good night. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight today as you heard duringigration talks president trump said something that almost every single person actually agrees with. an awful lot of immigrants come from this country from places not very nice. they are dangerous, dirty, corrupt and poor and that's the main reason those immigrants are trying to come here and you would, too, if you live there. president trump asked why america doesn't receive immigrants for from places you want to visit on vacation why not norway which by the u.n.'s measures is the most developed and richest country in the world. while saying this trump used exlettive not surprising either because he uses them all the time and was speaking spriftly. for some reason virtually everyone in new york and l.a. considered this a major, major event. why is that? to find out, we are joined by jose, communications director for barack obama's 2012 campaign and he joins us in studio. thanks for coming on. >> thank you for the opportunity, tucker. >> tucker: of course you can have a debate over what

. >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the weather system known as the bomb cyclone spread its icy tentacles all over the -- tentacles all over the country. the severe lows are present to you as proof of global warming. we'll have more on that later. but first republicans in congress are demanding an investigation in to christopher steel, the author of the infamous trump dossier dominated politics in this country for a year. the fox chief intelligence correspondent is all over this. >> this is the first criminal referral from congress as part of the russian investigation. the republican chairman chuck grassley who has oversight to the f.b.i., justice department with lindsey graham believes there is a violation of lying to the federal authorities known as the martha stewart statute. according to the letter made public today, they believe potential violations for false statements led chris distribution of the unverified trump dossier and half a dozen media outlets were briefed before the election. he was -- in the months lea

tucker carlson is up next. >> tucker: good evening. welcome to tucker carlson tonight. congress is trying to come to an agreement on daca, that is president obama's program that gave minors a free ticket to the united states. america's elites have recoiled in shock and horror and rage. how dare he say something like that? so from hollywood to silicon valley to msnbc, a new consensus has formed which the rest of us are required to believe. get a pen. it's this. every other country is great especially the poor and disorganized ones and the immigrants they send here are uniformly more impressive than you are, every one of them. they fight more wars, pay more taxes and start more companies than your kids ever will. so shut up with your doubts or inconvenient questions. otherwise, we'll fire you. so that's what our moral betters on cable news are telling us. the question is, do they really believe that? do they really think that all standards are arbitrary and racist and everyone from everywhere is the same level of awesome? for an answer, ignore what they say. take instead

tucker is up next. >> tucker: welcome to tucker carlson tonight. believe it or not, it was a year ago today that buzz feed released the now infamous trump dossier. now a year later they are being sued for defamation by the president's lawyer. editor in chief ben smith of buzz feed news will join us later in the show to defend his decision to publish that dossier. but first tonight, president trump suggested yesterday that he's willing to sign any deal on daca that congress is able to hammer out. a deal does seem a long way off, but maybe getting closer today house republicans outlined a bill that would allow daca beneficiaries to remain in the united states, critically though, it would deny them path to citizenship. those in favor of it know amnesty for illegal immigrants is crucial to their own electoral strategy of importing a new class of voters from abroad. democratic congressman from texas represents the border city of el paso. he's seeking the democratic nomination to challenge senator ted cruz this fall. he sponsored legislation that would p

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson sent.resident trump ran for office to fix washington and make good deals and do a better job than the corrupt lawmakers he said were wrecking the country. he was right they were wrecking the country. today in remarkable twist the president held a televised meeting with the very swamp creatures he wants denounced. he told them he trusted them to craft immigration policy without his input then he said he would be willing to accept any deal they produced even a bad one. >> when this group comes back hopefully with an agreement, this group and others from the senate, from the house, comes back with an agreement, i'm signing it. i mean, i will be signing it i'm not going to say oh gee, i want this or i want that. i will be signing it because i have a lot of confidence in the people in this room that you will come up with something really good. >> tucker: at one point the president agreed with democratic senator dianne feinstein of california that it would be wise to handle the question of daca s

