out and regardless what happens the president will be exonerated. he's done nothing wrong. >> martha: white house press secretary, deputy secretary. that's "the story" for tonight. the story continues and tucker carlson is ready to take it away. good night, every body. you monday see you monday. >> tucker: good evening, welcome to tucker carlson for it he still talking, going on a long time. this week's impeachment trial, the senate has done what you thought would be impossible in the era of donald trump, it has made politics boring again. but the trial isn't dull, it dull in a highly aggressive, almost coercive way. watching it is like being trapped by your drunk brother-in-law as he explains in forensic detail how he's managing his 401(k). after 6 minutes, you fantasize jumping out the window. that's the experience of it. fortunately, there are no windows in the senate chamber so we had to watch the entire thin.

after four days of this, we've reached a conclusion. this is not about a phone call that donald trump made to ukraine, not about adam schiff's dream of winning a daytime and become a talented lesbian as he is, it's by criticizing middle eastern wars and promising to de-escalate tensions with russia. nothing he has done before or since has made them angrier than that did. direct stretch of their ideas and the paycheck, adam conceded closed that much in his closing comments. his real crime which of military aid from ukraine. why? because it's america's duty to remain on the brink of war with russia indefinitely. >> the united states is roughlyd in europe. they serve alongside troops from 28 other countries that comprise

nato or nato. >> the press is not in the habit to explain because it did be nice to explain what the hell he's talking about. the european union has four times as many people as russia does but its economy more than ten times as large. russian troops have not made it to western europe in 75 years and they will not be coming anytime soon. they can't. by the way, if the europeans were worried about a russian invasion, they'd make an army to protect themselves. they have not done that because they are not worried. according to adam schiff them america must keep 70,000 troops in europe away from their families to guard against the ever present threat of russian invasion. for real. he said that. his fellow democrats nodded in vacant idol agreement that if it weren't for military military

aid, you'd have to learn russian to spend junior year in florence. watch. >> russia's invasion of ukraine was a threat to the peace and security in europe. if members of this body had not voted overwhelmingly on a bipartisan basis for military assistance to rebuild ukraine's military, there is no question it would've invited further russian adventurism in ukraine and perhaps elsewhere in the heart of europe. it would've weakened our allies and exposed u.s. troops stationed in europe to greater danger. >> martha: believe it or not, went on like this all day long. voice rising, eyes bulging. started to sound like a condiment from burbank and more like a character from a tom

clancy novel. the greatest threat to america, schiff said, is not the first guards tank army, the president of united states who might be the first nondrinking voting member of the politburo. >> if a president can so easily be manipulated, to disbelieve his own intelligence agencies, to accept the propaganda of the kremlin the, that is a threat to our national security. >> tucker: by now you may be wondering how is this the impeachment we were promised? wasn't it supposed to be the abuse of power, the contempt of congress? aren't those the charges? how do we get to the point where russia invades belgium? it's been a long time coming. the genesis of donald trump impeachment trial, turns out, wasn't the now famous screening phone call or even his victory three years ago. it actually began on februar february 13th 2016 on that day. that's the day that trump debated jeb bush, ted cruz, the

rest of the g.o.p. primary crew in the g.o.p. debate at south carolina. said no things major republican candidates he said america should reach an agreement rather than fighting proxy wars against them pretty call the trillions of dollars we spent in the middle east a waste. at the time, it seemed like trump was asked attacking republican orthodoxy. trump was attacking the consensus of both parties in washington. it's a neoconservative consensus. both parties work together to keep america overextended abroad stuck in quagmires across the world that in reach killing our men.donald trump a s a candidate, said it's time for notsome interest of some backwad petrol state. trump got the nomination and

then won. but washington still is not recovered from the shock and rather learn from the result, they double down. they blame the defeat on russian facebook ads that nobody saw. and in response to those ads that nobody saw, the demand america risk war with the world's largest nuclear power. we've mocked adam schiff many times in the show and we hope to in the future. but on this matter, we are deadly serious. if this guy's public statements reflect what he actually believes, he is dangerous to the country for real. francine hakes is a former federal prosecutor. you are an expert on the laws as a former prosecutor. is there -- just checking, somewhere in the u.s. code a law against denying aid to ukraine? >> hi, tucker. no, there is deafly no law against denying aid to ukraine and in fact the constitution gives the president the sole authority to conduct foreign policy. >> tucker: that was my understanding. i do not think anybody in the city where i am now understands that. they are deeply -- they never got over there rage.

