d.c. and tucker carlson. ♪ >> sit for those things for two or three hours have you got to be committed to the country to do that. [laughter] i mean, have you some real beauties. you see what pocahontas. ♪ ♪ >> good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the president is holding first rally of the year right now speaking to supporters in toledo, ohio. all the highlights later this hour. here is a preview so far. >> so we see friends not -- if you dare to threaten our citizens, do you so at your own grave peril. [cheers and applause] >> tucker: so we are monitoring that rally for news. and we will cut in if it happens. especially news on iran. but, first there is a new mystery involving that country. now, you may remember a

ukrainian passenger jet, a commercial flight crashed just a few hours after iran fired missiles just the other night. it turns out that jet which had 176 innocent people on board was likely shot down by the iranian government shortly after it took off from tehran. why? was it an accident? did the iranians think it was something else? was it intentional? we're not 100 percent certainty hour. we don't have the black box. but mike voight is an aviation security analyst. he has watched this carefully and has some sense of it. he joins us tonight. mike, thanks so much for coming on. >> my honor. >> tucker: how do you think this happened? >> their air defenses were up. they had more arms running. simple as that. they didn't know what they were doing. it's very, very clear. take it to vegas and make book on it, this was a missile. it was probably not intentional, but it's very sloppy country running a very sloppy airport. >> tucker: that's not the iran that's been described to us recently which has the

cutting edge military and the diabolical terrorist headquarters. you are saying that they actually are incompetent at the present time a lot of the time. >> they have to be incompetent to let this happen. remember, you know, they have a lot of weaponry and all of that but the fact is what they just did is cut themselves off from the rest of the air transportation system. no airline in its right behind is going to want to fly to tehran. at the end of the week they have less service in grand island, nebraska because no one wants to take a risk. >> tucker: that may account for why they apparently 4r50eud about it. the first reports we got from, i believe, the iranian government were that this was a mechanical problem that brought down the air aircraft. is that a plausible explanation. >> no. they say it was technical. biggest lie they turned around and said we looked at the black box and some of it is missing. they don't have the equipment to open the thing let alone play it. they don't know. they have been lying consistently. i guarantee this they will

be very reticent to let anybody in that debris field because that will show it was a missile. there is no question. >> tucker: you are certain -- walk us through why you are certain of that. >> well, number one, the airplane was, what, 7,000 feet when this happened. you know, the pilots would have said something. what missiles do, they blow up in front of the airplane that would take out the cockpit right away, number one. there has been some video, take it or leave it, showing something reaching up to that airplane. but this has all the earmarks of a missile. there's no question about it. somebody had some button on the missile launch and they launched a missile. while i don't think it was intentional, i don't know. these are crazy people over there. they are not normal. >> tucker: will the iranian government presumably on the hook for killing, accidentally, presumably accidentally, 176 people, a lot of canadians on there, on the flight. will they ever concede that they did it, do you think so? >> probably not. look, they have been lying

for years. why wouldn't they lie about this? they live in that world where they just say whatever it is. they came out just tonight and said no, that's crazy. it didn't happen. they have been lying consistently and, again, they don't care about 176 people. take a look at the other things this government has done. i wouldn't put anything beyond them. but, one thing they probably will never admit to it, and anything someone says that it was a missile, they will keep on denying it. there is people in this country probably say that's a pretty good answer. >> tucker: yeah. mike, thanks so much for that explanation. >> my pleasure. >> tucker: horrifying. the possibility of military conflict with iran has divided washington along all kinds of different lines and divided the republican party as well. senator tim kaine, a democrat, introduced a war powers resolution in the senate. what would that do exactly? it would limit the president -- any president's ability to take military action without getting approval from congress. it appears to have some bipartisan support after being angered why a briefing he received at the white

house. republican mike lee of utah says he plans to vote for it. >> it is not acceptable for officials within the executive branch of government -- i don't care if whether they are with the cia, the department of defense, or otherwise, to come in and tell us that we can't debate and discuss the appropriateness of military intervention against iran. it's unamerican. it's unconstitutional. and it's wrong. and i find it completely unacceptable. on that basis, i have decided to support senator kaine's resolution subject to the minor amendments that he and i discussed earlier today. >> tucker: unamerican, unconstitutional. that's what senator recess. senator lindsey graham of south carolina meanwhile says that debating this question is also unamerican. in fact, it's betraying this country to its enemies. >> i think they are overreacting, quite frankly. go debate all you want to. i'm going to debate you. trust me. i'm going to let people know that at this moment in time

