will be, though, on the vp short-list, even if he does not deserve to be. his name will be on the list, but i do not know if they'll actually choose him because there's many other people show that they can get some basic support. >> tucker: you make such a smart point. if i get up and said, you know, if a biological man gets pregnant, i promise i'll pay for his abortion, i'd get laughed at and lose my job. he's so ignored you can say that and go, oh, whatever. >> that's when you know you are in real trouble!

>> tucker: [cackling] >> it's like a tree falling in a forest. >> tucker: you can be floored and say that nobody cares for this happening in new hampshire. joe biden explain how coal miners should adapt to having their jobs regulate it out of existence. they should completely do a from profession from scratch. watch. >> i come from a family where -- a coal mine, in scranton. anybody can go down, 3,000 feet in the mine, i'm sure you can learn how to program as well. >> tucker: this struck me as so very similar to a line that we've heard not very long ago, basically dismissing the concerns of people whose industry, basically the coal business come regulated out of existence. is that a wise thing even for democrats to say? >> i think you are talking about the hillary clinton, in the 2016 campaign where she was celebrating the fact they would

try to put coal out of business. she had the deplorables line and never really came back from that. the thing about joe biden is a lot of people will give them the benefit of the doubt. joe means well. he doesn't really think that she doesn't want us to be without jobs. he cares about us. he has that. but there is an elitist attitude about coal that belies the entire democratic party. the truth is if he wants to win, he's going to have to try to win back some of the workers in the rust belt including coal workers. i think what he could've done because america is in the mood to widely spread in government programs, why not ration it up. he could've said something like, i'm going to commit $15 billion specifically to help them, make sure they are taken care of. et cetera. one thing that happened last week, david taxpayers are going to bail out a lot of the coal

pensions. they were mismanaged by the executives -- not the workers, but the executives. who gets on the hook of that question make the taxpayers i think that could come back to haunt him. spewing quickly, that tells a lot about how the community is viewed in the democratic party. if you are promising everybody a ton of cash, kentucky, west virginia, they don't like those people. >> i feel your pain question mickey didn't really, right joe biden has a cute ability to be that guy as well. he had not the people's circuit. >> tucker: yeah. dana perino, great to see that. >> happy new year.

>> tucker: happy new year. celebrating this past week with your family, but permanent washington plotting another war in the middle east. tonight, there seems to be another big step towards that war. we'll be asking questions nobody seems to be raising, is it a good idea? an update what's happening tonight after the break. now, i know how happy i am. there was all the feeling good about myself that i missed and all of the feeling bad about myself that was unnecessary. at aspen dental, we're all about yes. like yes to free exams and x-rays for new patients without insurance. yes to flexible hours and payment options. and yes, whenever you're ready to get started, we are too. don't wait, book at aspendental.com or call today. a general dentistry office.

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fox news alert, something that just happened in iraq. iraqi television has just confirmed that qassem soleiman near the back deck airport along with a top official in the iraqi shiite militia. what were they doing in iraq? unclear. but his death comes several days after intentions came out in the open in that country. last week if you are following this and americans who were in contact killed by militants in iraq, the government blamed the attack on iran. in response, protesters blocked the u.s. embassy in baghdad, where we were where the show started sniper the fence and kateri mark esper warned of the united states have prepared to launch additional preemptive military strikes against iranian interest in the region which is what we are seeing right now.

again, there's been no debate or discussion about this. america appears to be lumbering towards a new middle east war. we have to say, it's one that officials in washington wanted for decades. john bolton has made it his life's mission to start a war with iran and bolton might be getting his wish. should you be happy about that? that's the question. the last time we took john bowen's advice in the region, iran became far more powerful before we took john bolton's advice. because things are going to play as simple as they claim they are in washington. the people demanding action against iran tonight, but telling you the persian menace is the greatest threat we face, are the very same ones demanding you ignore the invasion of america now in progress from the south, the millions, tens of millions of foreign nationals living among us illegally, the tolerant morris specifically of make skin narcotics that has killed and disabled an entire

generation of americans. pay no attention to all of that. the real threat is iran. they are liars and they don't care about you, they don't care about your kids but they are reckless and incompetent and you should keep all of that in mind as war with manafort if he moves closer to nitric kurt mills is a senior writer at "the american conservative." where could it go from here? >> if you like the iraq war, we are back with the sequel, the iran war. i would say the deep concern -- look, and general, this is not someone to more of a grudge for the u.s. to get involved in. is this a situation where a great power gets involved with a middle tier power and gets the world into a world war?

