Quote of the night from the french president , whose choice of english words to describe the wife of australian Prime Minister turnbull led to this. I would like to thank you and your delicious wife for your warm welcome. Delicious. Tucker good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. Its been an amazing 24 hours even by the actionpacked standards of 2018, there has been lots of drama and washington. As you well know, Rudy Giuliani revealed on the shale on hannity show that payments cohan made to a star stormy daniels, which seemed like a major story at the time. But within hours it wasnt even the biggest story of the day. Nbc news reported that federal Law Enforcement had wiretapped cohens phone, it and recorded a
michael cohan certainly seems a shady character but shadiness is not a cry. The fbi cant destroy your life because you talk like a character from the sopranos, those arent felonies. Basic norms were violated, attorneyclient privilege is an ancient and vital concept, an
Exwives and exgirlfriend. How does the fbi fit into that. We just learned some very interesting if not completely clear information from the head of the fbi director. I want to bring in chris cillizza, who is here with me to discuss this. There is a lot to unpack here from Russian Meddling in the election and how that feaffects the midterms coming up. The timeline had it comes to rob porter, you know what, pause for a moment, chris, lets return to the testimony at the Senate Intelligence committee. Theyre out in the community, and i can tell you the Community Values what they do on the island. Thank you. And an oped by a number of former intelligence analysts call the nunes memo and the release, quote, one of the worst cases of politization of intelligence in modern american history, unquote. You said you had concerns about that memo. I know you cant get into the
sure i stay on the unclassified side. We have seen intentions to have an impact on the next election cycle here. Director co
President trump is set to meet with senior military leaders just a few minutes from now. He says all options are on the table after earlier today he condemned the suspected Chemical Attack this syria and said his administration would be making major decisions on how to respond in the next 24 to 48 hours. We will have much more on that, including the president s unprecedented criticism of putin. But first, the other news thats breaking right now thats tied to russia in a whole different way. The fbi raided the law office of Michael Cohen, president trumps long time personal lawyer today in manhattan. According to cohens lawyer, the fbi was acting on a referral by special Counsel Robert Mueller and Empowered By Search Warrants from u. S. Attorneys in the Southern District of new york. According to the new york times, the fbi seized emails, tax documents, and Business Records from cohens office. Thetimes says the seized reports include communication with president trump. The move today by
Almost everyone in power claims to believe it. The push to war in syria, by the way has united politicians have both sides. Lindsey graham and howard dean typically agree on very little. Not much at all. But today they are both calling for war in syria. Graham is ghanelding massive attacks on the syrian military, dean is going even further than that on twitter, he called the president , quote a wimp for merely sending thousands of troops and launching tons of bombs at syria. Thats not enough for howard dean who you may remember once ran for president as the peace candidate. Tonight he wants total war in syria. Television pundits, of course, strongly agree. This morning the Foreign Policy team over on Msnbc Exexplained that its far more important for american troops to fight in syria than it is to secure our own border here in america u watch. There is no question that now all these years later is Donald Trumps challenge. He has to take action. He has spoken to macron. What he ought too
Immigration. As you pointed out, he spent a threeday weekend in mara large reminding the president that the midterms are coming up. On top of the vocal criticism from ann coulter. We are told that the president was already frustrated that there has been a lack of progress in his view in building the border wall. All of this was exacerbated with the reports on fox news with the caravans coming. It isnt just on the Immigration Issue as you pointed out. It is a myriad of topics the president is touching on. Amazon, nafta, mexico. Some may say he has lost some of his moderating forces in the white house including hope hicks former communication director who left last week and this is the first week the president was without her by his side. Even when she was here, he still went through these fits of fury. At the bottom line here is this is the president being the president. It is obviously not the first time that the president has gone after multiple groups in just one day. Reporter absolu