♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."adly it's the end of the road for one of cnn's top presidential picks. he's not dropping out, he's behind bars. creepy porn lawyer convicted on a long list of felonies. we will all so tell you about mayor michael bloomberg and what that says about the democratic party. first tonight as we chronicled extensively come our leaders in washington suddenly seemed deeply sympathetic to people ensnared in our criminal justice system, an awful lot of criminals are getting out of prison early or not going at all. this is compassion and it may be that yet those same compassionate impulses don't seem to extend to roger stone, one of the president oldest advisors. he was convicted of lying during robert mueller's russia investigation, he couldn't find collusion but stone got up to nine years in prison. good, said official washington, he is annoying, and worse he is close to trump. >> he's trying to protect roger stone for lying under oath for witness tampering, for trying to cover up the trumps con

, actually, tucker, because i do recall having been asked about this by some guy on tv called tucker carlsonnt to give the question to. >> no, no, no. please. >> are you sure? >> answer the question. >> tucker: look, joe biden wouldn't remember it, so it's really a test of your memory. >> yeah. that's true. you are right. thanks for pointing that out, martha. anyway, this was said, i believe, the shape of our democracy, which in my mind ought to be shaped like marilyn monroe but isn't. i would have to go with mayor pete on that, i think. >> a curvey democracy. >> yeah. >> tucker: slightly taller mayor? to the tape. >> and now deep thoughts. with mayor pete. >> it's not a sizzling glamorous issue but the shape of our democracy is the issue that effects every other issue. >> tucker: trap -- >> i remember how he would remember that it's unforgettable. >> it might have changed shape by now. >> tucker: question 4. question 4 is a two point question and multiple choice. a man in great britain recently took this photography while out climbing. it looks like an angel descending from heaven but a wea

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."it's the end of the road for one of cnn's top presidential picks, sadly. he is not dropping out. he is behind bars. croupy porn lawyer convicted today on a long list of felonies. developing, we will have details for you just ahead. we will also tell you about mayor michael bloomberg's emergence as an actual democratic contender what that says about the democratic party and about america. worth paying attention to. as we chronicled pretty extensively on this show our leaders in washington suddenly seem deeply sympathetic to people ensnared in criminal justice system. a lot of criminals getting out of prison early these days or not going at all. compassionate. those compassionate impulses don't seem to extend to roger stone one of the president's oldest vorsz. lying during mueller russia investigation. in the end mueller couldn't find collusion but stonel got up to 9 years in prison. good says official washington. he is annoying and, worse, he is close to trump. let him die there. >> he

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until they get the outcome they want but shove it down your throat ok if jimmy door and took tucker carlson can talk for a long segment i think a good. part of the country could do that different parts of the country could do that again if we're allowed to do that without people jamming us and separating us and cut putting labels on us which don't apply and to stop stuart circuiting a conversation that we can have there doing it the media is doing it these donors are doing it stablish can do it and i'm not going to give the republicans a free pass on this one here they have their problems to this this is in a man we need to emancipate ourself here and i see the the rumblings of a week we had that with with trump in 2016 in the republican party we'd i want to see someone come up in the democratic party are on the left that can be a healer and can reach out we don't have that right now and they won't let bernie do it go ahead of arlen. yeah and see the reason that there can be a cross ideological discussion is for the for this reason this is about the reality that elitism is fundamentally inc

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. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight."ccording to your numbers, the democratic primary race is constructing to become really a two man contest. a lot of people in the race but the outline is clear. on one side, you have the candidate bernie sanders who wants to turn this country into a conference of welfare state. looked up and every aspect of american life to impose a new economic order. sanders is not hiding what he wants to do. he's running on what he wants to do. his main rival is michael bloomberg, the former mayor of new york. bloomberg has shot to about 15% nationally in the polls from nowhere, essentially. he's suddenly leading the race in the critical super tuesday state of florida. what is mike bloomberg running on? that's a trick question, actually. bloomberg isn't running on anything. not because he has ideas, he has plenty of ideas and some of them are far outside the american mainstream. but bloomberg does not think anything matters but he's not running on ideas. not trying to convince voters of anything. he'

