♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." after months of waiting, the justice department 's of the inspector general has released its report on the behavior of fired fbi director jim comey. for years we've been hearing rumors about what he was up to in the opening days of the trump administration and now we know. if catherine herridge is fox chief intelligence correspondent and she joins us tonight. catherine. >> this is the second time the government watchdog found comey went beyond his authority as fbi director. the first known as the handling of the clinton email case. the inspector general said he violated fbi policy and agreement. "what was not permitted with the unauthorized disclosure of

sensitive investigative information. if obtained during the course of fbi employment in order to achieve a personally desired outcome. inspector general mike lee horwitz says the memos documenting have a conversation withch the president, government records and not comey's to share with his lawyers or the media. after he was fired from he usedu a columbia law school professor is a cut out the contents of one memo to "the new york times." that law professor told inspector general he was the source for another "new york times" story by trump asking comey for loyalty. but on twitter today comey claimed vindication because the ig found no classified information was shared with the media. the justice department has declined to prosecute fueling criticism that doj and fbi employees are getting a pass and today the ig also released this report about a senior justice department official who viewed pornography on government computers and then live for n i. called the department of justke

us. >> tucker: a surprised they call it that. you know for more than two years at one donald trump fired him from his job jim comey maintained he did absolutely nothing gone, growing at any level. he says that donald trump is a deranged mad men, likely a foreign agent and that he, jim comey, is the embodiment of moral rectitude, the last honest man in washington. if you are paying attention to quitter today y you saw comey making that case even today. but with the release we can say ,definitively it is all a lie. the report proves it. it is a devastating assessment, as catherine just suggested. the report shows that from the very beginning of the trump administration fee seven pursued a partisan political agenda and he did it in the sleaziest most feline possible way. for example, publicly comey has claimed that he met with the newly elected president in january 2017 in order to give them as much information as he could about the dossier as a courtesy. but according to several witnesses, that account is false. in fact, he treated the interview with the president as

an intelligence gatheringat operation. he stashed a secure fbi laptop in a car he took to the white house we can immediately begin writing a memo about thein meeting after it concluded. in other words, the whole thing was a set up and it just one of many. in the end, jim comey wrote seven memos like this. at least two of them contain information the government later classified as secret. but comey leaked the information nonetheless. in the words of the inspector general, "by not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during his afghan women and by using it to create publicfo pressure for official action, comey set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current fbi employees and the many thousands more former fbi employees who have similarly had access to our knowledge of nonpublic information." all of which is putting it mildly. jim comey was the most powerful law enforcement official in thet country. there was virtually nothing he couldn't do. he used his power for political

ends and there's nothing more corrupt than that. of course we suspected that already. more than a year ago comey announced it to the world, in nofact. in april 2018 interview with george stephanopoulos, comey admitted he had the origins of the steele dossier from his boss, the president, watch. >> did you tell him that the steele dossier have been financed by his political opponents? >> no. i don't think i even used the term steele dossier, i just talked about additional material. >> but did he have a right to know that? e>> that it had been financed by his political opponents? i don't know the answer to that. it wasn't necessary for my goal, which was tohi alert him that we had this information. >> tucker: it wasn't necessary foruc my goal. of course it would cut against his goal. in that same interview, he suggested the most sensational and least likely parts of the steele dossier might in fact be real. >> i honestly thought these words never would come out of my mouth, but i don't know whether the current president of the

united states -- in moscow 2013. it's possible, but i don't know. >> tucker: i don't know. of course he did know. what you just watched wasn't speculation, it was slander done intentionally for political effect. think about it. that man once led an agency is terrifyingly powerful as the fbi. but if you think about it, who can really be shocked by that? john brennan once ran the cia. james clapper was director of national intelligence. it like comey, both men are proven liars with a weakness for conspiracy theories. all three of them are still considered impressive and that may be the scariest fact of all. opinion editor of "the washington times" an offer of the fantastic bookli still winning in joins us tonight thanks a lot for coming on. what does this report reveal that is new? to some extent it confirms a lot of us -- what does it add to the

story do you think? >> timmy one of the most shocking aspects -- it's kind of new here, but is to look at the similarities between what the coordinated effort and all ofes the rules of properr investigation -- investigative conduct. on the part of james comey. how similar the crimes he committed worth to the crimes he was supposedly investigating committed by luke went in and we all know that at the end of that and he decided that despite the fact that she had broken all of the rules, that he decided that he would file no charges. and i really have a hard time seeing how you can make any argument other than that he believes there are certain people who are above the law and those people are people like jim comey and hillary clinton, but you bet that if a lower level fbi -- and by the time this thing is over with, we will

probably see this come to fruition, lower level fbi agent or a regular american citizen or another government employee committed this level of crimes, they would go to jail. >> tucker: that's exactly right and some are facing jail now as i often stand the show because it's the starkest example of the double standard. roger stone is facing life for less than this right now. you've lived in washington, covered washington for a long time. is it just in general truth that the people in charge never face the consequence is? that's what i'm starting to conclude. >> its money. i've always tried to sort of avoid conspiracy theories but when you step back and you look at the people like john brennan, like jim comey, who were in absolute positions of -- their unquestionable authority and the degree to which so many people in the media sort of blithely sort of wave away a lot of these accusations, it's pretty terrifying to think that these are -- these were the most powerful people in the country.

they had the most access to the most and penetrating information that you could find about fellow american citizens. these people were in charge and i think there's no doubt in my mind that jim comey was weaponizingin the department too after a duly elected president to try to get him removed and the most interesting -- the most kind of shocking part of all of this to me is to look through his twitter feed today and he's spiking the ball today because he's not going to jail. that's really strange and i think that the sort of tell their is revealed by that is the fact that he did lie about the purposes of his meeting at the oval office and he said that he was just there to inform the president of what was out there, whatever that means. i had never heard of an fbi director needing to do that. but that's his claim. but the point is -- this is part of the investigation into the

origins of thef russia probe and that is still on concluded and he and many others i think i get into a lot of trouble for that. >> tucker: but his response suggests a man with no shame and no integrity. kimberley strassel has -- a new book coming out by the way, how trumpeters are breaking america. she joins us tonight, thanks a lot for coming on. so does it surprise you -- i mean, it's pretty dispiriting to the rest of us, i thought i have a route for anyone's indictment, i actually don't, i feel sorry for everyone who's indicted, almost no matter the crime of the double standard is so obvious here that it kind of makes you wonder if the system itself isn't disintegrating. >> well, look, i guess i'm a half glass full kind of girl. i was just thrilled to see this report because we've been waiting for years, right?

for someone to come out in ahe position of authority who was neutral and who would just tell it like it is, which by the way is not the way jim comey has told her. and i think that that was one of the most important aspects of this report, was that the inspector general said all those entire line jim comey has been spinning for years for the nation into the fbi, it's all a bunch of who -- he broke the rs and what he did was absolutely inappropriate and that's just an important thing for americans to hear. >> tucker: 's of the picture that -- you make such a good point, thank you for snapping me back to reality, you're absolutely right, more information is better and the people who had their suspicions for the last couple years have been vindicated i think tonight. so the picture that i took away from this one-page report is that this is a guy who from the very first day was attempting to entrap his boss. >> absolutely. the fbi has maintained from the beginning and you know this, that therenn was two reasons tht

they gave that briefing to the president-elect in january. one was to inform them about russia's attempts to interfere in our election and the other was to tell him about this damaging allegation that was in the steele dossier. and those of us who watch this new that never stood to scrutin scrutiny. how do you give a president-elect and not tell him you've got a counterintelligence investigation open against his campaign for colluding against russia? and had to be for other reasons. one of them, we think, of course, was a hook for the news media to get the dossier out in the public, have a reason to publish it and now we find from the ig report that in fact the entire team met before call me whenen dinner with hopes that te president would say something incriminating in that meeting and then he immediately rushes off back to his car and goes back and the first thing he does is hold a meeting with his cross fire hurricane investigation team. >> tucker: the idea that someone this dishonest, someone

who is not straightforward at all with an agenda so obvious could run the fbi, it's terrifying. >> yet. o one of those memos he said to the president i promise you, sir, i don't do sneaky things, i don't leak, and i don't do weasel moves. well, you know, i think the entire ig report would beg to differ. >> tucker: well, people always deny being exactly what they in fact are, i noticed. i notice a trend. great to see you tonight, thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: we are going to have more on the comey report just ahead with all we now know about comey's behavior. why didn't the department of justice takert further action against them? at that and many other questions remaining. that's next. ♪ ♪[upbeat music]

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♪ >> tucker: so we've been telling you the department of justice released the inspector general's report today on what jim comey was doing when he worked for donald trump. the report shows flagrant misconduct by comeyis includingn effort to ensnare the president during meetings. former fbi assistant director joins us tonight. thanks very much for coming on. so as someone who spent an awful lot of time at that agency, what's your response to this? >> i think it's very clear the fbi simply lost its compass under comey and every time a generation of fbi agents leave, we try our very best to leave it in good hands and with people that are going to carry on the retradition of the fbi and we ae

reminded of that every time, every day, when you're in the hallways. those three words, fidelity, bravery, and integrity. comey and the people on the seventh floor left all of that in shambles and i'm not sure people in washington, d.c., right now know how to fix that. if the fbi never faced this. the fbi has never had a time in history were so many people, peoplead like myself, people lie former agents and employees, really are suspicious of how much we can still trust whatever is left of the fbi now. i have to say there's thousands of dedicated fbi employees and they are the same x they've always been. but literally they watched asat the seventh floor set double standards, one set of standards for them, the executives, the bosses, and another set oft standards for the people who worked in the fbi and that's why we have the mess we have today and is just a crying shame to sit here and watch this.

>> tucker: what to make of his response? your you have the inspector general's office, which nobody is claiming is politically biased. are not right wing ideologues or anything like that. they do this straight report and theyue find that comey lied and really behaved in a reprehensible way. he responds with maximum self-righteousness, admits nothing and acts like he is the victim. what do you make of that? >> will of course, one of these days, i don't know how soon, but you will turn up in the dictionary and the definition of narcissist will be comey and the other way d around. and i think what is very sad here is deny, defend, and counterattack, that's kind of the way of bureaucrats in washington, d.c., and that's exactly what you see here and that's exactly what these people were.. they weren't real fbi agents. they weren't real fbi employees and about the best thing i can say to people about this is please keep remembering that, because we are going to have to count on those real employees, those real fbi agents come to

try and figure out how to straighten this mess out and regain the public's trust. >> tucker: nicely put, thanks for that reminder. thank you. >> you bet. >> tucker: the ig report exposes money, plenty ofnt disconnect. doj prosecutors have decided not to take further action againsty him. will they reach the same discussion with andrew mccabe? former spokesman at the doj joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on. thanks for having me. >> tucker: 's of this report comes out, a lot of us feel vindicated, also kind of shocked by it. there's lots of shouting on cable news, but one of the real-life implications of this report? >> i think first and foremost the most important thing that we are going to see, if i'm andy mccabe, i am shaking right now because this is been, what, the second or third inspector general report where somebody has been referred over to doj and they have to decide on prosecution. they chose not to prosecute. i think they look at the case and said look, this is probably not a slam-dunk case we want but andy mccabe is a slam-dunk

case. he lied to the fbi in investigation. you had horwitz say what comey did here was a terrible example of the 35,000 employees of the fbi. what do youam think, if you are doj and are looking at the next issue that you have to deal with, what kind of example what it set if you let mccabe off the hook for actually lying in an fbi investigation? that's a terrible precedent. >> tucker: i mean, it sounds like they are letting comey off the hook here. >> look, there's two things to think about. one is the federal records act. we are talking about federal records that you had to return to fbi or not taken the first place -- there's no criminal charge for that. he gave the memos not to richmond -- the small bits of classified information but they were marked classified later so the question is did he know -- we've done this before, did he