to play this game with a war powers act, which i think is unconstitutional is whether you mean to or not, you are empowering the enemy. >> meanwhile in the house of representatives, a similar resolution was passed. a resolution to restrain a president's power to go to war without getting congress on board. one of only three republicans to vote for it remarkably was matt gaetz of florida who is one of the president's closest allies. maybe the single closest allies in the house of representatives. he joins us now. congressman, thanks for coming on. i think it's fair to say you are certainly one of the people in the house closest to the president. he is completely opposed to this. you, as his close ally, voted for it. tell us why you did that. >> i spoke to the president today after one of america's brave patriots was laid down at arlington. one of my constituents who passed away just days before christmas in afghanistan. the president told me is more antiwar than i am. and i love the president for that, tucker. the thing is, yeah, i think he got a few of the advisors

of the president who are trying to slow-walk the administration into war. when the president relies on his instincts and we have the trump doctrine, we kill the terrorist and we come home. and i think this war powers resolution was worthy of support because it did not criticize the president. it did not say he was wrong in killing soleimani. but he did -- it did say that if any president wants to drag our nation into another forever middle east war that they require the approval of the united states congress. that's something i deeply believe. and i think it's something the president deeply believes. >> tucker: so why wouldn't -- i mean, first of all, i think the constitution requires that. i think it's pretty obvious that it does. but why wouldn't congress, if they are so in favor of a military action put themselves on the record endorsing it. it seems like one of the reasons people oppose this is because they are afraid. they are cowards in the congress. >> it's unfortunate that i think we have members of congress that depart from what the framers and founders believed would happen. they believe that we would

closely guard our article 1 powers and that we would ensure that no president would be able to take those away in any sort o of affront to what was intended for us to be our responsibility. it's my belief declaring war is non-delible duty for the united states congress. suggest we have to not do our job so that people in uniform can do theirs. we can actually do both, tucker. >> tucker: just to be totally clear, you are one of three republicans who voted in effect, against the president's stated position but you just talked to the president and he said that he is on your side? >> well, the president probably would have preferred that i vote about with the other republicans. he certainly said that i think on these broader questions of war and peace, donald trump understands that the pro-war candidate loses presidential elections. hillary clinton was more pro-war and lost. and if you look previously, it's typically the anti-war

candidates that win. i think since 9/11 john kerry was the only anti-war candidate that lost an election. and so i think that the president understands that and he is too smart to let nancy pelosi try to cast him as the pro-war candidate and that's why i don't think we are going to war with iran. >> tucker: i think that's a smart analysis. congressman, thanks so much for explaining that i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tucker: well, last night on this program, congresswoman and presidential candidate tulsi gabbard called for american troops to withdraw permanently from iraq. here's how it went. >> getting our troops out of iraq and syria is essential because the longer that they are there, the more likely it is that they are at risk and that we will end up in this endless at this time for taend tit-for-tatquagmire we wondering what is it all more? >> tucker: exactly. daniel davis is a retired army lieutenant colonel. he joins us. thank you for coming on. >> thanks for having me.

>> tucker: war with iran averted, at least for the moment. is this the time to reassess staying in iraq? >> well, we definitely dodged a bullet with this because it certainly could have gone wrong in many different ways. and i'm very grateful that it didn't. but, i don't think there needs to be any assessment at all. i think the evidence and the facts on the ground have been overwhelmingly and abundantly clear for months that we need to withdraw our troops from afghanistan -- from iraq and syria both. really this whole issue started. it's a perfect example of why. on the 27th of december, that's when the american contractor and other troops were killed and wounded in that rocket strike, which is then what spawned the attack on the embassy. and then we had soleimani issue. all these things happened because of these rocket attacks that had been going on against american bases out here. we are not doing any kind of military mission in iraq or syria that has anything to do with our security. all those troops are doing right now.

