Isnt actually impeached. A week after the vote nancy pelosi still hasnt forwarded the articles to the senate for a trial, as is constitutionally required. Impeachment has been put on hold. Maybe it was all a charade from the start. May be nancy pelosi is busy basking in the grueling, sycophantic praise of cable news talking heads. She has been masterful, legislatively masterful in holding her caucus, controlling her caucus. She isy his kryptonite. She knows how and when to get in his face and point her finger at him and humiliate him in front of generals and other men sitting at the table. For someone who has been vilified by the religious right for years, for his entire time in office, taking the bible verse, love my enemies as myself, to heart. Nancy pelosi provide of them cover and is really one of the most masterful parliamentarians of our time. She is someone that needs to be studied on how you do this right. She has managed to outmaneuver donald trump at every turn. Im going to quote cardi b, she has dog walked donald trump at every turn. Mark wow. The masterful dog walker, nancy pelosi. That groveling may have been stomach turning, but it is actually an improvement over what Lawrence Odonnell saidt n msnbc earlier this month. Like so much that nancy pelosi does in her unscripted bursts of eloquence, moral indignation, this was multidimensional. There she was, standing up against hatred, as her catholic religion has taught her to do since she was a little girl, and there she was, she seized the moment, as dramatically as any fiction writer could have provided for any fictional politician in a movie scene. You could feel, you could feel the power. Mark feel the power. If you say so. Theres no doubt nancy pelosi finds all this praise highly enjoyable. Why throw it away by letting the senate take overin the impeachmt process and conduct a trial that could make her look bad and silly . She has a better idea. Already, her party is talking about introducing and voting on even more articles of impeachment. The impeachment of the week, with no senate trial insight. Congressman matt gaetz represents florida, also on the judiciary committee, and he joins us tonight. Congressman, i said, i think on christmas eve, instead of the norad santa tracker, norad ought to have impeachment article tracker, to see how long it is taking to do the 73 feet from Nancy Pelosis office to the senate, i think it is somewhere over the jungles of new guinea right now. Is she actually going to bring this thing home and deliver it to mcconnell . Nancy pelosi appears to be limping through the back nine of delivering the articles of tpeachment. Th i think the regular folks in this country from its quite interesting to see in impeachment with first, no crime and a victim, butn now, no transmission of the articles themselves. Listening to that montage you had of the Mainstream Media giving nancy pelosi a proverbial cat bath, it just reminds me that the rest of us end up stuck with the hair ball, with this sort of bizarre circumstance where, just weeks ago, it was jerry nadler and Eric Swalwell saying things like nothing could be more urgent than this impeachment. Swalwell called it a crime spree in progress, and now nancy pelosi sort of holds the articles of impeachment like some demented, nonsanta claus, not delivering the kids to the children. E its very strange to observe. Mark its weird, isnt it . The president had a good point in his tweet, because according to jerrold nadler, donald trump is a threat to National Security and needs to be removed from office. Ad so why stick it in the bottom drawer and do nothing about it . Well, it demonstrates that this was a political process from the beginning. We are about to turn over a new year, a new decade, but we continue to see the same politics, just by new means. What democrats have done is they have really cheapened the impeachment process to any disagreement about the utilization of president ial power, or any disagreement, a president s different type of approach to a particular problem set, all of a sudden becomes impeachable. Em when they say in their Court Filings that they are not done investigating articles of impeachment, i actually believe them, because they have no agenda for the American People, so they are substituting this process, these investigations of impeachment, for actual legislation that might improve the lives of the people that we are elected to serve. Mark well, doesnt that court filing really give the game away . Its one continuous investigation, just as russia led into ukraine, and maybe trump was on the phone to some guy in tajikistan, and we can put that on hold for next weeks impeachment. Basically, they have been doing this, actually since before he was in office. And it has worked, only in that it is super infused the Republican Base for 2020. I can tell you, here in the state of florida, our support for President Trump is only intensified when we see these efforts to delegitimize not only his presidency, but our Political Movement for a a positive america, for a newfound sense of populism in our country, and now, i think you can look back to the timeou directly after Robert Muellers testimony, where they wanted to impeach justice kavanaugh. They wanted to impeach bill barr. Its like they