>> tucker: i don't know.. >> again, i will mention one other name my friend. >> tucker: look, we can play i know an impressive immigrant game and i would agree with you in every case because there are a lot of impressive immigrants but there are also a lot of impressive native born americans. >> i agree two of us right here. >> tucker: they need our help there are a lot of them. >> sure. >> tucker: the idea that it's somehow outrageous or bigoted to say there are differences between countries or cultures. >> what is outrageous and bigoted among many things that our president has said. what is outrageous and bigotside to select certain places and call them crap holes and, again, i'm going to edit myself here but to call them crab holes. now, again, haiti and continental africa have very litigation in common other than the color of the skin of the residents who live there. the other thing i would say is this he talks about we want people from nigeria but we don't -- excuse me, we want people from norway but not

our friend tucker carlson is coming up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to tucker carlson. it is now clear that for many of our elected leaders it's not even worth having a country if that country comes with real borders. the federal government, you may have heard, is on the brink of shutting down tomorrow if congress can't come to an agreement on funding it the main stumbling block remains daca that's of course president obama's program that gives worker permits to illegal immigrants who came here as minors. almost all democrats and many republicans pushing for amnesty for daca recipients. there is a striking fanaticism to their position. illegal immigrants must be kept in this country at all costs no matter what. for democrats, it's understandable because the calculus is simple. having abandoned the concerns of the middle class here they need millions of new voters and they need them fast, otherwise their party risks becoming a permanent minority. replacing ungrateful citizens with owed bead yent immigrants is their only hope. any democrat that's thought it through for e

♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." now clear that for many of our elected leaders, it is not even worth having a country if that country comes with real borders. the federal government menu may have heard is on the brink of shutting down tomorrow. if congress can come to funded. the main stumbling block is daca, president obama's program. almost all democrats and many republicans are pushing for an amnesty for daca recipients as well as for millions of other illegal immigrants. there is a striking fanaticism to their position. illegal immigrants must be kept in this country at all costs in a matter what. for democrats, it's understandable because the calculus is simple. having a band of my concerns of the middle-class year, they'd need millions of new voters and they need them fast. otherwise their party risks becoming m a permanent minority, replacing ungrateful citizens with obedient immigrants as their only hope. every democrat who thought i threw for a minute knows this well. they can't say it in public because it'

. ♪ means >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."gressman keith ellison, kind of a big deal in washington, in fact, he is the number two man in the democratic party. in a recent tweet, he openly supports the violent antifa movement. this made us pause and take a p closer look at keith ellison and his past and what we found is interesting, and extreme, and we've got it for you just ahead. first tonight, it is full-scale war between president trump and a man who, just months ago, was seen as one of his closest allies and advisors. his chief strategist. yesterday, trump said that steve bannon had "lost his mind" after being canned from the white house back in august. now the president is issuing legal threats against bannon. bannon got a letter threatening a lawsuit for alleged violations of a confidentiality agreement he apparently signed. what to make of all of this? a lot of people claim to be experts on the trump white house, very few are. roger stone actually is. he has been advising trump for more than three decades. he lobbied fo

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. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."e have exclusive new information tonight about one of the most perplexing mysteries in washington. as you may have heard, andrew mccabe, the deputy director of the fbi, announced today he's leaving his job at the most obvious question is why is he doing that. was he pushed or did he decide to leave himself? you may know mccabe's name because he has been in the news repeatedly over the last several years. in 2016 it emerged that mccabe's wife had taken a large sum of money collected by one of hillary clinton's most closest friends. this is significant because mccabe led the investigation into hillary clinton's server. the one in which she was exonerated before she was interviewed. mccabe never recused himself from that investigation. so it was andrew mccabe fired today and for the site firing the result of the information contained in the still famous but still mysterious house intelligence committee memo, the one everyone is talking about but nobody outside of congress has read? we dec

tucker is up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: well, good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight., of course, happy new year. america lasted yet another 12 months as the best country in the world. it was a turbulent year and 2018 could be even more so. later tonight advice on how to thrive over the year ahead no matter what happens. but, first, this country's largest state has taken another dramatic step towards disunion. an open defiance of the federal government. as of yesterday, california is now a sanctuary state. it's the nationst first. all police statewide in california are banned from asking about a suspect's immigration status or cooperating with federal immigration officials. land lords are banned from reporting the legal status of their tenants. colleges can't monitor the immigration status of the kids they enroll. these measures augment the state's many existing laws all designed to enable illegal immigration. illegalness california are already combine entitled to receive drivers license. instate free tuition healthcare and job. doesn't matter if they have a history of

