Empire for the rest of the season. They consider smollett a Family Member but the past couple of weeks have been very emotional. While these allegations are very disturbing, we are placing our trust in the legal system is the process plays out. We are also aware of the effects of the process on the cast and crew members who work on our show and to avoid further disruption onset we have decided to remove the role of jamaal for ide final two episodes of the season. Before the decision to cut his character, he left the jail yesterday and went to work on the set in chicago. Aerial video appears to show his black suv going from jail to the empire a lot. Now there is also a change in tone from fox studios. After adamantly backing him throughout all of this, 21st centurys boxes latest statement says the studio recognizes the severity of the matter and is considering its options. His legal team is fighting back against police and prosecutors. The legal Team Released the statement we witnessed the organized lawenforcement spectacle that has no place in the american legal system. The presumption of innocence, a bedrock in the searcho for justice was trampled upon at the expense of mr. Smollett. In a packed courtroom, his attorneys argued hes innocent and is still backed by the studio and is involved with charity. Nn the judge publicly chastised smollett and said if the part is true, its outrageous because it conjures up the most evil part of this countrys history. Chicagos top cop also blasted smollett. Im left hanging my head and asking why. Why would anyone, especially an africanamerican man use the symbolism of a news to make false accusations. Smollett faces up to three years in jail for the false Police Report and hes facing more serious federal charges. The fbi confirmed that is investigating that death threat letter with a maga return. Address, Officials Say he sent that letter to himself before the attack. If convicted on mail fraud, he could spend 510 years in prison. Nowd more people weighing in on the news that r. Kelly faces more Sexual Assault allegations. On a somewhat lighter note, nba great Charles Barkley on his show was just flabbergasted and could not contain his laughter about the allegation that Jussie Smollett used a check to pay his friends to carry out this hoax. Do not commit crimes with checks. If youre going to break the law, do not write a check. On that note, i will send nick to you. Tucker its great advice, im putting that on my fridge. When Jussie Smolletts hoax was still being investigated by the police, the New York Times and other Media Outlets suggested it wasil a Conspiracy Theory to suspect that his claims might not be true, the message was shut up and believe it or else youre a bad person if not clinically insane. Now as is so often the case, the few people willing to think for themselves turned out to be absolutely right. How exactly does that happen . How could reporters who are paid to be skeptical have fallen for such an obvious lie . Not an easy question to answer. Its far easier to pretend the whole thing never happened and thats what some are doing. The Washington Post for example carries the almost amusingly pompous slogan democracy dies in darkness. Its right on the masthead. Yesterday, the post did its best to add to that darkness. The newspaper refused to run a single news story about Jussie Smolletts hoax. If you got your news from the Washington Post, you would still believe he was attacked by white racists for the crime of opposing donald trump. Msnbc did the same thing. Once he was arrested, the channel didnt even cover the story in prime time. Other journalists have decided that he cannot be guilty, he cant be. Somebody must have set him up, probably from the racist Chicago Police department. Inif other words if the glove doesnt fit, you must acquit. I think we need to see some of the evidence. Its very concerning all of sthese leaks came from the Chicago Police department. Now what they said in the press conference and what Jussie Smollett and his team have said. To have a Police Department that hasnt been as cooperative as they have been in this round, they dont openly give up information, they openly lie and withhold information and then to know that they are openly have openly supported donald trump of the 2016 election, a lot of activists on the ground are saying whats going on here . Who do we believe out of these two suspect people . B tucker was at the racist conspiracy from the Chicago Police department . Thats a little far even for a lot of people on cable news. Those peopleat say that yes, perhaps Jussie Smolletts claims werent entirely factually true but so what . They could have been. Actual Trump Supporters may not have assaulted them on the street in chicago but they would have it if they could have. Ha if it is true, didnt he in fact attempt to paint maga supporters as these racist and homophobic people . I have to disagree, i think maga supporters have painted themselves as that. We have to be bold enough to call that out. Tucker this is the new official story, the one you are going to be hearing for a long time, the one your kids will be learning about in school and itsth this. A specific hate crime may not have happened in this case but hate crimes overall are incredibly common and the incidence of them is rising, so the lesson of Jussie Smollett isnt to be more skeptical of hate crimes but to be more credulous. Cnn wants that to be or take away from the whole thing, it doesntaw matter that its anchr slandered and defamed almost half the country over alive. This a much more important point, listen. This is an america where hate crimes are on the rise. There has been a rise in hate crimes, there has been a rise in intolerance. We know that hate crimes are. On the rise, a lot of people dont want to accept that, they wanted to be trumped up. Tucker the problem with what you just heard is its a crock, its totally false. Its provably untrue. Anyone who says otherwise like people you just heard is either intentionally misleading you are doesnt understand the numbers and that would include most journalists. Type in the phrase hate crimes into google and you will see story after story claiming that thousands of these atrocities take place every year in our country andd the incidence of them is rising, a story in bise news yesterday claimed that in 2017, there were 7,175 hate b crimes in america. Reporters almost never do their own Statistical Analysis for stories like this, they tend to be bad at math. Thats why they are journalists in the first place and not in private equity making real money. Instead they take their numbers from holy fraudulent organizations like the southern poverty law center. These groups use moral panics to gin up fundraising, they get rich doing it so they continue. The problem is there arent that many hate crimes occurring in the country, its just not a very hateful place so they have to make them up. How do they do that . They do it, and this is key,e by counting accusations as crimes. An accusation is not the same thing as a crime, its not even close. If i accuse you of committing armed robbery, that does not need that robbery occurred. You have to be convicted of it and once you are, i can count what you did as a crime. Otherwise its just somethingan that you said, it doesnt mean anything. In real life, hate crimes are rare, consider the numbers from california, its by far our biggest state. Nearly 40 Million People live in california. Its demographics have changed dramatically in recent years. If hate crimes were an epidemic, you would expect to see an awful lot of hate crimes in california but you dont. In 2017 in the state of california, they convicted a total of 65 people for committing hate crimes, thats out of 39. 5 Million People. In other words, far more people got face tattoos or died while artaking a shower then committed hate crimes, 65 hate crimes. That number has fallen, not reason. In 1996, california reported 87 hate crimes. Thats the growing epidemic that don leman and chris cuomo were just telling you about, they are lying. Its a fraud. Hate hoaxes by contrast are common. By the media spends a lot of time denying that which is your first tip that its real. The New York Times wrote a headline that began hate crime hoaxes are rare. Rolling stones most famous story ever was a hoax assures us that false reports of hate crimes are exceedingly rare. All the rest of the newsroom lemmings nod their heads in agreement, dont believe youroo eyes, this stuff never happens. It does happen, it happens regularly. The higher the profile the hate crime, the more likely it is to be fake. Those racist messages at the air force academy, the general began an anguished response that seemed sincere and it went viral. The fake victims did it to themselves. Ee how about those three university of albany students who were attacked by a white supremacist on the bus years ago. Hillary clinton weighed in, it turns out the three students were the dangerous ones themselves. They attacked a woman and invented a hoax to cover their tracks. O threats to Jewish Community centers were a huge story in 2017, the press suggested they were the work of some deranged antisemitic Trump Supporters assuming thats not redundant in the view of the press. Once again, totally fake, an israeli teenager did it. In the space of a single month in november 2016 there were at least 13 wellpublicized hate crimes that turned out to be hoaxes. That was also the month that trump got elected which tells you whats going on here, hate hoaxes are politically useful. And that is why people continue to stage them. We can go on about this, starting with the covington story last month. There are lots and lots of examples. Re hate hoaxes are so common and you could write a book about them and people have come its all public, spent an afternoon reading the storiess before thy get scrubbed off the internet, its an education and he will never believe cnn again. Trust me. Burgess owens is a former nfl player and author of the book why i stand. Its a coordinated effort to tell us something the numbers dont support as true, what is the point of it . Why does the press keep telling us the same story that thiss is an awful, hateful country . My heroes, like booker t. Washington, great men, my dads generation would be totally ashamed of these socalled men who have a lot of pride about being victims, about being weak, hapless victims. Its an industry that is in play because it works for the left. You have people feeling sorry for themselves and being angry, thats how they get their vote. What we have to understand that it is a fight that we are doing now just to make sure we keep our hope in the american way and the leftists use this tactic to make sure we dont. Ft tucker on a personal level, you are a wise man. What do you think it does to people, to individuals when you tell them when they are young you are a victim, you will never succeed because people hate you. If you said that to your own kids, what would it do to them . What is the real purpose, the real goal of any regeneration. Be more hopeful, have more opportunity for great things to happen, you take away their dreams. They become very open for propaganda from the left. We are dealing with an issue, i want to make an example. 75 of the black boys in the state of california cannot read or write. They are groomed to being propagandized by the left. At the end of the day thats what it comes down to. We have to get out there and make things happen and thatsay with the left wants us to think at this point. Tucker it kids graduate high school unable to read an adult book or express their thoughts in writing, that hurts them greatly. It does and what it comes down to, i say this every time i get a chance. The judeochristian values weve been brought up with have allowed every generation to become better and look at each other inside out and not outside in. The left would love for is to be racist. My race, the race that was at one point one of the most competitive in our country in the mid1900s into a group of people who look at other peoples skin color and decide like them, they dont like themselves. We are fighting against a force against the american way for sure. Tucker its so sad. Next we have a green new deal, aoc likes it, she says your hamburgers have to go. No more burgers for you, well be right back check in from afar with remote access, and have professional monitoring backing you up with xfinity home. Demo in an xfinity store. Call, or go online today. Tucker welcome back to our inside of the issues of special, now to the question of immigration in america. Nostthe percentage of immigrants at its highest level in 100 years according to Census Bureau numbers at least 14 of everyone in america was born somewhere else. Thats about 45 Million People and that figure rises by about 1 million every single year. P more thansi 2 million additional immigrants have been given greet cards, more than half of this foreignborn population isiv hispanic and thats a political concern for republicans. They have heard over and over again they need to embrace open borders in order to win over hispanic voters. As usual, that is projection. The media class once open borders, most actual hispanic voters do not. A new poll shows over 14 of hispanic voters think america has too a few immigrants, fully 73 believe we dont need any more immigrants or what we would be better off with fewer immigrants. That is where most people are. Americans dont hate immigrants, its the most welcoming country in the world put a large majority of americans believe we have enough already. For the last two years the white house said it understood this, this is a democracy and major Government Policies must reflect the view of most citizens especially over time. Then something changed. Over the last month several news outlets reported the white house backs policies to import even more immigrants, to the highest level ever in the history of the country. The president said this at the state of the union. Whos the constituency for this, who wants this . Leftwing activists and cnn anchors do, nobody else wants that but apparently we are getting it anyway. No wonder people are angry. The great new deal promises to tear down our power plants, ground our airplanes, stop our cars in the driveway, all in the name of the environment. Now young pioneer alexandria ocasiocortez says there will be another casualty in the implementation of the great green leap forward, flatulent cows. Im getting a lot of referenceses about cow farts. Thats a reference to your green new deal. Its true, we need to take a look at factory farming. Period, its wild. Weve got to address the factory farming, maybe we shouldnt be eating a hamburger for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, lets keep it real. Tucker lets keep it real. S maybe we shouldnt be eating hamburgers, thats wild. Or driving cars or using appliances or having a middle class. Chris hahn is a radio host and a Chuck Schumer longtime democrat, he joins us tonight to pretend its all okay. Great to see you. I know you want to beat trump, all democrats want to beat trump, even republicans are stressed. We are gonna. Tucker may be sold. When you look at the new leader of your party, the only democrat powerful enough to keep amazon out of new york, aoc, runs in favor of grounding airplanes and stopping car travel and telling people how many burgers they can eat, do you think thats a winning message for you guys . Shes trying to move the center back to the center and the only way the left can do that is if they start on the left. I think for too many years the left has allowed the right to define the center as actually the right. Thats been a problem for progressive democrats in their policymaking and it has disillusioned millions of voters who have turned away from them. Tucker this is the best explanation ive ever heard of. Youre saying alexandria ocasiocortez is a centrist. Im saying they have a chance of getting a compromise thats in the center, something democrats have abandoned since reagan. We would be having an argument about crime and i would say anyone should be executed in the street like they did in the saigon during the war. Im really a centrist, im really just trying to bring us back to a sensible crime policy. Can you describe what they really want instead of saving crazy things to move the overton window . She does want a lot of things in that deal, i dont think most democrats agree with everything in that deal but they would like to move somewhere where they move forward on Climate Change and not go forward on the tired conservativeve principles. The example is obamacare. It wasle a centrist rightwing policy before obama took it on. Tucker i know the wholet thing. If obamacare worked, we got obamacare in the end, then why do some people not have Health Insurance . Why do the majority of bankruptcies result from medical bills if obamacare it actually didnt work, can we just say that . Since you brought it up . I think he shouldve started on the left, he should have had a robust public option but he was afraid of being called a socialist. Tucker i was told that obamacare was a panacea and if i was republicans are going to call him a socialist no matter how market friendly the policy is. Tucker do you think thens government ought to control how many hamburgers you eat, lets just start there. In my case it would be hard for them to do that. No, i dont believe they should. Im not a member of congress. Tucker you come for my hamburger, you want a piece . Take it, thats what youre saying. Youre going to steal it from my cold, dead arteries. Ng tucker thats the spirit. America appears to be some days fracturing along political and economic and social lines. Whats driving it and how do you pull the country back together . We are going to get more deeply into that after the break. My teeth have always been a very sore spot for me, emotionally, socially. 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Tucker welcome back to our inside the issues special. Maybe no city in the country illustrates the devastating changes to American Economic life than the city of chicago. At the university of illinois has put out a series of maps showing just how stark those changes have been. It is hard to believe now but as recently as 1970, fully half of chicagos population was middle income and they occupied the largest swaths of the city, today the middle class is gone. And read it you see the growing number of poor people and didnt lose you see the affluent, only 16 of chicago is now middle income. It joints cities like los angeles, new york, and San Francisco and every other progressive urban area you can think of as a city of the very rich and very poor, almost a quarter of the city is high income, the highest figure ever. There curated colony by the lake is serviced by the rest of the citys population. 62 who are poor, feudal lords surrounded by serfs. And chicago taxes are crushing, the Public Schools are a bad joke, they are horrible and while the city turned out to be a safe place for Jussie Smollett who had to invent an assault, other parts of chicago are genuinely dangerous. The city reports more murders and any other place in america, normal people cant live there anymore, why would they . In affluent areas, families dont have any kids so chicago keeps having to importing immigrants from abroad to keep its population stable, does that sound familiar . Almost every city in the country is facing the same trend and they are horrifying. In 2016, if you look at 229 American Metro areas and it found a since 2,000 the middle class had shrunk in 203 of them. In almost every big city the rich are getting richer but the poor are also getting poorer and there are a far more of them. Do you want to live in a society like that . Radically unequal societies are dangerously unstable, people do not trust each other. Institutions corrode, tribalism thrives, democracy does not work. When everything becomes like chicago, things fall apart. You would never notice from listening to our leaders, they dont want to talk about it. They are out of ideas and in any case they dont really care. We should care because this arcannot continue forever. Tim carnegie wrote a new book about these trends, he traveled the country to do it. The book is called alienated america, its excellent and he joins us tonight. You spent a lot of time onn the ground researching what has gone wrong in america, you discovered it wasnt simply economic, it was a breakdown in social relationships between individuals. What do you think the answers might be to this . An you are right. I want to expound on the problem, its not simply economic. Economic is the first domino. It might be the way it shows up ay the big difference between those blue places and the red places you showed is that some parts of america have the things that we are used to counting on for living a good life. The small institutions, the theunity organizations, tightknit neighborhoods that bring together, that give us a y sense of purpose and provide a safety net. Thats what is missing, the struggle of the working class is that they dont have access to institutions. When trump says the American Dream is dead the reason why the elites dont buy it is because they have the dream of those institutions. E you go out to the places i went to and you see its not just that incomes are lower, its at the Community Institutions that tie us together that we rely on arent there. Any turning this around isnt going to be cutting a welfare check or a government program, its going to be finding a way to restore civic life out theret and parts that are suffering. Tucker