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  • >> Tucker: GOOD EVENING AND

  • WELCOME TO "TUCKER CARLSON

  • TONIGHT," IF YOU HAVE BEEN

  • WATCHING TELEVISION RECENTLY YOU

  • PROBABLY HEARD THE BAD NEWS.

  • THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS

  • OVER.

  • TOAST, COOKED, DONE FOR GOOD,

  • AND ALONG WITH IT ANY HOPE OF

  • THE MIDDLE-CLASS REVOLUTION THAT

  • 63 MILLION AMERICANS VOTED FOR

  • TWO YEARS AGO, THE PRESIDENT HAS

  • BEEN CAUGHT COMMITTING FELONIES, TWO YEARS AGO, THE PRESIDENT HAS

  • HERE IS WHETHER LEGAL EXPERTS

  • WITHOUT LAW DEGREES ARE SAYING

  • ON TELEVISION.

  • >> IF PRECEDENT MEANS ANYTHING

  • IN THE TRUMP ERA, DONALD TRUMP,

  • MUST BE, WILL BE IMPEACHED

  • BECAUSE OF THE CRIMES THAT

  • PROSECUTORS SAY HE COMMITTED IN

  • THE MICHAEL COHEN CASE.

  • >> BOTH PARTIES NEED TO GET ON

  • BOARD TO PASS ARTICLES OF

  • IMPEACHMENT.

  • >> YOU HAVE CONSPIRACY, YOU HAVE

  • OBSTRUCTION COMING UP CAMPAIGN

  • FINANCE.

  • >> IF THE DEMOCRATS DO NOT

  • PURSUE THIS VIGOROUSLY, THEY

  • WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR

  • ABDICATING THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.

  • >> IT GOES TO THE MUELLER

  • QUESTION.

  • THE ETHICAL QUESTION.

  • A DEMOCRACY IS AT STAKE.

  • TO SPEAK OF THIS CRIMINAL MUST

  • BE BROUGHT UP BY THE UNITED STAT

  • BE BROUGHT UP BY THE UNITED STAS

  • BE BROUGHT UP BY THE UNITED STAF

  • BE BROUGHT UP BY THE UNITED STAR

  • IMPEACHMENT.

  • >> Tucker: GOING TO SHOW YOU

  • THE DON THEM ON TAPE, BUT TO SUM

  • UP THEY ARE TELLING US THAT

  • WE ARE STARING DOWN THE BARREL

  • OF A CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS.

  • AND THEN CRISIS STEMS FROM WHAT

  • MSNBC DESCRIBES AS "THE CRIMES

  • PROSECUTOR SAVED THE PRESIDENT

  • COMMITTED IN THE MICHAEL COHEN

  • CASE."

  • WHICH CRIMES WERE THOSE?

  • WE HAVE THE ANSWER, THE RELEVANT

  • DETAILS WERE SPELLED OUT IN A

  • PIECE THAT RAN OVER THE WEEKEND

  • TO "THE NEW YORK TIMES" UNDER

  • THIS HEADLINE.

  • PROSECUTORS SAY THAT TO TRUMP

  • DIRECTED A LEAGUE ILLEGAL

  • PAYMENTS DURING THE CAMPAIGN.

  • THE GIST IS THIS, TRUMP'S FORMER

  • LAWYER MICHAEL COHEN HAS TOLD

  • FORMER PROSECUTORS THAT HE

  • FACILITATED PAYMENTS TO TWO

  • WOMEN WHO SAID THAT THEY HAD

  • AFFAIRS WITH DONALD TRUMP.

  • AND THEN, ACTUALLY, THAT IS IT.

  • THAT IS THE ENTIRE STORY RIGHT

  • THERE.

  • PAYING THE TWO WOMEN, SAYING FOR

  • FEDERAL PROSECUTORS WAS A

  • SERIOUS CRIME, A CRIME WORTHY OF

  • IMPEACHMENT, IF NOT INDICTMENT.

  • OKAY, BUT YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING

  • HOW EXACTLY THAT IS CRIMINAL.

  • WE WILL STIPULATE THAT

  • EVERYTHING THAT MICHAEL COHEN

  • HAS TOLD THE FEDS IS ABSOLUTELY

  • TRUE.

  • ASSUMING ANNA'S FEE IS NOT A

  • WISE IDEA WITH MICHAEL COHEN,

  • BUT FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT

  • LET'S DO IT IN THIS CASE.

  • EVERYTHING HE SAYS IS TRUE, WHY

  • IS WHAT HE IS LEGEND A CRIMINAL

  • OFFENSE?

  • REMEMBER THE FACTS OF THE STORY

  • ARE UNDISPUTED, TWO WOMEN

  • APPROACH DONALD TRUMP AND

  • THREATENED TO RUIN HIS CAREER

  • AND RUIN HIS FAMILY IF HE DOES

  • NOT GIVE THEM MONEY.