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> well, good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight.ngton, d.c. is a divided city but today saw a moment of rare political unity. lawmakers in both parties came together in grave agreement that it was unfortunate, unacceptable and indeed threatening that president trump would refer to poor and dangerous countries as in effect poor and dangerous. now, some of the outrage was tactical, obviously. a way to score political advantage but a great deal of it was entirely real. it was authentic rage. so why are the people in charge hysterical about this? is it because trump said something racially insensitive? let's see, just yesterday nancy pelosi dismissed the daca negotiation because there were too many white people involved and most people here didn't even notice. left wing attacks on the basis of race are now common. very common. would it be they found it shocking the president would criticize an entire nation? maybe. but then the left has no problem bashing huge parts of this country. >> you can put half of trump's supporters into what i

tucker is up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight.ocrat phil murphy replaced chris christie today as governor of new jersey. one of the very first things he did was create a new high profile state agency. can you guess what it's gonna do? it won't be stamping out rampant opioid abuse in new jersey, unfortunately. won't be working to boost that state's lagging economy either. it won't fix the budget which pe perpetually in deficit or fill some of those ubiquitous shock absorbers when you pull off for coffee it certainly won't be fighting crime. in fact, doing just the opposite. governor phil murphy's new state task force will exist specifically to subvert and undermine america's existing laws. the office is called the office of immigrant defense protection it will offer legal assistance to illegal immigrants so they can evade deportation or at least delay it long enough to receive the drivers licenses and taxpayer funded college aid that governor murphy also wants to give them. so the message of all of this could not be clearer. govern

tucker is up next. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> tucker: welcome to tucker carlson tonight.onfidential top secret government memo could offer proof that the obama administration did spy on the trump campaign. donald trump jr. will join us here on that and more. plus, big news today. news that may shape american history going forward. the state of california has ordered its citizens to hinder federal law enforcement. to disobey federal law. the attorney general of california will prosecute american citizen who refuse to do and help the government maintain our borders. hours away from a government shutdown. ed henry has the latest. >> the house passed a bill to keep the government open until february 16th. the senate will vote in just about 2 hours. the latest vote suggests that would fail. that would mean the first government shutdown since 2013. the last thing president trump wants is to mark his first year in office this weekend with a government shutdown. there is a feeling among some of the president's top advisors at the white house tonight that maybe chuck schumer the s

tucker carlson is up next. >> tucker: well, good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we have exclusive never-before seen text messages between the fbi between sent between peter strzok and lisa page between february and september of 2016. a lot of them are interesting. they did what they hoped you wouldn't do expressing concern if hillary clinton would take revenge against the fbi for the crime of investigating her. in exchange from february of 2016, agent page told agent strzok, one more thing, she may be our next president. the last thing you need is us loaded for bear. do you think she cares it's more doj so political concerns were atop of mind as they investigated this politician, hillary clinton. we have a congressman here to join us. are we reading too deeply into the exchange we just put on the screen, do you think? >> um, i don't think so. you read that in isolation. if you read all the texts it's clear they did not want her charge. they wanted her to be the president of the united states. they really didn't want donald trump to be the president of the united

tucker carlson is next. >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the russia investigation, if you can remember that far back, was created to expose collusion between american politicians and operatives from foreign governments. instead, so far the investigation has simply exposed itself as corrupt and mismanaged. newly released texts from peter strzok suggested high level fbi operatives were not on the level about the investigation from the very beginning. fox chief intelligence corr responsibili -- correspondent catherine herridge has more. >> one senior investigator was skeptical the russia probe would uncover wrong doing. after robert mueller took over the probe in may, now agent strzok and lisa page discuss the merits. he says i have a concern there's no big there there. in another more cryptic text, strzok writes i personally have a sense of unfinished business. unleashed it with mye, the code mane for the clinton e-mail case. now i need to fix it and finish it. another republican that read the text said the fbi officials talk about a secret s

