aoc. >> tucker: greg gutfeld. >> tucker: can you be more specific. >> alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> tuckerwas it aoc? >> it's a bird. it's a plane. it's aoc. the new york congresswoman is the star of a comic bookok satire called "alexandria ocasio-cortez and the freshman four." one cover shows the democratic socialist with a sword and super woman style outfit with the caption "new party, who dis?" >> tucker: we have two notes from our judges one, keep hands on buzzers, second, this final question is worth two points. >> greg: what? no, no. >> tucker: i don't make the decisions here i'm a marion net controlled by the control room in new york. >> greg: change the rules. >> tucker: i'm telling you i do what i'm told. we do it often by the way. >> greg: you never do. this. >> tucker: never apologize and never explain, therefore i won't. >> jesse: it's because they don't like you, greg. >> tucker: if you wished your beer tasted more like marshmallows a brewery is selling aa beer which tastes like which sugary breakfast cereal? >> lucky charms. >> jesse: oh, god i knew that. >> greg: i crusheded

take care. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight.yland police have arrested two teenagers for the gruesome slaying of a 14-year-old girl. it was an awful crime details are even worse. both the teenagers are members of ms-13. both here illegally. both could have been kicked out of america long ago but weren't. a living picture of our failure to enforce our immigration laws. trace gallagher has the details on exactly what happened tonight. trace? >> and, tucker, the evidence shows this murder could have been prevented numerous times. prosecutors say 16-year-old jose fuentas ponce and joe escobar were so afraid that a 14-year-old girl would rat them out for a recent burglary they made the girl take off her clothes and attacked her with a machete. her mutilated body was found this month in a creek bed. but last year prince george's county maryland had both fuentas ponce and escobar in custody for attempted murder in a separate case. ice issued an immigration detainer but because of the county's sanctuary policy, it defied the requests. i

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."he sat how much you knew about academic subjects english and math. the new woke privilege. want to get your kids into harvard get divorced and move to a bad neighborhood. more on that story in a minute. first tonight if a man runs for president but nobody supports him, is it really a presidential campaign? that's a philosophical question obviously. it's also sudsenly a very practical concern for bill de blasio the mayor of new york. the mayor announced today after years of destroying the nation's largest city he would very much like to do the same thing to america. watch. >> there is plenty of money in this world. there is plenty of money in this country. it's just in the wrong hands. i'm in a new yorker. i have known trump's a bully for a long time. this is not news to me or anyone else here. i know how to take him on. donald trump must be stopped. i've beaten him before and i will do it again. i'm bill de blasio and i'm running for president because it's time we put working people fi

. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."rtion has never been popular in the state of alabama. since 1973, when a handful of supreme court justices imposed the most left-wing abortion regime in the world by fiat, voters in alabama have strongly disagreed with the ideology of roe v. wade. last night after 46 years, they finally enacted their views into law. lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to ban most abortions in alabama. just in alabama, nowhere else. a law like this would not pass in maryland or new jersey or massachusetts. or pick a state. it applies only in a state where a strong majority agrees on it and reflects that community's values. that's called self-government. it's how democracy is supposed to work. the ruling class doesn't care, though. they no longer believe in democracy. so the idea that somewhere 1,000 miles from brooklyn in some little town in alabama, there might be a person who disagrees with their views on abortion or gun control or name a topic. that idea drives them completely insane. it eats at them, it

tucker carlson is coming up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight.r more than two long years the institutional left told us they knew exactly what the mueller router would say. they said it would end the trump presidency and save this nation. congressman adam schiff who sits on the intel committee and would know gave us a preview. schiff said he had seen with his own eyes proof that the president of the united states included criminally with the government of russia. buzzfeed, a noted cat blog said it had conclusive evidence that trump obstructed evidence. abc news momentarily tanked stock prices when it reported that trump had ordered his national security advisor to talk to the russians and so on. the mueller report is going to prove all of these stories true. and then the report came out and turns out that none of it was true. it was all a lie. how did the people who told and repeated those lies respond? they could have done what decent people do. they could have resigned their jobs, tearfully apologize for misleading our country and moved to para

