what s around the corner could be surprising. ask your doctor about eliquis. tucker: former george w. bush ethics lawyer richard painter ditched at donald trump s republican party to run for senate as a democrat in his home state of minnesota. it didn t end well, he lost in the primary. in the process, he became a world-renowned expert on dumpster fires. some people see a dumpster fire and do nothing but watch the spectacle. some are too scared to face the danger or they think it will benefit them if they let it keep on burning. others shrug and say all this talk of a dumpster fire is just fake news. there is an inferno raging in washington but here in the land of 10,000 lakes, we know how to
payne are on a couple of times to talk about dumpster fires, but that is not the topic tonight. the former bush ethics lawyer became a democrat in response to the rise of donald trump, now he is being threatened by asking questions about elephants at the dnc. abuse by an ex-girlfriend. richard, i wish we had more time, we got completely squeezed by all of this news. it lay out us this story. you ve asked questions about ellison, what wasve the response from your party? first, i think they re trying to round the clock to the election, instead of having an investigation. it has been weeks. i also complained back in may about the dfl, failure to investigate harassment of a gay man, wrote an email describing explicit harassment in 2016, just swept under the rug. i finally wrote the dfl chair, ken martin, and he went public with that. of course, ken martin was
tucker: we ve had a rich painter on talking about dumpster fires, but that s not what he is on tonight. now he says he s being threatened by his new party for asking questions about keith ellison. he s the dnc deputy chair charges of abuse by an ex-girlfriend. richard painter joins us tonight. lay out for us this story. you ve asked questions about ellison. what was the response he got from your party? first, i think they are trying to run the clock to the election instead of having an investigation. it s been weeks. i also complained back in may about the dfl s failure to investigate harassment of a gay man in the eighth congressional district. he wrote a deep down my email writing expletive harassment that was swept under the rug. i finally wrote the dfl chair and went public with that.
experts and they all point out the same thing there is a fire going on behind you and you do nothing to put it out. why is that? there is a dumpster fire but you take no affirmative action to put it out? we had water go on that fire at the end of that ad. tucker: what you played no role. you seem to be basking in its warmth, and yet you did not try to douse it. suspect there is something going on here. there is dumpster fires in washington, i suggest a lot of way to clean that up and get the money out of politics. that is a problem for both political parties. and we have president trump going to drain the swamp. they got a lot of conflict of interest. we need to get people out of washington have financial conflicts of interest. that includes the democrats with $5 million tucker: hold - on. there is a fire wait, hold on. it doesn t even make sense. honestly with respect. i know you are an attorney and law professor.
this is a good story for the administration. it gets overshadowed by the self-made dumpster fires. absolutely, christine. economic fundamentals are good. inflation is controlled. corporate earnings are great. the markets normally rally on this stuff. the markets now are getting unnerved by two stories. one, the possibility of impeachment which we talked about and secondly, i don t think there is imminent resolution of the china trade dispute. that will go on for a while. the market has things to worry about despite good economic fundamentals. matt rivers was reporting preliminary word from the chinese side saying they are looking at market access and intellectual property issues. there will be brinksmanship. they want to see the president tough on china. i think his delegation will lead china saying we made