got impeachmentpe fever and there is no cure. How about we turn over the calendar in 2020 and agree tost put the American People and our country first, not just have the revolving carnival of impeachment with nancy pelosi as the ringleader . Mark that makes too much sense, congressman. You know how it is, one impeachment is never enough. It is like a box of chocolates, you have to have a second or third. Thank you very much for joining us tonight. According to a new politicou report, top democrat insiders are beginning to believe that Bernie Sanders may be their best hope of defeating President Trump next year. But how can that be . For years, the partys talking heads have been saying that bernie and those like him are unacceptable because they are white men. In my opinion, we dont need white people leading the Democratic Party right now. The Democratic Party is diverse and should be reflected as so in our leadership and throughoute the staff, at the highest levels. I will point out, though, and, another white male, im very suspect of that this year, going into a democratic primary, with women doing well in ther, africanamerican base of the Democratic Party, im not sure it is the time to nominate a white man. Joe biden understands, this modern Democratic Party, its going to sit back and say, really . We want a 76yearold white man . Mark congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez recently endorsed Bernie Sanders, and in response, cbs interrogated her. Ca how, they wanted to know, could she endorse a person with the wrong skin color . She im going to be a little blunt with you, congresswoman, and dont take offense, senator, but as a woman of color, why back an old white guy . And is this the future of the party . We have to come together, across race, across gender, across generations, and across class in order to establish our basic system of rights. Mark senator sanders himself seems to have noticed what is going on in his party. At a recent democratic debate, he helpfully reminded the moderator that he had the wrong pigmentation, as well as the wrong age and sex. He also said if you look at the world and look at the problems, its usually old people, usually old men, not getting out of the way. [applause] senator sanders, you are the oldest candidate on stage and im white, as well. Yes. Mark Jason Nichols is a professor of africanamerican studies at the university of maryland. On he joins us. Professor, the last time we spoke, you were all excited about the minority candidates, the women, the candidates for whom the healthy glow of late middle age had not yet fled their cheeks. How did it come down that your party is reduced to almost an parodic choice of three geezers . You can get it in any color as long it is white, to modify henry ford. Well, again, heres the thing. Im more concerned about who is going to better the lives of the majority of americans, and that would include people of color. And also, we have to think about the fact thatr. The Democratic Party, if you listen to the clip that you played with simone sanders, she was talking about leadership within the party. Tom perez is a dominican american from maryland. Weve got other leaders and people who have run for office, more women and people of color in congress than ever before. E, and none of them are republican, or very few. So again, i think that our party is diverse, the party is listening to people of color and to women, and that is the strength of the party. But what we need is somebody with conviction. And that is where i think Bernie Sanders has got a lot of strength, because he has been the same his entire career, unlike many of the other people that have run. Mark well, let me pute it this way, though. Because the last time we spoke, that was when there was a little bit of chitchat about bloomberg, and you werent interested in him at all. Youve got these three guys who were born during the Chester Arthur administration, or whatever it was, and so, you basically got the moderate geezer, youve got the soviet geezer, and youve got the nanny state geezer. So its like game of codgers, dancing with the coots. How can you just have a party where the leading candidates, whatever lane you are looking at, all of these old guys and all the supposedly more fashionable candidates cant get beyond 2, 3, 4 . Well, i think, again, part of this is about consistency, and who has been the same their entire careers . I think i was excited, at one point, about kamala harris. But one of the things you saw about her, besides running a poor campaign, was the fact that she seemed to, you know, assert certain things, and later on, she would have to walk it back. She couldnt decide what lane she is in. Biden has been in the same lane for his entire career, as has Bernie Sanders, and i think that that is their strength. And, again, i think the problem is and this is the funny thing about the right, is that the right wingwi oftentimes tals about, you know, black people wanting black candidates, but you notice or black people supporting black people, and that being a racebased thing, or brown people supporting brown people. But as you can see, we are more concerned about supporting people that are going to better peoples lives, rather than the color of their skins. But ive heard