Investigation Without End

Tucker Carlson Tonight
April 13, 2018

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Mark did double-duty on Thursday's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight". First up were the latest developments in Mueller's "Russia" investigation. Click below to watch:

Next up was Los Angeles' plan to house homeless people in, er, your backyard:

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Sol Cranfill • Apr 14, 2018 at 02:34

I have some familiarity with housing the homeless in the backyard. My grandfather's business, which has been sold, but still operates in the same place, is located a mile from Angel Stadium, and a couple hundred yards east of the Santa Ana River bed. Until Orange County finally put an end to it, an awe-inspiring homeless encampment formed along the river bed there (really just a sad, concrete flood channel). More than 700 people had formed a colony of brightly colored tents, tarps, and piles of belongings (probably, in many cases, formerly someone else's belongings) stretching three miles. After fending off lawsuits, the county was able to move everyone temporarily into motels. During the cleanup that wrapped up last month, 250 tons of garbage was collected, including an estimated 14,000 hypodermic needles.

It's not that they're missing homes. This is the what it looks like when leftists get their way. And this is just one example. Skid row in Los Angeles is the same and worse. I've driven there and seen scraps of lumber being used for a bonfire on the street. Kind of like what leftists do to people.

John Shuba • Apr 14, 2018 at 01:02

We are experiencing something truly epic. This is where democracies (as traditionally understood) go to die!

John Ward • Apr 13, 2018 at 22:11

We in the west seem to have lost all sense of our civil rights (not in the radical left definition) and government and the law enforcement idealogues have redefined them. We are no longer innocent until proven guilty (except in an almost show-trial sense). One is now guilty if the authorities damn well say you are, and don't be so insolent as to disagree.
There is a report on Digital Trends (I don't know how reliable they are) which states that technology can now pick out someone who intends to perform a criminal act before they do so, by facial recognition. If this becomes widespread, and why would we expect it not to, does one arrest the "criminal" before or after the "crime" is committed?
Perhaps we should all change our names to Winston Smith now, just to make it easier for them! Brainwashing anyone?

Steven Payne • Apr 13, 2018 at 21:22

I was glad to see Mark annoyed and calling a toilet a toilet. Bravo! I'm beyond annoyed watching this country slip into a police state.
This just in: We are attacking Syria and Trump is looking more and more like George W. Bush with sexcapades.

David Watson • Apr 13, 2018 at 13:39

97% conviction isn't indicative of vigilant law enforcement, or effective prosecutors, or insidious legislators, but of gullible jurors. This is the facebook generation, who have been raised to accept current popular orthodoxy and determine what is right by following the mob. When prosecutors tell juries the targeted apostate violated the prescribed behavioral norms, the jurors all look at the others and nod in solemn agreement. Train a couple of generations that way and integrity disappears. Society will inevitably deteriorate until a significant disruption occurs. We should all begin learning Chinese now. At least when they dominate the world, the islamists will be the second to go.

Nicholas Strathy

David Watson • Apr 13, 2018 at 16:28

Yes David, and as Mark often mentions they will bring 57 charges against you so that after their marathon court room brain wash is done they at least get the jury to accept that you didn't dot your i correctly.

Owen Morgan

David Watson • Apr 13, 2018 at 19:55

No, I don't agree that you can blame this on hare-brained jurors. The authorities are coming up with "crimes" from which there is no possibility of exculpation: lying to the FBI in the USA, "hate crime" in the UK. Don't blame jurors for giving "guilty" verdicts for accusations which are designed to be inescapable.

David Watson

Owen Morgan • Apr 13, 2018 at 21:36

The decision to vote for the right thing is always entirely up to each individual juror. So few know what the right thing is, any more.

Keith Hawn • Apr 13, 2018 at 13:07

What's next? Preventative detention? The Supreme Court ruling, a la Werner Best, that "Insofar as the FBI is acting in accordance with the rules laid down by the special prosecutor they can never be considered to be acting contrary to the law"?

John Shuba • Apr 13, 2018 at 11:49

The raid on Mr. Cohen will be remembered as one of the blackest moments in American legal history. It is evil personified - Something that has the whiff or REAL fascism about it rather than the Chicken Little fantasies of the Left. A prosecution raid on the office of a defense counsel is something I could never imagine happening in this country five or ten years ago. It would have been too fantastic to even think about - But here we are. Imagine if Ken Starr had done this to Ole Bill's defense team. We would have had civil war. Yet Mueller and company can casually go about this bedrock breach of american jurisprudence with the complete confidence that "elite opinion" is with them. We are in real trouble.

