kaufman and all of our brave service members. tomorrow on "special report," my colleague bret baier takes a look at competition with china when it comes to food production. thank you for watching "special report." i'm shannon bream in washington. please join me for fox news at night. "jesse watters primetime" time with the one and only high demand diva brian kilmeade starts right now. you know it's true. >> brian: that better not have been in the prompter. that better have been ad-libbed. thank you, shannon. great to see you. ♪ ♪ >> l rlt. today in an address to the nation. joe biden finally acknowledged that we have a crime problem in america. >> for two long, too many families haven't had that peace of mind, they watch the news and they see kids being gunned down in schools and on the streets. they just want to feel safe again. they want to feel a sense of security. and that's what my crime plan is all about know, i call it safe

for america plan. when it comes to public safety in this nation, the answer is not defund the police, it's fund the police. >> brian: that's like three years too late but it's about time. since taking office, crime -- biden's america has gotten completely out of control. think about it, shooting, murders, robberies all spiking in cities across this country. in fact, since january of 2021, crime in new york, where we are, has gone up 36%. i'm safe in the studio, i think. in chicago, it's gone up 37%. that's what happens when you create a system that vilifies cops. emboldens criminals and that's exactly what the left has done in many cases president biden ignored all of that today. the way he sees it. criminals aren't the problem drum roll, please. >> my plan also takes common sense action to reduce gun violence. >> we are not stopping here! i'm determined to ban assault weapons in this country!

>> time to hold every elected elected officials are you for banning assault weapons? no. the answer is no vote against them. >> brian: blame the gun. the vote will be no for most people. despite getting a bipartisan gun deal. biden is still desperately trying to take them away. that's not the only thing he is blaming the crime surge on, another drum roll, please: ♪ ♪ >> as part of the american rescue plan, i signed into law last year, which they voted for, we set aside 350 billion, with a b, billion dollars for state and local governments all across america. every single republican member of congress, every single one in this state, every single one voted against the support for law enforcement. they talk about how much they love it they voted against the funding. >> brian: yes, got to blame republicans. he put block funding to states

and then recommended they put it towards police. but they can't even fill up the academy. i don't want to side track him. he took his attack to republicans and took it a step further claiming they can't possibly be the party of law and order. >> let me say this to my maga republican friends in congress. don't tell me you support law enforcement if you won't condemn what happened on the 6th. [applause] don't tell me. you can't be pro-law enforcement and pro-instruction. you can't be a party of law and order and call the people who attacked the police on january 6th patriots. you can't do it. >> brian: right. someone should tell him he has a microphone he doesn't need to yell. i don't want to side track him. another thing, president biden says you can't be pro-police and criticize the fbi for what they did to president trump. >> sickening to see the new attacks on the fbi. threatening the life of law

enforcement agents and their families for simply carrying out of the law and doing their job. i'm opposed to defunding the police. i'm also opposed to defunding the fbi. >> brian: right. let's be clear. defunding the fbi not the answer. reforming the fbi is the answer. the bureau is in desperate need of a house cleaning starting at the very top. we are going to get to that later in the show very specifically. don't get caught up in all this noise there is a reason the president is talking about crime right now and doing it in pennsylvania. why? look at the time, the midterms three months away. biden must have comekd the polls and saw this according to a survey by abc. more americans trust republicans over dems by # 1 points when it comes to handling key issues like crime. now president biden is trying to really hard sell democrats as the party of law and order because, that's what voters care about. but the american people didn't forget about the lawlessness created by the left. we didn't forget about the defund the police movement they started it or push for bail

reform they started it. pandemic burned down cities taped it took down livelihoods they are still trying to rebuild. americans remember it and know we are less safe because of it. ffor years the left demonized. they don't want to put their lives on the line to be smeared by the democrats and media and citizens on the streets and the numbers are staggering. livable to this. retirements in new york city are up 42% year to year. the situation is so dire we are starting to see headlines like in this week. precinct maintenance managers are now acting as street cops because they are so desperate for manpower. but, the president managed to leave all of this out of his address. and we're not surprised at all. this is what democrats always do. they create a problem and put it off for a while. then, when it becomes impossible to ignore they disguise it as something else. you want an example? remember when they told americans that recession wasn't really a recession? remember when they told us the green energy bill that just passed was really an inflation

