francisco. it was scheduled for tomorrow. their efforts to malign the organizers as racists, alt right drummed up enough controversy for the organizer to call the event off. they are going to hold a press conference in place of their rally.

>> that's exactly right. they never interviewed us. they've they never questioned whatever positions that we took that they considered to be hateful. just placed us on their list. and when all the violence took place in charlottesville in recent times, all of the sudden all the same news media were talking here decided it was time to publish the list of all the hate groups everywhere. and wouldn't you know it, we are number 1 in florida according to them. so, you know, tucker, enough is enough. and when people are spreading lies that are ultimately damaging, when you are being categorized as a hate group simply because of your subscription to the historic christian faith enough is enough. so we decided to file suit. this is clearly david and goliath. we are not confused about which one we are. they have $300 million in offshore bank accounts and we have somewhat less than that in ours. there is a rightness about this. there is unfairness about this. so that's why we filed suit. >>...

beyond the bounds of legitimacy. >> tucker: far beyond the bounds in some cases. you asked him directly did the information taken from the dnc web account did, that come from russia and he said no, it did not. do you take him at his word? >> he was -- first of all, he was adamant that the russians played no role. this is a man that released the information. he should know and quite frankly there is a reason for him to be lying about it and there is every reason to know that the liberal left in this country had every reason to lie about it because they were trying to destroy a result last election when they lost to donald trump. and so -- this whole thing with the russians supposedly, would are responsible for these emails. this is a fraud. it's a con job.

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liberal left that is the general tactic they are using across the board. i'm an example of that allegation is that you are somehow doing the bidding of vladimir putin. how is that in orange county this year? >> for one thing let me just noted that i have a background as you are aware, i was president reagan's speech writer. i have been a long history of fighting the soviet union and communism. and no, the fact is that i believe that we should try to have peace with russia. i'm certainly not in any way trying to compromise the truth or anything that would put our country second to what russia everything i do in terms of i am the chairman of the committee in congress that overseas our relations with russia. everything i do there and in my personal life and such is done for what's good for america i happen to think that working with the russians now to help defeat radical islam is a good idea. so they end up calling me names and trying to cast

from td ameritrade. >> tucker: this is a fox news alert. category 4 hurricane harvey still barreling towards texas right now. still trying to calculate when it will make landfall. rick reichmuth has been watching the storm from the fox extreme weather center. have you watched hurricaning closely for many, many years. put this in to context for us. how big is this compared to other famous hurricanes? >> rick: easy to confuse it big versus strong in terms of hurricanes. big vs. strong. kind of two different things. this is average size hurricane. really strong hurricane. in fact, the strongest hurricane to hit texas since 161 to give you an indication. also the strongest anywhere in the u.s. in the last 123 years. a category 4 storm now. i would say it's amazing how good the national hurricane center has been. both in the direction of the storm and intensity. when we saw these forecasts

we have even had some of our long time donors call and say what's wrong with you guys? what happened to you? we have had to explain that it's really just a label. it's a label that they use to try to see you lens your viewpoint. it's nothing more than the old fashioned ad homonym attack that you learn in debated tactics that if you don't want to deal with ideas, you shut them up by calling them names and because of what you said a minute ago, it's worked simply because the media, the mainstream media in the main has not called them out on their own capricious and fallacious definition of what constitutes hate. >> tucker: without explaining it. pretty handy test for those at home. if you are trying to determine whether the media outlet you are reading and watch something legitimate. if they repeat propaganda by the southern poverty law center that is by definition propaganda. do you wake up and find out you are part of a hate group? >> that's exactly right. they never interviewed us.