Fran Lavery

John Shuba • Apr 13, 2018 at 15:37

Sure, the corruption apex has been reached. It's curtains for us all.

Roy A Crocker

John Shuba • Apr 13, 2018 at 17:00

John: You have not overstated the magnitude of this outrage - both constitutional and political. Given just how tepid the response from the right has been it's easy to see why the left will soon be running this country with little effective opposition. Had anything remotely like this been inflicted against Obama's personal lawyer all hell would have broken out nationwide - mass demonstrations - the ACLU would have been apoplectic along with virtually all of the media. Even many on the right who opposed Obama's agenda across the board would have strongly condemned this despicable act - me included. This is now total war against a sitting president and nothing will stop the left now. Cohen isn't just Trump's personal lawyer - he's a close friend and during the campaign was one of his strongest supporters. Trump values loyalty perhaps above any other quality. Try to imagine how you would react seeing a friend treated in this manner. Mueller was very clever handing this off to a Fed. prosecutor thereby insulating his team from this grossly unconstitutional act. I believe that Mueller along with virtually the entire media and the democratic party wants Trump to fire him. Failing that Mueller will come up with something - true or not - to destroy this president. John you are correct - we are indeed in real trouble.

John Shuba

Roy A Crocker • Apr 13, 2018 at 18:47

Thanks for your observations. I'm a rather garden-variety lawyer myself but even a hack like me is appalled. When the feds were prosecuting the Mafia dons under RICO I don't recall them raiding the offices of mob lawyers. When Bruce Cutler was successfully defending John Gotti in several cases I don't remember them kicking down Cutler' s office door and going through his files. (They rather questionably got Cutler another way.) I assume that the feds are eager to convict narcotics kingpin "El Chapo" Guzman. Does that mean that the Guzman defense team can expect a visit from the size 16 search warrant of the Fed's? In short, what th Hell is going on? The Mueller "investigation" and our "elite" media and the Democrats are in the process of mounting a coup - A very American coup. Why the Hell can't anyone see it?

David Watson

Fran Lavery • Apr 13, 2018 at 22:37

We're spoiled. We can have much greater corruption. Probably will.

Fran Lavery

David Watson • Apr 14, 2018 at 01:44

Do you get the creeping sensation we're living in a new version of the Soviet style state where if you crossed a line the KGZ broke into your place and you knew it was all over? Off to the Gulag with you, if they didn't kill you right then and there.

Fran Lavery

Fran Lavery • Apr 14, 2018 at 08:53

Or even the KGB!

Benjamin Bumgardner

John Shuba • Apr 15, 2018 at 20:27

I have said since the election that the real fascists are protesting and shouting the loudest. Your comment is proof that the deep state is deeper than we imagined. And when the leftists win what become of the conservatives. Elected republicans have done nothing to stop it.

Joshua Passell • Apr 13, 2018 at 11:44

Thank you for the well deserved outrage over the rogue Justice Department and the FBI, Mark. As the Prius bumper sticker used to read (during the Bush administration), "If you're not angry, you're not paying attention." That sentiment, and the one that reads "dissent is the highest form of patriotism", are cyclical beliefs, going in and out of progressive style depending on who is president.

John Shuba

Joshua Passell • Apr 13, 2018 at 12:27

My favorite was "Hate is Not a Family Value." (Remember that?) The Left doesn't bother with that anymore since they are so self-evidently filled with hatred for anything or anyone that does not match their agenda that it is useless to deny it. We have entered a period of "Righteous Hatred" from the progressive point of view where their "unassailable" virtue, intelligence and goodness gives them the RIGHT to hate lesser mortals.

Anthony from Toronto • Apr 13, 2018 at 11:42

Mmmm. Wasn't privileged information the reason why the FBI failed to take control of Cheryl Mills laptop which was full of Hillary's classified emails? Too difficult to get it past the courts apparently so they made a side agreement with Mills to destroy the data after reviewing it. I wonder if they'll be destroying Cohen's document after this review?