coming up next tucker carlson takes it away from washington, d.c. thanks for joining me, everybody. ill see you back here on "the story" tomorrow at 7:00. have a great night. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." if it feels like three months of news has been compacted into a single week, that's pretty close. the president gave a wild speech today responding to his impeachment acquittal. nancy pelosi's state of the union behavior and a radio tired private equity king pin who uses the u.s. senate to deliver moral sermons to america. here is a 10-second sampling. >> we were treated unbelievably unfairly and you have to understand we first went through russia, russia, russia. it was all bull [bleep] >> tucke

tucker carlson is coming up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight.'s been an awfully long week. thank god we are ending it tonight with two pieces of good news. the first great britain is an independent country again as it has been for most of the last thousand years. brexit has gone through. so cheers to our friends in the u.k. in this country, the impeachment farce is almost over. that's our good news. the president will be acquitted. now, we knew that from the first day, of course, which is one of the reasons this whole overhyped charade was always such an insulting waste of time. now it's official. even the wettest trump hating republicans in the senate are thoroughly sick of this. they want it over. and, yet, because once started, nothing in washington ends easily, the process continues on like a ghost ship. here was the scene on the senate floor today. [shouting] >> oh my gosh! [shouting] [shouting] >> tucker: those are actually retail drunk shoppers in retail stores on black friday. same sickness at work. mobs of desperate people grasping at t

"tucker carlson tonight" starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucke "tucker tonight." buckle up an incredible amount of news this hour. people in charge still giving the country away to big tech and to china. we'll have details on that. mayor pete buttigieg, father pete still lecturing america on its many sins. he is very disappointed new. and tomorrow roger stone could receive a 9-year prison sentence for offending washington: we will tell you about all of that in just a minute. but, first tonight, democrats are holding yet another primary debate this hour. this one in las vegas for the first time former mayor michael bloomberg will be standing on the stage. his campaign felt it was important to tell nbc news that he will not be perched on a box this evening. it's not clear if they were bragging about that or not. in fact, bloomberg shouldn't be on the stage at all. for a full year the democratic party maintained clear rules about who qualified for their debates. candidates needed to meet a polling threshold. they also needed donations from a large pool of p

"tucker carlson tonight" starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucke "tuckern incredible amount of news this hour. people in charge still giving the country away to big tech and to china. we'll have details on that. mayor pete buttigieg, father pete still lecturing america on its many sins. he is very disappointed new. and tomorrow roger stone could receive a 9-year prison sentence for offending washington: we will tell you about all of that in just a minute. but, first tonight, democrats are holding yet another primary debate this hour. this one in las vegas for the first time former mayor michael bloomberg will be standing on the stage. his campaign felt it was important to tell nbc news that he will not be perched

i will see you later on "tucker carlson tonight," and i will see you later tomorrow, good night, everybody. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for weeks the media told you it was wrong to worry about the coronavirus. the mysterious lethal disease spreading rapidly around the world. if that concerns you in any way, do you think we ought to take steps to protect ourselves from it? a new york bigot, coronavirus racist profiling against asians. an arrogant at slate.com. and a writer for "the seattle times," a parol racism is the real academic fear. so one the publications wag their fingers in the face of readers and told him he was irrational and immoral in fact to worry about the coronavirus than the annual flu. identity politics trumped public health and not for the first time. awoken us is a colt. it lets you die before the admitted diversity is not her strength. so fast-forward to today. what began as a regional outbreak in the city of lujan china is now spreading across europe. parts of italy shut down tonight and catholic services in in some places funeral

actually, tucker, because i simply recall having been asked about this by some guy on tv called tucker carlsonwant to give the question -- are you sure, are you sure? >> tucker: look, joe biden wouldn't remember it, so it's really a test of her memory. >> yeah, that's true, you're right. thanks for pointing that out, martha. anyway, this was set i believe the shape of our democracy, which in my mind ought to be shaped like -- like marilyn monroe, but isn't, i would have to go with mayor pete on that i think. >> tucker: a kirby democracy. was it a completely -- mayor? to the tapes. >> and now, deep thoughts with mayor pete. >> it's not a sizzling glamorous issue, but the shape of our democracy is the issue that affects every other issue. >> tucker: trapezoidal. mark steyn. >> it's unforgettable. i understand how mark remember that. >> it might have changed shape by now. >> tucker: the judges are telling us -- question four is a two-point question, okay? and it's a multiple-choice. here itt is. a man in great britain recently took this photograph while out climbing. it looks like an angel descen