do you think -- i believe we are toward the end of the democratic case here, do you think that they made their case? >> no, tucker. i don't think so at all. all they are talking about is a policy difference between the president and his opponents and fundamentally they are saying that the president pressured the ukrainian president by withholding aid and asking for a political favor to sway the 2020 election. and i think there are a bunch of things wrong with all of those statements. cheaply first, you have the president talking about public corruption in former u.s. officials. that is something that we should hope that every president is concerned with and what i would like to know, is running for office somehow an immunization against future investigations? if that's the case, every potential white-collar criminal should start running for office if their opponent can no longer say that they are corrupt just because they are running for office.

>> tucker: that's just an excellent point. what's going to happen next in this? what can we not look forward to? >> we cannot look forward to a whole lot more people, lawyers, standing up in arguing the same points over and over again. i hope the president's lawyers are going to stick to certain categories. i hope each member of the president's team will have the chance to speak before the american people and the senate will take a different substantive topic and they will exhaust us with their knowledge on that topic and not repeat over and over again the same things, the same clips, and the same talking points the way democrats have done. >> tucker: banal does not begin to touch it. tds scratches the surface. i can't resist: was there a point to this? do they get a point out of this? >> i do think the goal was political, tucker. i do think impeachment is also political. but i think the goal is to dirty up the president so they can

argue as you heard them doing today and yesterday that the president is a national security danger. the american people do not have the right to vote on this president and his behavior because it's too important. that's really what bothers me the most. that's what actually makes me quite angry is that the democrats are saying that me as an american citizen and my fellow american citizens somehow aren't smart enough to decide whether or not we find this president's conduct to be appalling enough to vote him out of office in november. they think they know what's best for us. >> tucker: it's a bizarre critique. you can criticize the president on a bunch of different grounds but to say because he wants to prevent american troops from dying pointlessly in some hellhole in the middle east. sorry to editorialize to my but it's great to see you tonight. thank you so much. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: as adam schiff agitates world war iii, the price falls more in love with

him. by the way, adam is powerful. >> congressman schiff extended powerful closing statements. >> he it was a powerful speech. >> after abuse of power. >> last night, a powerful close to the night from the top democrat prosecutor adam schiff. >> incredibly powerful closing argument. >> i thought this was as powerful from what i remembered in watergate. >> tucker: when you started in the news room at cnn or msnbc, you get a thesaurus but it's only three pages long. but to be 24 is not just strong and powerful in the view of the american people. like a pool boy at the sandals resort, he's also sensitive and emotional. >> to watch adam schiff, it's been a thing to watch, i think.

very emotional closing there. >> the emotionality of adam schiff. >> during the closing arguments, very emotional. >> adam schiff last night in emotional comments. >> democratic prosecutor adam schiff with an emotional appeal. >> you had a powerfully emotional, direct statement. >> making this emotional plea to end the session. >> his emotional appeal to a sense of what's right, to a sense of what is right for the country. >> tucker: no matter how many segments we do on how dumb they are on cable news and every night we do one, it still shocking just how dumb. how dumb? here's one cnn analyst comparing adam schiff -- adam schiff! to a rock star. >> performance every single day, performances both from a substantive and presentation level have been amazing.