On the subject, you'll recall what the government did when they found out that Hillary's lawyer had a flash disk full of Hillary's emails. Raid the office to secure the classified data? Of course not. Unlike payments to porn stars, this doesn't warrant a raid. Instead, they sent the lawyer a super secure safe to keep the drive in.

Fran Lavery

Anthony from Toronto • Apr 13, 2018 at 13:56

That was one of the first tip offs we were in for a big corruption crap storm.

BallBounces in Phoenix • Apr 13, 2018 at 11:42

We passed the townships on a swing through Cape Town wine country a few years back . Not good. I was told the electrical company wouldn't send people in to collect payments because, if they did, they would be killed. Down the road we passed an area of tidy middle class homes abutting the highway. The back of many of the properties were littered with unsightly shacks. I was told the homes were a re-location project to get blacks out of the slums; the residents had then "sub-let" out the shacks.

Poverty is evil; we should carefully define, guard and nurture the factors that lead to prosperity.

Susanna • Apr 13, 2018 at 11:09

Has anyone else seen these yard signs in their neighborhoods? The virtue signaler's mantra:

"In This House, We Believe: Black Lives Matter, Women's Rights Are Human Rights, No Human Is Illegal, Science Is Real, Love is Love, Kindness Is Everything."

Anyone with that damn sign on his property should be required to put a homeless camp in his backyard.

Fran Lavery

Susanna • Apr 13, 2018 at 12:03

Yep! "No Human is Illegal" is around here. The homeless camp needs to go in everyone else's back yards. That's how it works. We need to shut up about it and find another place to live if we don't like it. Our town did set up one in the middle of town as the problem was bad. It's called "City of Hope." The structures for the residents are improving little by little with help of volunteers. We have good weather here so it's appealing. But there's a time limit on how long each person can stay. There's a support structure within the "city" with a food bank, health services, daycare and cafeteria. It's organized and runs like a ship.

LA authority should come and take a look. Anyway, I want one of those munchkin houses in the back of my daughters house out in LA when we visit. Housing is so high they can only afford enough square footage for themselves. I don't want anyone moving into my future munchkin house in her backyard.

Calvert Whitehurst

Susanna • Apr 13, 2018 at 14:00

Of course they should be, but they won't be. And not just a household of homeless Hispanics in the backyard, but a couple of surly, unmotivated young Afro-American men living in the house and spending their days listening to loud "music" and playing video games. But that will happen when young white people who agonize over their privilege start heading into the nearest tough neighborhood and asking the first black or Latino person they see hanging out on the sidewalk to come back to their dorm room or apartment and share in their privileged lives. Signaling virtue is as easy as flicking the turn signal in a car - just a lot more satisfying.

PK33

Fran Lavery • Apr 14, 2018 at 08:10

Fran, if you build it, they will come.

Denyse O'Leary • Apr 13, 2018 at 11:01

What Mark has to say about federal prosecutions touches on the future of the United States. But then any American who votes for any progressive of either party is voting to live in a totalitarian state, probably in exchange for some sort of welfare benefit or elite status, until they are euthanized - and that is a choice.

That said, surely the whole Russia investigation thing is an attempt to keep a story going when there isn't really any underlying story.

The reason Hillary Clinton is not US prez is NOT Vlad Putin's schemes. It is mistakes she and her own campaign made that they do not wish to own. Instead of helping them face what happened, typical bureaucrats and legacy media keep self-serving excuses alive.

Donald Trump is an entrepreneur. He realized that there is a vast underserved market in the United States, at which both parties sneer: Working class communities where there were once jobs and are now vast numbers of opioid deaths. All he had to do was sign those people up in a no-sneer political program.

There. That was easy.

Their lives will depend on refusing to vote for any sneer-o-crat ever again. And that is up to them. It is not about Russia, much as bureaucrats and media would like them to think so.

Fran Lavery

Denyse O'Leary • Apr 13, 2018 at 14:00

Sure, it was that easy! You're so right. They live in their tangled up web of lies that the only way they know how to proceed it to stay the path of more lies, more corruption, more law breaking and ultimately they could care less if we all go down with them.

Carol Ward • Apr 13, 2018 at 10:31

The New York Times now tells us if Trump were innocent - he wouldn't require attorney/client privilege.
Do my eyes deceive me?

America's most esteemed and estimable publication hacked up this phlegm, and deposited it into the spittoon of public dialogue on Mueller vs Trump - with an expiring license.