republican actually say that if alan keyes were white, he would have been president of the United States. So as a matter of fact, itswe e right who is more concerned about the skin color of their candidates than it is the left. Mark oh, in the spirit of boxing day, i think i will let you get away with that. I will tell you something, the young people are crazy for bernie. He looks like Justin Bieber to them. So, you may have a point there. Thank you for that, professor. The home alone movies have become christmas classics, and famously, in home alone 2, a certain future United States president makes a brief appearance. Excuse me, where is the lobby . Down the hall and to the left. Thanks. Mark he ran that hotel pretty well, actually, in those days. Canadians who tuned into the cbc to watch home alone 2 this year saw a slightly different i version of that movie. In the cbcs cut, donald trump was edited out. According to the cbc, the scene was cut to make more time for commercials. Of course, those motives dont exclude each other. If woke capitalism means anything these days, its that there is no conflict between maximizing profits and maximizing leftwing activism. And canada is notorious for those 6second commercials for celine dions christmas cd. President trump is warning californias governor that if he cant clean up his state, then trump himself may have to step in and intervene. Thats coming next. Plus, tucker will be here. You dont want to miss this. And we have news of the creepy porn lawyer just ahead. Porn lawyer just ahead. Mark congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez wants to have absolute control over the u. S. Economy, health care sector, and a lot more. So far, it hasnt happened, and according to aoc recently, i tht failure means that america must be a backward fascist country. What we are living in right now is not an advanced society. A society that allows people fascism, thats what it is it is fascism, what we have. What we are evolving into, as well. Mark well, John Daniel Davidson is Political Editor at the federalist, and he joins us. John, do you think aoc actually knows what fascism is . No, its just a scare word. It just means, as you said, the government, the Democratic Party, doesnt have control over health care, education, the major industries, the Green New Deal is never going to happen thats all it means. It doesnt have anything to do with actual fascism. Mark actually, mussolini had control, pretty much, over all of that, and he was a fascist. Y, at one point, it would have been unusual for a member of congress in either party to say that the United States was fascist. She also said, which i thought was actually assh striking, that america shouldntt settle for just being 10 better than garbage. Which, again, would be just a few years ago, would have been an unusual thing for anybody to say about the country they represent in the national legislature. What is actually going on here, with where she and her party are sliding . You know, earlier in that same speech, she complained about america not being an advanced society, because it doesnt matter how much gold you amass if, you know, if people arent taken care of. It was a perfect illustration of the economic illiteracy of the left. The economic and the historical illiteracy of the left. Nobody is amassing gold. You know, gdp doesnt standdy fr gold deposit pile. Thats not how the economy works. Mark thats Scrooge Mcduck. Yeah, Scrooge Mcduck isnt swimming around in piles of gold. Wealthy americans are investing it. They are creating jobs. That is why wages are going up, that is why unemployment is down. That is how the real world work. These people are out to lunch on the stuff. Mark there are millions of people all over the world, andsm in america, who know what fascism is, because they grew up under it, they lived under it, and they know the difference. Whats unusual about aoc is the sort of things she says seem to be accepted as completely routine by younger voters, essentially by voters in her own age block. Yeah, its strange. The leftwing of the Democratic Party, the socialist democrats that aoc kind ofat represents and speaks for, that are gathering under the banner of Bernie Sanders now, they dont like america. They are an antiamerican movement within the Democratic Party that is growing in power, and we are starting ti see them take over a Major Political party in this country, and its scary, because what they want for america is the opposite of what america is all about, which is freedom, capitalism, prosperity. Thats not the america they want. Mark thats all of which aoc calls garbage. Dont settle for 10 better than garbage. That would make a Great Campaign slogan. John, thanks very much to you. W california has become the lefts political laboratory. If democrats have a new idea, they will give it a test drive out in the golden state first. The result . Americas most unlivable state. Needles and feces piling up in californian cities, and homeless camps dominate entire neighborhoods of the metropolis. Now, President Trump is threatening to take action. On christmas day, the president tweeted governor gavin newsom has done a really bad job of taking care of the Homeless Population in california. If he cant fix the problem, the federal government will get involved. Christopher rufo is a Research Fellow at the Discovery Institute and a contributing editor at city journal. He joins us. Christopher, aside from the politics of it, the homeless situation actually is decliningt nationwide, but accelerating out of control in california. It is. Over the last ten years, homelessness nationwide is down about 16 . 35 out of 50 states have managed to reduce the number of people on the streets. But what you have seen is very curious. The states of california, oregon, and washington, youve seen it explode, and this is happening really for two reasons. One, because of outofcontrol housing crisis, paired with permissive policies that really enable public camping, public drug consumption, and homelessness almost as a lifestyle. And now what you have is a situation that is really reaching that point of no return. Es in the state of california, more than 100,000 people on the streets. In Los Angeles County alone, its now 59,000 people. Thats essentially a small population that is really none feasible plan coming from any political leaders to actually make progress on this. Mark people say california is a nice state to be homeless in, because the weather is great, so its not like they are homeless in maine or new hampshire. But you noticee that florida ad texas and arizona dont have this problem. So its not so much the weather. There is a political factor here, too. Yeah, that is a political choice. Er you can see that same principle at play, writ small, we have the cities like los angeles, San Francisco, seattle, that have doubled the number of homeless folks in the last few years. And smaller cities, the outlying areas, that have a compassionate enforcement approach, they are enforcing the law, making homelessness a top policy priority. They have actually managed to reduce it, while the bigger cities that have the most progressive, the most permissive policies, dont seem to be able to get a handle on it, and the real lesson from the homelessness crisis is that policy matters. If you have a policy of unlimited permissiveness, kind of ruinous compassion, you are only going to compound the problem, no matter how much money you spend. Mark its kind of the opposite of what they used to call the broken windows theory, isnt it . Its because there are more and more crimes committed by the Homeless Population, that essentially are unenforced in most californian cities. So that they are surrendering, ceding control of the streets to this population. Thats exactly right. One study that came out this year detailed in seattle, washington, Homeless Individuals make up more than 50 s of all Police Bookings in the city of seattle. Despite being less than 1 of the population. So what you have is a real denial on the part of civic leaders. You hear in their rhetoric, its all about housing, wee need to just build more affordable apartments, that will solve the problem. But at heart, what is happening is this is a human crisis. You have the intersection of addiction, mental illness,of property crime, and kind of human despair that is being concentrated in these coastal cities. C and like you said, its a nice place to be homeless, or its a nice place to be among the very affluent, and what you are seeing is that californias coastal regions are increasingly becoming an almost neofeudal society, where if youre in the top 1 , youre doing great, and then, if you are in that bottom, you know, 10 , you are just going through the meat grinder of these policies, and you may end up on the streets. Mark and some of thosese actually when you say neofeudal, some neofeudal diseases are actually coming back to those streets. Christopher, thank you forba th. Youve probably noticed the tremendous decline of San Francisco in recent months. Crime, homelessness, garbage, human waste have surged. But ordinary people still cant afford to live there. We sent a camera crew to chronicle the decline of San Francisco. Fo they found incredible things. Theft and drug dealing in broad daylight, powerless police, local citizensyl desperately trying to live normal lives amid worsening chaos. Our new series will show you everything they discovered. American dystopia debuts in the new year, right here on Tucker Carlson tonight. Dont miss it. Earlier this year, the left rallied to defend the city of baltimore against trump. Now that city is about to have the deadliest year in its entire history. Thats next. Plus, Michael Bloomberg, one ofa americas richest men, so why is he using prison labor to make calls for his campaign . We will try to find out. That is coming up after the break. Is coming up after the break. Mark over the summer, democrats acted outraged when President Trump called baltimore a dirty, dangerous disgrace. But the president s words were totallyge accurate. Now, baltimore is on the brink of having its deadliest year ever. The city is just a few homicides away from eclipsing its recent high of 342 murders a year. And since baltimores population is declining, this year is likely to have the highest homicide rate in the citys history. Y. To fight the violence, the city is considering a desperate measure, deploying special surveillance planes to spy on residents. Rafael mangual is the Deputy Director of legal policy at the manhattan