look up from your phone. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."s you doubtless know, that the most controversial document in america remains totally mysterious. it is only focal pages long. it is classified. that means while many are talking about it, and they are, virtually nobody has read it. this memo prepared by the house intelligence committee apparently describes surveillance of american citizens in this country by our own intelligence and law enforcement agencies. some republicans who have seen the documents it exposes massive and terrifying abuses of our civil liberties presumably committed for political gain. they say the memo shows how the obama administration is the foreign intelligence surveillance act not to protect this country from foreign threats like terror, which is its purpose, but to spy on rival campaigns. the trump campaign in particular. and to create a pretext for the current independent counsel investigation, one that has mesmerized our class and paralyzed our government, even today the person was responding to questions o

>> also in europe -- >> tucker: you know what, you are dodging -- >> tucker -- >> tucker: look at me say that. >> i think ronald reagan would be rolling in his grave -- >> tucker: >> you are carrying r the kremlin. >> tucker:y you can't say they hacked -- >> you have to move your show to rt russian television. >> tucker: that is so beneath your office because it is so dumb and you are being duplicitous. i'm asking you, did they hacked the emails? look at my camera and say they hacked john podesta's emails, you can't, and you know you can't, and you are hiding behind weasel words. >> tucker:ha that guy is a liar at the demagogue in case you didn't notice. i call -- a columnist at "the wall street journal" asks why adam schiff doesn't care if the facts are true in the trump dossier. thank you for coming on. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: obviously i'm annoyed by adam schiff because in the face of a sincere question, he accused me of being a kremlin agent.t. you have emotional distance from us. tell us your concerns about his behavior as a member of the intel committee. >> at a basic lev

tucker carlson is next. ♪ >> tucker: well, good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."he rush investigation, if you can remember that far back, was createdio to expose collusion between american politicians and operatives from foreign governments. since sost far the investigation has exposed itself is corrupt and must manages to must manage. newly released text messages suggest high-level fbi operatives were not on the level about the investigation from the very beginning. fox chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins us now. >> the text messages are a window into the fbi's highly charged internal politics under then directorre james comey. it suggests at least one senior investigator was skeptical the russian probe would uncover wrongdoing. to go days after special counsel robert mueller took over the pope in may, now demoted fbi agent peter strzok enter now reassigned fbi lawyer lisa page discussed the merits of joining mueller's team. strzok tells page, you and i botha know the odds are nothin, if i thought it was likely, i'll be there no question. i

now to my friend tucker carlesson. >> tucker: welcome to tucker carlson tonight. it is tminus one hour. the speech will be his best chance to set the agenda in a critical mid- term election year. the roster of guest is long including brett hume. and congressman tim ryan and donna brazil. and she will tell us about the left's separate response. and governor molly will say why clinton's position on immigration is racist. 20 years later. >> and first up and over to you. what can we expect tonight from the speech, brett hume has seen a lot and thank you for coming on, brit. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: every president tries to accomplish one big thing. what do you think this president will try to accomplish with this speech. >> i think he hopes that the democratic opposition will warm up to him a bit. after a confrontational and combative first year in office. he sees that he can't do it with 50 votes in the senate and he might be able to command the house. so he needs to get the democrats to come along with him and that's what the daca proposal is about. and so t

tucker up next. ♪ note. ♪ >> monica: good evening, welcome to tucker carlson tonight.you've been paying i tension lately, you may have noticed president trump doesn't like the media. the media fervently don't like him back. it is a hate-hate relationship that seems to be getting more contentious. cnn this morning, the president got a strikingly positive health evaluation yesterday. here was cnn's take on it. overweight and doesn't exercise. in other words doctors say he's fine, cnn calls him fat. this has been going on since the beginnings. except for the day that he lobbed cruise missiles into syria which delighted official washington as it always does, virtually all of trump's press coverage has been negative. reporters don't simply disagree with the administration on policy, though they do. they feel personal contempt and loathing for the president and their bosses have encouraged them to express it. in return, the president has struck back, dismissing the media as fake news. many cases he's been right others he just attacks news he doesn't like like all politicians