know that those should have been classified atit the time and if possible, they looked at that and said it's kind of a toss-up and you could make the argument that they should be classified, so i'm not sure that we can get a conviction. do we want to go after james comey on w this issue as opposed to maybe something down the road when you might not be able to get a conviction in federal court? >> tucker: but you're staying in the case of inter-mccabe it's not a close call. >> i mean, he lied. it's clear that he lied and he's explained different reasoning fore it. his rationalized it with his new gig and going out there and doing the media circuit, -- >> tucker: let me pause and alert our audience, his new gig, the one you're referring to his unit is now a paid cnn contributor. >> which i think was probably smart for him because he goes out and he's on cnn and when he gets prosecuted he can say look, one of the reason a why there prosecuting me is because i'm on cnn and the president hates cnn. everything is doing, whether it's suing doj, going on cnn, i think he's lining up a defense for a political prosecution when he gets indicted on thee road.

>> tucker: but -- i mean, let's close out on this. i know it's hard to make a question nonpartisan in washington right now because it's overly charged atmosphere, but let's be totally honest, this is not political. the guy lied in the course of official business as an fbi official. >> is not political and you look at all the people that went down in the trump orbit for that exact reason. if you're going to apply that standard -- people like michael flynn michael flynn or papadopoulos, why are you doing it for mccabe? we don't know that they're not going to do it. i think that given the report here, given the fact the doj couldn't act because they probably didn't have the right case, i think that spells doom for andy mccabe. >> tucker: thank you for that. >> thank you for you for havin. >> tucker: better men than anyone we know at putting the news in context. thank you for coming on today. so you assess all of this and your conclusion is what?

>> the keep saying they classified and they, they, they, who is they? and the answer is pretty disturbing, because jim comey is high-fiving tonight because he said he wasn't indicted or he wasn't going to be referred for indictment. why wasn't he given that report by the inspector general? and the reason he wasn't was of the seven memos that he memorialized, these were private phone and person-to-person conversations with the president, he took four of them home and use them as an insurance policy in case something would happen. when he was fired, he used them. and then he said that they were confidential and not classified. who made that determination? after it all blew up to the press, the fbi panicked and they said, these have been classified or categorized as anything. let's go back and look at them. and who are they? for the four people that looked at them? we know had gone to london three times involved with

christopher steele and british intelligence. james baker, who we know was leaking to mother jones and david corn to get out the steele dossier to the press before the election. lisa page and peter strzok, those poor people after the whole thing blew up, they got together and said let's categorize the. the one that comey took home weo determined are confidential and not felonious in the one he left behind we will say are classified but he's not subject to criminal exposure because he didn't take those three home. how hard would it have been to get three or four fbi agents that were not involved in spreading and seating the steele dossier and were not confidants of jim comey. it's exactly the type of behavior that's getting people very, very disillusioned because we've already seen with the clinton email scandal, comeyen acted on ethically and unprofessionally, criminally.

here you have the same devastating acknowledgment, but his own friends insured that he was the subject to criminal liability post factor. these were not even categorized at all until the press got a hold of it and they went back and had his friends say he did something unprofessional, but it was not guilty of a felony. that's pretty reprehensible. >> tucker: quickly sum up, what you say about a man, who in the face of the evidence or just, everything you said bolsteredse by today's ig repor, a man who becomes even more self-righteous when confronted with what is done? who is that man? who would do that? >> is counting on it is that he thinks donald trump is an outsider and has no political or military experience and hee can be blunt and crude sometimes, that he h is smarmy and he has charismatic abilities and he's going to talk about nietzsche and philosophy and zen.