Trump is truly the gift that keeps on giving - if only for the reactionary self immolation of those who fear him.

As Mr. Smith and his flyover deplorables began to tinker with the knobs, buttons and levers in the presidential toolbox - the background noise became more deafening and irrational.

But now, the country is dining on this poison. he average citizen never understood the stakes or the raw power and muscle necessary to proper swamp maintenance. We are getting a crash course, yet the players seem unaware there is an audience to all this.

Only now do we know Ken Starr had all the same powers as Mueller. The Clinton Crime Machine could have been dismantled and imprisoned or worse - had he employed them. Whitewater, Waco, Ruby Ridge, OKC, Ron Brown and the Arkancide body count.... that's just he low hanging fruit.

The Kabuki Theater we have been witnessing since Hearst called for the assassination of McKinley on the front page of his newspaper and Roosevelt sacrificed the boys of Pearl Harbor, to garner support for WWII - is now being revealed as standard operations - as maleficent as anything conjured up by Stalin or Mao.

Our grifters of DC, however, developed more cache in their treachery. They've been using mass media, Hollywood spectacles and TV Tropes to indoctrinate, and manipulate us to believe the New York Times, CNN, and the FBI are saintly in their goodness and the Gold Standard for truth.

NO - we are now Uganda. Albania. And the New York Times is irredeemable in its treason.

Fran Lavery

Carol Ward • Apr 13, 2018 at 13:53

"Trump is truly the gift that keeps on giving." Yes! What was it yesterday he said when praising the people who make America work? "You know I'm doing my work of draining the swamp every time I get hit." Very inspiring to hear that because it has been extremely hard to stay upbeat through all of this never-ending investigation into every corner of Trump's life.

If even a smidgeon of honest and deliberate investigation was done into Hillary's dealings we might not be wallowing through this mess at all. But alas, the wax ball of governmental department corruption and mainstream media complicity was as large as Jupiter. The scales were falling off the voters' eyes bit by bit just in time. The only hope for a remedy was Trump. Still. where this ends, who knows?

Al Man from CA

Carol Ward • Apr 13, 2018 at 14:51

Not to mention what has been happening in the public school systems and academia now against free speech.

David from Florida • Apr 13, 2018 at 09:38

So, if I understand this new California housing program, some bored city councilman was watching "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" and "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum!" the other night and thought "What a great idea!"

Nonny Mouse • Apr 13, 2018 at 09:34

Is Comey so self-unaware, or, like all tyrannies, do he and his Deep State cohorts in the Media Tech Intel Combine not care that he is demonstrably, serially dishonest?
I believe it is Frankfurt School Marxism that requires conflicting positions to be held, because everyone is then wrong and only The State can determine what is right, at any given time.
This explains how a corrupt Secret Policeman can be held up as a paragon of virtue by a corrupt media and a corrupt Federal Establishment: they believe that their lies are the greater truth. A Higher Truth.
Comey Loves Big Brother. His Loyalty is above the Constitution, it is to Big Brother, who destroys the Constitution in order to save it from Americans.

Matthew McWilliams • Apr 13, 2018 at 09:25

On a note related to the backyard homeless story, Orange County had recently proposed relocating several hundred homeless people from a now defunct homeless camp along the Santa Ana river in Fountain Valley. The homeless were to be set up in "temporary" camps in Irvine, Huntington Beach and Laguna Niguel. Not surprisingly, the residents in these rather high rent towns went completely bonkers when they heard of the proposal. Their level of ire was sufficient to spike the idea. It's nice to see that sufficiently motivated voters can still deter some of the more insane ideas thrown out by their elected leaders.

Carol Ward

Matthew McWilliams • Apr 13, 2018 at 11:41

Sorry - you are drawing naive assumptions. This is business as usual. Only well connected motivated voters have a say in their fate. Laguna Niguel deters operatives at city hall. Van Nuys and Torrence do not.

When the homeless are camped out on Malibu Beach - democracy will be served.

PK33

Carol Ward • Apr 14, 2018 at 07:52

My thoughts exactly Carol, but perhaps not everyone recognizes the names of those "high-rent" districts. I second Malibu Beach and nominate Torrey Pines GC. Plenty of space for the homeless among the fairways and greens of the Pines, some trees for shelter and access to water too.

Tom Korte • Apr 13, 2018 at 09:07

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