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moves inland and take a look at this. we go towards saturday night it's moved in a little bit. still a hurricane tomorrow night. and then it pulls back across the shore. that's monday morning. take a look. tuesday, here we go. wednesday, the exact same spot. potentially dealing with a hurricane still. that is five days of this kind of rain. that is why we are expecting to see some rainfall totals likely over 4 feet and that is going to cause massive problems in the region. >> tucker: what a shame. rick, thanks. we will talk to you again in a minute. steve harrigan is in corpus christi tonight right on the gulf of mexico. steve, what do you see? >> tucker, we have seen things get worse here each hour. this storm has strengthened dramatically. it's really caught a lot of people here by surprise. some of the people originally planning on riding it out decided at the last minute to make their evacuation. still the worst is yet to come in the next four to five hours. we have already heard...

with nazis and you feel sorry for their donors. i think a lot of their donors feel like they are fighting back against the nazis. who wouldn't want to do that. they don't understand how deeply corrupted and dishonest and loathe some these people are. good luck in your efforts to clear your name. >> thank you, tucker. thank you. >> tucker: the democratic party is trying to flip the republican strong hold of orange county, california. what's their message, they are alleging a russian conspiracy, of course. orange county congressman dana roar bacher is the subject of those charges. he joins us here next. breaking news, the most serious hurricane to hit the u.s.s. in more than a decade will soon make landfall in texas. it's the most powerful storm in texas in more than 50 years. a live report straight ahead.e things that are built to last. that's why we got a subaru.

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flooding as we are very low lieinlying city concrete. largest city in the country we will have a lot of flooding. we deal with that but, this will be unprecedented. we have neighborhoods that are never flooded before and levels we haven't seen. tucker, in this area of where the storm surge will be on the coast, there are over 225,000 homes. there is a company called core logic that has done an analysis that we could have close to $40 billion in damage. 232,000 hosms just along the coast. and then hundreds of thousands of homes in the area between the coast and san antonio and austin and houston. so you are looking at big try angle. areas as far away as waco, texas may have 40 mile-per-hour winds and 5 to 6 inches of rain. this is going to be unprecedented storm for the country and particularly texas. tucker, as you know, we are the center for refineries and oil and natural gas production. our refineries about 30 will be closed down.

moderate republicans, moderate democrats. it was about letting go of the politics and coming together on things we can all agree on. >> tucker: that sounds terrifying. i can understand why they wanted to shut it down. how did nancy pelosi and officials in california describe the event? >> they called it a white supremacist rally. and they went out of their way to bring in as many extremists as they could and get everything they could to get antifa riled up. they say they distant against hate and stand against violence but they never said anything against antifa. they never made any statement saying antifa is violent and hateful. so the situation was out of control. we felt like they were trying to incite a riot. our supporters would have to march through antifa to get into the rally. we felt like there was major players behind all of this going on and it was like out of our control. >> tucker: do you have white supremacist believes? are you espousing that ideology? there is some...

lieu tenants general russell would know. you certainly remember him from 12 years ago when he commanded the joint task force at hurricane katrina in new orleans and the gulf coast and he joins us tonight. general, thanks a lot for coming on. give us a sense of how federal forces and state forces are going to be responding right now to this storm. >> well, the federal forces will only be used in the federal troops would only be used to fill requirements that the national guard, right now post katrina there has been a lot of emphasis in the national guard as always been the first for the governors to use. but, the national guard through neutral agreements with sister states will call in assets such as helicopters that they need. and special units that they need. but this is a national guard will have the lead. then for those things that they need, if they need a ship they will go to dod and ship will be sent from the navy. or if they need extra wide

this is a fraud. it's a con job. in order to negate what happened in the last election. >> tucker: do you think assange knows where that information came from, where those emails came from? >> yes, i do j do you have any guesses? >> yes. i would guess he knows he was provided that information a n. a certain way and now it was delivered to him and that that system would have negated any potential of having a russian hacking of the system. it probably had to be done by an inside download rather than the hacking of the overall system. if that's the case, the russians could never have done it period. >> tucker: unless they were working at the dnc. some day we will find out what happened and it will be interesting. thanks for coming on. we appreciate it. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: san francisco liberals used to stand up for free speech. they were famous for it. no longer. that city's mayor teamed up with nancy pelosi to shut