once he establishes that fact, anything necessary to take on the outsider, that's what's really scary about the whole thing.at we have a small group of unelected conspirators who feel it's their moral prerogative to destroy an elected president because they are just morally superior and they have insights for the rest us don't have. >> tucker: 's all the kids who can pronounce nietzsche correctly think they should be in charge. that's quite a standard. i love that. professor, thank you, as always. >> thank you. >> tucker: well, joe biden, back on the campaign trail, told a heartwarming story a number of times to crowds. the only problem? pure fantasy. the question is, does he know that or not? we will score it after the break. a small texas town took a lot of money on bloomberg to promote energy, now they're scrambling to give the money back. for real, we will tell you why. ♪ - in the last year, there were three victims

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>> tucker: even now the polls are telling of the joe biden is in first place, top contender for the democraticu nomination but every day it becomes clearer that that's not true. not really. we are not saying this because we wanted tosa be true, he's probably the most reasonable guy in the race, if you can believe it, but it's obvious. the whole thing is falling apart. during a wednesday town hall event biden appeared to lose his train of thought and forget barack obama's name. watch this. >> they invaded another country and annexed a significant portion of it called crimea. he saying that it was president -- my boss -- it's his fault. >> tucker: so everyone forgets things from time to time, you don't want to read too much into anything. you certainly don't want to c ba me. people make slobs like that. the problem is for biden it has become a pattern. at a hanover, new hampshire, event biden told the story about pinning a metal on a roanoke american soldier, watch this.

>> i fin metals -- silver stars on soldiers open the valley in the middle of a firestorm, the four guys had gone through. forced -- what i go up into the fog. nobody got concerned of the vice president going up in the middle of this week and was the vice president, we can't lose many more of these kids. not a joke. this guy climbed down the ravine, carried this guy up on his back under fire in the general wanted me to pin the silver star on him. i got up there and this is god's truth, my word as a biden, he stood his attention, i went to pin it and said i don't want the thing. do not pin it on me, sir. please sir, do not do that. he died. >> tucker: come on. just please. biden has spent almost 50 years as a politician. surrounded by armed bodyguards and that somehow at every talk he makes his life sounds like a

cross between "saving private ryan" and mount everest expedition. we could lose the vice president but we can't lose these kids. go on without me. i mean, that's just barf. please. the worst part is the story wasn't evenn true. it turned out to be a jumbled mashup of a bunch of different stories with all of the facts wrong. even "the washington post"ts noticed. trust me," they've got every incentive to lie about it, they often do, but in this case, here was their assessment. "in the space of 3 minutes, biting at the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of metal, the military branch, and the rank of the r recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony." holy smokes. what to make of that? we throw up our hands hands ane mark steyn to explain it for us. what do you -- what does -- huh? >> this is the old biden. the recent biden, stumbling,

bumbling mumbling guy whogn cant remember the name of barack obama, that's an embarrassment. he stumbles,a, t he trips on the syllable words like democrat. democrat sticks in my throat too but it shouldn't stick in the guy who is supposedly going to be the nominee, but this is classic biden. this is biden in top form where he does this for video coherent brilliant narrative in which not a single detail is correct, so he just stands up and he goes -- you know, it's 20 minutes before dawn on d-day in this nine star general's estimate, mr. president, it's too dangerous for you to go in there that i say, the minutemen are taking me on the bengal -- so i fluent on a glider from diego garcia and we came on the heavy fire from a group of whirling dervish is holed up in bridget bardo's apartment outside euro disney and i said to them, i'm the first biden in a thousand

years to go to college, so i know what it's like to be the best of the best! this was classic joe biden. he's back, his mojo has returned. his mojo knows what state it's in. >> tucker: i just rolled on myself. okay, i just want to alert our producers to take that, put it on a dvd, and sell it and we will give the money to charity. that was unbelievable. i would vote for you for president after that, i just want to be completely honest. but you did it on purpose. >> but the thing that has been really sad -- because there is a kind of grand comic precision when a fellow is in keene new hampshire and he says what a great time he's having in w vermont. we are all tired. one of the great things that benefited donald trump was that nahe throughout the entire presidential campaigning playbook. biden is doing it accidentally.