reduction bill? or when they told us the border was secure and the pandemic was a pandemic of the unvaccinated? well, it's the same thing when it comes to crime. democrats are now pretending that they are pro-police that they are tough on criminals. that is a farce. and americans are seeing right through it, i would think. let's turn to south carolina senator lindsey graham, a member of the house judiciary committee. senator, do you really believe that the democrats are trying to sell that they are pro-police? >> yeah. anything is possible in america. that's why i love so much about our country. but the only problem they have is america is much smarter than they think they are. you know, they believe the american people really don't listen and pay attention. that they are dumb and the truth of the matter is the reason why we have the crime problems we have today is because of biden's policies. when mayorkas tells you the border is secure. you would be a fool to believe that because it's not secure. the crime problem in this country is directly related to policies of democrats in big

cities and in the white house and the reason so many people don't want to be a cop is they don't believe anybody in this administration has their back. and if you want to talk about political violence, i reject it. i reject it on january 6th. i reject it in portland. i reject it in new york city. so, why don't you talk president biden to your own vice president. you know, one way to encourage political violence is to bail out people who attack the cops on the streets of new york and black lives matter riots. the vice president of the united states staff raised money to bail people out of jail who righted in new york, a tacked the cops, and they went right back to crime. you don't hear much about that, do you? >> brian: no, you don't. senator, he did bring you up, not specifically, but he brought up a comment you made on sunday. let's listen. >> the idea you turn on a television and see senior senators and congressman saying if such and such happens, there will be blood in the street.

where the hell are we? >> brian: senator, is he referring to you. what is he talking about? i guess it was a comment you made sunday when asked about what president trump is arrested or indicted. >> so what i said sunday was americans reject, i reject violence but i also reject a double standard here. so, if they try to prosecute president trump for mishandling classified information, after the clinton debacle, when she was secretary of state, people in this country will lose faith in law enforcement. you don't hear the president talking about the fbi telling social media outlets that his son's laptop is a bunch of russian disinformation and it turns out it was actually true. you don't hear him talking about accountability at the fbi when they presided over an investigation of president trump where they manufactured evidence, they lied to the fisa court and what happens in america is that when you are in

charge of corrupt investigations, you get hired by cnn and msnbc to be legal analysts. that's what people are upset about. i reject violence but, mr. president, you need to talk to the vice president of the united states. your vice president about bailing out rioters, doesn't that encourage violence? >> brian: absolutely. no one ever encourages a violence because it's -- especially political reasons. that's really important. peter strzok has a tv deal. lisa page tv deal. andy mccabe a tv deal and probably james comey is doing too much to settle speeches contract. this just came across the mass media seemed to wanted to put down dr. oz and herschel walker every single chance he can. i guess he didn't see the emerson poll not usually friendly to republicans. walker is leading when it documents warnock. comes to police he has their respect. when it comes to law enforcement in georgia. he has their respect. in south carolina, near georgia, what should people know about

herschel walker? >> number one, he is going to be the next senator from georgia because warnock has been in biden's pocket. he has voted for every policy that biden wanted him to vote for. he hasn't done a damn thing about secure our broken border. he has increased inflation rather than trying to decrease it the bottom line is that we're going to do very well in november because the american people, president biden said something today, what the hell is going on? here's what is going on, mr. president. your policies have led to an invasion at our border. terrorism on the rise. you have inflation rampant, people can't pay the bills anymore and crime in the street. that's why we are going to do very well, your policies are not working. >> brian: i'm going to talk to scott mann in about 10 minutes about this. he doesn't bring up afghanistan. the greatest military disaster in my lifetime maybe ever. is he going to gave "primetime" speech about crime. >> you go into pennsylvania three times in a week, how about going to the border once. >> brian: ever. he is almost 80.