iran is a problem for the u.s. and its allies in the region, but it's not an extensional threat like china or russia. china or russia, particularly china, would love to see another decade or two of americans my age dying in the sand for no particular purpose. >> tucker: that's exactly it. it's not that anyone or anything in the united states has a particular affection for iran or trust in their government, of course not. it's the intemperance with which they forward a the forward it's the prima facie absurd that it makes you wonder what the actual agenda is. >> it's a joke. it's a joke. i think the real question is why do we still have troops there? we see the baghdad embassy protest and to be clear this is not just an embassy, this is a fortress. this is a fortress since we took out saddam in 2003 and american

troops they are, if we are not going to re-annex the country are effectively hostages. they are sent there. the president who rightfully ran in 2016 against the bush legacy, does he want to re-invade iraq? i understand there are people in this cabinet telling him that iran is not iraq. but the fact of the matter is, iran is similar to a rock. we are talking about iraq. 16 years later, it's iraq in order to counter iran, i think the choice is clear. the president to contain iranian influence in the region to avoid a hot war which are barreling towards at all costs. spewing my sense of it is the president doesn't seek war. >> tucker: he's wary of it. i think he's elected on the promise that he'd avoid war except when absently necessary. there are a lot of people around the city of washington prepared

for this, agitating for it. bolton is one of many. for an awfully long time. may he be outmaneuvered by that and we might find ourselves moving towards war despite what the president wants? >> i think the president's convictions on this matter is sincere. but it's extremely relevant in matters of war and peace, life and death, who he's in the administration with. i know that bolton is above bare for you, but in some ways bolton because he so flamboyant and so notorious, he was bit of a problem for the iran crusade. more middleweight, managers might actually be more effective at trojan horsing what i think would be a tragedy in the middle east. iran is not iraq. it's twice as big but it'd be twice as bad. we were weaker than we were 16 years ago. if president george w. bush

struggled with that reelection test in '04, if trump tries this, he's cooked. >> tucker: thank you for this. so you hear a lot from the left about how concerned about the environment they are. but you notice those concerns are always conveniently dovetailed with acquiring more political power and questioning their political enemies precalifornia some major wildfires this year and there's a clear culprit, private home ownership the problem. the problem of individual home ownership created the scorching landscape we see today for individual home ownership be seriously questioned. banning private homeownership? will that stop wildfires? will it fix the environment questioning how about building fewer shopping malls. no one ever things of that. no, it won't. it'll make the government more powerful, regular people less happy and less free. of course, that's the point. victor davis hanson is a lifelong californian, fellow at

the hoover institution and happy to have them tonight. thank you for coming on. do you think the wildfires but petting your state mean that people should not be allowed to own their own homes? >> it's we otherwise wouldn't vote for, and that's why rahm emanuel said never let a crisis go to waste. i think that chief staff said it's not about climate change but changing the american economy along socialist lines but nothing to do with climate change and we've only got about 1 degree in a century in california for that's mostly because of asphalt and cement in our cities. precipitation has not changed. what it is about is that we have 100 million trees and underbrush that grew out of -- that died out of the 2014-'16 drought but never harvested them for green reasons and the underbrush took

over. and pge, at one point as a californian one of the best utilities in the state, it's ossified, calcified, has all these green bandits, doesn't have the capital to update its transmission lines. when i was a kid, the wind that doesn't have the effect it does now. and finally, i think this is really important that california is that zoning laws a lot of places that were really habitabe not open to urbanization or suburbanization in the bay area or l.a., so people move out to areas they didn't use to live in to find cheap places to live because everything is so expensive in california. when you have infrastructures rated about the worst in the nation, highways and bridges, hard to get to these places. we have not built a major reservoir since pneuma limits dam in 1983. it's a perfect storm and one

state and local officials cannot solve extensional problems, they blame other regions. when you can't deal with homelessness, you ban plastic bottles at services company airport. you can deal with utility or wild fire damage, you say climate change did it come we've got to become socialists. >> tucker: well, it's dysfunctional because it's crowded. it's crowded because of the administratioimmigration policy. they did this, as you know. victor davis hansen, thank you so much. attacking homeowners is one facet of the broader assault on normal people in this country. the city of san francisco, progressive working to create their ideal vision of an american city but the opposite has been effect, it's unsafe, unhealthy, unaffordable. and for many, unlivable. dystopia in many ways. we sent a team of producers to san francisco for an in-depth exclusive investigation into

what's happening there and the effect it's having on the dwindling pool of middle-class residents. our special series debuts next monday, continues all week. here's a short preview of what we found. ♪ ♪ >> i'll [bleep] kill you! >> tucker: even the trailer is a little too much. it's shocking what we found. next, free speech may be dying in areas, but adam kroll and dennis prager make sure that they'll at least go down fighting. the documentary is back in theaters and they join us next to talk about it. stay tuned.

spewing freedom of speech is america's most distinctive rights. it's a free country. they used to stay say that back when it was. it's the most and battled in the name of safety and sensitivity,, and coalition big tech loss what you are allowed to say and punish those who stray out of the accepted boundaries. last year comedian adam corolla, who is a genius, and radio host dennis prager, also a genius, teamed up to release "no safe spaces," a brilliant documentary about the anti-american free-speech unit. >> israel sent me into the 20 soviet union when i was 21 years old because i knew russian and hebrew. had to smuggle in religious items and so on.

i really experienced what most people in the west have never, ever experienced. life under its villa terrien regime. under a totalitarian regime. >> tucker: it's a great movie and if you want to see it in theaters, a limited release this weekend thanks to strong support from dedicated viewers. thank you both for coming up and haven't talked to you since the film come out. start with you, adam, did anybody tell you you are not allowed to say the things you said in the film? to the irony loop come complete did the irony loop come complete? >> tucker: it's interesting when people are talking about free speech, but it's free-speech they want to vet and make sure it's okay for them to hear before you can say it. i did notice the clip was all dennis prager, by the way. i'm going to get my publicist on this. >> this resentment is a very big problem.