  • THAT SOUNDS LIKE A CLASSIC CASE

  • OF EXTORTION.

  • BUT FOR WHATEVER REASON TRUMP

  • CAVES TO IT AND DIRECTS MICHAEL

  • COHEN TO PAY THE RANSOM.

  • NOW MORE THAN TWO YEARS LATER

  • TRUMP IS A FELON FOR DOING THIS.

  • IT DOES NOT SEEM TO MAKE ANY

  • SENSE.

  • OH, BUT YOU ARE NOT A FEDERAL

  • PROSECUTOR ON A POLITICAL

  • MACHINE.

  • IF YOU WERE A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR

  • ON A POLITICAL MACHINE, YOU

  • WOULD CONSTRUE THOSE EXTORTION

  • PAYMENTS AS CAMPAIGN

  • CONTRIBUTIONS.

  • YOU DO THIS EVEN THOUGH THE

  • MONEY IN QUESTION DID NOT COME

  • FROM OR GO TO DONALD TRUMP'S

  • PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

  • THEY KNEW WOULD CLAIM THAT TRUMP

  • AND MICHAEL COYNE VIOLATED

  • CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAW BECAUSE

  • THEY DID NOT PUBLICLY DISCLOSE

  • THOSE PAYMENTS.

  • DESPITE THE FACT THAT DISCLOSING

  • THEM WOULD NULLIFY THE REASON

  • FOR MAKING THEM IN THE FIRST

  • PLACE WHICH WAS TO KEEP THE

  • WHOLE THING SECRET.

  • THAT IS THE ARGUMENT YOU WOULD

  • MAKE BOTH IN FEDERAL COURT AND

  • FOR YOUR PROXIES ON CABLE

  • TELEVISION.

  • IT IS INSULTINGLY STUPID.

  • BUT BECAUSE EVERYONE IN POWER

  • HATES THE TARGET OF YOUR

  • INVESTIGATION, NOBODY WOULD

  • QUESTION YOU.

  • AND THAT IS WHAT IS HAPPENING

  • RIGHT NOW.

  • NOW BY THIS REASONING, ANY MONEY

  • OF POLITICAL CANDIDATE SPENDS TO NOW BY THIS REASONING, ANY MONEY

  • MAINTAIN OR PROTECT THEIR IMAGE

  • DURING OFFICE NOW QUALIFIES AS A

  • REGULATED CAMPAIGN DONATION AND

  • HAS TO BE DISCLOSED.

  • THAT WOULD BE INCLUDED WITH AN

  • INFINITE NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS,

  • BUYING TOOTHPASTE AND GETTING A

  • HAIRCUT.

  • IT WOULD DEFINITELY INCLUDE THE

  • TAXPAYER FINANCE SLUSH FUND THAT

  • CONGRESS HAS SET ASIDE TO PAY

  • OFF ITS OWN SEXUAL HARASSMENT

  • CLAIMS.

  • YES, THOSE NOW QUALIFY AS

  • CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS.

  • THEY MUST BE PUBLICLY DISCLOSED.

  • EXCEPT, OF COURSE THEY ARE NOT

  • PUBLICLY DISCLOSED AND THEY

  • NEVER WILL BE.

  • WHY IS THAT?

  • THAT MAY BE A QUESTION FOR

  • CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS INCLUDING,

  • NOW THAT WE THINK ABOUT IT, ADAM CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS INCLUDING,

  • NOW THAT WE THINK ABOUT IT, ADAMSCHIFF FROM BURBANK, CALIFORNIA.

  • THE INCOMING CHAIRMAN OF THE

  • HOUSE OF INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE.

  • WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT

  • CONGRESS NOT DISCLOSING THE VERY

  • CONGRESS NOT DISCLOSING THE VERY

  • SAME PAYMENTS THAT DEMOCRATS SAT

  • SAME PAYMENTS THAT DEMOCRATS SAU

  • SAME PAYMENTS THAT DEMOCRATS SAP

  • SAME PAYMENTS THAT DEMOCRATS SAS

  • SAME PAYMENTS THAT DEMOCRATS SAO

  • SAME PAYMENTS THAT DEMOCRATS SAL

  • SAME PAYMENTS THAT DEMOCRATS SAD

  • SAME PAYMENTS THAT DEMOCRATS SAB

  • SAME PAYMENTS THAT DEMOCRATS SAE

  • IMPEACHED FOR NOT DISCLOSING.

  • LET'S ASK HIM.

  • >> THERE IS A REAL PROSPECT THAT

  • ON THE DAY DONALD TRUMP LEAVES

  • OFFICE, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT