understand. >> it was not spying. >> tucker: what was it? >> they were conducting a criminal investigation. i it's not just democrats who were lying about this. the media, mindless and lemminglike as always, is of course dutifully backing themys up. here's a brief selection. >> i'm even more convinced that the fbi did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got and that it has nothing to do with donald trump.do >> there is no evidence that there was a spy put into the trump campaign. >> all the other people who've seen the intelligence and your own party are saying there's just no there there. i'm wondering what it will take for you, congressman, deceitful about? >> tucker: let's try this again. in the service of clear language. a professor at the university of minnesota who worked as an ethics lawyer and seeking the democratic nomination for senate and the state of minnesota. he joins us tonight.