sitting in the dessert. defending themselves and basically waiting to see if they get attacked with anybody. that's no way to use our troops. we definitely need to withdraw them. >> tucker: why would our leaders do that to our troops? leave them in the middle of a hostile country, as you said, their mission consists of defending themselves against rocket attacks they can't predict. why would our leaders do that? >> there is just this, i guess, group think here in some of establishment washington thinking that just, i mean, reflexively pushes back against withdrawing troops anywhere. whether it's iraq, afghanistan, syria, yemen, you name it. africa, anywhere. any talk and they always talk about how it's going to cause all these cascading things which is a bunch of rubbish. i will tell you flat out because i have been there. i have fought in these kind of engagements. i have been in many of these different parts of the world and i can tell you they don't prevent any of that stuff. we appreciate it other ways. all this does is put our troops at risk. we do need to pull them out. >> tucker: it's striking how

who people spend a lot of their lives out on the field on these bases tend to conclude what have you concluded and people at think tanks in washington, of course, have another view. thank you so much for joining us tonight. i appreciate it. >> certainly, my pleasure. thanks for having me. >> tucker: washington remains fixated on the middle east for some reason. but joe biden says that's not the only problem facing america. says the real problem is we don't have enough desperately poor people moving here from other countries. we will tell you what he said and why. plus, president trump holding a rally this hour in ohio. we will have highlights from his address just ahead. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: here in washington our leaders spent the week focused on the middle east in iran. out there in the rest of the country there are plenty of more pressing tangible concerns. for example, many of our cities are starting to fail. infrastructure is aging both crime and the cost of living are surging and left wing prosecutors have stopped enforcing the law. we will have more on all of that in part 4 of our america distopia series in just a moment. for the leading presidential candidate candidate joe biden of delaware. none of these problems matches what he believes is the greatest crisis at all. america isn't importing enough desperately poor people. on a tweet january 5th biden lashed out at the president for immigration policy quote: our statue of liberty invites in the tired, the more huddled masses yearning to breathe

free donald trump has slammed the door in the face of families fleeing persecution and violence. end quote. demoralized that joe biden. then a few months ago biden vowed if when he becomes president he will admit 2 million more immigrants overnight and increase that number from there. watch we can afford to take in 2 million people. the idea that in a country of 330 million people cannot absorb people who are in desperate need and who are justifiably fleeing oppression is absolutely bizarre. absolutely bizarre. i would also move to increase the total number of immigrants able to come to the united states. >> tucker: how many of those immigrants will be staying at joe biden's house at joe biden's expense. [zero. our chief mission as a nation s. to admit as many

poor people as we possibly can the less impressive their country of origin the less they are able to contribute to this country the more we want them. you are rich. they are poor. therefore you must give them money, a right to vote a permanent home. once have you done that repeat. biden claims that's our moral duty, that donald trump and anyone else who shirks that duty is a racist. but, is trump shirking that duty? is the basic claim even true? it's worth assessing. so much lying. so once again we go to the numbers. here's what they are. from october 2018 to september of 2019, the border patrol apprehended 977,000 people at the u.s.-mexico border. that's the highest total in more than a decade and more than the previous two years combined. now, keep in mind that's just people being caught at the southern border. many more getting through without getting caught. and tens and hundreds of thousands of others who enter legally and overstay visas. these illegal immigrants

tethering themselves here with millions of anchor babies. that's not a talking point. that's a fact. according to the center for immigration studies, for example, 372,000 children of illegal aliens were born in this country just last year. every one of them is now an american citizen and their parents are benefiting from a whole suite of benefits. food stamps, medicaid, other programs. of course they won't be deported now. i wonder how we got 22 million illegal immigrants? that's how. so, by any actual measure, by the data, illegal immigration is worse than it has been in a long time. but for joe biden, still not enough. 22 million illegals? why not 30 million or 50 million? and every one of them gets free healthcare paid for by you. that's his promise. is your country really so spectacularly rich that we can afford this? and, of course you know the answer. we are not a rich country. we are more than $20 trillion in debt. our middle class is dying.