>> it's like springsteen or billy joel or prins when he was alive. they clap, come back out, do another song that's even better? i suspect tonight he's going to do something that's actually outstanding. >> tucker: adam schiff, i love you! excuse me. robbie sauve is the author of "panic attacks" and a senior editor at "reason." always happy to have robbie's with us. >> i'm too overtaken by this emotional, powerful moment to properly discuss with you. >> tucker: let's pull back a little bit. as you age, you become an adult and the middle-aged adult. a lot of things you can't hold onto for your hair, your health. but your dignity is something you want to retain as you age but were they so eager to give it away on live tv? >> for them, this is -- so the comments are focused on the performance aspect of what schiff had to say because for them, them being the kind of

democratic media professional class, for them, this is entertainment. this is theater. this is an enjoyable show they are watching. they are getting their hire from this, watching and elegant, powerful bashing of the president they despise who's approach to policy they do not like. this whole impeachment spectacle it's not about the president's policies, broadly, it's about one thing he did they don't like. the policy aspect would be decided by the voters a couple of months from now but they do not want that to happen. >> tucker: do you think it's weird that adds this walter mitty warmonger adam schiff over russia imported from belgium, this is crazy, they just couple meant his style. are they not supposed to dig a little deeper or no? >> they were, the thing that

left really likes, gas lighting, you convince people they are crazy that you didn't say what they think you said, i feel a little gas lift, right? he is clearly -- he is telling us that we have to believe what intelligence officials tell us, it's crazy to question the fbi, to question what our people have told us. when they been wrong time and time again! i mean in hindsight we've always said that, man, next time will be a little more cautious about the foreign policy approach we take based on what the career bureaucrats have told us. and i just don't know how you could think again, we must unquestionably support what they are telling us based on their track record and yet that's what schiff and people like him any democratic media consensus are telling us what we must do. it's crazy. >> tucker: great to see you tonight.

>> thank you. >> tucker: just in it for you watching at home, some of you probably did get sucked in watching this garbage the last three days. where you are politically, he might've been a limit convinced by adam schiff that russia is a massive threat to us and on the brink of invading western europe. a lot of things you should be worrying about. your kids getting addicted to drugs, getting overweight in middle age, what the fed is doing. there is no reason to worry about russia invading western europe bottom line. that's not happening. well, max boot who works for "the washington post" sometimes on television was highly impressed by the hearings this past week. he tweeted a statement that president trump asking about hunter biden's corruption may be the single worst act by a single president ever. here's the quote. nixon was guilty of using his authority but he did not subordinate foreign policy for personal interest. other presidents from jackson's trail of tears to fdr's

internment of japanese this is max boot who is paid to his opinion considered a "widely regarded expert on foreign policy" but the mormons who run our foreign policy telling you what trump did by making that phone call was worse than the trail of tears! has elizabeth warren responded to that? we'll keep you posted. meanwhile, the chinese coronavirus which is something to worry about is spreading around the world. multiple confirmed cases, where did the virus come from, how much damage did it there, and is the chinese government lying about it? plus we continue our drying the paint watch of the u.s. senate when the impeachment continues. >> saying that bill clinton's mistake was in showing up under subpoena. hi! we're glad you came in, what's on your mind?

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>> tucker: the chinese coronavirus seems like a health emergency is also turning into a test of the chinese government which is already restricting the travel of tens of millions of people. the regime seems like it's being more forthcoming than it typically is, but is that an allusion? online, chinese citizens accuse officials of not doing enough while sensors continue to take down any post that's critical of the government. meanwhile, the coronavirus infected hundreds of people worldwide. it's just an estimate. we don't really know. just this hour, a case was confirmed in australia. here, two cases confirmed in the united states but likely will not be the last. what's happening here? michael hudson a senior fellow

he joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: what extent can we trust the chinese governments assessment in china? >> we were reassured that everything was under control for about five weeks. all of a sudden, these extreme measures are being taken. the military, i just watched chinese news from beijing an hour ago, they are showing the chinese military going around wuhan to make sure that people did not go in and out. before the crackdown started, several million people went on new year's holiday over the past couple of weeks. so china is sending mixed messages. on the one hand, we are in charge of everything under control, taking his extreme measures. on the other hand, is it worse than we think? what justifies this crackdown on these major cities in china? basically, this is like the new year's eve of china.

