hall on the mend. monday on "special report," we will continue to follow the trump special counsel story. we have all the things the former president says over the weekend about this. we will also have a report on isis and al-qaeda rebuilding in afghanistan. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. make it a great weekend. it was a busy week. "jesse watters primetime" was busy, too. he starts right now. hey, jesse. >> jesse: how are you doing, bret? >> bret: good, man. you look like you are doing okay. >> jesse: i'm ready for the weekend. fox news alert. the biden administration has appointed a special counsel to investigate former president donald trump in two separate criminal probes. >> investigation into whether any ben shapiro or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the electoral college vote held on or about january 6th, 2021.

the second is the ongoing investigation classified documents and other presidential records as well as the possible obstruction of that investigation. >> jesse: but, here's the thing, january 6th happened two years ago. and this document case has been going on for almost the same amount of time so why are they appointing a special counsel now? based on recent developments, including the former president's announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election, and the sitting president's stated intention to be a candidate as well, i have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. >> jesse: so trump announces is he running for president and the republicans take the house and tee up investigations into the biden family, and suddenly a special counsel is appointed. so who is this special counsel? his name is jack smith. he's a democrat. so he will probably hire a team of other democrat prosecutors who investigate the former

republican president. mr. smith began his career in new york and worked for the clinton and obama administrations and right now mr. smith is over in europe. >> mr. smith served as a chief prosecutor for the special court in the hague charged with investigating and adjudicating war crimes in kosovo. >> jesse: so he is going from the hague to mar-a-lago. [laughter] they really know how to pick these special counsels, don't they? now, is the guy democrats, he is the perfect pick for democrats. there's more interesting timing though. remember when the justice department leaked that trump selling nuclear secrets out of the palm beach basement? well, that was a lie. "the washington post" put out a big story this week admitting fbi interviews with witnesses do not point to any nefarious effort by trump to leverage, sell, or use the government secrets.

they say trump just liked to hold on to mementos. you know, they thought they were his. the post says he kept the documents not for profit or for sketchy stuff, but because of his ego, which we know is big. and the guy liked to hold on to stuff to remind him of his time in the white house. you know, like the little letters from rocket man. and as far as the january 6th investigation goes, you know that little committee, january 6th? they never even referred trump to the doj for charges. but now all of a sudden a special counsel is going to arrest the former president? on what charges? the special counsel move is going to have a major impact on the republican primary. donald trump is now under a lot of pressure, or not, it's just more investigations swirling around them like there have been for years. but, now, we're looking at a dual track special counsel investigation. a criminal probe in georgia and prosecutors breathing down his neck in new york. now, the guy has already been impeached twice.

the first time he ran for president, he was under investigation by the fbi. and now he is running for president again and he is under investigation by a special counsel? i mean, just put aside the legal warfare the left has unleashed against this guy. what are republican primary voters supposed to do? this has to factor into the republican primary. is this an interference in democracy? i don't want to get into that. and, if anybody else gets into the primary, they are going to say do you want to vote for a guy who is being investigated by a thousand different prosecutors? or does trump say: see, i'm the democrats' biggest threat. they will do anything to stop me. and by going after me, they are really going after you. the mueller investigation took about two years to figure out there was no collusion. the garland says this one is going to be quick. >> i will ensure that the special counsel receives the resources to conduct this work quickly and completely. >> jesse: i would hate to know

what the justice department's definition of quick is especially because the special counsel, jack smith, isn't coming back to america for a while. he got into a little bicycle accident over in the netherlands and he needs time to heal, so we are off to a great start. meanwhile, the white house says they had no idea any of this was going down. >> was the president aware of the attorney general's decision to name a special counsel? >> so just for a second just tell you no he was not aware. we were not aware. as you know, the department of justice makes decisions about its criminal investigation independently. we are not involved. we are not -- we have not been be aware about this particular investigation or any criminal investigation. >> jesse: the last time the white house said they didn't know about an investigation was when the fbi raised mar-a-lago, remember? biden's handlers hid him from the press for a few days while flunkies said the press didn't know a thing? then biden was directly implicated in the raid after it

came out that the acting national archivest, remember the persnickety librarian actually went to the white house and asked the white house to waive trump's exdetective privilege and biden waived it? it's hard to believe the president didn't know about the special counsel, especially when it's announced the day after the republicans tee up an investigation into biden over his family's foreign business deals. jonathan turley is a george washington constitutional law professor and a fox news contributor. is this more of the same, professor, or is this time somehow different? >> well, it's only different, i think, because of the mar-a-lago aspect of the investigation. as a threshold matter, i think there is a valid criticism here that attorney general garland in making the case for a special counsel made the case against himself for the failure to

