contact us by the disgust he felt watching media coverage of the russia story. not only were most reporters getting it wrong, they were getting it backward. the russians were in fact deeply involved in american politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 presidential campaign. intrigued, we agreed to meet with at source today. he just left our offices here in washington a couple of hours ago. the story he told us is astonishing. we will be following up on it, confirming more of it and bringing you details about it this week and after. at first, here s an overview of what he told us. media reports describe paul manafort as a central figure in the russia investigation due to the several months he spent as donald trump s campaign chairman. according to our source, that s only half true. he is indeed at the center of this investigation, but not because of his ties to trump. in fact, paul manafort spent years working with the podesta group on behalf of russian gove
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be intimidated into accepting your fraudulent promise. it w often works and that s exactly why they do it but it only works when the rest of us play alongng with it so let s sp playing along with it. so, can you explain to me why if it s wrong to meet with russians in the hope of getting dirt on your political opponent, it s okay to pay for a national toor get dirt from russians about your political opponents which the dnc in the hillary campaign both did? it s very different for a campaign to spend money to do opposition research in a foreign country then for a foreign government like the russians to actually invest in disarming our election security to benefit one candidate, that s the big difference here. there s nothing wrong in paying
if there is perjury, convicted for perjury and see if you can convict but let s stop pre
this kind of behavior, that s why we punish tax evasion, and also to protect the public, to make sure that someone who was a threat to the rest of us is no longer walking free. in this case, the prosecution didn t even explain how he defrauded the banks. after the banks lose money? i don t think they did. they didn t explain how much he should have paid in federal taxes but didn t, and i don t think there s a single person in america feels a physical threat or even a moral threat from 69-year-old paul manafort. they are not even pretending this isn t political. they are not. if they are, they are doing a really poor job and it really begs the question, talker, if the federal government and all the taxpayer assets that support it thought paul manafort was such a threat to the republic, why didn t they warn the trump team? barack obama was the president of the united states, not the democrat party. why didn t they warn the trauma team that this dangerous threat
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of something, he s guilty of helping donald trump win. and by the way, tucker, some of the same process crimes and suspicious activity mueller has accused manafort of, ironically enough, democrats accused of the same thing of people connected to democrats seem to have gotten up to this point a relativelyy free legal pass. tucker: even as a matter of appearances, would you, if youte were robert mueller, appoint as the lead prosecutor in a case against donald trump s former campaign manager, a hillary partisan who went to her victory party on election night? [laughs] tucker, this is a joke. they re not even hiding it. can i double down on you? how about this. andrew weissmann, yes, attended hillary s party. jeannie rhee, one of his lead prosecutors in the case represented the clinton foundation. aaron zebley, another. prosecutr in the case who is friendly with the whole mueller crew, represented one of the clinton
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of his presidency, also going one by one through the women known as the squad and delineating why he thinks they are so negative for the country. that s the story wednesday july 17th 2019. tucker takes it over from here. tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. the president is speaking to supporters in greenville, north carolina. we will be taking portions of it live, especially the newsworthy moments. right now is talk about the four radical freshman democrats, antifa, and more broadly, the direction the democrats are moving. we are going to go back and listening, that s interesting. president trump: michael watley. [scattered applause] i want to also thank and i will tell you, he s been a warrior for the last three months, really a warrior when we needed him most, senator tom tillis. thank you, tom. he really has. he s been really good.
we got to get out and work and make sure he gets reelected. and also, representatives mark auger and richard hudso