institute, and he joins us now. Rafael, just to explain what is going on here, these surveillance planes, basically monitoring citizens from the skies, thats very orwellian, isnt it . Yeah, it does sound orwellian. I think a lot of what they are going to be trying to do is track patterns of outdoor drug markets, openair drug markets, where a lot of the violence is stemming from a net city. One of the things new york city benefited from when they took on the attack on crime throughout the 90s, it pushed the drug market indoors. F and what that does is takes potential targets off the streets. These are people who are going to be shot at, and raises the transaction cost of certain kinds of crime, i think thats what theyre trying to get with the surveillance. T mark Something Like 70 of those involved in homicides have derived from the drug trade, basically. Thats right. Baltimore Police Released some interesting statistics about its 2017 murder suspects. 70 of them had a prior, drugrelated arrest, which is interesting because a lot of the reform crowd, especially marilyn mosby, the progress of prosecutor, has really focused on scaling back drug enforcement, and the idea is that drug offenses are nonviolent, so these are kind of innocuous behavior. Mark victimless crime. Exactly. What they are failing to understand is that there is a significant amount of overlap between people playing inyi the drug trade and people driving the violence in that city. Drug enforcement can actually be pretextual attack on Violent Crime itself. Mark right. And here is another mindboggling statistic. 36 of these perpetrators are actually out on parole or probation. Att the time of their offens. Mark at the time they go out and kill somebody. Thats right. Mark we have all of these laws, but the criminal fraternity seems to know that the system is no great threat to them. At well, exactly. This is one of the big misconceptions about the tone of the criminal justice debate in the United States. The tone gives the impression that the criminal Justice System is this overly draconian, kind of orwellian entity that oppresses people left and right. The reality is, in a lot of cities across the country, baltimore being one of them, people are going soft on crime. Maryland as a state has decarcerated significantly in recent years. I mean, they cut their prison population by 10 between 2016 and 2017, and that means more criminals on the the streets, which is reflected in these numbers. Mark these keep these tough sounding laws. Three felonies, you are going to be in jail for 49 years, but the criminals, unlike the public, no, as a matter of policy, those are never enforced. Ik they know better. The reality is the United States, only about 40 of felony convictions result in a postconviction prison sentence. That means 60 of the time, you are not actually going toly prison, and to go to prison, only about 40 of prisoners serve a year of their time, so they are on the street relatively soon, which is how you get, in a city like baltimore, a situation we have offenders with ten priors coming at 36 of homicides are committed by people on parole. Mark is this going to get worse before it gets better . I hope not. We know what to do. We know how to attack this fooblem. We have models like the city of new york. Mark if they just elects they right kind of mayor. I think it will take political will. Mark thanks a lot, rafael. Michael bloomberg entered the democratic primary late and has his work cut out for him trying to catch up. P. In a recent ad, speaking of the incarcerated, bloomberg touted his credentials as a job creator. This guy gets things done. Ls bloomberg built a global news and Information Company by taking on of the toughest competition, creating 20,000 jobs. Mikes steady leadership will build an economy where everyone can get ahead. Mark everyone can get ahead. And when they say everyone, they mean it. This week, bloombergs campaign admitted to employing prisoners in oklahoma to make phone calls on bloombergs behalf. Robby soave is a Senior Editor at reason and author of theto book panic attack. He joins us now. The Bloomberg Campaign has severed connections with the oklahoma penal system. What actually is the objection to what mayor bloomberg accidentally found himself doing, using prisoners to make Campaign Calls . O yeah, i think every one, right, left, and center, is going to agree that it doesnt look good. Ne it may be perfectly legal, but i dont think it looks ethical. To be using people who are locked up, to be making calls on behalf of your campaign. I mean, what kind of statement is that about your campaign, if the people you are getting excited about it, literally they have no choice but to even leave the building . So i dont think that sends an enthusiastic message of a nation ready to fall in love with Michael Bloomberg and convince people to vote for him, right . Mark yeah, no, i hate it when you get Campaign Calls, but you sort of always assume it is a genuine volunteer, and when its not, you kind of assume theyve paid, you know, out of work actors or somebody to do it. The idea that it is a guy hes locked up in jail and has a choice between sewing mail bags or hammering license plates or making telephone calls for Mike Bloomberg, it doesnt seem like a good