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Power. show us your tax returns. who did you speak to? where were you on the night of july 29th. whatever. >> sure. >> tucker: when caught making mistakes dlirktly or accidentally refuse to account for them. ntsb leaknbc leaks its own tape with billy bush its own reporter and wont comment on what it did. in the case of buzzfeed, doesnt that publication have a moral obligation, ben smith its editor have a moral obligation to tell us where did you get this? you mislead us, you lied. you made a mis...

About crisis at the border. i was filling in with martha tonight. we led not with this story because it broke halfway through the show. an american record, as you know, tucker, has now been set. the most number of central americans, or anyone from any background to break into america successfully, more than 300 central american migrants and, yet, we have a large number of people in the media and large number of people in the democratic party saying its a manufactured crisis. thats fake. its not ...

Own story. insanity. chris, a radio host, former aid to chuck schumer, he joins us tonight. so, chris, i wonder, i mean, my primary interest in someone who has spent his life in the media. my jaw is almost open full time watching it. i wonder if the people who woo step forward and say you know what? we shouldnt throw allegations around prefaced with the phrase if true. if it isnt true we shouldnt be alleging it. is that fair? >> that is fair, frankly. i think that media outlets, when they get a ...

Paying attention. >> tucker: rufnt reasons the country is so volatile right now nobody trusts people in authority. some of our institutions have been discredited and part of the reason they are discredited is nobody is held accountable for screwing up. you have the support of tens of hundreds of millions of business. buzzfeed has a huge market cap, okay? and they are the ones who printed the dossier without verifying any of it. it turned out to be false it turned out to be a political document. ...

♪ >> tucker: really kind of an unbelievable night in the news business. a report last night from buzzfeed news and letsed a air quote around the word news accused the president of the united states of ordering his personal lawyer former lawyer michael cohen to lie to congress. he encouraged perjury. that would be a felony and impeachable offense. all day long have you heard people on television speculating about this. prefaced with if true. but now, after we have spent literally 24 hours imagi...

Know, this should also ease concerns about anybody in america who think that robert mueller is not going to be fair to the president. this shows he is a man of honor and if he sees something that is way out of line, is he going to call it out. so, you know, kudos to robert mueller for stepping in because this really was a sensational story and all the if trues were, you know, if it was true, this would have been one of the most horrible things we have heard so far and absolutely led to impeachme...

>> 100 percent except president trump says its 100 percent didnt happen tweeting, quote: lying to reduce jail time, clearly referencing michael cohens three year prison sentence. white house deputy press secretary hogan gidley added this comment. watch. >> this is absolutely ludicrous that we are giving any type of credence or credibility to a news outlet like buzzfeed. >> and he is right. buzzfeed does have credibility issues, including multiple accusations of plagiarizing and stealing original...

>> tucker: i agree. >> lets not say the president is in the clear tonight. lets not impeach him as a whole bunch of people did over the last 24 hours. my final point on this is axios, which is, again, supposed to be a very credible organization. they have a lot of credible people there i was just reading as i was listening to you and dan bongino, they had this all outtake a few hours ago go how whats really, really bad for the president is that donald trump jr. has exposure. when you look at the...

Saying it is. one of the reporters who by line on this story seems like a real reporter to me. he is a real reporter and seems like a decent one. the other guy, whose name is on the story, jason leopold is a political activist with a long history of making reckless and unfounded charges. he is the guy who reported in 2006, i believe, that karl rove had been indicted and that turned out to be false. he is not a journalist. again, he is a political activist. so, what does this tell us about the cr...

>> tucker: welcome pack. kind of an amazing night. washington for the last 24 hours discussing impeachment, indictment, multiple indictments, all of the speculation flowing from a story that broke last night on buzzfeed, a website famous for its cab videos wading into the political realm with a piece claiming that donald trump ordered his personal lawyer, michael cohen to lie under oath to congress. that, of course, would be a felony. that would be on destruction of justice, that would be ground...