it was sustained in so many places by religious institutions, the country has become radically more secular our leaders to celebrate that because they are radicallyme secular. Isha that part of what happened . Thats the core of it. The secularization of america is tolerable for the elites. When they turn away from church, they turn to some traveling sports team or they have in the suburbs overly strong Public School with involved parents, they are doing things right but they are not including everybody else. They are cloistering off. When the church gets chased out of public life, when the obama O Administration says you cant run on Adoption Agency if you dont have elite morality, that is killing the hopes of the working of the middle class. Throughout american history, the poor institution of Civil Society for the middle class and the working class has always been the church. Chasing out of the Public Square either through the war on religion or through government crowding out is deadly. You dont care for the working class or middle class by trying to get the church to back out of serving other people. Tucker everything you said its so clearly true its obvious when you think about it, im struck by nobodys set it out loud. Excellent book. What is this space force we heard a lot about, it turns out its real. Were going to talk to someone who knows a lot about it, he joins us after the break. Tucker we have the air force, now we are going to have the space force. [cheers and applause] space force ha. [ sighs ] box, have a great summer. Danielle. Ooh. Danielle, control yourself. Id like to slow it down here with a special discount for a special girl. Danielle, this ones for you. With a special discount for a special girl. woman too late for lunch. O minutes. Starkist saves the day. Sweet and spicy tuna in a pouch smart choice, charlie. charlie no drain, no pain. Just tear, eat. And go try all of my tuna, salmon and chicken pouches. Neighbors. Loved ones. Living with diseases like cancer, epilepsy, Mental Health conditions and hiv. Maybe youre one of them. But new medicare rules could deny access to the latest, most effective therapies. Therapies that keep them healthy. Are medicare cuts that save less than one percent worth the risk to millions of patients . Call and tell congress, stop cuts to part d drug coverage medicare patients depend on. Tucker welcome back to our special hour. Donald trump ran for president on the promise to bring americans home from pointless foreign wars, voters loved that. Last year he kept his word by announcing he was pulling troops out of syria, isis has been it was never clear why they were there any way. Extinguished, the regime poses no threat to united states. Some of our allies in syria are lunatics with ties to radical jihadis. Here in washington, the think tank buffoons, bill kristol, all of them make their living on this stuff. They dont care what it costs, other people benefits. Thats why we are involved in every country weve ever sent troops into since world war ii with very few exceptions. When Congress Found out a war might actually end they flipped out and pushedon back hard. As they have been on so many other issues from immigration to russia, they were successful. Today the white house announced even after the pullout, 400 american troops will remain in syria, not really a pull out. What are they doing there . Their stated mission is to protectwh the Kurdish People but for some reason we now have a moral obligation to protect from turkey, one of our own natopl allies. Bizarro world. U. S. Troops will be fighting and dying in a faroff country for a mission the world doesnt understand but will ensure never ends. The warmongers in washington have been proven wrong again again and again, they keep winning anyway. What does that tell you . Pretty much all of our political debates take place to some extent or another online that that means they take place under the control of a handful of big companies. It is a huge worry that inside these Companies Political bias is rampant. In the new book the history of the future, chronicles the role of politics in facebook. If employees there felt the company had failed its mission by letting trump win in 2016, not only that they investigated and fired Company Executive palmer lucky from the company for the sin of voting for someone they didnt support. Its pretty inside from what i have read, it sounds like these are companies that see politics as integral to their mission. Absolutely, they have this group focusing our mission and after the election, they thought they failed, that was alarming to me. I didnt set out to write a book about politics at all, it was supposed to be a book about Virtual Reality, about oculus, he was a dreamer living in a trailer in long beach and he starts this company, less than two years later they sell to facebook for 3 billion and all is going well, they were supposed to bring Virtual Reality to the world and in the middle of my writing this book, he ends up getting fired from facebook. Tucker what were the reasons . It started in september of 2015, thats when he was outed as a trump supporter and as is20 often the case, the news that outed him was not fully accurate. What had happened was he had donated 10,000 to a Political Organization called nimble america, their mission was to put up billboards across the country. T they only ever put up one billboard that featured a character