tucker? >> tucker: that is the question. trace gallagher on that story for us.nks a lot, trace. >> yeah. >> tucker: take three steps back and assess what you just heard. federal agents are dumping thousands of illegal aliens at bus stations and then simply walking away. they don't want to do it. they have no choice. congress won't help them. our system is in total collapse. nobody is even trying to protect you or our country. kirsten gillibrand is a u.s. senator and democratic presidential candidate. she thinks what is happening is just fine. on sunday, gillibrand went on television to explain that we have no right to detain illegal immigrants. instead they should be released directly into our country. >> but you oppose even what the obama administration did in terms of keeping families together or keeping them together for a longer period of time in detention? >> i wouldn't -- as president of the united states, i wouldn't use the detention system at all. >> homeland security saying hundreds of thousands of people are crossing the border and they need to go some

until then, tucker is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."hings are moving fast, but think back, if you still can, to ten years, ten years ago. what were democrats saying about abortion at that time? a decade ago? well, they said they believed in roe v. wade, they said abortion is never preferable, but it ought to be legal for the first trimester of pregnancy. they were not, they often told us, pro-abortion, they were pro-choice. a lot of voters, by the way, agreed with them. you might not like it, but according to the polls, that was a mainstream position. that is not where democratic leaders are today. the parties new position is the more abortion, the better. abortion must be available for any reason at all, up until the moment of birth. an op-ed in "the new york times" this morning put it "pregnancy kills, abortions and save lives." in other words, it's better to abort a pregnancy and to bring it to term. that is their view. how many voters agree with that? almost none. most people find it disgusting. just as most people, according to pol

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."ntifa went on the attack in portland, oregon, yesterday. one of the victims joins us ahead with an account on what happened. first it has been a bewildering couple of months for bill barr. imagine you are bill barr. you served at the attorney general with george h.w. bush, 1991. alexandria ocasio-cortez had just turned two years old. that's how long it was. this february, purely by process of elimination, he was the one guy who could get confirmed, barr became attorney general of the united states once again. the mueller investigation was nearly over when he got the job and he probably didn't expect to become a major figure in the russia story because he had nothing to do with it. as far as we know he never met with secret agents in prague orn texted vladimir putin on hiswe blackberry. he never managed a macedonian content farm. if barr betrayed this country for a sack of rubles or a case of vodka, nobody has ever proved it but it doesn't matter. the russian story cannot die. cnn, "the

tucker?tucker: which may be why he suspended his campaign for the democratic nomination for president. trace gallagher, thanks for the update. >> yep. >> tucker: good to see you. chadwick moore is a new york based journalist and frequent guest on the show. he joining us tonight. chadwick, it looks like not running for president anymore at least in this cycle. i is there taking, three steps back, a deeper lesson to the creepy porn lawyer saga?to >> i don't understand how this could have happened.r creepy porn lawyer was america's sweetheart. a man going to take down the trump administration.we we had from "game of thrones" a tv show called "reliable sources" on cnn. even he said this guy was a very strong contender for the presidency. and that he was going to pay a lot of attention to him. i do not think this is the time to go after journalists. they suffered a lot this year. they had a very difficult year. all of their hoaxes have been proven to come -- not to be true. i just don't know why -

"tucker carlson tonight" is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight wide spread political violence erupted in venezuela today. two factions both claiming to be the legitimate government of the country. the beginnings of what could become a brutal civil war. thousands of miles to the north the foreign policy template pushes for an american intervention. another conflict in a faraway place. sadly that looks entirely possible. much more on this developing story but we want to begin with a assessment on what is happening in venezuela right now. for that we will go to trace gallagher -- i'm correcting that. we are going to go to venezuela. there he is. thank you for joining us. what is happening? >> violence erupted across the capital after a very traumatic morning. he urged venezuelans to take part in operation freedom in the final push to topple nicolas maduro. he said he had the support of the brave soldiers and he calls on the military to help him and nicolas maduro's rule trying to encourage them that they will be on the right side of history if they