he's insulting whole -- he's insulting the populations of key critical primary states in a kind of brilliant way but the sad thing is when he just stumbles around, mumbles around. this brilliant blazing vivid recollection of something that actually never happened is actually what joe biden does best. a beautiful -- full of detail, the fob, he's got all the slang right. he's got this firestorm, this mythical firestorm that he's going through and at the heart of it there is what biden always does best, like when he told -- that he was a war criminal, or maybe he told her to george w. bush or maybe you told her to mad king ludwig of bavaria, it doesn't really matter. the point of the anecdote is to aggrandize joe biden. >> tucker: exactly. exactly. the incomparable mark steyn, the one man in america makes me

rethink my views on immigration. we are glad you are in his country, thank you very >> thanks a lot, sean, brett, whatever. >> tucker: [laughs] i will go with martha. thank you. supporters of the green new deal want to t'l take control of the entire economy in the service of their environmental agenda but even when given control of a singlend small town, things dont always go according to plan. georgetown, texas, for example, population of 75,000. last october the city received a million-dollar grant from michael bloomberg, his group, in return for pursuing renewable energy policies, so they did and then energy prices went straight through the roof and the town just voted to return michael bloomberg's money. attractive or is a former member of the california assembly, joins us tonight. thanks a lot for coming on tonight. so tell me if we got any of the details wrong here, georgetown, texas, decided at the urging of bloomberg and people like him,

to become entirely dependent on renewables and what happened next? >> well, this started back in 2012 and it was a goal -- let's beat 100% renewable, we will save money. this is the republican thing to do. a funny thing happened, the prices of natural gas went down because we found more of it, and the problem with wind power is that it's mainly made at night and it's very expensive to store it. so the town of georgetown entered into this contract with a french-owned company. the government of france owns this wind farm but they are buying one from at night when you're not needing it. and then during the daytime they have to buy power off the grid and as h h a result they've lost about $30 million in the $ last four years and the residents of georgetown for looking at electricity bills that are about 600 bucks a year higher than rnearby communities. >> tucker: but do they feel virtuous? >> [laughs] they feel kind of angry and betrayed right now and this is why so many people in the

environmental left have become deeply skeptical of democracy and representative government. look what happened when i was on your show back in december. the whole paris riots were going on over a modest increase to fuel cost to fight global warming. they of course rescinded those increases to the fuel taxes to save the planet, but with a little bit of an increase in france and then you have chaos, imagine what it would be like here in america if we enacted the green new deal and electricity prices were about ten times what they are now. that simply is unacceptable. that's what happens when you take a fantasy or theory and turn it into reality and we are seeing it in small in georgetown,ee texas. >> tucker: the environmental left deeply resents the population, right? so they want to go around the democracy in order to impose the stuff by force, correct? >> absolutely. furthermore, want to actually start to implement it, that's

when thingsta start to fall apat and ask yourself, why are we doing this anyway? look at air quality in america. we have a 74% reduction in air pollution that actually harms people since 1970 while we have 60% more people in the country. and president trump's policies are making more of this affordable and reliable energy. i should think of the american public has a reallyt clear choice. something that could work and cost a lot of money and something that seems toog be working pretty well right now, let's get more energy than people can afford. >> tucker: and clean up the actual environment, not the theoretical -- but the rivers. exactly. thank you for that. >> thank you.ha >> tucker: not long ago we brought you a horrifying story from akamai county maryland. five illegal aliens arrested for rape in a month, this month, the pastli month. an update tonight, a six has been arrested. we've got details next. ♪