>> tucker: well... >> it's a big problem. we enjoy each other too much. we are looking for problems. >> tucker: what are the problems? even newlyweds, they may sublimate it but there is usually tension. if you can identify one thing that divides you bitterly, what would it be? >> he likes gefilte fish, and i wouldn't be that stuff to my cat. >> no, you said you did feed it to your cat for your cat liked it. i asked he specifically how it went over in the corolla home. you said the cat loved it. >> tucker: he gave me a jargon filled the fish. by the way, fish is not supposed to be in jars, it supposed to be on platters or above a fireplace in a hunting lodge. >> tucker: have the problems gotten better? >> better than it's ever been.

>> tucker: when i do not think there is any improvement for improvement at all. do you think the country has been free or less free since the last -- >> no, it's less free, no question. there is an interesting proof. read the reviewers in the mainstream media, not to mention left-wing media, on how they have contempt for the film. when the film features liberal after liberal, including president obama, speaking about what's going on on campuses. they can't even acknowledge that this is going on when they see the film, which is about the suppression of speech. >> i have a slightly different feeling on it. well, here's what i think. i feel like the pendulum is starting to swing back the other direction in the comedic

community and i feel a lot of my cohorts in the comedy world starting to push back against it because they are at this saturation level and i feel like the group that started this thing is starting to double down on it. starting to really work it harder. sort of the same subject as racism, as racism fades from our society, a certain group is tripling down their effort to make sure it's alive and well, or at least we think it's alive and well. >> i think he's right about the comedic community. outside of that, i don't think it's true. san francisco 49er color announcer -- i'm not sure you can use the term any longer, simply said in describing the baltimore ravens' quarterback who was it to terrific quarterback and his black, said there might be this slight half second advantage in the handoff because the ball is black and the uniform is black and he is black, so the offensive line doesn't see it quite as quickly. the guy said you are a racist

and unless he apologized profusely as in mao's china in the cultural revolution, he would've lost his job. >> defensive line. big defensive line, you are right. >> tucker: but the point remains. what about the people who are facing this problem -- not just famous people but normal people under attack by the hr department down the hall? what is the right response for them? should they go through mao's china routine where they apologize and beg forgiveness, or do they stand up for themselves? >> i do not know what adam's position is on this, but i think -- first of all, apologizing means that you think you are wrong. i did not know how people live with themselves when they are right and they publicly announced that they were wrong. it's so humiliating that i

personally couldn't do it. >> i think we are going to have to do it this way because i do my own podcast, i have my own pirate ship, i have autonomy, i can say what i want. i don't have to apologize. thus, i am not asked to apologize because i never apologize. but for guys who do, announcers for the 49ers, what are they to do? >> it's a horrible dilemma. speak what we have to do is stop apologizing at the same time. that means there's one guy with a gun. we just have pool cues and we all have to charge them at once. if we do it one by one, will be taken out one by one. >> let me remind people, because it's a great film, n nosafespaces.com. >> tucker: i think they will. so months after jeffrey epstein's death, wherever that occurred, his alleged fixer is still free. where is she?

new reports not about where and who is protecting her. remarkable story. trace gallagher with us next after the break.

. >> well, according to multiple sources, the maxwell was jeffrey epstein's fixer, a person who facilitated his abuse of teenage girls. but since epstein's death, maxwell rarely appeared in public and has not been charged with any crime. according to a new record, that's not an accident. apparently she's being

protected. trace gallagher has more on this story. hey, trace. >> hey, tucker. the question has long lingered about whether his ex-girlfriend and confidante would face charges for recruiting and grooming these young girls for underaged sex. but our corporate cousin, "the new york post" says for now she's untouchable. she's protected. she and jeffrey were assets of sorts for multiple foreign governments. they would trade information about the powerful people caught in his net -- caught at epstein's house, adding, quoting here, she is not in the u.s., she moves around. she is sometimes in the uk, but most often in other countries such as israel where her powerful contacts have provided her with safe houses and protection. and separately, we should note, a friend of maxwell tells "the sun" newspaper she has enough dirt on those powerful contacts that she expects to avoid any prosecution at all. tucker? >> a test to whether the justice

is real. trace gallagher, thank you so much. good to see you. that's it for us. we'll be back tomorrow, 8:00 p.m., sworn enemy oi lying, pomposity, smugness and group think. have a good night. >> thank, tucker. always good for you to pronounce my name. huge win for me. >> i can do that. thank you. welcome to hannity. i'm jason in tonight for shawn. president trump took decisive action this week. after a group of iranian backed shiite militia stormed the embassy in baghdad, the president's show of force deploying our brave armed men to the region to secure the facility, made it very clear, there will be no benghazi on his watch and iran will be held accountable. breaking moments ago and according to multiple reports, the head of iran's kuds force has been killed in an air