appoint be a special counsel on hunter biden. he said well, look, we have got someone running for president. we really can't investigate this as a member of the current president's administration. well, you also have an investigation of the current president's family. an investigation where the president could be implicated in a multi million dollars influence peddling scheme. an investigation that has references to president biden using code names like the big guy and other code names to hide the fact that they were talking about joe biden. and he has steadfastly refused to appoint a special counsel. and it's simply baffling. now, the mar-a-lago aspect of this investigation is where i would be most concerned as counsel for former president trump. they -- the attorney general mentioned obstruction a couple of times. there are statements that were given to the fbi as part of their investigation that the fbi

insists were not just untrue but knowingly untrue. so, what you are most concerned about in investigation like this is that the fbi often starts with low lying fruit. so all of those obstruction claims involved other people, lawyers, staff, et cetera. that's probably where the special counsel is going to start. >> jesse: they are going to try to flip the lawyers. >> that's right. on the january 6th references, i don't get it crime by president trump. we haven't seen any evidence to be compelling that respect. it would be a little bit odd if they were going to replicate the current investigation in georgia. so, you know, we are not -- many of us are a little bit confused as to where the emphasis on that investigation will be. but i expect a greater danger is probably on the mar-a-lago side.

>> jesse: all right. well, i just don't see jack smith, who hurt himself riding a bicycle arresting the guy that's trying to to run for the republican nomination. i just don't see it. it sounds like election interference to me. but, stranger things have happened. jonathan turley, thanks for joining us and have a great weekend. >> thank you, jesse. >> jesse: barack obama is supposed to be retired. so, why does he keep talking about fox news? ♪ ♪birds flyin' high, you know how i feel.♪ ♪breeze driftin' on by...♪ ♪...you know how i feel.♪ you don't have to take... [coughing] ...copd sitting down. ♪it's a new dawn,...♪ ♪...it's a new day,♪ it's time to make a stand. ♪and i'm feelin' good.♪ start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd...

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they just like to mosey around looking for stuff to do. that's where barack obama is right now. i guess the podcast and netflix deals are enough to occupy barry's time. the former president has to stay busy. he has been out on the campaign trail. he has been popping up on speaking tours and hitting the airwaves to lecture us about, you know, the lies. >> it's just this national story that is being told where we allow lies to be told and we accept them and so we enjoy the performative aspects of making stuff up. and part of that is because we don't think there are consequences to it. >> jesse: i guess michelle has a book out now so barack is feeling a little lonely at home and needs to get out on the town and get a little attention. is he doing a little p.r. blitz. it's always about him and his legacy and how barry feels and how he is a virtuous truth-teller crusading against lying bigots. i know, i know, we have been

hearing this nor years. no one lied like the obama administration. they just got away with it because calling obama is a liar is considered racist. >> if you like your doctor, can you keep your doctor. if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan. >> that's a red line for us. and that there would be enormous consequences if we start seeing movement on the chemical weapons front. >> there is no spying on americans. you know, we don't have a domestic spying program. >> jesse: obama lied lost your doctor. lost watched genocide and lied about how much he spied. he lied about the irs, bengals, fast and furious. he lied when he said hillary was likeable and joe biden didn't learn much from being number 2 to barry but his administration did learn one thing. that lying is the best strategy because the media lets you do it. >> the economists that the president has been relying on suggest that there is a

transitory nature to the inflation. >> the president has said and you have tweeted that allegations of wrongdoing based on files pulled from hunter biden's laptop are russian disinformation. >> it's broadly known and widely known, peter there was a broad range of russian disinformation back in 2020. >> secretary mayorkas, do you continue to maintain that the border is secure? >> yes. >> jesse: but this is what the democrats do. they push you down and then they say you fell. the border is secure, inflation is zero. the republicans defunded the police. and i never ever talk to my son about his overseas business deals. so, obama's legacy gave us donald trump but then it gave us joe biden. so, as barack sits home alone while michelle makes millions off her book that no one has read, the former president has started to figure out that no one really likes him as much as he thinks. so he has to tell himself it's not his fault that people don't like him.