coming up next tucker carlson takes it away from washington, d.c. thanks for joining me, everybody. we will see you back here on "the story" tomorrow at 7:00. have a great night. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." if it feels like three months of news has been compacted into a single week, that's pretty close. the president gave a wild speech today responding to his impeachment acquittal. nancy pelosi's state of the union behavior and a radio tired private equity king pin who uses the u.s. senate to deliver moral sermons to america. here is a 10-second sampling. >> we were treated unbelievably unfairly and you have to understand we first went through russia, russia, russia. it was all bull [bleep] >> tucker: you will hear more. mark steyn joins us to respond to all of it. also we will dig into the still unfinished chaos in iowa. that's unbelievable. and then the coronavirus continues to spread tonight. a chinese doctor who sounded the alarm about it is now dead. dr. marc siegel joins us to assess the growing threat. but, first, a story that has not

i will see you later on "tucker carlson tonight," and i will see you later tomorrow, good night, everybodyr: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." for weeks the media told you it was wrong to worry about the coronavirus. the mysterious lethal disease spreading rapidly around the world. if that concerns you in any way, do you think we ought to take steps to protect ourselves from it? a new york bigot, coronavirus racist profiling against asians. an arrogant at slate.com. and a writer for "the seattle times," a parol racism is the real academic fear. so one the publications wag their fingers in the face of reader

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."ocratic primary race is shaping up. it's a pretty clear choice for democratic voters. on the one hand a self-described democratic socialist who wants to make your health insurance illegal or they can go with the plutocrat rich enough to buy your hometown. that's the choice. we will have more to tell you with the democratic civil war now in progress in just a moment. first tonight, there are serious long-term problems facing america as we have told you about for years on this show. thanks for outsourcing, this country no longer has the same reserve the stable middle class manufacturing jobs we did even 30 years ago. >> in coastal cities, housing has becomes a astro no, ma'am micly expensive. prices are rising far quicker than wage growth and most tragically opioid epidemic kills tens of thousands of americans every year. one of the reasons fentanyl is smuggled in from abroad. these might seem like unrelated problems, but they are not. a single theme unites them. a systematic decision by

. >> this is tucker carlson last night and the president tweeted this out overnight of tucker carlsonthe president to pardon roger stone. the president tweeted this, i think has pinned the tweet. so if nothing else this shows that the idea the president hasn't thought about pardoning roger stone is bull spit as you would want to say not wanting to swear. the president saying he hasn't thought about pardoning roger stone, that's not true. >> he gets something out of us talking about will he or won't he. whether it happens today or whether it happens the second week of november, right now he's getting something out of the back and forth and the outrage over it. meantime he's pardoned 11 other people for serious crimes that the justice department prosecuted. and i think that's one of the things we're seeing this week with the justice department controversy is there are prosecutors doing those cases, and then have it all wiped away by the president with a stroke of the pen. now, of course he has that right under the constitution, but there's a whole office at the justice department, the p

♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight" tonight.ording to numbers over theca weekend, the democratic primary race is constructing to become really a two man contest. still in thele race, but the outline of the future is getting clearer. on one side of a candidate, bernie sanders, who wants to turn this o country into a comprehensive welfare state. he plans to upend every aspect of american life in order to impose a new an economic order. if sanders isn't hiding planning to do very he's running on what he plans to do. his main rival is michael bloomberg, the former mayor ofs new york. bloomberg has shot to above 15% nationally in the polls from nowhere, essentially buried he's suddenly reading the rhythmic vertical super tuesday state of florida. what is mike bloomberg running on?on that's a trick question actually. bloomberg is running on anything. not because he doesn'tan have ideas, he's got plenty of ideas and some of them are far outside the american mainstream but bloomberg doesn't think any of that matters. he's not running on

