There are a terrible a lot of lies going about in the world of the worst of it is is half of them are true. Thats our story, thanks for sharing it with us tonight, Tucker Carlson coming up next. Tucker good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight, President Trump is watching yesterday, he has rendered his verdict. He said a former fbi director james comeys testimony is a major victory for the administrations side of the russia story, in effect a complete vindication. President trump yesterday it showed no collusion, no obstruction, that was an excuse by the democrats who lost an election that some people think they shouldnt have lost because its almost impossible for the democrats to lose the Electoral College as you know. You have to run up the whole east coast and you have to win every thing as a thats just what we did. It was just an excuse. James comey confirmed a lot of what i said. Tucker you might be able to find some overstatement in there but heres whats true. As of 8 00
at the time that came up, i wouldn t have known if he was or he wasn t. now i know he wasn t. some people could watch you on this and say, you know, you ve had to sort of change the context of how you re describing that story, to your knowledge, that you keep as you get more knowledge, you tell us more of the story. are you confident your client is being 100% truthful to you? yes, absolutely. i don t tell you more of the story. in the first month or two, i didn t know it. i had to learn it. probably since may i haven t learned any new facts except a few things that have come along. actually if you drill down further on the story, if you ask me a general question, i ll give you a general answer. if you ask me a specific question, i ll give you a specific answer. then i have the problem of being a lawyer, where i have to qualify. like, i ll say, you know, the conversation between mueller and the president, where the president said go easy on flynn.
other corrupt act other than just fire him, it can obstruct justice because that s what article 2 of the constitution gives to him solely. not congress, not anybody else. if, for example, a president said, leave office or i m going to, you know, have your kids kidnapped or i m going to break your legs i prosecute a lot of obstruction cases. i ll give you an example. when the president said, please go easy on flynn, i know of no obstruction case that begins with the word please. it goes something like this, if you don t go easy on flynn, i ll break your kneecaps. an obstruction case has to involve some degree of corrupt act other than just making a request or just exercising a legal function. barr is a unique lawyer. he s a superior lawyer. so i wouldn t if i were one of these lawyers arguing about this on television, i wouldn t go up against bill barr. fair enough. rudy giuliani, i m going to end it there. i appreciate the time and appreciate you coming on.
t the justice department doesn t do ethics investigation. a special counsel can, it can be part of their mandate and you know that. they re doing a criminal investigation. and leading to impeachment has to be a high crime or misdemeanor. that s true. not an unethical violation. that is a political standard. they have gotten so beyond his scope, it s absurd. how has he gone beyond his scope? how has he gone beyond his scope? yeah. at least four degrees of separation. it begins with collusion, goes to a completely phony obstruction investigation how is it phony with all of the things that has president has done with respect to this investigation? because if you were in the doj, rudy, and you watched the president doing these kinds of conversations with comey, asking people to leave, asking for loyalty every right to do that. asking him to go easy on flynn. every right to do that. then they bring in rosenstein and write up an memo about why he has
russia. if you were hearing those kind of things at the doj, you would say, what the hell is this guy doing? and i would calm down and read the law and find out that article ii of the constitution of the united states which i took an oath to uphold which apparently mueller s people have forgotten gives the president authority to fire people not for any reason. well, for any reason but a criminal reason. it would have to be something like obstruction is not based on something like, oh, please go easy on flynn. which he never said, by the way. he disputes saying that. but let s just say he said it. but mr. mayor, how can we take his word here s what an obstruction case is. as dispositive. let s say he said it. let s say he said, please, mr. comey, go easy on the poor kp t general. when i was a prosecutor, that must have happened at least a hundred times not by somebody who could take you out. absolutely. who? i m not going to tell you who. but obstruction is