it's fox's fault. >> the biggest change that's taken place, when i ran for, let's say, u.s. senate in illinois, i could go to a diner or a vfw hall or county fair. i could go to the local newspaper and the owner there is conservative and he has got a bow tie and buzz cut. is he kind of subsequent call about my ideas. there wasn't the filter that had been fox news or the media infrastructure the right wing conspiracy theory. the filter now has become so thick it started, i think, with fox news. >> jesse: so this is what happens in retirement you start going over in your head like what happened telling yourself well, things could have been different if only this guy wasn't there or this guy wasn't there. hearing a grown man talk about other people not lying him is

kind of weird. especially when that man is the former president of the united states. i mean, some people liked him, obviously. and why is obama so fixated on fox news? and why does he have such thin skin? ned ryun is the founder of american majority and he joins me now. so what is going on? this seems almost like is he sitting down on shrink's couch, ned. >> well, that is absolutely true, jesse. it's also a reminder blessed one that came to bring salvation to this country and how dare you question his motive. of course, he was an amazing liar. his, if you like your healthcare plan you can keep your healthcare plan was actually the lie of the year, according to politifact and if i was actually to recite back to you all of his lies we would eat up the rest of the show. so i'm not going to do it.

the thing that's amazing about obama as he is lecturing us about lies he is representing a party that believes boys can become girls. that there are 73 genders, that crime is a social construct that man made global warming is real. that vegetables can become senators, actually, that one is true. but where the left is right now is they want us to accept their insanity as truth and opinions as dogmas and when you actually have the temerity to question it, say what are the origins of covid, they can't even stand those questions and want to censor it because, in fact, they are authoritarians and the narrative is all not facts not truth that's where we are at right now. the dirty little peasants need to shut down and shut up and listen to their bet betters if you want any elm patriarchal comments on fox but look how the left has lost its mind when elon musk dared to suggest and is trying to turn twitter into a free speech platform which, oh,

by the way is just living out the first amendment as our bill of rights actually states. but the left can't handle that. >> jesse: they can't handle that and they can't handle fox because we actually call him out on their lies. and bomber thinks the world would be perfect and he would be loved by 100 percent of the country if weren't for fox news. i hate to break it to you, barry, people didn't like you before fox, they are not going to like you after. thank you so much, ned. >> thanks, jesse. >> jesse: it's been two days since the driver mowed down a group of 75 l.a. police recruits during a morning run. he injured 25 of them. seven still in the hospital. now, the suspect, 22-year-old nicholas gutierrez was charged with attempted murder and here's the l.a. county sheriff. >> we did an enormous amount of interviews, we had interview over 80 of our staffer that were there, witnesses what we got from the suspect himself. the physical evidence.

the surveillance cameras and we concluded it was a deliberate act. >> jesse: guess what? two days later gutierrez is back out on the streets. thanks to california law, officials can't hold a suspect more than 48 hours without presenting their evidence to the d.a. and investigators say they need more time to go through everything. authorities say they will rearrest him when they have the evidence, but this guy just mowed down 25 police cadets and now he is watching tv on his couch? cops better not let him out of their sights. we just caught maxine waters, no relation, blowing kisses to mini madoff. hmmm, i thought she was supposed to investigate him. plus, grisly new details about the quadrupled homicide at the university of idaho. ♪

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>> jesse: national correspondent matt finn is here with the latest. >> jesse, tonight a killer or killers are at large and moscow idaho police have released a new map detailing the final movements of the idaho students late saturday night before they were murdered early sunday morning. police are asking you to contact them if you have information, video or saw suspicious behavior. the map can be viewed in detail on foxnews.com. police say the four university of idaho students, all 21 and under were stabbed to death with an edged weapon, likely a knife between three and 4:00 a.m. last sunday. the 4 will believed to be friends and lived in the same house off campus. police have revealed 2 female roommates were home at the time of the early morning murders. but, police were not called

until around 12:00 noon on sunday. those two females have not been ruled out as suspects. one of the victim's friends spoke with martha maccallum earlier today. >> it was xana's home she was the most welcoming, kind person i had ever known. a lot of people came in and out of that house. all four of them were welcoming to have visitors and guests over all the time. >> and video shows kale lee and madison food truck # 1:40 a.m. a short file before their murders. meanwhile ethan shapen and shanna were house before they returned home. the students were likely killed with large knife, some or all of them were found in bed with multiple stab wounds. the father of one girl says his daughter had defensive wounds. jesse? >> thanks great report. they better get this guy or