they even had tucker carlson stream that out on tv last night.stening, so i think we're in a post impeachment world where there's a likely possibility. >> let me play one clip from your film just to get a sense. >> it is better to be infamous than never be famous at all. >> those who say i have no soul, those who say i have no principles are losers. those are bitter losers. >> what message would you have for the viewers of this film who will loathe you when the credits roll? >> i revel in your hatred because if i weren't effective you wouldn't hate me. >> what are you hearing he's thinking right now? do you have a line in? >> through back channels, we've heard that roger is both completely crushed that his voice has been silenced in the media, that he hasn't been able to work. he seems to have very much gone broke and lost a lot of his financial stability, but seems right now the tables are turning, and his lifetime friendship with donald trump and his lifetime of making ins with the media. he was able to get his message out, and as far as i can

tucker carlson is coming up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight. week. thank god we are ending it tonight with two pieces of good news. the fir gat

the present already retreated what tucker carlson recommended. she must know what could be coming. maybe she's making a stand that will speak for itself, that will never be paid for. >> harris: carley shimkus with us today. >> carley: yeah, you know, if she sentence is roger stone to more than 7-9 years, that would, to me, signal -- >> harris: i haven't heard anybody say that would be an indication. david blunt and others have said that she approached those larger numbers. remember, they were lowered after attorney general barr got involved. >> carley: but that would signal to me that a retrial was probably not necessarily in the picture. because why would you go that far only to say, "let's do this over again." i could also really see the president going for the pardon. not only because of the retweet but because he would see something like andrew mccabe not getting charged with any crimes. >> harris: he mentions him in the tweet. >> carley: yeah, to roger stone who was arrested by an fbi s.w.a.t. team and facing years in prison. it's very much with in his character to see that so

welcome to "tucker carlson" tonight. looks like bernie sanders may well be the democratic nominee.s coming. what would that mean for our country? we're going to have a series, "bernie sanders in america." but first, coronavirus causes chaos around the world. the dow jones average drops 1,193 points today. the single biggest drop in a day in the history of american markets. this week has been the markets worst since the financial crisis. friday could add to the damage. other nations

tucker carlson and to follow their offense. that social media is the corrosive influence the responsibility of the media to tell the gift of facts and not play into their twitter feed with each new innovation real work ourselves out of it. we had a good relationship at the white house as the unpaid agent of fidel castro. he's in favor of a lot of things that i am opposed. but incentives but i see among the senate and the younger group of senators democrat and republican they didn't go there for their careers given the right moment republican in new hampshire and to work it through and get it done so we will see more of that people will say i didn't come here to spend six years or ten years of my life by getting reelected. went to get something done for our country and it works better if leadership says fine i'm the president working across party lines but also may work well in the absence so i see it a little bit now but a sense of a lot in conversations. >> is the rising art of agreement? >> i think there is a rising desire to

to "tucker carlson tonight." of new hampshire the first primary and there is no caucuses and we will understand the results are imminent. you will see them as they come in the middle of the take and we will tell you what this means. the democratic race is a frantic struggle to destroy bernie sanders supporters. the overview, the best we have come up bret and martha to kick off the fox news coverage. >> bret: are right, tucker think you. >> martha: thank you, tech rate is 8:00 in new hampshire the last of the polls. and now can report that bernie sanders is enjoying an early lead over rival pete buttigieg and currently in second place. and a lady searching amy klobuchar is in third. >> bret: enclosing me neither joe biden nor elizabeth warn boys to finish in the top three. let me say that again, biden and warren not appearing to be in the top three according to fox news decision desk although most of the vote is not counted. the numbers can change come obviously but we take the raw vote total that we are seeing, e

tucker carlson and others have now combined with the greenhouse gases that warmed the earth and when the journalists and anchors who are supposed to cover issues like climate change get paid to hobnob with the very people who caused them then it's no surprise that in 20 teens the major nightly news and sunday morning political shows on the national broadcast networks spent a combined total of just 142 minutes on climate change and almost a 3rd of that came from a single climate focused episode of meet the press on december 30th. it's bad enough that we know our mainstream media networks are funded by weapons contractors fossil fuel companies and other industries that would make impartiality impossible but refusing to accept anything from interest groups is basic journalism one o one and if more mainstream media reporters did this then maybe we'd see more stories about why we live in a society where a side hustle is even necessary to survive from reporters who are too rich to even need one so the t.v. in my room isn't getting fox news ok if you read your air b.n. b. agreement it says

