You say, it may well be part of the president s legacy. That is it for Tucker Carlson tonight. I want to thank our intern, caitlin, who is going off. She was so excited to get a picture or not with me, but with sean hannity. Shawn is ready to take off, blast off into the stratosphere. Sean is that what you call it . Blasting off. We do have big Breaking News. Mark, thank you. We have incredible dress, joe digenova, the great woodmark li. We have Breaking News this hour. It is so much worse then we knew or thought. The story of corrupt doj official exforeign spies working together, literally to m becoming president , and after his election to destroy him. We have more major Breaking News surrounding bruce ohr and Christopher Steele and now Christopher Steeles boss, fusion gps founder Glenn Simpson. The hills john solomon has now uncovered additional disturbing communications and for the first time, we have them, handwrittene
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who else may have been on this. the recurring theme, one that was repeated today, let s listen. we made a deal people were happy with, and 12 years later they re not happy with it. this case has influenced at multiple levels of the department of justice. i don t think it s right and fair to petition the labor department to have epstein as the focus. nancy, 12 years ago, 12 years ago, you know, we were talking about this when we were listening to acosta in the last day or so, and they seem to sort of brush it off. i m curious, with julie brown who led your investigation at the paper and other reporters on staff, is this the kind of attitude that your journalists encountered when they were digging into this? absolutely. i think we have to realize when it comes to acosta resigning.
investigation ceased and they had the opportunity to proceed civilly. what is the message to victims who say they don t trust you anymore? the message is you need to come forward. you have nothing else to say to these victims beyond you should come forward? that places a lot of burden on children. what else do you have to say? i have seen these interviews and i can t i generally can t begin to fathom what these victims have been through. at the same time i think it s important to stand up for the prosecutors of my former office and make clear that what they were trying to do was help these victims. that last question to acosta, the one about the victims, was from katie rogers of the new york times who s standing by to join us in a moment. late today the former palm beach state attorney fired back with a statement that reads in part, i can emphatically state that mr. acosta s recollection of this matter is completely wrong. if mr. acosta was truly concerned with the state
look, brian, it reveals that so much of our federal government is a public relations exercise right now.t( the main reason secretary acosta went to that podium was to do battle in pr.i] labor department.se before the it frankly has nothing to do with his job as the labor secretary. but it has everything to do wit1 the quality of press coverage he was receiving, which as we have[ documented so many times on this broadcast is paramount for president trump. acosty@im trump wanted acosta to fix that. i think it s noteworthy, and this was alluded to a little earlier in the conversation fx4u but it s really noteworthy to i] ot it s really noteworthy to i] say in that hour at the lectern at the labor department.e1 he showed no contrition.ok %-pfor these victims.ñi he could have begun his opening statement by talking a:o7q horrific crimes that occurred here and by talking about the experiences of these girls, now1 women.w3
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