guys. after raiding $2 billion from his customers and handing it out to the democratic party, sam mini madoff freed not for long trying to bribe his way out of handcuffs. learning from new court documents when ftx went bankrupt mini madoff went dipping not company coffers to transfer assets to the baum's government. was mini madoff just paying off his tax bill? probably not. he was buying himself protection, you know, like an insurance policy. maybe if you grease the government he wouldn't be extradited back here. no wonder the guy, who oversaw the collapse of enron is saying this is worse than enron and now no one flagged this guy as a scam artist earlier is still a mystery to us. the signs were everywhere. you ready? just last year, when mini madoff raised $420 million from a group of investors, he pocketed 300 million of it for himself. oh, yeah, and then he loaned

himself $3 billion. what ceo have you ever heard loaning himself $3 billion from his own company? oh, and then he bought homes for his staff. is that even legal? they put trump under investigation for doing a nice thing and paying some college tuition for the kids of one of his executives, but this guy can just buy executives million dollars homes? and no one says anything? they didn't say anything because he told everybody he was using his money to fight climate change and stop the next pandemic. but, guess what? he never was. it was a scam. he was just at the office having sex and playing video games. it didn't matter though. people still handed him money anyway. even though he didn't really know a thing about crypto. >> we talked with some d.c. firms and hey guys good news a bunch of 25-year-olds we don't really know what a bitcoin is but we are trading it. also, this is all crypto.

and you know, we got a start-up together. none of us have run a company before and we would like $100 million by next tuesday ideally. >> jesse: and people gave him the money. they couldn't even explain how this wasn't a scam, watch. >> the first nft sold from ftx word test written by 8-year-old on etch and sketch. sells for $270,000. >> yeah. >> why is that? if not a scam why is that not total [bleep] >> so, yeah, i was surprised by that. i honestly have -- >> jesse: he is shaking and has no idea why it's not a scam? i mean, would you give this guy your money? if chuck todd makes mini madoff shake this much, imagine how much is he shaking when he is filing his taxes. crypto fetterman weirded out everybody he was around. watch this. >> what's up guys i'm here with

my boy sam from ftx crypto bahamas conference. start the day and do some tiktoks for you guys and it's going to be amazing day. we will get started we will do a get ready for w. me. sam, where are you going, bro? >> jesse: is he going to steal some money, tom. i mean, he doesn't have time to hang out he has to pump and dump. the politicians in charge of overseeing guys like mini madoff you know maxine waters, no relation, says the bitcoin king is actually as normal as it gets. >> you know sam bank man freed, right? he has testified before in front of your committee hasn't he? >> yes. and he was in support of regulations. >> he used a curse word about the regulators and said it was, quote, just p.r. so do you feel like you got duped here? >> this is not uncommon as we deal with the biggest corporations in america. the biggest banking systems in the country. >> jesse: maxine waters would never get duped, ever. she is sharp as a tack.

and she knows him a little too well. we showed you her picture, you know, getting a little cozy with sbf last night and today, we learned she was actually mr.ing kisses to him at a congressional hearing. look at that look at that maxine blowing some nice kisses at mini madoff. isn't that sweet? why would she do that? well, let's just maxine was pretty grateful that he was the democratic party's second largest donor. you don't just splash 40 million bucks into the midterms for nothing. you know. 40 million gets air kisses from mad maxine. doesn't it sound like this is kind of a conflict of interest? well, maxine doesn't think so. >> what do you say to the cynics that are looking at all those campaign contributions that he made, including many to democrats, 40 million in the midterms which made it the democrats' second largest donor? >> there are rules to giving donations. and when one follows those

rules, then you cannot object to the fact that they give contributions and they followed the law in the way that they give them. >> jesse: they are ill gotten gains, right? i mean, if you steal money and politically use it to make a political donation for democrats? i guess it's no big deal. sounds like maxine is very serious about conducting an investigation here. congressman andy barr sits on the house financial services committee and he joins us now. congressman, is this going to be front and center when you guys start the new session in january? >> well, it needs to be. this a scandal that is worse than enron. it's worse than bernie madoff. when you think about it, jesse. these are not sophisticated investors in many cases. these were retail investors giving hundreds of dollars, maybe $1,000 to ftx and sam bankman-fried and they lost it all. up to $8 billion lost in this