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."or more than two long years, thee institutional left told us they knew exactly what the mueller report would say. they said it would and the trump presidency. adam schiff who sits on the committee and would now give us a preview. he said that he had seen with his own eyes proof that the president of the united states colluded criminally with the government of russia. they said it had conclusive evidence that trump obstructed justice. abc momentarily tanks stock prices when they said that trump had ordered his national security advisor to talk to the russians and so on. the mueller report is going to prove all of these stories true. then the report came out, and it turns out that none of it is true. it is all a lie. how did the people who told and repeated those lies respond? they could have resigned their jobs, tearfully apologize for misleading our country, and then moved to paraguay and shame. they could have done that. they didn't. they did what they always do.t they became more agg

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcomer: to "tucker carlson tonight."et another mass shooting took place this week, this one on tuesday at a stem school in highlands ranch, colorado. one student was murdered, and eight more were injured before the two shooters were captured, and it was brought to a halt. the whole thing was horrifying for the victims and their families. but for others, it was an opportunity to push a partisan agenda for gun control, and when they tried to do that, they didn't get exactly what they expected. interesting story. trace gallagher joins us with the details tonight. trace? >> this was paying tribute toh 18-year-old kendrick castillo,ig the 18-year-old hero who was killed trying to tackle one of those shooters. but instead of a vigil, it became a rally for gun control. >> we did not hold our elected officials accountable. if they were loosening the sensible gun regulations that would keep us w safe. instead, we chose to burden our youth with the responsibility of saving their own lives. >> and then after senator michael bennet

♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. about this as a mental exercise. try remember back to the year 2009. it was only a decade ago but it feels like a totally different era and enemy ways it was. in 2009, most people didn't have smart phones. late night television was still funny. the democratic party was still pretending to put the interest of american citizens above those of the rest of the world in september of 2009 president obama gave a speech about healthcare to giant session of congress. you may remember it. one of obama's most emphatic promises in that speech and in fact during that whole season was that foreigners living in our country illegally would never receive benefits under his plan. he said that repeatedly but not herb believed him. >> always those that claimed reform efforts would include illegal immigrants. this too is false. the reforms i'm proposing would not apply to those here illegally. >> you lie. >> not true. >> you lie yelled someone in the room. that man was congressman joe wilson of south caro

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."he democratic lawmaker in the city of philadelphia for rates and threatens teenage girls for praying outside of an abortion clinic. it's a remarkable story, you might not believe it actually happened had it not been caught on tape, but it was. want to be intimate with trace gallagher who has details on exactly what happened. trace. >> the entire video of pennsylvania democratic lawmaker brian sims verbally harassing a woman protesting outside of planned parenthood was live streamed for 8 minutes. we're going to show you the theme of the full 8 minutes, which is representative sims maintaining that protesters are "racist, classist bigots, who deserve our righteous opposition" when the woman he's taping tells him to stop, he threatens to docs or, publish your private information. watch. take a hi of everyone, representative brian sims here. i'm once again out in front of planned parenthood of southeastern pennsylvania. today's protester. she is an old white lady was going to try to avoid

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."ust about 24 hours ago, the president issued a sweeping declassification order. he gave us attorney general william barr broad authority to find and release any documents related to domestic surveillance,do spying by american intelligence agencies over the 2016 campaign. you think everyone would like this. you think it would qualify as donald trump's least controversial decision since president. everyone in washington says we love transparency. democracy dies in darkness "the washington post" reminds us every modern. even now members of congress are calling for the impeachment of the president because portions of the mueller report were redacted. let's see everything,s they're telling us. okay. let's do that. the president suddenly appears to agree with them. let's see everything. so how did the left react when he suggested that? not well. watch this. >> in the end, this is all part of a pattern ofs. politicizing our justice department instead of allowing justice to be done. >> i know