of hillary clinton, real scandalous stuff there. That led to a headline that began with the daily beast saying Facebook Facebooks billionaires secretly funding trumps machine and that palmer was responsible for every terrible thing on the internet. That wasnt true, he wanted to put a statement out saying this is not true, but it is true that im a trump supporter but that was unacceptable. T it was unacceptable for him to say he was a trump supporter ana actually its always good to act early in these situations but it took 24 hours for him to put out a statement and the reason was it went up the chain at facebook and Mark Zuckerberg personally wrote a statement that he ended up having to post if he wanted to keep his job. He didnt say he was supporting trump, he was planted to vote for carrie johnson. Tucker its a company that is totalitarian in its outlook, our way or youre out. A they are the portal to whichin information flows and they control the national debate. We should be concerned. I am a lifelong liberal, i voted democrat in every election and i actually grew up in the town where the clintons now lived, i was bummed when my neighbor lost the election but i was even more bummed and terrified by what i was finding at facebook. Tucker that says a lot, thank you for saying your political orientation, it gives her position credibility and yearbook credibility. I hope its read by a ton of people. Good to see you. Most shows dont want to talk about ufo sightings, they dont want to seem crazy or laughed at, we donto care and so we do. News and outer space are inherently interesting topics. Remember the space force . President trump announced it to great fanfare in 2017, a fifth branch of the military, is it a real . What exactly is space force, rebeccaxa grant would know shea National Security analyst and she joins us to explain. Thanks for coming on. Thank you. Give us the condensed explanation of what space force is force is. Its real already, there are over 30,000 americans in Space Command and President Trump signed a directive telling the pentagon to get ready to make a space force within the department of the air force. The reason we needed . 1800 satellites in space, 250 belong to china and America Needs to keep its dominant position in space. Tucker the point of space force is to counter chinese hegemony in the sky. China, russia, even iran and north korea have Space Capabilities but china is the one we are worried about. Just last week the Defense Intelligence agency told us that china could deploy a laser weapon from the ground to hit satellites as early as next year. Thats one of the many things that has made space a war fighting domain gradeth we want the air force to prepare its space professionals and Space Operators to keep american dominance and work with our joint forces and our allies. Tucker we spent so many years worrying about John Podestas email account that there hasnt been a lot of room in our public conversation for this threat that you just explained. It sounds like the pentagon is worried about it. The pentagon is worried about it for good reason. If weve seenn money added into the Defense Budget to buy Space Capabilities and watch for debate on this on the hill because the pentagon will put together its proposal. Then it goes up to the house and of the senate to authorize and appropriate the money for the space force. Dr. Heather wilson is in charge of the air force, she is the one who will have to sell this proposal through congress and i think its got a good chance of making it through. Tucker i would be proud of one of my children joins a space force. And you should be. Tucker thanks for the explanation, ive never heard that so crisply explained. Thee owner of the new England Patriots apparently caught up in a sting. Some doubt its real, will talk of them now. That will be el president e dave portnoy from barstool sports, he joins us tucker welcome back to our inside the issues special. The ongoing cultural revolution has claimed an awful lot of victims unless couple of years. Someones political views, a historical political views are unfashionable in brooklyn, their memory isws at risk. You dont have to have done wanything wrong. In north carolina, vandals just tried to sit fire to a marble statue of general lee. It was not robert e. Lee. It was william bill lee, one of the planners of the normandy invasion, a general of world war ii, not the civil war. [laughs] somehow the people who want to Police History know nothing about it. I guess that shouldnt be surprisingth. The owner of the new England Patriots, bob kraft, has been prostitution sting in florida. Trace gallagher has f details. 