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>> tucker: back in 2009, barack obama's fbi announced it was cutting ties with the group called the council on american islamic relations.n that's an islamic activist group buried at the time the fbi g described them as too extreme to work with. watch. >> named as an unindictednd coconspirator in last year's terrorist funding trial involving a charity called the holyte land foundation for relif and development. during the trial, it was revealed on government wiretaps that the executive director had taken part in early hamas-related organizational meetings held here in theor united states. >> tucker: so one unindicted coconspirators was too radical and yet just the other day the pop up issuing a press release

announcing estimate of are partnering with the census bureau, the current census bureau to promote anticipation and the 20/20re census. their goal for the partnership is obvious and overtly political. they want to pressure the census to create an ethnic category for people from the middle east and north africa. so just in case you're scoring at home, here's the state of play. the census is not allowed to ask anyone in our country whether they are a citizen, but they are allowed to partner with the group described as an unindicted coconspirator to push a political agenda. so we brought this to the attention of the comp.my commerce department and think of and it looks like they reconsider. they gave us the statement about an hour ago., "based on further review, the census bureau is no longer partnering with care." that's about as definitive and welcome a statement as you could hope for but it's another lesson. it got to be really close attention to what's goinglo on n the federal bureaucracy because there's a lot going on. a couple of days ago we told about the crisis in montgomery county maryland,

which is a sanctuary jurisdiction. we told you how in act single month five illegal aliens have been arrested, for rape. it turns out we spoke too soon, now a sixth illegal immigrant has been arrested this month. mr. lopez guzman is from solider, accused of molesting a 12-year-old girl as well as her younger brother. d.c. radio host with w mal in the morning. he's been following these stories, joins us tonight. thanks a lot for coming back with an update to the story. when you last were you shocked us by saying five in a month. now it's six. >> now it's six and this guy guzman, what police say he's done is as horrific as we heard before. this is an illegal immigrant from el salvador. he's admitted now to actually doing this. he molested this little girl, 12 years old, over the course of many months over the past year and he's also admitted to molesting a boy as well. he claims that he was playing a game with the boy, that he was grabbing at the boy's growing because this is what he did back in el salvador.

this is some sort of game is played. i would imagine many of our el salvador and brothers and sisters were listening would be horrified to think that that is in any way reflective of their country. but here he is making that claim to law enforcement. he is an illegal immigrant in a sanctuary county. montgomery county maryland, that's been very welcoming to illegal immigrants and has in fact become a magnet for them and now they are suffering for this crime. he mentioned it, five, now six sexual assaults or rapes. >> tucker: it's impossible not to draw the obvious connection between the political policies, the sanctuary policies described of the county and the outcome. >> absolutely. >> tucker: so how was the county accounted for this? >> very poorly. i just spoke to montgomery county executive -- >> tucker: the men responsible -- >> the man who was in charge of this -- he'sth doing nothing to change the sanctuary policies of that county and in fact when i spoke with him, the most outraged he was was about donald trump, the president of the united states. i asked him does he regret accusing the president of being

a terrorist by enforcing the nation's immigration laws, he stuck with it. he doubled down. he said that trump and ice are terrorizing the community by making them feel unsafe. this is the world turned on its head, making them feel unsafe. >> tucker: this is the guy who presides over the counter would have been six -- apparently alleged rapes in the last month by illegal aliens. >> and i'm not the only one speaking up, i'm talking to a lot of listeners but all of montgomery county maryland is beginning to speak up about this. whether they are americans or immigrants, they are outraged about this and if that stay one more person that needs to be involved in this conversation, the republicanan governor of maryland. last year he said localities need to cooperate more with ice but he's been pretty quiet overr the course of a horrific series of sexual assaults and rape for less than my county. >> tucker: he hasn't said anything? >> he's only released a statement through his office to our friend larry o'connor reaffirmingte that he stands by his statement from last year. that's not good enough. we are in a place where he needs to speak up and he needs to place pressure on his counties. >> tucker:k amen.

thanks for that. >> thank you. >> tucker: over at msnbc, having a pretty rough week after he was caught running a bogus new story. that's far from the first time he's done something like this. with that some of his greatest hits on tap, we will be honored to show them to you next. ♪

