so, neal, i come back to the legal thing again, and i want to read to you just a little bit more from the tribe, ayer, and aftergut op-ed. they say there s a huge role here for the attorney general, merrick garland, to be playing and he s not playing it. let me read what they say. yet, there are no signs, at least in media reports, that the attorney general is building a case against the individuals, the one we talked about earlier, including donald trump, mark meadows, et cetera, no interviews with top administration officials, no reports of attempts to persuade the foot soldiers to turning on the people who incited them to violence. by this point in the russia investigation, the special counsel has indicted paul manafort and rick gates and secured the cooperation of papadopoulos. you know, look, we know how the neweler thing turned out, neal, kind of ended up being a big
that i doubt byron would say there is any evidence of that. tucker: i m merely saying they worked for the obama administration. we don t know the answer because all these media morons are telling us we don t have a right to act. i m an american, do i have a right. i want to know what this was about. i don t think there was any political involvement. tucker: we don t know that. there is no evidence of that. tucker: there is no evidence of anything we don t know what happened. the gang of 8 got a fair amount of information when they met with the justice department earlier in the week. i m sure if the loyalists had any information if there s what a political involvement in the decision to investigate, that that would be. tucker: god only knows. i don t trust any of these people. i m an american citizen and taxpayer. i have lived here all my life and i want to know what the hell this was about and i have a right know. you are saying you don t trust the fbi and the security
tucker: well, a few weeks ago a number of leftist liberal media outlets including the washington times and the washington the k times and the washington post. received tips from an fbi informant whoer is rip who surreptitiously gathered information. fox news can also confirm it. it happened. yet, remarkably, made those same media outlets are now claiming none of this is real or ever was real. it didn t happen. people with hair spray and artificial tans are nodding to the camera and telling you that right now. a couple of high profile republicans including congressman trey gowdy echoed that claim. there was no spying by the obama fbi on the trump campaign, they say. anyone who claims otherwise is a propagandaist or a lunatic. who are the propagandist here? what actually happened? we express a lot of opinions on this show tonight for a miniway we think it s important to get to the facts of this case.
intelligence agencies got information in one case about papadopoulos bragging to a foreclosure diplomat that he had contact with the russians. hold on, let me finish the point. carter page gone to russia been under investigation for years who had tried to be recruited by russian spies in 2013. this is credible evidence by the intelligence agency that the russians. tucker: you are evading my question. tell donald trump that we are spying on your campaign. we have talked to these guys surreptitiously why would you keep that from him? why doesn t very a right to know that the information at that point is that the trump campaign was actively soliciting information you from the russians at least papadopoulos was and eventually carter page. tucker: there is no evidence that donald trump did. but no knowledge at the fbi how far up the campaign it does. why would you inform the potential target of an investigation that they re being targeted in counter intelligence. tucker: boy, if thi
vernacular sense to gather information about the knowledge of the person from whom you are gathering it why is that not spying? that appears to be exactly what they were doing. the informant that we hear about most often approached carter page, sam clovis, george papadopoulos, these are figures in the trump campaign. kind of very friendly approaches. oh, we need to have coffee. i have read some of your stuff. do you a great job. let s talk. and then in the case of papadopoulos, at least reportedly was saying well, you know about the russians in these emails. getting information out of that person. tucker: let me ask really quick because you are a journalist and you cover. this i keep hearing people say we know that s not true. has other information arisen that i somehow missed that prove what you just said false? no. this is this actually happened. this is a big semantic fight people are having. tucker: they are lying. they are mischaracterizing this on purpose to hide someth