77yearold robert kraft is y cused of paying for acts in a day spa, 90 miles north of miami. Theyve been shut down following a months long Human Trafficking investigation showing numerous women were involved in sexual servitude. There was critical to point out bob kraft is not accused of being involved in Human Trafficking. But police say they have video of kraft and others receiving sexual acts and hes been to the spot at least twice. A spokesperson said, we categorically deny that mr. Kraft engaged in any illegal activity. Because it is a judicial matter, we will not be commenting further. The nfl also said it is monitoring the investigation and earlier, President Trump said this. Its very sad. I was surprised to see it, he has proclaimed his innocence totally. But im very surprised to see it. Bob krafts wife of 45 years died of Ovarian Cancer in 2011. He reportedly is now dating a 39yearold woman. Hes facing misdemeanor charges that normally do not carry jail time. Tucker thank you. Not every one buys the official story. In the newsroom of barstool sports, its founder dave portnoy stood on a water cooler to deliver rousing speech in mr. Krafts defense. Y he joined just now on our show to tell us what he meant by that. Thanks a lot for joining us. If you dont buy the official count of this at all. He categorically denied it as we just saw. I think its unfortunate the way hes making headlines and the police named his name. The story is about the sex trafficking, if thats whats going on. Bob kraft walking into a day spa for a massage is not a story, i roughly guess 7080 males do, i have been in a massage parlor, i dont think its a crime the way theyre talking about it. They are dragging his name through, you are the only place ive ever heard where hes clearly not affiliated with any sexual trafficking, he definitely didnt know that. He saw a spa sign. For all we know, hes an elderly gentleman, he had a back issue,n he went in, he got a massage, and suddenly hes the Headline News, its irresponsible. Tucker your point earlier today i agree with you completely why are they hassling bob kraft . We dont have enough problems in thisco country . I couldnt agree more. But bob kraft has also been at odds with some pretty powerful figures in american life. Was the commander sure of the nfl you may be onto things, cant beat them on the field, he has had six championships in a row. And a misdemeanor comes up in an eight month investigation . I wouldnt put it past Roger Gooddell to say i cant beat him fair and square, i believe they have a word for it called entrapment. We are going to lure him into the spa and next thing you know, hes getting dragged the police, they say they have names bigger than this if they havent released. What kind of Mickey Mouse Organization is this . You are picking and choosing how and when you release the names . This is a misdemeanor that has legal in las vegas, anybody whos casting a stone has to look in the mirror. Any advice, whether its drugs or gambling or anything, theres people on the other end of it. The whole thing makes me sick that they are tarnishing his name on a day spa. The other side of it, the sex trafficking, thats the story. Thats a heinous act. We should investigate that. What does bob kraft have to do with that . Tucker nothing, but by conflating his name with the term sex trafficking, Human Trafficking even soliciting prostitution. I thought he was walking down the street knocking on windows. He went into a day spa, how did we know he wasnt just getting a massage . Ow tucker youre a professional dot connector. You dont take things at face value. You take three steps back and you say how does this connect to other things . Do you think this is an attempt to stop the Forward Momentum of the new England Patriots and do you think its likely to succeed in doing it . Here is where Roger Goddell has screwed up multiple times. Every time he tries to take the patriots down, we use it as Bulletin Board material. We are going to be ready for this. This will be Headline News on what he tried to do. I see the dolphins, you think its a coincidence it happened in an afc east divisionall riva . A lot of people say, you are crazy, your conspiracy theorist. Ive been right more than ive been wrong about this, ive been right whether its the mitchell report, not the mitchell report, deflategate, spygate, we get exonerated and then we hoist the lombardi trophy, it could happen again, this could be the s motivation we need. Tucker would it be smart to hire Colin Kaepernick to change the narrative . I saw somebody say that. It would change the narrative but i dont know that it would help or hurt. Thats a different discussion for a different day. We still have the best quarterback, going for the most wins of all time. I cant say what our slogan is on our networks we are coming for seven, but it may be a play on words the way we do it. Tucker it might be, given that its barstool sports. As we often note on this show, its the people who think forr themselves, and there arent many, who see things clearly and you are in that tiny percentage of americans who thinks for himself. Great to see you. Always a pleasure. Tucker that is it, we have concluded tonights inside the issues special. Hopefully we brought you a little bit deeper than a typical thble news show, well be back monday, 8 00 p. M. On the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. More than anything, have a great weekend. Theres a lot going on and we hope you can get away with it with the people you love. Sean hannity is next, see you monday. Sean welcome to hannity again tonight. We have so much breaking news all over the place virginia, vietnam, the swamp, washington, d. C. Where muellers witchhunt will soon officially be over and spoiler alert, no collusion. And we learned earlier today there will not be a report next week. Maybe someone actually figured out that an extremely important summit about world peace, the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is actually taking place in vietnam next week, not a good time. We, by the way, will be reporting from vietnam all next week. We have more of that in a minute. First, we turn to our top story out of chicago o