tucker carlson joins us next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight.rom philadelphia to san francisco to college campuses everywhere, suddenly the american pro-life movement, not just the pro-life movement but anybody who has the mildest qualms about legal abortion is under attack from the intolerant left. the newly energized a newly radical left. we have footage of the latest attacks coming from the university of north carolina. we'll show it to you just ahead. but first tonight and related matters, one of the most bill ordering things to watch over the past couple of years has been a steady migration of the american left from concern of civil liberties to an embrace of authoritarianism. it wasn't that long ago that liberals worried about powerful government agencies that might be stepping on somebody's rights, they had hearings on the subject. they don't anymore per they don't worry about it anymore pair they applaud it. instead, the left now controls government agencies. they understand a permanent bureaucracy is a powerful tool of social control. t

♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."eto o'rourke has changed, he is not not though boyish carefree road trip with the wheat hook up that you might remember from just a few months ago. that to beto is gone, maybe forever. at the new beto is far more serious. even angry. what is the new beto mad about? climate change, obviously. border walls, and bigotry and uptight old people that do not understand that skateboarding is not a crime. also that buzz kill pete buttigieg who stole his spot in the presidential ranking, that was annoying as hell. but mostly what beto is mad at his beto. he has had some time since being unemployed. he came to the conclusion that actually he is a pretty mediocre person. not a good guy at all. pretty much in and thoughtful human being. most people would keep that knowledge to themselves. not beto, he went on "the view" today to tell everyone. >> you and answer campaign and said that you were "born to be in it." he went across the country on a road trip after you lost your election and you said "so

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."awful lot going on for a thursday night. despite the best efforts of prosecutors to hide the details, this show has obtained documents that revealed that jussie smollett did in fact fake his hate crime and show how prosecutors responded. possible they never planned to charge him in the first place. we have developments and details on that in just a few moments. >> tucker: first tonight a fox news alert the president has announced plans for new taxes on mexican imports as a response to the illegal immigration crisis. minutes ago the president tweeted this, quote: on june 10th, the united states will impose a 5% tariff on all goods coming into our country from mexico until such time as illegal immigrants coming through mexico enter our country stop, the tariff will gradually increase until the illegal immigration problem is remedied at which time the tariffs will be removed. not a small thing. in a follow-up statement tonight the white house said the tariff will rise 5% every month until

meantime tucker is up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," at 11a.m. eastern time this morning special counsel robert mueller made a rare public appearance reading from a prepared statement from behind a podium at the department of justice. mueller explained that he will not testify before congress, why? because he has got nothing more to say. it's all in that 300 page report which can you read online if you feel like it. so why bother giving the speech in the first place? well, robert mueller had a message he wanted to deliver. not a message for you or me or the rest of the audience at home but a message aimed at a very small group of elected officials in washington. years of investigations could not produce a criminal charge against donald trump but, mueller suggested, congress could still step in. >> the opinion says that the constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing. >> tucker: a process other than the criminal justice system, end quote. that's how a 74-year-old a

tucker?er: amazing trace gallagher thank you very much for that the mother you just saw in that video joins us tonight from philadelphia. ashley, thank you very much for coming on. what -- you were there in the video with three girls, i think two of them are yours. how old are they? >> so, my daughters are 15 and 13. and my daughter's friend who was with us is also 15. >> tucker: 15 and 13. what do they think of this? >> it was -- it was a shocking experience. what is not seen in that video was our first interaction with mr. sims. he approached us about 20 minutes before that, came in -- i would say came in hot and came in yelling at us. and really was yelling very directly at the girls. very specifically at the girls. so, i moved myself in between him and the girls, asked him, you know, please talk to me. let's have a conversation. the two of us as two adults. but he continued to yell at the girls. and then eventually he left and about 10 minutes later is when he came back videotaping us. so

tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."s washington fusses over the russia hoax for a third year in a row, a lot of other things are happening that don't get the attention they deserve. for example, the big tech companies launched the fiercist attack yet on your right as an american to follow your conscience, and to say what you believe. unlike the earlier generations of the authoritarians. the tech moguls don't say it aloud. they are not honorable enough to state it clearly. instead they drone it in the soothing banality. listen to zuckerberg saying free speech is something to get behind. >> we are taking a proactive role to make sure that the partners and the developers use the services for good. we are focused to make sure that the recommendations and the discovery services aren't highlighting the groups where people are repeatedly sharing misinformation or the harmful content. we work hard to completely remove groups if they exist primarily to violate the policies or to do things that are dangerous. >> tucker: who knew