comment on the health of his campaign. No. I mean, may be, in some ways, its somewhat symbolically fitting for bloomberg. T i mean, this is someone hes not an ideological, far left person. I guess he is a sort of centrist. But centrism can be authoritarian in and of itself. This is a man who wanted to arrest people for drinking extra large soda, for consuming fattyo foods, for consuming flavored tobacco products. I mean, you name it, its not good for you, Mike Bloomberg thinks you should go to jail for using it, or someone should go to jail for selling it to you. So there is a prison theme underlining this campaign. Mark if i recall correctly, john kerry wound up having to get rid of his telephone call team. U it had been outsourced to a call center in ontario, which last time i checked, wasnt an american state, but it is in the dominion of canada. What do you think looks worse having to have your Campaign Calls made by canadians or jailbirds . [laughs] i think this is worth, although neither are good ideas. Youre not creating american jobs in the kerry case, you are not creating wellpaying jobs, because these are people being paid far under minimum wage. I dont object, by the way, to prisoners having tasks to do rather than sitting in their cells, bored, not bettering themselves or learning anything, but i dont think working on campaigns is the kind of thing the prison system should be doing. Again, i think that strikes basically everyone as improper, if not illegal. Mark that is not the least redemptive. Thank you t for that, robby. Although, we should note he is basically bought himself to 5 in the polls, and all of the other people struggling to get to 2, 3, 4 without his money. Tucker will be joining us for a special appearance with the great singersongwriter ofec american pie. Hi, hi, mr. American pie,ea don mclean and tucker up next. Mr. American pie, don mclean [ laughing ] [ electrical buzzing ] [ electrical buzzing ] [ dramatic music ] ahhhh ahhhhh elliott. You came back a lots changed since you were here. Its called the internet. Holiday movies. [ remote bleeps ] im dreaming of a White Christmas family. Home. [ music swells ] woohoo yeah mark here he is. Here is tucker. He just sat down with don mclean to talk about the meaning of dons great song, american pie. Here is what happened. The day the music died i started singing bye, bye Miss American pie drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry tucker its been almostt 50 year since american pie was the number 1 song in america, but it is still ubiquitous. Its everywhere. Sometimes the lyrics even get referred to on cable news shows. That is the Democratic Partys position. And if youre not sold yet, if you sense there might be a few links missing from that logic chain, nancy pelosi hasng something. A dense cluster of familiar phrases designed to convey the impression that were found for thinking is taking place. Like that old don mclean song, drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry. It doesnt mean anything, but it kind of moves you anyway. Tucker then we started thinking about it, and wes realized, maybe that is not fair. American pies lyrics may mean something. I to find out, we go to the man who wrote them. Probably the most famous songwriter in this country, don mclean joins us tonight. Mr. Mclean, thank you so much for coming on. Thank you for having me. I watch your show often. Tucker thank you, i appreciate that. This is a question every person who has ever driven on an american interstate has asked him or herself. So where is the levee, and what does this mean . What do the lyrics mean . Well, can i just take a moment and explain, there are many poems and songs in folk music, certainly, that are not particularly, exactly prosaic. Thats why they are poetry. But i have an idea i had an idea for a big song about america, and i didnt want to write this land is your land, or some song like that. And i came up with this notion that politics and music flow parallel together, forward,ti through history. So the music you get is related somehow to the political environment that is going on. Tucker yes. And in the song american pie, the verses get somewhat more dire each time, until you get to the end. But the good ol boys are always there, singing, singing bye,s bye, Miss American pie, almost like fiddling while rome is burning. This is all in my head. And it sort of turned out to be true, because you now have a kind of music in america that is really more spectacle, it owes more to liberacet than it does o elvis presley. And it is somewhat meaningless and loud and bloviating, and then we have this sort of spectacle in washington, this kind of politics, which has gotten so out of control. And so, the theory seems to hold up. Again, it was only my theory, and that is how i wrote the song. That was the principle behind it. Nl tucker so you set out to write, as you said, a big song about america. And boy, did you succeed. 