they have a vacation for the coming ten days. everyone is supposed to be having a big dinner with their families tonight. it's all over because it's tomorrow morning in china, but this is a huge period of more than 1 billion visits and people taking trains. it's at the worst possible time. >> tucker: if you would spreading disease, this would be the perfect time to do it. we are acting as if we knows where the virus comes from. but it's always worth questioning what we really know. are we certainly know where the virus comes from? >> no. the cdc website is probably the most authoritative. several theories, including bats having the virus and he mutates and spreads into humans somehow. but the key thing is the cdc website saying today that we still do not have a full sequencing of the virus. so things like how fast it's going to spread, how lethal is it, what percent of people get it and will die, what's called the super spreader phenomenon, this is an individual who

carries the virus. in the case of sars back 17 years ago, one dr. went to a wedding in hong kong and spread it to 19 people just during the wedding. this is what you can major if you understand the virus exactly. according to the cdc website, none of this has been done yet. mysterious information and conflict here about this virus. what makes things worse, tucker, the rumors being started on the chinese internet that america planted this virus as a kind of germ warfare attack on china. there is an article today in "the washington times" saying that the wuhan area has china's only biological lab warfare laboratory. if he got out and different from the bacteria. >> tucker: i think you make an excellent point but we shouldn't

we should withhold judgment until we know what happened. >> it's the same approach. >> tucker: as we said, it suggested that the coronavirus jumped to humans from snakes. one thing may be the list of animal meat for sale at the wuhan wet market. shoppers can buy meat from koalas, ostriches, salamanders, and, yes, snakes. medical director at citi md and thank you, doctor, for coming on. i want to ask you why people would eat koalas or bats or snakes, that's a cultural question. it's repulsive, quite frankly. but how as a physical matter of science could the virus spread from animal to people? >> this virus has existed -- this is not the first rain of this virus. this is actually the seventh strain of this virus. four strains that cause the typical common cold, sniffles,

headaches, running nose. we have the mrs and sars strain. they appear in these animals and the mutates. we expect may be in a bat or cat or some other exotic animal like a snake. the chinese culture, they enjoy exotic foods, fresh exotic foods. we believe it originated somehow from a strain of the virus, may be mutated, was ingested by a human. the transfer from animal to human, and then from human to human and now it's spreading. >> tucker: this is not the first time and that's what's baffling. >> correct. >> tucker: mistreatment of animals is widespread and endemic in china. >> sure. >> tucker: it caused illness before. why weren't they on guard? >> for example, mers front comic

was from the camel. ebola was thought to come from bat droppings from a contaminated toy. why didn't we take precaution? fortunately, there is a vaccine for this novel new coronavirus that's in the works that may come out 2-3 months but we should be one step ahead of the game, should be aware that eating these exotic foods in the foods we should normally be eating could potentially contain these diseases. >> tucker: how about stop eating dogs and bats and koalas? that might be a start. thanks so much. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: elizabeth warren promising to put nonbinary people in her cabinet. what does that mean exactly and how does nonbinary be a qualification to be in a cabinet? and more from the senate trial. we'll continue to bring it to you.

>> so you are going to pay for people who didn't pay any many thing and those who did the right thing get through question mike my buddy bought a car, went on vacation. i save my money. he made more than i did, but i worked a double shift. so you're laughing at me. that's exactly what you're doing! we did the right thing and we get shafted. >> tucker: of course she's laughing at him. exactly like the kind of person you don't care about.

elizabeth warren over her plan issuing an executive order canceling the country a student loans. she won't put colleges on the hook for those loans. of course not. not happy to be punished for making sacrifices of paying off student loans as people try to do the right thing have done, she does not care. elizabeth warren also met another promise about how she'll govern if elected. in a recent blog post, shall make sure that her cabinet will reflect a including 50% full of women and nonbinary people. what is a nonbinary person? does america have enough nonbinary people to staff have a cabinet, and more to the point how is being nonbinary a qualification to run a federal agency? dave rubin hosts "the rubin report" on youtube. that's the core question but what does being nonbinding nonbinary haveto do with runninl agency? >> first off, this is the first time i've ever been brought in

