thank you a lot for coming on. thank you. tucker: the story is has not received enough attention. tell us what purdue pharma new. remarkably, what they knew was that the drug was being abused. they had gotten special permission from the fda to promote this drug, as less prone to abuse and other drugs. they took this claim, they ran with it, they made claims that were not true. during that w time, they were aware that people were abusing the drug. they have reports from their salesmen, reports from doctors, they have reports from s law enforcement officials, and they sat on these reports. they made no mention of them to regulators, to authorities, to lawmakers, and they just kept selling and selling and selling. tucker: looking back, this drug was shipped to some counties famously in kentucky and west virginia in quantities that weren t justifiable under
intelligence agencies got information, and one case of a papadopoulos breaking to a foreign diplomat that he had contacts with a russian let me f finish point and carter page, who had gone to russia, been under investigation, who had been trying to been recruited by russian spies, this is credible. tucker: you re evading my question. should they have told donald trump that they were spying on his campaign? we talked to these guys surreptitiously. why did they keep that from him? because the information at that point was at the trump campaign was actively soliciting information from the russians, at least papadopoulos. and eventually carter page. to be when there s p no evidence no evidence are donald trump dead, no evidence now but also no knowledge of the fbi as to how far of the campaign it goes. whyn would you inform a potentil target of an investigation that they are being targeted? no fbi would do that. tucker: it s a political campaign. ififf this were happening on
try to knock it off. tucker: i thought i was going crazy. byron york, thank you. an fbi informant reporting to the obama justice department did secretly gather information on trump campaigner officials, but never told the trump campaign about that. all the usual geniuses demand that you not call this spying. okay. u what was it? joining us now is julian epstein, former chief counsel, democrat and house judiciary committee. why is that not spying? i agree with everything byron just said. you couldn t g caught up in us a magical thing tucker: i m not afraid th the debate is. a spy, would people think of a spy, a plant inside a campaign that is getting all kinds of information about the campaign operations. that is not what is happening here. by everyone s admission.at by everybody s admission, what happened here was the use of an fbi confidential informant, which is standard operation procedure in the fbi, once the fbi has evidence that a foreign government is trying to co-opt c
[boos] tucker: oh! and the reign has ended. i cannot believe that you dethroned griff jenkins. did you go easy on me? no, i was ready, i know i was against a fierce competitor. tucker: it is one of those paradoxes, now that you are not disabled, you are weaker. ab i should point out, too, fr a boy from tennessee, its poetic justice. tucker: congratulations. thank you so much. tucker: you win the eric wemple terrified mug. there is his picture. you can drink your coffee out of it. katie pavlich, thank you. griff, we ll have you back for the round of champions. join us next week when we determine which fox news regulars are paying attention to the job they are paid to do. we ll be right back.
reparations happy hour is an event, a successful event, put on by nonprofit brown hope, you could find more information on brownhope.org. we had over 150 white people donate. this is not about alcohol. i ve been sober for 27 years, so you can trust i was not putting on an alcohol event. we build community, and we made a space to heal from the impact of racism. i believe that he was a conservative can respect the fat that we had people voluntarily support this event, and show that we as individuals can take action to heal from the impact of racism. tucker: is a little patronizing, no? the assumption is that all black people are poor and need the help of white people and it makes the white people feel a virtuous, like they are coming to the rescue, and i don t know how it makes the black people feel, but it probably makes some of them feell patronized i would think.