it will be a nice surprise. thanks, senator. >> thank you. >> brian: come up another fbi bombshell we were just talking about as we are learning an agent tried to bury the hunter biden laptop investigation. was he working alone? also a quick note, going to be in albany new york on september 8th. please come see me at the egg. i hear it's really cool. go to brandon, mississippi on november 12th and 13th in tulsa oklahoma. we are going to talk about america from 1776 forward. america great from the start. along with fox nation going to be co-sponsoring that. go to brian kilmeade.com for tickets. meanwhile, we will slowly bring the music up and go to break.

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few like this though. the federal agent at the center of the 2020 conspiracy to stop donald trump resigned over the weekend. tim thibault the 25-year-old veteran was in charge of an agency wide scheme to bury the hunter biden laptop scandal and protect the big guy. this isn't russian disinformation. whistleblowers from within the fbi came out and said it last month. even director christopher wray had to face some tough questions over it. watch. >> isn't it true that mr. thibault, agent thibault, excuse me, and fbi supervisorst supervisory intelligence ant list brian auten covered up derogatory information about mr. hunter biden while working for the fbi? >> well, again, i want to be very careful not to interfere with ongoing personnel matters. >> brian: that's about as emotional as you will see him get. even bill belichick said pick it up a little. they investigated him. he was walking out of the building and now the fbi want you to think they rooted out the

bias problem. merrick garland new doj prohibit agents from attending partisan political event. about time. don't be fooled. if we have learned anything, it's that washington rewards these people. in fact, the white house just appointed one of the intel officials who lied and called hunter biden's laptop russian disinformation, one of the 51, they just named him to the president's intel advisory board. and now thibault just gets to retire instead of getting arrested. wray says he doesn't want any appearance of bias coming out of the fbi. >> i have communicated consistently since i started as director that our folks need to make sure that they are not just doing the right thing, that they are doing it in the right way and that they avoid, avoid even the appearance of bias. >> well, they didn't listen, right? give us a break. are we supposed to think that debo acted alone about this or that christopher wray had no idea what was going on inside his own agency?

the cover-up wasn't orchestrated by one person. was this fbi policy? do we need to hold somebody accountable? the answer of course is yes. let's bring a guy who knows what it's like buck sexton former cia analyst and co-host of the buck sexton and clay travis show. your reaction to the situation. >> there a lot of people within the federal bureaucracy and law enforcement side who are effectively activists. we refer to them as the deep state. we refer to them as partisans acting behind the shield or acting behind some legal authority that they have and this is systemic. we often hear that term from the left. this is a problem that needs to be addressed and it keeps happening in a way that we see who they favor and on the disinformation situation, for example, which just came out with mark zuckerberg why did the fbi think they are even if the disinformation policing game? well, as we know that always applies to anything that would hurt a democrat and help a republican in an election that then becomes disinformation. that's how social media and apparently the fbi view it.

in this case the suppression of the hunter biden laptop, this guy, yeah, he left. what do you think is going to happen now? he is probably already negotiating his msnbc or cnn or wherever gig maybe a book deal because the left takes care of their soldiers in this ideological fight. people within the federal bureaucracy who do the dirty work politically of either the biden regime or whoever get taken care of on the back end. they know that just look at what has happened. >> brian: cnn ever hire peter strzok actually clever and accurate they would put his text messages under his kyron every single time he talks and realize how much little credibility they have but working on a regular basis. take a look at this scroll. some of the people that have been found to be corrupt against president trump and the republican party. so as we mention peter strzok, mention lisa page, andy mccabe, all caught, james comey a disgrace, bruce ohr also nailed. kevin compliance mitt changed fisa warrant. jim baker the attorney absolutely disgraced tim