as a nonbinary expert so i appreciate that. >> tucker: i'm afraid to ask what it means! but yes. >> it doesn't even matter. suffice to say that all of this is exactly what's wrong with almost every progressive idea that's put out there like canceling off student debt, you hurt the people who paid off their debt or acted responsibly for hiring 50% women or nonbinary, or minorities, or this color or that color. it all kind of sounds right. but here's the catch, and it happens with every progressive idea, you just have to think about it for about three seconds and once you think about it, you realize, oh, if we are going to have diversity hires of this type are that type, that means you intentionally must discriminate against someone else by the basis of their gender or sexuality or skin color. the reason elizabeth warren doesn't care is because she thinks she can hold together some sort of coalition of basically nonwhite christian people so she can stick it to

them, something to that effect. it's a poor strategy and we have to show one idea that's worked and always worked in america, if you work hard and the good person come in the but he cares whether you are nonbinary, whether you are binary, man or a woman, if you are here in l.a., i met your staff in l.a. guess what, tucker? you are a good man. you have black people and white people and women and men, nobody cared. can you do your job? i have a small business myself, we will hire you if you can do your job. >> tucker: it worked well for a long time. i just wonder as a clinical matter what the market for this is. apart from, like, 27 people on twitter, is the country crying out for this kind of been counting? >> no, it's not crying out for it. i think much -- almost all of the left has been captured by wokeism, this idea that all of

these supposedly oppressed groups, most of them are not really oppressed, can somehow come together and somehow free everybody from the evil patriarchy. not only is it not true, but i think you're making a great point about 27 people on twitter, so much of it is just driven by social media hysteria. real adults, and especially a real business people and real people who want to accomplish real goals, they don't care about this stuff. i never meet anyone whether i'm doing my show or whether i'm doing business behind it, that really cares about these kind of things but i'm hiring an associate producer right now prethink about how absolutely absurd it would be if i said that person has to be a specific gender or a specific skin color or specific identification pier that would be prejudiced and nobody is for it except for this -- what i say is an increasingly small group of far left progressives. >> tucker: i think that's right. hire the best people whoever they are. thank you so much for that. >> it's great to see you,

tucker. >> tucker: goldman sachs is one of the largest investment banks in the world. it's also america's largest underwriter of initial public offerings. the often highly lucrative moment when a private company goes public. joel delma goldman sachs has always chosen it based on financial criteria, but not anymore. the company has announced it will no longer underwrite ipos for companies whose boards contain too many white men. because white men are bad. except apparently for the white men who run goldman sachs. they are the exception. they are great. confused? it gets even more muddled. goldman sachs has also announced that its new diversity policy will not apply to asia. the leadership of chinese companies tends to be utterly and completely homogenous. diversity is not their strength. and that is fine with goldman sachs. in other words, homogenous boys are thin when they happen here in america, but in china they are totally fine. not to mention highly lucrative.

if all this seems inconsistent, even have a critical, do not be surprised. goldman specializes in that. contains this preachy sermon on gender diversity, quote, when women lead, everything changes. in today's world, gender equality is an economic imperative and leadership opportunities will drive growth for our clients, our communities, our people, and our shareholders. great. but they don't mean it. how do we know? well, goldman's board does not have parity between men and women. when the company's previous eeo costep down in 2017 committee dd not take a woman to replace him. he didn't have to take the job. he could've let a woman run for the first time in 150 years be better, he could step down from this job and he could do it tonight, and he should, and demand a nonbinary person replace him immediately and

donate his severance to black lives matter. but needless to say, he wants to do that. diversity for thee, but not for me. the reality the kind that obsesses over which people or which race or gender, ethnicity, are doing too well and need to be pulled down by force. under america unfortunately has not been immune to that kind of hatred but for the most of history we've avoided the worst. goldman sachs seems determined to stoke the hate in the goal is pretty obvious. outsourcing financial elation has made most americans far worse off over the last 30 yea years. goldman sachs means employees have groans particularly rich. they bought off american lawmakers and think tanks to make sure that the status quo doesn't change and they are peddling race hatred to make sure that when bernie sanders tells him to pay more in taxes, they complete woke ness and ask