ftx failure. and what's terrible about this, again, is that this is a democrat mega donor, clearly we need to get to the bottom of not only what the events were that led to the collapse of ftx, but also why the regulators were asleep at the switch and obviously the majority in the house financial services committee, they were not interested in looking into this. he did testify before our committee but the investors in ftx in this crypto exchange they deserve answers and we need to get to the bottom of it. >> jesse: democrats always say they care so much about the little guy. where are they now talking about making the little guy whole again? it sounds like the whole barney frank thing just kind of missed the housing bubble and all the free mortgages from fannie and freddie. are you going to be able to claw back some of this cash and give it back to the people that lost

money? maybe ask the democrats, you know what? that 40 million, we are going to need to give that back to the people that he defrauded. >> well, i hope that in the chapter 11 bankruptcy that some of the assets will be left over so that there can be some restitution. the current ceo of ftx who took over to manage this bankruptcy, john ray, he was also the ceo of enron when that bankruptcy was happening. and it's remarkable what he said in comparing the two. ray said that he has never seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such complete absence of trustworthy financial information as what he sees with ftx. you pointed out that this was a guy who took out a billion dollars of personal loans against this company that co-mingled customer funds to make risky dradz to lose all of this money. and, of course, this ceo, sam

bankman-fried, was very, very interested in big donations to the democratic party. but, jesse, here's the bottom line. this is the poster child of the fraud of esg. sbf called it effective altruism. but the obsession with climate change and sustainable investing and doing good and just labeling this company as a esg company, that wars the distraction for many people. >> jesse: you can get away with anything. i'm surprised o.j. simpson hasn't said he wants to clean up the atmosphere and save the whales. you could get away with pretty much anything if you green wash yourself. all right, congressman, we will be looking forward to seeing these hearings play out next year and finding out if we can get the money back. >> thank you so much. >> jesse: get the money back from these democrats.

thank you. >> thank you. >> jesse: this week absolute blood bath at twitter. an inside look at the workers next. ♪

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♪ >> jesse: only been a few weeks since elon musk took over twitter. every day drama. the company going through growing pains as they say or in this case where musk is trying to get his workers to grow up. >> and there will soon be no such thing as a free lunch for twitter workers. new owner elon musk is scrapping free meals at the company san francisco headquarters after claiming it cost the company $400 per person and $13 million per year. musk tweeting: there are more people preparing breakfast than eating breakfast. they don't even bother serving dinner because there is no one in the building. >> jesse: all this turmoil is starting to make sense now. employees are flipping out now that the spigot has been shut off and worst of all it was the macho spigot. >> welcome to a day in my life as a twitter employee. made my way down to the log

cabin area. i don't know what it is but really cool. hang out with my friends to kind of unwind a bit. also, found this really cool meditation room that i thought was super neat. i don't do yoga but they have this yoga room and then before leaving for the day had some red wine on that's on tap. >> jesse: most people here agree with musk when you tell people you work at one of the most influential tech companies on the entire planet, people expect you to work. musk is certainly putting in the hours himself. >> i would say with great difficulty i mean, i'm really working absolute most amount that i can work from morning until night seven days a week. so, this is not something i would recommend, frankly. >> jesse: so musk gave his employees a you will may tim in a memo on wednesday telling them to commit to doing hard core

work or you have got hit the door and he will pay you severance. now, unsurprisingly, some of the workers weren't really down to put in more hours. >> everybody here? we're all about to get fired. >> ten seconds. >> 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. happy new year. yea. hooray. that's a lot of pomp and circumstance. okay. oh, yeah, let's try the badges. >> jesse: yeah, badges probably won't work, guys, because musk shut the building down until monday. best of luck to all of you guys when you have to enter the real world. james patterson is the author of the new book triple cross. james, i remember your book, one of my favorites. you have talked about how you came up during the hard charging

days of manhattan. the advertising days. you were putting in long hours around the clock. what has changed in this country? >> and before advertising. before advertising. i mean, just the way we grew up. you felt lucky to have a job. and i'm not saying that is for everybody. certainly where i came from, it was schop wood. i'm still doing 60, 70 hours a week. that's me. this is one of these things where i find that i have nobody to root for. musk is so smart. he goes and he convinces these people who aren't going to work hard to quit. that's beautiful. instead of hiring people. >> jesse: i wish i could do that not with my staff, of course with gutfeld's staff. so, james, i think what the problem is we are giving out too many perks and if you have free wine and a meditation room and a yoga studio down the hall from your office, maybe you are not going to work as hard.

yeah, well, i thought he should -- in some ways he could have given a pep talk, you know, let's make twitter pretty good again. you know, something like that and we're going to have to roll up our sleeves to do it. i think people could get into that a little bit. but if you are not going to work hard in the company within reason, i mean, why would you want people around? >> jesse: exactly. tell me about this book you have "triple cross" looks like another thriller is it going to go to number one it. >> is. i don't know if it will go to number one. grisham book is good and "triple cross" the others meh. but grisham and patterson did okay this time. >> jesse: i love the alex cross i have read a bunch of them. page turners and read them like that on a weekend. i highly recommend triple cross.