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."his week the trump administration revealed its proposal to overhaul america's immigration system. the proposal would notld by itself build the often promised wall on our southern border nor would it cut current levels of immigration despite the fact that most americans would like too see that happen. the one big thing the administration's proposal would do is give priority to immigrants who might actually help america, skilled workers with english proficiency. it's hard to see an argument against a system like that. there isn't really an argument against that system. for years democrats have argued that immigrants make vital additions to our economy.re they are smarter than we are, they are harder working and do better in school. they found more companies. the president has decided to take democrats at their word. he says he wants all of those good things that immigrants bring. watch. >> we want immigrants coming in we cherish the open door that we want to create for our country, becau

. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."rica's border control system is collapsing into dust. lawmakers in washington are doing nothing about it still is. now the crisis has gotten so bad that the border patrol is transporting illegal immigrants deep into the united states and then simply leaving them at bus stops. trace gallagher has more on this developing story to make. trace. >> in the past seven months, ending in april, the border patrol and just the el centro sector has apprehended 293,000 migrants. that's a 400% increase from a year earlier. and because housing facilities are overflowing and because of legal limits on how long migrant children can be held, border agents are no loading migrants into vans and buses and driving them 150 miles away to a greyhound bus station in san bernardino. we saw the drop-offs first hand in san bernardino last week. the migrants are released pending court dates, but of course the vast majority never show up for court. critics say the migrants shouldn't be dumped at the bus station wit

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."e are going to have the show for you in just a moment. the president, as you know if you've been following it, is speaking right now in montoursville, pennsylvania. talking about the political establishment. that is something we are going to address at some length in tonight's show.is we are going to go back to the president in pennsylvania, dip in there, we're going to see him in just a minute. don't go away. >> president trump: to protect our national security, we also imposed a 10% tariff on foreign aluminum and a 25% tariff on foreign steel. what that has done for aluminum and steel in this country is incredible. now just this month, united states steel announced it will invest more than $1 billion to completely transform and make new mon valley, you know where this is? it's right next to pittsburgh. does anyone know? near pittsburgh, they are developing thousands of jobs, newest equipment in the world and they are going to make steel again in our country. they have been building n

we appreciate it. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: a male power lifter has just smashed four recordsa need for a female power lifter is but some bigoted people say there is a problem with that. plus, the mueller report is out for the partisan press is still obsessed with revisiting barr's summary of the mueller report. that's not on opinion, that's a fact. we will have more facts, after the break. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: imagine what it's like to be congressman eric swalwell in california, is running for president but one of nearly two dumb dumb like dozen democrats running. he needs a niche, so he needs a different path. he decided to come off like a parody of a cringing self-loathing beta male. sue yesterday for example tweeted this, "do you know how many times women is mentioned in the constitution? a zero. that is unacceptable. women must be equally represented and equally protected. hashtag e.r.a. now." so he had a point, we checked and women does not appear in the constitution and neither does man. trans also. as a matter of fact, white, black, and straight, they got there. as a matter

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."hat a weird day it was in washington. hard as it may be to believe, two weeks after the release of the mueller report. but on capitol hill tonight they are still yelling about russia! it's as if the most exhaustive federal investigation in a generation never even happened. it's as if the russia collusion story was completely real and not a ludicrous hoax published by ruthless partisans. it's as if facts no longer matter at all, only emotion and ambition and the overriding will to power. these apparently are the new rules in washington. the attorney general william barr learned of them today as he was summoned before the congress. angry democrats interrogated him but the letter he wrote in march summarizing the mueller report. you might wonder why anyone would care about that letter, the entire mueller report was subsequently released right after the letter. that report is now available online. anyone can read it, you can read it if you want and then draw your own independent conclusion

aoc. >> tucker: greg gutfeld. >> tucker: can you be more specific. >> alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> tucker: was it aoc? >> it's a bird. it's a plane. it's aoc. the new york congresswoman is the star of a comic bookok satire called "alexandria ocasio-cortez and the freshman four." one cover shows the democratic socialist with a sword and super woman style outfit with the caption "new party, who dis?" >> tucker: we have two notes from our judges one, keep