for a pass. in the meantime, it will hurt america and it will help china, just like so many things goldman sachs has done over the past 30 years. the governor of alaska joins us. governor, thanks so much for coming on. you have watched the political tenor increasing of corporate america and you are concerned about it. tell us how governments should respond to companies like goldman sachs taking a hard left line on social policy. >> thanks, tucker, for having me on. we were notified through the newspaper back in i think early january that goldman sachs is no longer going to finance any projects in the arctic that dealt with fossil fuels. as we know, alaska is an oil giant and we are in arctic state, so this basically canceled out one avenue for finance. the thing that goldman sachs i do not think realizes it is we

also do business with them, in other words we make money for them. as a result of their actions, we have seriously considered terminating our relationship with goldman sachs if they do not want to help us or if they want to work against us in terms of our resource development. it doesn't make much sense for us to help them. >> finance has been the finance people hate them. why are the finance giants making that obvious? we aren't pretending we hate you, but that's the message they are saying. why would they do that. >> i don't know. they either think there is a new future, a new universe evolving more people think like that, but i can tell you that what goldman sachs did with reference of alaska got a lot of people's attention. we have a very diverse state up here in alaska. have one of the highest percentages of alaskan natives, american natives in alaska. the number of folks from all over the world live in alaska.

nonetheless, it's something that we just don't understand. but it's going to end up being a problem for goldman sachs going forward. >> i hope you take a chunk out of the bottom line. they deserve it. governor, thank you for coming on tonight. harvey wants teen trial has been in progress as well. guess who's joining us? after the break, jeanine pirro to reveal what that trial is revealing about bill and hillary clinton. she's on the set. monitoring the other trial here in d.c. if something happens, we'll tell you. >> heart few views right and wrong are in conflict... i'm finding it hard to stay on top of things a faster laptop could help. plus, tech support to stay worry free woory free.... boom!

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>> tucker: jeanine pirro is sitting right next to me. it's awesome.

somehow his favorite politicians bill and hillary clinton had no idea! that's hillary clinton claiming anyway. interviews asked, she asked, how could we have known what everyone in hollywood knew. but in weinstein's ongoing tri trial, used his connections to clinton to intimidate and threaten his victims, victims of sexual harassment. jeanine pirro hosts "justice with judge jeanine" and joins us on the set. said, had no idea. who would've guessed? >> don't you love it when the social justice warriors, the people who want to pontificate to us about morals and what is right and just who are knee-deep in hypocrisy. look at him a pillar clinton didn't know that harvey weinstein was involved in sexual assault, i don't know you and i've never met you, i meeting you for the first time tonight. look, weinstein gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the clinton campaign and hillary clinton in particular an

bill as well. that's the financial tide they had. open secret about weinstein. seven years ago, i think it was seth macfarlane who said that the academy awards something like, congratulations, you five ladies tonight. you know longer have to pretend to be attracted to harvey weinstein. this is at the academy awards seven years ago! the amazing part is that hillary clinton's people called me on ronan farrow to get off a story on weinstein because he was looking to interview hillary so hillary's people called and said, look, ronan farrow, get off the weinstein story. >> tucker: she's a feminist hero! >> the only woman she's been a hero for is herself. this woman has no interest in anyone else, whether it's the women and her her husband's life, some of who will have edible he accused him like we need a broader record, someone

like paula jones, monica lewinsky, the intern -- she still thinks she's an adult, forget she was a college intern and her husband is the president of the united states but when someone was on the campaign to have alleged to sexually assault another staff member, do you know what she did? she move the victim somewhere else and kept the staffer. then went on to sexually harass someone else at the next job. she didn't make a record of it. she doesn't care about this. >> tucker: wait a second! i'm not sigmund freud, but do you think it's a little weird that someone who never stops talking about women and how much she loves them is abetting the abuse of women? >> do you think it's unusual that hillary clinton who probably should've been coordinated president, was hated and found incredible, that she was the most untrustworthy candidate that americans had ever seen. untrustworthiness was at 87%. this is a woman who starkly has shown she has no interest in promoting women and protecting

