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mr. sorensen is out. >> the white house needs to balance its messaging to make sure it shows empathy forhers hurt by domestic violence while also not prejudging situations and that's key, too. >> martha: thanks, guys for handling all these breaking news stories sent to. that's "the story" for tonight. jam-packed one as can you tell. have a great weekend. tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. there is an awful lot going on. just moments ago the white house released a letter saying the president is inclined to declassify that democratic committee memo and will work with the house intelligence committee to see if they can come up with a lea releasable version of it much redacted. that is not the only breaking news tonight. the russia story has suddenly become an fbi story and moving faster than anyone anticipated. just a year ago all the smarts people were mocking donald trump for being insane enough to suggest the obama administration surveilled or as he put it wiretapped his campaign. what a paranoid

mr. president, the long-term view of how you're going to be perceived on handling this cultural movement at this time of your presidency is being damaged. >> tara, there's now a second white house staffer, david sorensenesigning over domestic abuse allegations. he denies. that that is a sign that the white house might be looking to staffers backgrounds more thoroughly? >> i think it means the wool is being pulled back now because they have no choice. now everything is under more scrutiny. and he should have resigned. there's some pretty serious allegations there as well and, you know, we can't -- i guess they learned from the disaster how they handled rob porter in this situation with the second one. but i have a theory about why donald trump would not come out today and show empathy for the women. because, a, he's a narcissist, so he can't show empathy. b, because if he were to acknowledge these women were victims, he would be tacitly acknowledging his own failures as a man with women. he is accused of sexually harassing and potentially sexually -- a sexual assault of women. we heard his own voice talk about grabbing women by the genitalia proudly because he can. donald trump's own -- his howard ster

mr. president, the long-term view of how you're going to be perceived on handling this cultural movement at this time of your presidency is being damaged. >> tara, there's now a second white house staffer, david sorensenigning over domestic abuse allegations. that that is a sign that the white house might be looking to establish backgrounds more -- >> i think it means the wool is being pulled back now because they have no choice. now everything is under more scrutiny. and he should have resigned. there's some pretty serious allegations there as well and, you know, we can't -- i guess they learned from the disaster how they handled rob porter in this situation with the second one. but i have a theory about why donald trump would not come out today and show empathy for the women. because, a, he's a narcissist, so he can't show empathy. b, because if he were to acknowledge these women were victims, he would be tacitly acknowledging his own failures as a man with women. he is accused of sexually harassing and potentially sexually -- a sexual assault of women. we heard his own voice talk about grabbing women by the genitalia proudly because he can. donald trump's own -- his howard stern interviews, i mean