which is which is a change because you have people you have people 'd on the map you can insta tucker carlson's the douglas macgregor is what you're saying exactly what we're saying is very clear is that there's a interventionism isn't in america's interest it is in no one's interest here but you still see the example of syria when when these 2 camps have some differences for example for from the start which meant they would like to continue to push in a lot of money in order to continue this occupation of syria even though they know it's not going to work out then while trump saying no no this is country and resources. let's just take the oil instead and that's kind of that's a good that's against the american sanctions but anyway no one thought that out yeah it's not well thought out but that's where you find that the cameras come together ok well at least it's not leaving syria completely holding on to the oil so nobody can escape can't leave he's not allowed to leave alex let me go back to you here i mean there's one thing that you didn't mention in your long list there is that the in the c

lolou: i want to suggest to you that you join "tucker carlson tonight" on the fox news channel. eyn, the fella in the green tie. he and i will be lining up in a battle of wits in tucker's ask show. it starts at 8:00 p.m. on the fox news channel. joining us is the man taking on all those challenges and more. national security advisor robert o'brien. let's begin with vindman. the president is entitled to have whomever he wants anywhere in that big white house behind you. why is there any issue here over vindman? >> i never understood that. the nsc serves as the personal staff of the president. many of them are detailees from other departments. we expect and hope they will do their best to serve the country and the president. if you don't like the president, that's your right. but probably your highest and best use isn't over here at the white house working on his personal staff. i never understood the attraction of white house employment for someone who doesn't like the president. lou: you mentioned you intended to reorganize the national security council and had a very laudatory p

tucker carlson, sean hannity, there following their audience. which is why i'd rather be on bill ham or or chris wallace. social media is an insidious, corrosive influence on the responsibility of the media to get the facts and not slant to them. and not be playing to their twitter feed. we go through this. with each new technological advance. i have the confidence we will work ourselves out of it. we say one more thing in response to senator flake with whom i worked for seven years at the white house. we had a good relationship except, you may not notice, he's an unpaid agent of fidel castro. [laughter] he's in favor of a lot of things with regard to cuba which i oppose. this guy goes down there and lays around on the beaches. incentives. talked about this isn't going to change until incentives change. maybe. i've got to tell you, i see it particularly in the senate among the younger group of senators. democrat and republican.they did go there to engage in a political food fight for their careers. my sense is, given the right moment, you're sta

welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we're monitoring the president's remarks. we go there if breaking news occurs. what can you buy with $460 million? you can buy a lot of things. a boeing 747 if you wanted one, an entire nfl stadium. you can get a pack of peanut m m&ms for every person in the country or get that money and get humiliated by elizabeth warren in front of the country. that's what happened. bloomberg wouldn't be the first rich liberal with unusual tastes. warren was happy to play along. this is one of those exchanges worth replaying again and again and again. elizabeth warren spanked him like the bad billionaire he is vigorously. watch. >> i'd like to talk about what we're running against. a billionaire that calls women fat broads and horse-faced lesbians. no, i'm not talking about donald trump. i'm talking about michael bloomberg. democrats won't win if we have a nominee with a history of hiding tax returns, harassing women and supporting racist policies. democrats take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another. >> tuc

. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."show we told you what may be the single most extreme and disruptive piece of legislation ever to gain widespread support in the congress in the history of this country. it's called the new way forward act. it's before congress right now and has been for almost two months. and, yet, so far it has been essentially ignored by the country's major media outlets which are either too embarrassed or too ignorant to cover it. that's a disservice to you it's really impossible to describe just how radical this bill is. if passed it would remake our immigration system for the expressed purpose of helping foreign-born criminals live here. th

. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson. a lot going on tonight.en unbelievable 24 hours, news christmas. we are going to begin this evening with the most predictable thing that's happened. headline. president trump acquitted by u.s. senate. just happened. impeachment is finally over. the result was never in doubt. the whole thing was like watching titanic, really. >> iceberg ahead. [crashing] >> tucker: pretty gripping, no matter what happens in the opening scenes you know the boat is going

welcome to "tucker carlson" tonight. last night was the last debate before voters in 21 states go to the poles. tells you quite a lot that many party leaders are panicking over what they saw on that stage. we'll tell you what happened and tell you what it means. but first, this is a fox news alert. the coronavirus is continuing to spread worldwide in a deadly outbreak in the united states appears to be inevitable. that's the word from the cdc. officials have confirmed a case in california with an unknown origin. possibly indicating a local spread. we're not quite sure because testing in this country is still minimal. the nassau county, 83 people are being monitored for possibly carrying the disease. governor cuomo have freed up money for that. a president held a new conference about the coronavirus. he said the situation in this country is under control. >> the vaccine is coming along well and speaking to the doctors, we think this is something that we can develop fairly rapidly, a vaccine. the united states is now -- we

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."e living in a completely different world. if you were reading the news coverage beginning of thehe week, you'd think the two biggest stories were the battle between mike bloomberg and bernie sanders, and new domestic sabotage operation undertaken by dastardly vladimir putin, who is always popping up everywhere to subvert elections. we didn't agree with that. those didn't seem like the two most important things happening in the world to us. ss so, on monday, we opened theta show telling you about coronavirus. that seemed like a very serious problem and likely to get much worse. at the time, we said that 12 deaths had been reported in iran from the virus. tonight, four days later,

. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."ican decline is a story of an incompetent ruling class. we will hear many self-serving explanations for it but the truth is it's that simple. the people in charge inherited an industrial superpower and in a little more of a generation that squandered all of it. they exchanged short-term profits, bigger vacation homes, cheaper household help. they built what they did not build. they imported a surf class to drive down wages and crippled the middle class while doing it. they had

welcome to "tucker carlson" tonight. looks like bernie sanders may well be the democratic nominee. it's coming. what would that mean for our country? we're going to have a series, "bernie sanders in america." but first, coronavirus causes chaos around the world. the dow jones average drops 1,193 points today. the single biggest drop in a day in the history of american markets. this week has been the markets worst since the financial crisis. friday could add to the damage. other nations are watching an increase in coronavirus infections. south korea reported 505 new cases in a single day. japan has closed all schools nationwide for the month of march. in iran, the vice president has coronavirus. so do several members of parliament. saudi arabia has shut down pilgrim milks to mecca. here in the u.s., we have the first coronavirus case. it's of unknown origin not linked to travel. that's an ominous sign. we'll have more. california's monitoring 8,400 people for signs of the virus. the world is panicking over this and there's a reason for that. in china, the virus has killed more than

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight."f the road for one of cnn's top presidential picks, sadly. he is not dropping out. he is behind bars. croupy porn lawyer convicted today on a long list of felonies. developing, we will have details for you just ahead. we will also tell you about mayor michael bloomberg's emergence as an actual democratic contender what that says about the democratic party and about america. worth paying attention to. as we chronicled pretty extensively on this show our leaders in washington suddenly seem deeply sympathetic to people ensnared in criminal justice system. a lot of criminals getting

the most recent of which was to retweet what our colleague tucker carlson said last night. esident literally retweeted tucker's monologue on his show last night, calling for the pardon. neil: i get that all the time. i'm wondering though, if he were to pardon him, he tends to pardon or do commutations in bunches. could you see similar treatment to pal manafort or general flynn, what do you think? >> there is a theory that the commutations and pardons that came down two days ago was to set the table for far more controversial ones. that those would include, stone, manafort and general flynn. i think there is an indication that is what the president's thinking is. manafort is serving seven to 14 years. general flynn has not yet been sentenced. his case is in abeyance. he asked to withdraw his guilty plea, a request previously been denied but he made it again and stone is within minutes finding out what his sentence is going to be, as david pointed out, our colleague in the courtroom, roger stone will walk out of the courtroom today no matter what she sentences him to. she, the