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>> time for friendly competition. let's get into sink or swim. first let's take a look at the leaderboard. dana perino finally paid it to the top, significant up there with gutfeld. crushed hemmer, not even close. really actually surprising. we're waiting to have kilmeade back on to redeem himself, because dr. marc seigel is smoking him. harold and julie were talking trash in the green room. >> absolutely.

>> jesse: which former first lady compared the covid lockdowns to life in the white house? was it hillary clinton or michelle obama? paddles up, people. you're going with crooked. >> i'm going with this one. >> jesse: two crookeds. what's the answer? >> barack and i did better than most in lockdown, because we lived in lockdown for eight years. >> jesse: all right. not a great analogy by michelle, but -- >> i don't get to be number five? i get four -- >> jesse: just as long as you don't wind up with kilmeade. >> nobody wants to end up with kilmeade. >> i love brian kilmeade. >> i love him to death, but -- >> jesse: you're 0-1, so you might love him a lot more. which failing democrat mayor got caught parking their car in a bike lane to pick up donuts, adams or lightfoot? >> ooh, it's got to be this guy,

because we have bike lanes in manhattan. i don't know about -- >> eric and lori, it's a big 1. >> thousands of new jobs and a pepperoni. >> jesse: just the evidence. this is lori's car in the bike lane. there she is waiting in line for some donuts. do we have that? there it is. >> they have bike lanes, too, huh? >> jesse: they do. you're up. you're down. you managed to curse twice on live television. fine. it took maricopa county, arizona, to get through counting, a week, yet this liberal host claims maricopa county has some of the best vote-counting processes. who said it? was it andrea mitchell or joyby har? >> definitely, because joy would never say that. >> maricopa county had some of

the best vote counting. >> jesse: this is a real game. the last question will decide who winds up with brian. live tv can be predictable. you never know what might get you in trouble. which prominent sports host recently said he wakes up every day he's feeling next to be canceled? was it stephen a. smith or terry bradshaw? >> i'm going with terry. >> jesse: you're going with terry, because you just found out who stephen a is. who is it? >> everything else is live. i'm toast. >> jesse: everything else is live. harold, i thought you were going to get that one, because we just facetimed here. >> i'm a great american. i try to be. >> jesse: you're doing a very good job. julie, you won. you get a hat. harold, better luck next time. >> i love it when you say maxine

maxinewaters. >> jesse: only one "t." you know that. let's see what we've got in the window. before we get started, we were going to my flight, but we sweet-talked-woman in tsa to let us in. now i'm here. you're welcome, america. also thanks to the tsa. the shenanigans, 1:00 at the casino, the judge and i were feeling better after losing so much at the table, and we found a dog that cheered up us. then really we ran into swashbuckling guys. there's pistol pete. you can see harold in his tiptoes in the back. and the duffys -- is that everybody? >> yeah, it is. >> you're talking about harold in the background.

what is he wearing? >> jesse: a camouflage suit. >> a camouflage tux. you got to watch the patriots awards. >> jesse: that's up on sunday. don't watch football. watch the patriots awards. let's do some text messages. harold from florida. great job with the patriots awards. after seeing the photos of you and everybody i realized you are really tall. i am tall. very, very tall. tony from delaware. crypto fetterman was the hunter biden of the bahamas. very good. ray says the irs missed the mini madoff shenanigans. maybe one of those those 87,000 new agents would have caught them. that's right, they have 87 new agents and guns. so duck. jesse, what brand of shirt to you wear? vest, asymmetrical color. the tie is eton.

the shirt i probably should know. i'll tell you on monday. it slipped my mind. >> i wish i had a paddle that said eton. >> jesse: i wish i had a paddle so i could hit you on the head. all right. thank you guys very much. dvr the show, if you can figure it out. i can't. "tucker carlson" is up next. always remember, i'm watters, and this is my world. >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." a comedian that used to work for the food network, he's also pro-life. earlier this month, he was preparing to host a comedy show in rutherford, new jersey, a half hour outside of new york, but minutes after the show was announced antifa, a violent radical group, decided to shut it down. hundreds of antifa