thibault and brian auten all got caught always going against trump. you wonder why republicans feel as though the fbi might have it out for them. defund is wrong. reform is right. >> where is the list of the senior fbi. >> brian: hold on a second. can we roll the list? we don't have one. we don't need one. >> it doesn't exist. that proves so much that people are paying attention. usually, if you put your name to something because i'm a very serious intel professional let's say 50 people or so do this right before an election on a major issue that could turn the election, and you use your credibility as a shield, the lie was the point by the way, that would be a career downer for most folks. everybody who signed their name to that career enhancement opportunity going forward. media, on the boards of companies they know that because this is how the democrat deep state machine functions. >> brian: what does it tell you that these agents, maybe a dozen, had to go to senators and jim jordan in the house in order to expose this corruption within

the fbi and they didn't go to christopher wray and say your house is out of order? what does it tell you. >> it means there are leftist activists and sympathizers within the top levels particularly the fbi and doj i which i think we have already known for a number of years now who even if wray want to the clean the situation up, people don't have enough trust in the chain of command that they won't face retaliation, which would be illegal internally if they actually came forward within the institution itself so they have got go around and finally get some answers. but, that list, by the way, how many people went to jail? how many people actually faced real accountability? compliance snit got off d.c. jury? the whole thing is rigid. >> brian: i'm curious to see what happens from here if the senate goes to republicans and house goes like it should. more people coming forward. i think never are doing a good job investigating this sadly, i don't think we are even close to the end of this. >> first step in accountability is getting the truth out there. let's hope they can get to that when they take back the house and senate.

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>> brian: welcome back. we all know that joe biden isn't the west communicator. he has trouble getting his points across. trouble getting jackets on and riding bikes. a lot of explaining that needs to be done on his behalf. you expect to have a press secretary that makes up for all of that instead we have karine e jean-pierre. she is definitely not the press secretary that john biden needs but perhaps she is the one he deserves. they seem to be a perfect match. just like joe jkp has trouble

answering questions asked about policy of unvaxxed tennis legend novak djokovic not being allowed to play or let into the u.s. while migrants cross every single day. >> somebody unvaccinated comes over on a plane. you say that's not okay? somebody walks in to texas or arizona unvaccinated, they are allowed to stay? why? >> but that's not how it works. like we actually. >> you know that's not what you guys want to happen but that is what is happening. >> it's not like somebody walks over and. [laughter] that's not how. >> that's exactly what's happening. >> brian: every day. thousands of unvaxxed migrants walk through joe's open borders daily and then biden just ships them across the country but i guess k.j.p. can't see any of that she is laser-focused on flipping through and reading reg from binder of lies. kjp doesn't have the best way with words. >> the process is -- we are starting our process that

we're -- protocol process on close contact. our process, because, as we all stated, he is now positive. we are doing our process. >> this is -- this is a devastating -- just the -- just the -- the -- the draft -- of this that we learned about. >> so, um, the board has never convened, it's -- so that's-it never convened and the board is -- yes, the board is -- is pausing in the sense that it will not convene. >> brian: exactly. we generally expected a lot from jean pierre but as the days have gone by she has not delivered. not making sense or go to line i don't know. >> i can't speak to that at this time. >> i just don't have an update on that. >> let me see if i have anything new for you on. that was okay. i don't have anything new. i don't have any update for you on. that was it's a very good question. i don't have an update on.

that was i know it's not an easy job. sarah huckabee sanders republican gubernatorial candidate now and looks to be a shoo-in for the next governor. sarah, great to see you. your take on what we have seen so far jen psaki i think by all accounts i think you would agree did a great job. >> yeah. i mean, psaki had a terrible story to tell because every single thing that the biden administration touches they screw up so she didn't exactly have great information to go out there. she was at least capable of stringing those bad stories together in complete sentences. right now not only do they not have an update they don't have any useful, meaningful information that they are sharing with the american people. i don't frankly blame her too much because, like i said, the things that are happening within the biden administration testimony not something you want to go out and have to sell. when they are saying that people aren't just coming across the