women and in fact had war rooms going after women. in addition to her husband, you could say it's her has been the, whatever, what about the fact that she was representing a defendant 12-year-old girl raped into a coma said that the girl was a at all. i love women. i love women! >> but hillary... >> tucker: it's amazing that she spends all the time telling the opposite of the truth. i'd never be friends with a pig like harvey weinstein. i just wouldn't. >> she was making money off him like robert de niro, meryl streep. all of them are knee-deep in hypocrisy. it's all about the money. for hillary, it was about money

and power and making believe she knew nothing like jeffrey epstein, hillary clinton and bill clinton supposedly went to epstein's ranch after he was a convicted pedophile! every year after he was convicted pedophile. listen, the people they hung around with is just incredible. >> tucker: you just start to think that everybody in charge are just liars. >> they are politicians! >> tucker: good point. jeanine pirro, a force of nature. >> watch my show tomorrow night. >> tucker: for sure. next upcoming year considers legislation that would let close to a million noncitizens including illegals vote in the city's elections. talk about that with one of the city's lawmakers coming up. plus, our vigil on the senate continues. the senate impeachment trial closing out. - do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos,

that are degrading? legacybox professionally converts them to dvds, thumb drive, or the cloud. legacybox is simple and safe, with over half a million satisfied customers. visit legacybox.com today, and get 40% off. >> the right to vote is one of the very last things that still distinguishes american citizens from noncitizens and illegal immigrants. in new york, lawmakers are looking to remove that distinction. a bill will allow noncitizens devote as long as they've lived in the city for 30 days. even illegal immigrants can vote as long as they have a work permit. the proposal is expected to ask nearly a million people to the list of eligible voters. jelani williams is new york city's public advocate, thanks so much for coming on. we've talked many times and i've

often heard you say every civil law's does this. but no civilized nation does what you're proposing. canada doesn't allow the so why should we? >> i would consider america one of the civilized nations and noncitizens have been voting in this country for a longer time. then they haven't. we are trying to restore a right onto people who are here legally and pay taxes, it sounds like a group of folks that conservatives are always trying to protect. >> let me ask, this is truly a political ploy to increase your power, which is the point of the left in the first place. if it's not, prove it to me. if you're willing to give them the constitutional right to vote, will you give them the constitutional right to carry a firearm? >> let's be clear, they will not be able to vote in state and federal elections. this will be for municipal and. >> please don't dodge the

question. >> you are great at inserting things but i want to stay focused, it seems like you're not prepared for this argument to your putting another in. across the nation right now in municipalities, there are noncitizens were voting. this nation right now allows that. >> am going to refer you back to my question. if you're going to extend to noncitizens the right to vote in new york city, why won't you extend the mother constitutional rights, for example a right to carry a firearm? >> for the people who listen and actually want to conversation, we are not trying to bestow anything, we are trying to restore a vote. >> americans have since the right the care dominic carry firearms. will the rights you are giving them include the right to carry guns or is it only about making sure you can never be voted out of office? to go for the third time it's clear that you didn't come prepared for what i had to say.

they've been voting in this country longer than they haven haven't. >> so you're not going to answer my question. >> they were voting for blacks and women were voting. >> that is a made-up fact. look up its origin because it's not true. >> until 2002 they were voting in municipal elections. >> you want to go back to the old days. you like the old ways of doing things, is that what you're saying? >> 2002 is not that old. right now as a matter of fact, what about municipalities in the state in a country that's voting right now? noncitizens are voting in maryland, california, that is america. >> we've debated this, i can't tell you how much i'm enjoying this and how much i enjoy it when you come on in general, mr. williams, we are out of time and i wish you the best. >> i'm glad we can restore these rights. >> we will be back on 8:00 p.m. every weekend, a show that's the

sworn enemy of smugness, lying, and groupthink. the senate has adjourned for the night and we hope you will do after watching sean hannity, who is next. ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity," we begin with a fox news alert. a lot happening tonight and moments ago, the senate finally adjourned for the night. the schiff sham part of it is over there the repetitive nonsense, more coming up. also tonight we start with we are at the end of a huge week of massive accomplishments for the trump administration. i doubt the mob and the media will talk about it. a successful trip to the world economic forum in dabo's. but last year it was the big china deal that's going to help farmers, manufacturers, our energy sector, and our car industry. $220 billion in two