good night from w washington. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."hite house senior policy advisor stephen miller is on the set tonight. he was at camp david over the weekend as the president and several top congressional republicans hashed out their priorities on immigration and welfare reform. miller then appeared on cnn yesterday to discuss all of this, but the conversation quickly went off the rails over michael wolff's new book. cnn pulled the plug on the interview. >> the reason why i want to talk about the president's experience is what i've seen with him traveling to meet thousands of foreign leaders with his s incredible work. >> you are not answering the question. >> you have 24 hours a day of anti-trump material. you will not give 3 minutes -- >> i get it. there's one viewer that you care about right now and you're being obsequious, being a factotum in order to please him. i think i've wasted enough of my viewers' time. thank you. as republican lawmakers call for jeff sessions to resign -- >> tucker: that got pretty intense and it continue

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."oday was a big win, or seemed to be, for republicans in the congress.tu democrats caved to their demands, the government is back open. details on that in just a minute. new text messages tonight from the fbi with stunning revelations about the hillary clinton revelation. even if you think you know a lot about it, stay tuned. pretty remarkable. but first, for more than a year, on this show, we have discussed our country's immigration policies. pretty much every night, we have asked supporters of open borders how can you justify this? do american citizens benefit from these policies or not? we still don't know. a finally from msnbc comes an answer. on her weekend show this saturday, anchor joy read interviewed a genealogist who had done historical research on my family. apparently one of my ancestors came to this country in 1860 a from switzerland. i didn't even know that until the show aired because i havedi zero interest in the subject. that was more than 150 years ago. it is irrelevan

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."elieve it or not, it was a yeab ago today that buzzfeed released the now infamous trauma dossier. aa year later, they are being sued for defamation by the president's lawyer. veteran chief ben smith of buzzfeed news will join us later in the show to defend his decision to publish that dossier. first, president trump has suggested,um he did yesterday, that he's willing to sign any deal on daca that congress is able to hammer out. an actual deal does at this point seem a long way off but may be getting a little closer today, house republicans outlined a bill that would allow would allow a daca beneficiary is to remain in the united states, critically, though, it would deny them a path citizenship. democrats don't seem to favor, but they know that amnesty for illegal immigrants is crucial to their own electoral strategy of importing new voters from abroad. democratic congressman from texas represents the border city of el paso. he is seeking the democratic nomination to challenge senator

tucker is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."he white house has released their offer for an immigration deal. their proposal gives a so called so-called dreamers essentially everything they said they wanted. legalization and a path to citizenship. millions of people who broke our last to get here would receive amnesty. very few of the president's supporters voted for that when they put him in office last year and some of them are upset about it. the left, what's their reaction like? having gotten pretty much exactly what they demanded a month they are enraged. not only is trumps amnesty offer not enough, they say, it is evidence of a racist plot. according to the aclu "the only community that benefits from a supposed generosity are ways of pharmacists." the columnist shawn king said the plan proved that "the current operating philosophy of the trump white house is supremacy." at eval called the proposal a legislative burning cross and the senior democrat in the house of representatives said this. >> last night, the president put

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."he president of the united states wound up in a very public brawl today with a man who was once one of his closest advisors. steve bannon was a senior figure in the 2016 trump effort, and for the first several months of the administration until august, he was one of the top staffers in the white house. now he appears to be at odds with his former boss, to put it mildly. in an upcoming book, bannon is quoted as saying that a meeting between the trump campaign, its officials and the russian lawyer back in 2015 may have been "treason and unpatriotic." the president responded almost immediately with a statement as pungent as it was direct. here are a few selected passages. "steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. when he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. steve was a staffer who workedis for me after i had already won the nomination by defeating 17 candidates. now that he's on his own, steve is learning that winning is not as easy as i make it look. ste

thanks for coming on. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: this penalty would be the same if passed under californiaitting hiv to someone. giving a straw without being asked is the same punishment, does that seem a little over the top to you? >> that's what the law allows, as you and know, that's not how they're implemented. in this case the fine would likely be the situation. as an employee of an establishment it would ultimately be the establishment that pays the fine, not the waiter. we have a severe problem with plastic pollution in the oceans. we have more plastic in the ocean by weight, 36 times than the zoa plank. why do we need more of that? >> tucker: i agree. what is the solution. if you are not intending to send won to jail for giving someone a straw, but my question is, if you could get six months in prison for that, what if you give them a plastic spoon would that be life? >> this falls under the health and safety code which has that as the generic punishment across the board. california doesn't keep criminals in prison. we're not going to put waiters or shop owners in prison for distri