border when any one with eyes can see that we have an absolute national security and humanitarian crisis taking place at our border. it's salute divorced from reality that they are living in this fantasy land. this america last agenda they are trying to inject into our country has no place. it's one of the reasons we have come to count on so many of our nation's governors to step up, prevent the lawlessness, prevent the crime and start taking steps to actually make changes. >> brian: like, for example, election integrity, what governor doesn't want that? and if to do that i think and most americans think you need a voter i.d. i didn't know that was racist. watch. >> the right to vote is being suppressed, it's being curtailed. it's being shaved off. in my own state, they are going to pass attempt to pass a constitutional amendment making sure that universal voting i.d. for every time you vote not just

when you sign up to vote but every time you vote, because they understand that at any given time there is tens of thousands of pennsylvanians who typically, typically are on the -- are on the poorer side and are people of color that are less likely to have their i.d. at any one given time. >> brian: so socialist senatorial candidate former lt. governor fetterman says an i.d. what an insult to say that working class people can't carry identification or minorities. it's crazy you can't board a plane or return a package without a photo i.d. in most places in this country. absurd to think asking people to identify who they are is somehow a criticism of them. it's absolutely insane. but we know what it's about, brian, this is a total push for absolute control by the democrat party. they know that they have a better chance if they allow anybody who shouldn't be voting

to show up and vote. easy to cheat. we have to push back. again, another reason you are seeing so much enthusiasm, i think, come out around the country for a red wave in november. >> brian: well, she is a favorite to be the next governor of arkansas. sarah huckabee sanders always great. thank you. >> thank you, brian. >> brian: all right, straight ahead or actually now, chicago is in a war zone. it's not safe for residents. not safe for businesses or tourists either. got a florida woman visiting chicago with her boyfriend killed after a pair of corvettes drag racing lost control and hit her. they are still looking for the driver of the car. after months of pure chaos, chicago business owners have had enough. despite mayor lori lightfoot astoundly going to europe and encouraging businesses to come there. saying downtown chicago is great to start a business. are you kidding? for example, to show you how wrong that is, you have theresa

gain whose bakery sugar bliss was vandalized by a man who tried to steal her purse before she grabbed it back. you ever watching it. theresa called the police who took more than 40 minutes to show up. who can blame them they are under manned and under served. theresa is not alone. several business owners in chicago have experienced similar times and all packing up and leaving for the suburbs or just calling it quits. lori lightfoot does nothing to stop the crime why would anyone want to move their business and their family to the current chicago? this city of chicago. theresa beginning, owner of the sugar bliss bakery jo joins us . what could you say right now to us out there about your life as you try to keep your business going? >> yeah, i have been in chicago for 15 years and seen the crime in downtown chicago increase significantly. it used to be every once in a blue moon and now it's like every week, every month

definitely increased. even though we had an incident on friday. we had other inincidence denses this week down the street. it's just becoming a repeated cycle now. >> it took guts for you to say give me back my purse. this guy is armed. you don't know what he has. walks in, clears out your table and just grabs your tough. what were you thinking? i was having a meeting with other women owners and he grabbed her purse. i knew that was my friend's birthday and i didn't want her to have a -- i just grabbed the purse. he wasn't holding it. he was nonchalantly grabbing it i thought i could grab the other side of the bag and i held on to it and my other friends came, yeah. it is scary, but, i mean, if we don't september up for ourselves, it is getting worse and i really wish the government alderman, the mayor would actually do something about it to help protect tourists,

business owners, just customers, the city of chicago people. how do you explain the fact that she does not think the city is unsafe? she does not see the city as yu see it. what's your message to her? >> i mean, crime should be the very forefront of her topic. you know, when i have police officers come into omy store and say they are under staffed. they are over worked. i mean, there needs to be a solution for this. and we need more police that want to go in to the police force. we need police that, you know, all these people that are doing these small crimes, there are no consequences. and there needs to be some consequences because, otherwise, people are just going to come left and right stealing anything, assaulting people. so i mean, the government needs to think about what are the consequences for these small crimes. because, it's not just murders and gunshot wounds and stuff like that. it's these things that become small to large. >> brian: theresa, when are you going to make a decision? are you going to stick it out?