in part because immigrants willing to work for less have driven down wages. it doesn't make the immigrants bad. they are coming from incredibly poor places with totally different standards of living. it's economic fact when you flood the labor pool with people willing to work for less, wages go down. that's been going on for decades. not surprisingly, america's most immigrant heavy state, california, is also the most impoverished. many people born in california can't leave quickly enough. ask idaho and texas. joe biden says we need more. according to biden, our country is a sanctuary must be a sanctuary for those fleeing violence. but because joe biden knows nothing, he is not aware that some of america's cities are deadlier than the places those people are fleeing from. for example, el salvador, 1/3 of all living el salvadorans live in this country now. here are the numbers. salvatore has 50 murders per 100,000 people. last year baltimore, not a country, the city in

maryland, baltimore had 51 per 100,000. in other words, it's more dangerous than el salvador. baltimore clearly hasn't benefited at all from america's policy of unlimited immigration. none of this matters because for people like joe biden and the rest of this country's ruling class helping american citizens, stopping the point a long time ago. the point is getting reelected and feeling virtuous. well, speaking of in 2018 oakland mayor libby chef got national attention by warning illegal alien aliens in her city about impending federal ice raid. >> it is a continued perpetuation of a racist lie that immigrants are not valued members of our society. we in oakland know better. we in oakland have a community that welcomes and honors all people, no matter where they came from or how they got here. >> tucker: oh, she is an incredibly good person unlike you, racist. thanks to lebanony sheriff' libs

several oakland came a top haven for illegal immigrants running from the law. one of those immigrants has now taken a life. according to police madison suzanne whitecare was murdered by robert martinez in a road rage incident last month. by the time police identified martinez as a killer he had already fled the country. charlotte white is madison's mother. we recently spoke with her. watch. shawna, thank you so much for coming on. our condolences. it's hard to even know what to say. tell us what happened roughly speaking if you would. >> well, basically, my daughter went to the store her best friend had moved to 98th avenue. she went to four bells

liquor store which we found out is basically a haven for the border brothers, which is a gang, hispanic gang. and she went in there and she came out. we had just bought her a brand new car so she had a back-facing camera so she could see behind her and as she was pulling back, he pulled up behind her and she bumped into his car. when she got out of the car to take care of it with the insurance, he became aggressive because he is well-known over there to rob people and to set people up. they are scammers. and when she didn't have anything else to offer him, he attacked her. he punched her in her face and continued to hit her.

it took someone to come and hit him to get him off of her. and my daughter, being someone who is about justice and didn't want to get in trouble, she thought she would get in trouble. she went around the store to try to film the license plate of the person who did that to her. and when she did that, when she went around, he shot her. he let out 10 rounds on my daughter who is 19. she had just turned 19. it was 19 days o days after her 19th birthday. i was a helicopter parent, so she never really was in situations like that before. never knew how to handle that. and he killed her.

he just -- he killed her. >> tucker: he was here illegally and he has fled the country. why don't we have his picture right now? >> they won't -- i believe california being a sanctuary state is protecting him and protecting his family. at this point, they are allowing all undocumented people to get licenses. they are allowing them to vote. has all been laws that have legally passed, and it is not part of their agenda. so it's not important to them. it's more important for them to protect people who are not from this country than to protect their own citizens and the homeless and already the children who are here who are in need of services and protection and everything else that, you know, they are lacking at this time. but for some reason, you

know, protecting people who aren't from here is more important to our california legislation at this time. >> tucker: what would you say to mayor libby schaaf, the mayor of oakland, who made this murder possible? what would you say to her? >> >> there is so much that i would say to her. i mean, at this point i feel that you know, it's all about the votes and at this point they are a liberal state. i feel that she has no concern for the citizens that are already here who have been born and raised here for generations. the homeless population that is like -- that is extensiv extensive. i feel that she doesn't care. she cares about lining her own pockets and her own agenda. i feel that she could care

less and i feel like part of the reason why his picture has not been released is because of her personal agenda. >> tucker: this can't go on. so upsetting that this cannot go on. >> no. >> tucker: our heart breaks for you. and i appreciate you tell your story tonight as hard as i know it was. thank you, we need to know that appreciate it. >> tucker: well, since that interview, since speaking to madison's mother, we learned that madison's killer is now in mexico. we hope mexican authorities will do the right thing and help bring that kill tore justice as soon as possible. san francisco, meanwhile, has become america's most unlivable cities unless you are incredibly rich don't try it. stays that way because of the part-time running it into the ground. we will profile america's d.a. foyer you taupe i

can't. a rally going on right now in toledo, ohio. we will go there immediately if news breaks which it might. >> now they take it back. they have been great, actually. they have been really good. we paid them a lot of money. we paid them $500 million a year. can you believe we paid them 500 million el salvadorians.