-born alike. >> tucker: stephen miller, thank you.

>> right. >> tucker: judge y, you are gre on the law. break this down. >> what we're seeing here is what we would expect to see in a 3rd world country. a political party is using their justice system to not only surveill individuals but to change the course of a presidential election. this is not just some case where people were playing around with statements trying to get them to change statements. this is about changing the course of american history by using the most powerful weapon we have in the justice system, the fbi. i have been saying from the beginning, this guy needs to be taken out and cuffed. they should not be paid by the american people. he should not dictate when he is going to live. sean, you said christopher wray was shocked when he read that 4-page memo. how could he be shocked? he is the head of the fbi. everything that you and i have seen that we have been talking about for the last years something that has been coraberated. now he is shocked? why are they shocked on the day before the public is going to get this see

. >> tucker: it does give new numbers to the immigration going on in washington. you were involved in a number of efforts in i think 2006, 2007, 2013 to scuttle attempt at am nest city during that time i remember you saying the washington establishment supports any kind of border enforcement as long as it doesn't work. what did you mean by that? >> that's exactly correct. any time a proposal like a wall or to fix this idea that you claim you are afraid to go home and get to stay in the united states or have problems where we provide subi subsidies to people who come illegally. the more you subsidize it the more you get of something. these kind of failed policies are never going to work. and the american people don't believe in it. and we have been trying to reform it and every time you come up with a reform that works, gets blocked. and so president trump has said we need -- we have immigration. we want immigration. but we want to vet these people. we want to know who they are and make sure they are going to be productive people. people who are flourish in america

today. >> tucker has been really busy today., bridges, on and off-ramps, overpasses. and just use caution there. i know we're getting a later start today. i'm worried traffic problems will start picking up little bit later. >> right. >> thank you. that's my advice. >> yes star of the hour. >> let's get to the radar. anywhere from, you know, a covering to about 5-inches of snow. southern maryland winning the jackpot. i'll show you snow totals coming up when he will system will be out of here as far as snow in the next couple of hours. probably by the noon hour. but we'll not be out of here the winds associated with our storminess as it pushes off to the north and east. wind chills later today zero minus five, minus ten if you'll go out and play in the snow go sledding. >> like secret the amazing australian dog. >> lots of layers. more weather coming up. >> lots of lawyers. got it. >> thank you kindly. >> we'll see you good day next. >> slow it down use caution on the roads, guys, if you have to be out. ♪ ♪ >>> straight ahead, mot

take tucker' advice and dough slow it down.>> have you heard about this one just really frightening fran sick search underway for missing 29-year-old sports reporter who just vanish this weakening houston texas. her name is courtney roland she's a sports reporter for texas a and m university. she we were missing early sunday morning after sending her roommate a really erie text message that said she believed she was being followed another bizarre text message was sent to rolan's mother. so far there'sbs trace of this missing woman. ♪ >>> you heard lot about the new book fire and fury inside the trump white house over the past week, and remains at the top of amazon's best seller list this morning. some of the more controversial statements in the book came from former white house chief strategist steve bannon. bannon now apologizing for those comments and many of president trump's supporters are jumping to his defense. >> those statements are just be a surveillance, chris. i mean pure fantasy. >> this is a book of fiction. not on