♪ >> tucker: so you hear the phase "breaking news" batted around a lot, oftentimes it's not fake, but sometimes it actually is fake. sometimes people like lawrence o'donnell at msnbc, he had to retract a story about the president getting loans cosigned by russian oligarchs, turns out there is no evidence that happened. even after two years of russian stories, he ran the story at the wrong time, he said. >> last night on this show, i discussed information that wasn't ready for reporting, i repeated statements a single source told me about the president's finances and loan documents with deutsche bank

saying "if true" as i discussed the information was simply not good enough. tonight, we are retracting the story. we don't know whether the information is inaccurate, but the fact is, we do know it wasn't ready for broadcast, and for that, i apologize. >> tucker: if you can't meet msnbc's standards, it's low. but this is just one snapshot in a long and embarrassing career, this is the man who yells at his producers, you may have seen that on the internet. we are going to go back farther than that, seven years, 2012, mitt romney's son quipped that he wanted to deck president obama, lawrence o'donnell jumped in the middle of that phrase with this performance, watch. >> when i hear you talk about taking a swing and taking punches, why do i get the feeling that you've never actually taken a punch or thrown

a punch? i didn't have that luxury in the part of boston that i grew up in. so, you want to take a swing at someone for calling your old man a liar? take a swing at me, anytime, anywhere. go ahead. take your best shot. >> tucker: [laughs] this is the greatest piece of the tape ever, the harvard guy playing the tough guy "my part of boston," i love it so much. joe concha writes for "the hill." he's a pretty intimidating character, most cable news anchors are tough, as you know. >> particularly, cambridge is a tough part of boston having lived there for a year, i believe that is the redline on the t. tucker, it's the wild west of words at msnbc, the inmates are

running the asylum, there is no sheriff in town. you can say anything on the network as long as you say "if true." i heard that tucker carlson molests collies, "if true." looked, and it's based on one source, from somebody's father's brother's former roommate who is at the happy hour in tribeca near deutsche bank, who might have heard about the russian oligarchs thing. look, this is par for the course for this network over the last month alone, you've had mika brzezinski say that donald trump wants mass shootings to happen in this country, you have nicole wallace saying that trump wants to "exterminate latinos." you have their intelligence analyst saying -- she's also on that network at 4:00. and an nbc intelligence analyst saying president trump, after the mass shootings in el paso and dayton, wanted to raise flags as a single to neo-nazis. this was all said on their air.

so look, lawrence o'donnell apologized, that's great, but with apologies and need to be accountability. but nothing is going to happen here, because if o'donnell were actually to apologize, say, to the president directly, or the president of the network, or even comcast came out is that we got this wrong, we need to do better, we apologize, that would be seen as a victory for donald trump or the president, and that simply isn't going to happen. >> tucker: there's another explanation, it's possible the brass over at msnbc are just afraid of lawrence o'donnell, i mean, he's from that part of boston, he's a tough character -- a hard-boiled guy. probably in the gang with "whitey" bulger and the rest. maybe they are afraid of him, you don't know. >> 30 rock is another tough part of town that you don't want to be getting in a street fight with anybody. >> tucker: great to see you, have a great night. >> have a good night. >> tucker: we are out of time, sadly. boy, does that go fast. tomorrow night, 8:00 p.m. --

every week night, 8:00 p.m., they showed that it is and will always be the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. good night from washington, d.c. to new york we go, sean hannity is next. >> sean: welcome to "hannity," we begin tonight with a fox news alert. earlier today, as we have accurately predicted right here on this show, the inspector general released the first in what will be a series of damning reports regarding a variety of topics. now, today's report, as we have previously told you, this is the small, baby one. very narrow in scope, dealing specifically with only one issue, that is former fbi director jim comey and his memos. in just a moment, we will break down all the details in what was a devastating rebuke of the former fbi director. today's narrow ig report is, yeah, small in scope, the big