we'd been bit by the obama bug, and we knew it was time for a change in brooks county as well. they brought criminal charges against 12 local black residents who'd helped in the get out the vote effort. they brought charges against those 12 residents for things like bringing envelopes containing completed absentee ballots to a mailbox. they criminally charged this group of local residents with more than 100 election law violations, including dozens of felonies. they put them on trial to face more than a thousand combined years in prison. you know what? not a single one of those charges held up. on every single one of those charges, the local rather was either acquitted or the charge had to be dropped by the prosecutors. not only were there no convictions, there weren't even any plea deals. acquitted or dropped on every single one. and the attorney general of the state subsequently had to issue a statement clarifying that actually, none of the actions those african american local residents in brooks county had been charged with, none of the things they were charged with were act

being very much the bad guys in all of this but it's not that long since president obama's security services were. have bugged the chancellor merkel's mobile phone and their allies so it's fair to say that pretty much everyone that is right we can maybe talk about an era of cyber war and actually united states started we know from four years of snowden revelations that they have offensive operations that they try to hack other countries and they also have this information operations which which they now talk about and in the russian wrong and so who sat at that war doesn't matter maybe for the future we have to end it right so the but russia seems seems to be intent on and just pushing its tentacles wherever but what do you think the big idea is is it just to sow confusion is it what's behind it it's maybe spreading a little chaos maybe showing some of their weapons and maybe a little bit of both and of course it's about showing their offensive operations capability see this is what's interesting particularly interesting about what you say say is that it's about showing their offensive because these things i

obama to do 700 miles of fencing across the border. it's fascinating to see the difference and the evolution. there goes a bug. we are outside.tomorrow. >> martha: thank you, you too. that is our story for tonight. tomorrow my exclusive interview with the department of homeland secretary kirstjen nielsen, who's going to give us a firsthand look at the situation on the border. we will see you back here at 7:00 p.m. tucker carlson up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." hillary clinton, barack obama and cnn's new york offices all it received what appeared to be pipe bombs in the mail this morning. that news sparked a massive investigation to the obvious question, who sent these explosives, and why? none of the devices exploded or harmed anyone. details remain sparse but fox's trace gallagher has been covering the story from the very beginning and joins us with the very latest. trace. >> a law enforcement source tells us the choice of pipe bombs

smartphone until barack obama got a modified one in the middle of his second term, and he joked about how little functionality it had. smartphones can easily be turned into bugsing devices. it leaves the user wide open to foreign intelligence services. what "new york times" is saying is that the u.s. intelligence committee has confirmed china and russia are listening to these calls and worse, china has basically mapped trump's informer adviser network ask is using that to manipulate him by passing messages to him through some of these advisers. >> if we know that the chinese and russians are eavesdropping, why can't we stop him? >> it's about one man and his wins. donald trump. the reason we're reading this story in the "new york times" is because his advisers were so frustrated that he wasn't listening to them when they were warning him, they decided to leak the story as a way of perhaps pressuring him into curbing his behavior. he simply doesn't want to give up his personal iphone, which has his contacts in it. he has a modified iphone that is not as convenient for him. the u.s. spends billions of dollars to protect its secrets and donald trump is giving th

obama, ted kennedy, i worked for bill clinton for eight years of his presidency. and share you other levarious o. i think you'll hear this a lot from everybody that once you get bit by the bug, it's hard to let it go. and i can honestly say, though, that i'm done doing presidential campaigns after doing too many of them because you do slightly able out of those. >> hey, everybody, my name cease steve mcmahon and i actually normally would be teaching the fall semester in washington, this year i am not. i see there's lots of students here, how many of you are in the nyu program? a lot of you, that's fantastic. i came to washington like stephany did right out of college and i wanted to work on capitol hill, and i was able to get an internship for somebody that stephanie also worked for, senator ted kennedy who inspired me as well. and i know a lot of you who are in this internal washington program and have internal ships and you're asking the can annen internship lead to anything? it absolutely can. i finished my internship and i got a job and i couldn't believe it and i worked on senator kennedy's staff and i got bit by the bug as well. i have been working political campaigns

obama, ted kennedy, bill clinton for eight years of his presidency. and various other leaders. and you know, i think you'll hear this i think a lot from everybody that once you get bit by the bug, it is hard to let it go. and i can honestly say though that i'm done doing presidential campaigns after doing too many of them because you do slightly aged out of those. [laughter] >> hello everyone my name is steve mcmahon. normally i would be teaching the fall semester at nyu in washington. this semester i am not. and i miss it. i see there are some students here. how many of you are in the nyu washington program? everybody. that is fantastic here it well, welcome to the panel. i came to washington like stephanie did, right out of college and i wanted to work on capitol hill. i was able to get an internship for somebody that stephanie also worked for. senator ted kennedy, who inspired me as well. i know a lot of you who were in the nyu washington program have internships and you might wonder, and an internship leading to anything? the answer is yes. i finished and i couldn't believe it. so i came and i works and senator kennedy's staff for 3.5 years and went to law school and then i

obama, ted kennedy, bill clinton for eight years of his presidency. and various other leaders. and you know, i think you'll hear this i think a lot from everybody that once you get bit by the bug, it is hard to let it go. and i can honestly say though that i'm done doing presidential campaigns after doing too many of them because you do slightly aged out of those. [laughter] >> hello everyone my name is steve mcmahon. normally i would be teaching the fall semester at nyu in washington. this semester i am not. and i miss it. i see there are some students here. how many of you are in the nyu washington program? okay, that is fantastic.well, look into the panel. i came to washington like stephanie did, right out of college and i wanted to work on capitol hill. i was able to get an internship for somebody that stephanie also worked for. senator ted kennedy, who inspired me as well. ... >> so i'm dating myself too. this is a great group. i hope you enjoy the evening. >> good evening everybody. i'm honored to be teaching at nyu this semester. i'm thrilled that my class is sitting in the first couple of rows. they're smart enough to recognize that they want to be down close to where t

obama? advice lecturing donald trump and republicans? he is talking about the press? this is the guy whose justice department bugged the ap's phone?rtment and excuse me, irs went after conservative groups. this is the same guy who compared republicans to iranian tyrants. >> really? barack obama? give me a break with the political advice. guy, i'm all for a kum ba yah moment. sit at the camp fire and roast s'mores. i hope that day comes one day and we can talk about taxes. until the left abandons their commitment to identity politics, calling us racist, misogynist, phone bow phobic. anything with a phobe or ist at the end. there is not going to be a moment until they abandon that tactic. it's not going to happen. ed: i covered barack obama as you know for a long time. i seem to remember him saying things like if you like your doctor, can you keep your doctor. if you like your health plan you can keep your health plan, in that same speech that rachel referenced he is tired of people in politics quote, unquote, shamelessly lying and making stuff up. >> the guy who was if you like your plan you can keep your plan lies of the year poli