. >> tucker?> he did not buy this. my grandmother bought it after he died. >> really? >> yes, we knew that he wanted one, and so group of our family went to an auction, and grandma bought the tucker that he couldn't have before he passed away. >> unbelievable. so he left, but you knew it was that important to have. >> we knew it was that important. >> what would harold say? >> he'd love it. i think, if grandpa were to look at how hard we've tried to do what he was hoping we'd do, i think he'd be really proud of it. and it took a whole community, it took a lot of volunteers, it took a family that never got off track with each other. that's his legacy basically. [ mid-tempo music plays ] >> one last harold lemay story. back in the '80s, at a garbage convention in chicago, he caught wind of a car for sale -- a 1914 baby grand chevy, the same model he first tooled around in as a three-year-old that day he said goodbye to his mom. well, harold bought it on the spot, and he loaded it into the back of th

tucker -- >> good to go.h of january. >> it's tucker time. >> we got a lot of weather, kev. >> we do. >> i'm wearing shorts today, though. >> you look good in those. 18 now we warmed it up 18 in washington. we're hoping to get it above freezing later this afternoon. i do want to mention we're hoping to get it above freezing. it will be right around the freezing mark. develop storm system south, and it looks like this will make a play at parts of our region with snow overnight tonight, early thursday morning. i'll have details coming up next hour how much we're expecting i want to give you a quick reminder here. we're expecting snow tomorrow morning and that a lot of extreme cold behind that storm system. winds will howl 20, 30, 40 miles an hour. wind chills maybe minus ten, minus 20 by thursday night and friday. >> caitlin, your turn. >> hibernation weekend again. plan on being inside. it is stuff out there this morning. we've got several crashes and also many water main breaks due to genasoft such a cold mor

tucker fox5. tweet me. >> check in with erin.affic out there but the commute is still a challenge. >> that's right. 50 eastbound inside the beltway at 450 a crash is blocking the left lane. traffic is very slow. there's also a crash by the truck scales 95 northbound seeing some slick conditions. very slow moving traffic on 95 corridor. we also have a crash dulles toll road ramp to 123 closed with a vehicle in a ditch. slow traffic on the toll road. if you have an early morning flight to catch make sure you check that status before you head out. it's going to be a rough ride to the airport. make sure your flight is still on time. aside from that 41 went to get from 70 to 121 along 270. volume is light. however we do have some slick conditions slowing down the amount of traffic that is out there. in montgomery county slow traffic on 270 as well. five look at this, basically parked right now on the northbound side from 301 to surratts road. 13 minute trip. and that isus though volume is light, look how slick and heavy that snow is o

guess what tucker? love it. >> guess what else tucker. >> what. >> time for memes. >> let's do it. time for the morning meme. >> ♪ >> there it is. >> there it is. >> that's a power picture. >> it's everything isn't it. >> this is an interactive segment. send us your memes and we'll put them on. >> as long as they're appropriate. >> i get great ones i can't put on the air. >> he still laughs though. >> let's do the ones we can put on the air. >> let's get to it. [laughter] >> tucker, this is for you. when it's cold outside but you still want to do your new dance. [laughter] >> awww. >> look at the little one on the left with the hood on. >> the first time it was cold and snow you did your dance. what about erin. >> me two minutes after i start running for the first time in a while. >> just give me a minute. hold on. i'll be good. >> hey chubby kitty i feel that way sometimes. >> don't body shame him. [laughter] >> i was giving compliment. he's well fed cuddly and happy. >> he's definitely out of breath.

we'll check in with tucker in just a minute.hecking our top stories at 7:30 this morning historic talks between north and south korea. underway now. the north has already agreed to send delegation to the wint olympics next month in south korea. that's what they wanted. critics say these talks are attempt by the north to drive wedge between south korea and the united states. space x tucker listen up, has reportedly lost 1 billion -- $1 billion u.s. spy satellite? what? >> the rocket lived off particular florida over the weekend carrying a secret satellite now it appears that it has disappeared and scientists have given up to hope to fine knit tact. scientists are trying to figure out why it may have fallen back not atmosphere. >> all right. in sports, georgia trying to figure out how they lost this game. alabama staged a stunning come back against the bug bulldogs to wint national football championship again. how many conversations are we having here. [ laughter ] >> every time i feel like i read the sports story nobody cares. an