are you going to go to the suburbs or call it quits? >> well, i have my retail location in the heart of downtown chicago. we have just -- we just launched four cookies into wall greens and so we are looking for co-packers and i'm definitely looking elsewhere besides chicago. i have had conversations with a co-packer in elk grove outside of illinois. wherever i find it's safe for my business, that's where i'm going to go. >> brian: it's a shame. they are losing a great business owner and one who is very strong and tough and determined. theresa, thanks so much for telling your story. >> thank you. >> all right. it's been one year since embarrassing surrender in afghanistan. the media refuses to talk about it pain hits fast. so get relief fast. only tylenol rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast for fast pain relief. and now get relief without a pill with tylenol dissolve packs. relief without the water.

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♪ >> brian: it's been virtually one year to the day of president biden's disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan. one of the biggest military blunders in recent history. he went against all advice to do it. too many unanswered questions. it doesn't help when this was the one instance all weekend

when the mainstream press covered this grim anniversary. watch. >> even though the military mission is over, jim, the mission to continue to get our afghan allies and partners out of the country and to safety remains. the state department is working on this very, very hard. they have taken a series of steps to make the process a little bit faster and more efficient. they are working through that but i can tell you that we are 100 percent committed to getting our afghan allies and partners out of that country. >> brian: does anyone believe that? how can he act like this is one big victory and the commitment was strong he? probably gave the same answer a year ago. these scenes were all over your t. have a year ago. according to news busters in the month of july this year the afghan withdrawal amassed seven seconds on television. truly unacceptable. the administration can simply sweep this under the rug? do that? focus on student debt forgiveness electric cars. the botched withdrawal is not a winning message for the mid terms. president biden apparently called the families of some of

the 1 victims at the explosion at abby gate the bare minimum of a presidency. how concerned could president biden really be about those families. how many times did he check his watch during the conversation. countless and after action reports diving into every detail of what went wrong on our exit. has the president even read any of it. a source close tells us absolutely not. according to this source, the military briefers never had the opportunity to verbal play brief the president on their findings. dod officials, including jake sullivan continue to make reference that they would have the opportunity to brief the president himself. after all, it was his decision. even shorten the 90 minute brief to 30 minutes. they know he is busy. the president, despite being in quarantine, and they offered to zoom it, did not have time for it. but he had time to bike on the beach, didn't he? so president biden doesn't care, it seems. joining us now a man that does and never stopped, scott mann retired green en beret task fore

pineapple co-founder. chronicled in brand new book excellent tells the true story how veterans rallied together once we left the theater in afghanistan. scott, why was it important to get our allies and citizens out? >> you know, in special operations in the military, brian, there is a promise that i have your back. we are trained from the time we come in special operations that you do not leave your partner on the battlefield under any conditions. we were held to that account to some very stringent standards for the 20-year war. then all of the sudden the very senior leaders who held to us that account were the ones that walked away from that partner force in the largest whole sale abandonment in modern history. >> brian: scott, how resourceful did you have to be? can you give us an example what you had to do once our soldiers left the scene? >> i will give you an example. a green beret turned syracuse inner city school teacher named zac who his hero is harriet tubman. he came up with the idea to

design an underground railroad that incorporated an open sewage canal in a 4-foot hole in the fence combining cooperation between the 82nd airborne and these shepherds that were working on their cell phones to make this connection. he put all of this together in less than six hours and it was how we moved several hundred people through. he did that without the help of anyone, really from the government other than those young paratroopers on the gate. >> brian: when did you realize you were their only hope you along with other allied veteran groups. >> i think for me it was when my friend nasa sam on the 15th basically said to me sir, everybody is gone. president is gone. the generals are gone. i'm not afraid to die. i just don't want to die alone. for me that young man who i have known since 2010, everything about the war hinged on whether he lived or died. talking to all the veterans i interviewed after this happened, they all said the same thing. it really came down to friendship, to loyalty, to the man that you had shared a fox hole with and there was no way that we were going to leave them