50 years later, you know, its one of the most famous songs ever written in english, and one of the most resilient and resonant. I i mean, we are still listening to it every day. What kind of reaction do you get from people to the song now . Well, the song has been part of their lives now. You know, im part of their lives. And the albums that i made in the 1970s go along with that, but, of course, the kingpin is the song american pie. And really, all roads lead to rome in my show. I sing the american songbook, songs that ive written, whether it is castles in the air, and i love you so, all of the songs tucker winterwood. All roads lead to american pie at the end, usually, and its a summing up of everything that is going on. I dont really do a set, you know, ive been doing this for so many years, that i kind of make up a new show every night. But could i just tell you one thing about yourself that ive noticed . And that is that you do something that nobody else does. You get a guest on, and then you ask them a core question, and i think that nobody else does that. Its a very well thought out question, and nine times out of ten, the guest cant answer it, which makes it very amusing and fun, because you dont get into the whole thing going everywhere he wants you to go, you make them come to that question, and that is very philosophical. That is socratic. And i love that. I think that is terrific. Tucker i really appreciate that. The basics are what matters to me. Im a very basic person. Don mclean, it is an honor to have you on tonight. Thank you so much. I cant tell you the number of times ive thought about you alone in the car, and its great to finally meet you. Thanks very much. Well, thank you for having me. Mark im glad don mclean mentionedin wonderful baby, tt is a great song. Fred astaire made a terrific version of that. Hasnt been a Holly Jolly Christmas for the creepy porn lawyer. When he was on cnn every day, he came over like a supremely mega lawyer. The prosecutors now say that was all a sham. All of that coming up next. Do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos, that are degrading . Legacybox professionally converts them to dvds, thumb drive, or the cloud. Legacybox is simple and safe, with over half a million satisfied customers. Visit legacybox. Com today, and get 40 off. Tucker taking quite a tumbm the days when he was on cnn. And about to go on trial for attempting to extort 90. According to prosecutors, creepy lawyer launched a daring criminal enterprise because his lifestyle of fast cars, fancy restaurants and private jets left him 15 million in debt. Chadwick moore is a new york journalist and he joins us. Chadwick, people marked tuckers of this guy, creepy porn lawyer and they actually thought he was a credible, president ial contender. That is very much correct. This guy, creepy lawyer was so hard up for cash, maybe he could have taken to dancing like climb dome at client stormy on cnn and 1,000 suit. Im sure the rainbow lounge had been thrilled to have him as you know plenty of lonely, liberal wowomen fans, the same women who will be writing him letters in prison should he be convicted. [laughter] and ive never been at that lounge, just for the record. Let me ask you this, chadwick, if we must take this bad fate seriously, his lawyers are now arguing that when he demanded that nike pay him 22. 5 million, he simply was exercising his First Amendment rights. Shaking down nike is protected speech. Right, yes, and they are also claiming these accusations he had a fast and rich lifestyle is only starting aor Class Division and a jury pool. Okay, sure, but cnn turned this guy into a hero, americas sweetheart for a long time on cnn, bryans kilter, obviously famous cold in a serious contender against the president. Too bad that career did not take off of the grounds because he could have been using Campaign Donations to pay off his debt or a legend that scum i should say. But he is actually with the media, that they dump and run from him. And pretend it never happened. Thatnn he wasnt on cnn over 100 times and representing stormy. The fantastic thing, he actually did not file tax returns between 20112017 making up to 5. 5 million a year supposedly. So he is very much a typical democrat in that sense, chadwick. And his family as concerns for the fellowman and all the rest of it, he doesnt want to chip in and pay for himself. That is the way that goes. Si they seem to have the physical chops, extravagant, necessary expenditures commands and trying to muscle private entity to pay for it certainly. He certainly is and we will follow this to see how it goes but it certainly will not be flying any private jets again anytime soon. Chadwick, thank you for that pier that is about it for us tonight. Tune in each night at 8 00 eastern the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. And dont forget to dvr the show as well. Good night from all of us heree in new york. You are in for a treat this day, ms. Tammy bruce right now. Tammy thank you, i appreciate it and thank you Everyone Welcome to Sean Hannitys program. This is hannity, im tammy bruce in tonight for sean. House democrats are just becoming a shock in one gigantic lie for weeks, pelosi, shiff, and that alert they told that President Trump must be impeached as quickly as possible. They called him an imminent danger to the democratic republic and they forced him to vote in record time. Now, Speaker Pelosi is still stalling. At this hour, she is still refusing to send the articles of impeachment to the senate. President trump is calling her out and today he tweeted the radical left nothing demra