o. >> tucker: armstrong has a degree in electrical engineering. she works at a tech company in california. she is in the top 5% of her achievement in this country. you think she would be doing fine. unfortunately she lives in san francisco which means she has to take drastic measures to cope with the highest housing cost in the nation. some of the highest in the world. her story is the focus of part 4 of our week long series american dystopia. nina armstrong has lived in san francisco since her childhood. >> please don't fall off. >> for the last four years shear has lived in a boat in the bay. >> this is my home. >> why would you buy a place on land. >> it's incredibly expensive. condo a million dollars. this is a quarter of a million dollars. >> tucker: housing is so expensive some are taking drastic measures to stay in the area. >> how often do you think about leaving? >> all the time. every day. >> tucker: quality of life in the san francisco area is so bad 44% of residents say

they are quote likely to move in the next few years. >> they just say i can't. i won't. i'm not going to put my family through. this it's a tragedy. you know, it really is. >> tucker: skyrocketing cost and rising crime are driving middle class families out of the area. drug addicts outnumber high school students in the city of san francisco. >> if your job weren't here. if your business weren't in the bay area, would you live here? >> let me think -- no. absolutely not. i absolutely want out. >> tucker: since july of 2018, more than 40,000 bay area residents have fled mostly to states like texas and idaho. >> crime is terrible. it's depressive. i don't go there anymore. tuck tongue on the water armstrong gets away from it all. >> how long do you [inaudible] >> none. not at all. it's awesome. >> >> tucker: it wasn't an act of god that turned san francisco into a dystopia, it was an act of god that turned it into one of the prettiest cities in the world. the city was destroyed because individuals enacted and preserved disastrous

policies because they are idealogues. one of them is the city's new d.a. boudin. he says san francisco has a problem. it's only that its radical policies don't go far enough. he is the focus of the finale to american dystopia tomorrow night. don't miss it. in the last democratic debate, senator elizabeth warren made unexpected promise. warren vowed that if elected president she will hold an annual ceremony in the rose garden during which she will read the name of every transgender american murdered during the previous year. watch. >> here's a promise i made. i will go to the rose garden once every year to read the names of transgender women, of people of color, who have been killed in the past year. >> tucker: so that may have been the first time have you heard anything about that topic and you may have wondered just how many transgender women of color were murdered last year and why?

but warren didn't say. and yet that didn't stop the human rights campaign, a highly aggressive democratic pressure group from immediately endorsing her position. there is, the organization claimed in a statement, a, quote, epidemic of violence against transgender people, especially transwomen of color, end quote. again no specifics but endemic. mayor pete buttigieg sloan leapt in to agree the murder of transwomen of color buttigieg says one of america's protest pressing problems. >> i do want to acknowledge what these demonstrators are speaking about epidemic of violence against black transwomen in this country right now. and i believe or would like to believe that everybody here is mitted to ending that epidemic and that does include lifting up it visibility and speaking to it. >> tucker: nobody in the room questioned buttigieg's description seemed to take it at face value.

other candidates press outlets confirmed it: quote the murder of transgender women is becoming a crisis, "the washington post" told its readers. quote, for transwomen of color facing epidemic of violence wrote abc news each day is a fight for survival. meanwhile, the american medical association a group politicized beyond recognition but still tweeted respectfully by the news media declared violence against trans gendered people a quote epidemic like diphtheria or small pox. in other words, this is serious. not a boutique political issue. it's a public health crisis. well, that means it's time to see the numbers behind these claims. the numbers that buttigieg and elizabeth warren didn't mention. so exactly how many transgendered people are murdered every year in this country? well, there are a number of stats we could choose from. just for the sake of argument go with the numbers supplied by the highly partisan human rights campaign, which as noted is the very group pushing the idea that this amounts to, quote: an epidemic.