behind. >> brian: how do you explain the administration didn't see the need to get our allies out? we are going to need allies again. maybe in afghanistan. maybe somewhere else. they are going to go to school on how we treated them. >> does anybody think we are going to take on china or russia unilaterally not going to happen. we are not even going to take on al-qaeda who by the way reconstituting in afghanistan. going to work by, with and through partner forces. and we abandoned our partner forces and frankly, brian, we have a systemic habit of abandoning from vietnam, kurds in syria, the iraqi military and now the afghan military. decades. >> brian: how are our veterans men and women fought brilliantly two campaigns battlefield dealing with the way the president chose to leave. >> i was talking to iconic green enter way team sergeant named donnie part of pineapple and single-handedly helped hundreds get out. he told me if i had known on

9/12, 2001 after al-qaeda attacked how he knows right now how we would treat our allies he would never have walked to the recruiting station and joined forces if he has his way his son will go no way near the army. >> brian: sad maybe that's why it is down. >> men and women have seen what has happened and don't want to be part of that. >> brian: when they see greatness they will read your book. keep on giving even though you are out of uniform and had to sacrifice own savings accounts and 4017 k accounts to do it because the government let of left you behind. >> . pick up the book, everyone needs to read it this news broke about an hour ago. former soviet president mikhail gorbachev passed away at the age of 91. when ronald reagan poured money into the fence it was gorbachev who realized it was over. he forged relationships between america and the soviet union and for it, he won a no nobel peace prize in 1990.

you cannot overstate the role that gorbachev pl played in bringing a cold war to a close. the war that america and the west clearly won. in russia, legacy is mixed to say the least. coming up on this show chris rock says he was asked to host the oscars, is he going to do it? here is a pro-tip, when the cops pull you over and say you have a dui, don't dance. we will discuss all of that with the practical jokers super star james murray. ♪

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james, welcome back. >> how are you? good to see you. >> let's look at the studio together, don't drink and drive, but this is how you don't handle it when you are pulled over. she didn't walk a straight line, so she decides to dance and yell at the cop to stop it because -- reminded me of my angry valet teacher. any kind of advice for people who might do this? >> she's trying to pass herself off as a sober floridian woman, and she's trying to fool the cop by doing the irish jig. if she would've just dressed the part -- [laughter] if she had dressed the part, the cop would have let her go. dress for the part you want.

>> when you watch this back, you will see that we did not zoom out. something else we have to share with you: how you treat children reflects your character. the halftime braves, have time between the mascots and a group of kids want a little small so far. the kids brought the mask up to us to form, little children playing peewee football. can you support this behavior? [laughter] >> the video is very funny to watch. also, they are holding, technically, so a five-yard penalty and automatic first d down. >> you are taking the side of the mascots? >> the little kid was holding,

man! it's a penalty! >> i don't think they understood they were mascots. lastly, have you ever been asked to host the oscars? >> i have gone, and i probably never will it's amazing that they asked chris rock to come back for another year. why would he want to do that? history might repeat itself. in my house today, look at what happened in the past 24 hours. can you roll that clip, please [laughter] [w.h.i.p. cracking] >> well, i had no idea. little did i know --

what you are experiencing, just with fewer people watching. >> you never know where a hand might slap you. he said he will not take the gig again. >> he won't talk to chris rock a again. for you james, you could call somebody up and they not only paid you, but they have sound effects, and they also slap you. where do you find people willing to slap you and live in your refrigerator? after mark >> slaps you in the shower, in bed, in your refrigerator. [laughter] thanks. where can we see you in action? >> go to -- to get my new book, and the impractical jokers, every thursday night on trutv.

>> i couldn't believe that you are more famous here -- more famous in the u.k. than you are here. that's production value. thank you for watching "jesse watters prime time." thank you philip me fill in. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." on april 24th of last year, the state of california finally achieved the green movement has dreamt about for decades. the energy authority of california was able to generate 95% of total power from entirely