. >> tucker: greg gutfeld. >> tucker: can you be more specific. >> alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> tucker: was it aoc? >> it's a bird. it's a plane. it's aoc. the new york congresswoman is the star of a comic bookok satire called "alexandria ocasio-cortez and the freshman four." one cover shows the democratic socialist with a sword and super woman style outfit with the caption "new party, who dis?" >> tucker: we have two notes from our judges one, keep hands on buzzers, second, this final question is worth two points. >> greg: what? no, no. >> tucker: i don't make the decisions here i'm a marion net controlled by the control room in new york. >> greg: change the rules. >> tucker: i'm telling you i do what i'm told.

. >> tucker: don't we have -- is there anything that should be private? >> first of all, as you know come on the federal level since 1924, the ways and means committee, the senate finance committee, joint committee on taxation, they can request federal returns. all we are saying is, if they want a state return, we are able to have that in new york. >> tucker: where are yours? >> if the senate finance chair or the ways and means chair or the joint committee of taxation shareai wants my company can react -- >> tucker: why don't you release them. >> why doesn't trump release has? >> tucker: he doesn't want to. ihe would like to see them. i agree. hold on. you are forcing it. >> we are not forcing anything. >> tucker:or yes, you are. >> we are saying that if there is a legitimate legislative

thank you. >> thank you, tucker. >> after mueller's remarks yesterday, it wasn't the democratic field that lost its mind, hollywood did too. led by robertdyer er ier in ne. he started a new service announcement that claims the president obstructed justice. >> you may have seen me on "saturday night live" as a certain federal prosecutor. that was acting. now we're going to hear from real federal prosecutors. i have so much admiration for their intelligence and dedication to their work. recently, 1,000 former federal prosecutors who served under republican and democratic president have united to sign a statement to help americans to understand what's in the mueller report. the conclusion should trouble us all. in the words of the mueller report, no person is above the law. >> no person is above the law. but certain, rich, well-known people would like an outsized role in guiding what america does next. robert de niro fits into that small category. that's part of a long-term obsession he has with donald trump. another ex

. >> thanks for having me, tucker. i appreciate it. >> tucker: separate soso chicago would be one state and what they call downstate illinois would be a separate state? is that the idea? >> right.io so basically the resolution calls for congress to separate or make chicago the 51st state. really the movement is to find what counties that are interested in forming a new illinois. hopefully 101 of those counties would become the new illinois. >> tucker: i mean, part of the reason, the impetus for this has got to be financial. nobody wants to be saddled with the unresolvable debt that chicago has. the really unre1068able debt problems that chicago has. i assume that's part of, this right? >> well, part of, yeah. you know, chicago is drowning in debt. they are drowning in unfunded pension liabilities.

take it away, tucker. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight" for the presidentolding a rally in panama city, florida. we'll go to it live when he begins speaking. one thing we are going to be watching for is whether the president responds to the seismic story that broke last night on cable news. here's how they summarized it. >> with c and then tonight, i'm don lemon. are you listening? the president of the united states is a fraud and a con man. >> tucker: holy smoke six make this sound like a big development. what happened? did the president get caught running a nigerian phone scam? did he sell bed calling? did he spend two full years of the russian inclusion hoax was real? no, nothing that sleazy. "the new york times" revealed that some of trump's business is lost quite a bill of money. because of that, he paid no federal income taxes for eight of the ten years from where they had dated. unfortunately, this is a common way to account. some of the biggest companies in the world paid no federal income taxes were exactly the same reason. that list would include