so according to the human rights campaign in 2018, a total of 26 transgendered americans were murdered. now, that's 26 too many, of course, every murder is a tragedy very much including these but does 26 constitute an epidemic? let's break it down. a few years ago the williams institute estimated that 1.4 million american adults identify as transgender. if that figure is correct. then in 2018, the murder rate for transgendered people was 1.8 per 100,000 now while granting again every murder is too many relatively speaking that is a very low rate in fact barely one third the murder rate for the general population in this country, which in 2018 was 4.9 murders for 100,000 people. in other words, not only is there no epidemic of transgender murders in america, according to these numbers the ones supplied by the human rights campaign itself, transgendered people

are on average safer than your typical american. in other words, once again, they have been lying to you in the most brazen possible way. telling you something that's completely untrue. factually untrue and, yet, scolding you at the very same time. it's bewirlding but also their signature move. meanwhile and don't tell the democratic party or the media both of which seem unaware of it and not interested. there is all too real epidemic of murder taking place in this country right now. and it's not in the relatively affluent transgendered mount. it's in the poorest parts of our major cities. killings in baltimore, philadelphia, washington, d.c., charlotte, st. louis, pick a city. they have all skyrocketed compared to just five years ago. thousands are dying as a result. it's awful if you are looking for an epidemic to worry about. one that's actually changing the composition of this country, nothing beats opioids, nothing comes close.

in 2017, 47,600 americans died of opioid-related drug ods. how many is that? let's put it this way. if you took every single murdered transgendered american over the past five years, all of those murders combine amount to fewer deaths than a single day of opioid overdoses. for if you are a democratic party primary voter think of it this way if president elizabeth warren held her rose garden ceremony and read one name every two seconds, it would take her about 50 seconds to name every transgendered person murdered last year. what if she read the names of every american killed by a drug od? well, she would be reading a full day later. the list is that long but don't worry, there is no chance elizabeth warren would do that, she just doesn't care enough. once you figure out that the degree to which the media are lying to you about everything is shocking. well, the british royal family is descent grating

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>> tucker: oh, hear that? that meghan markle lady lives in a vast estate to w. servants to indicate tore all of her needs but there is a tragedy. not enough members of the press ask how she is. narcissism on parade. maybe that's why the british royal family appears to be blowing up. prince harry and his wife have announced they are stepping away as senior members of the royal family. they say they plan to seek financial independence, in other words, get rich and move part time to north america. not clear where. according to a depressingly number of people dedicated to following all of this the announcement, quote, blindsided the rest of the family. >> tonight, members of the royal family appear blindsided. >> as senior members of the royal family blind siding the queen. >> the rest of the royal family was blind sided. >> buckingham palace they were really blindsided by this. >> this is a big story, y'all, blind sided. >> prince harry and meghan markle blind siding the queen.

>> the queen reportedly blindsided and shocked. [laughter] >> tucker: tv news we only have like 8 words. so when someone gets a new one we have to share with everybody. unbelievable. author and columnist mark steyn know as lot about living under the british monarchy. he joins us tonight. were you blindsided? >> no, i wasn't. because i know how this works. the democrats talking points facts to the media to the media every morning 6:00 a.m. that's why they all use the same words. nobody knows what the queen thinks and what this means is they manage to speak to a retired deputy under assistant footman to george the third still using on the palace grounds and he used the word blindsided. when you said they you want to be financially independent. they just launched a website. i mean, that's right the other thing. i feel slightly weird here. none of the lingo that they are using is like royal

family lingo. i want to make sure i get this right. their official announcement said they will, quote: continue to collaborate with her majesty the queen. is that like john legend collaborated with kelly clarkson? have they got -- have they collaborated with a queen and project in development at netflix or something? they say they want to be financially independent. they have started a website called sussex royal.com. the two words there, the last word is the royal family meghan married into sussex is in the title of the gift of the queen that she bestowed on them. everybody is mad about this because they think this is cakism. having your cake and eating it. the way they want to get financially independent is to trade on the fact that they are members ever the royal family. >> tucker: but they are also, they seem so self-pitying. if you are going to be a member of the royal family like, you know, you should

be happy about that but like every other rich person in the west right now, they seem to be -- they seem to be draining in lake me. their narcissism is making them miserable, no? >> i think that's why royals should not marry people in show business. when you are a celebrity, you are treated like royalty as the expression said. when you are actual royalty you are treated like garbage. essentially being a minor royal is a act of self-negative gation. when kelly clarkson does an event there are thousands of people there to see her. so it's all about her. when a minor royal duchess goes to a hospital in new zealand, it's about the sick kids and how solicitous she is of the sick kids. it's not really -- i think prince harry was great at that actually spectacular at it in the years between returning from afghanistan and marrying meghan. and now just wanting to be the duchess of woke has

actually killed a very promising young prince in the royal family. >> tucker: can i ask you really quick about that. all the attention is on his american wife. but he seems to have chosen, on purpose, like a path that's going to lead to unhappiness for certain. what is wrong with this kid? sincere question. >> i think he is a deeply unhappy guy. i think they had seven weeks in british columbia in which they were trying to work this out. they flew back to london. went to canada house. hung out with the canadian high -- i won't bother explaining what those are for americans. then she flies straight back to canada. basically she is someone who has had no contact with most members of her own family and she has managed to do the same to prince harry with respect to his family. that is rather sad. >> tucker: it is sad. mark steyn, thank you for that great to see you. >> i know how much you love these royal stories.

you quasimonarchy. a republican, you can keep it. >> tucker: exactly. great to he so you. the president holding his first rally of the year in toledo, ohio. we will have highlights from the speech in just a moment ♪ ♪ - do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or photos,

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politicians support deadly sanctuary cities, demonstrating their contempt, scorn and disdain for everyday americans and the american family. these jurisdictions release dangerous, violent criminal aliens out of their jails and directly on to your streets. soleimani was active i have planning new attacks and he was looking very seriously at our embassies and not just the embassy in baghdad but we stopped him and we stopped him quickly and we stopped him cold. [cheers] so, at my direction, the united states military eliminated qassem soleimani and ended his rampage through not only that part of the world, but much bigger parts of the world. he was all over. he was a bad guy.

he was a blood-thirsty terror and he is no long are a terror. he is dead. [cheers and applause] while we are creating jobs and killing terrorists, the washington democrats are wasting america's time with commented hoaxes and crazy witch hunts. think of it. from the day i came down that escalator it started. who the hell else could have taken this stuff, right? i do get some credit for that? [cheers and applause] most guys would have been in a corner with their thumb in their mouth saying mommy, mommy, take me home. [laughter] these are bad people. the democrat politicians we're fighting today are the same ones who took a sledge hammer to ohio jobs and factories. they destroyed your factories. they destroyed your jobs. [boos] >> but they are losing, and we are winning.

and america's come back continues full speed ahead. [cheers and applause] just imagine calling crooked adam solidify. he is so crooked. [boos] >> shifty schiff say gee, adam, how are you doing? listen, we have the world's number one terrorist. killed thousands and thousands of people. we would like to set up a meeting so we can discuss his execution. would you be willing to meet? well, i won't be able to make it this week. you know, he is traveling fast. we could have him lin lined up, adam, you little pencil neck. [cheers and applause] he buys the smallest shirt collar you can get. [laughter] and it's loose.

>> tucker: we are done. we are out of time. we will be back. 8:00 p.m. the show that the is enemy of lying pomposity and group think. sean hannity right now. >> sean: i will teach you hit the post in 2020. you are late. he calls con general liar a pencil neck. not only is the country doing great, it's the greatest show on earth. >> tucker: hilarious. >> sean: i would like to see one democrat pack a house like that. tucker, great show. welcome to hannity. several tracking big stories going on tonight. moments ago as you just saw in toledo, in ohio, the all-important swing state of ohio, the president wrapped up a mask rally. we are going to have a lot and play a lot of his remarks. some of the best ones straight ahead. meanwhile, in the middle east tonight, u.s. intelligence now believes that the rogue regime in iran was responsible for downing ukrainian airlines