rally in michigan, have a great night everybody -- see you ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," here's a fact that will make you blink. we are now approaching the 19th anniversary of the arrival of american troops in afghanistan, they are still there despite repeated promises from politicians on both sides, they aren't going anywhere and americans are still dying there. that's true in iraq too, we had troops there for 17 years, why are they there? no one knows or at least no one will say so out loud with any clarity. too many thousands of american servicemen are deployed in dozens of countries around the world and have been for generations. in some cases there may be a

good reason they are there, and other cases, we just don't talk about it. you're not allowed to. d in washington, mindless interventionism is very much a bipartisan project, both parties support it. just the summer, republicans and democrats reached a rare moment of unity, they join together to demand we keep thousands of american troops in germany wherd they have been for 75 years. why should they stay another 75? presumably to keep the soviet union from invading hamburg. maybe there's another reason, no one mentioned what that reason might be. the more troops we sent overseas the better, that is one thing virtually everyone in washington agrees on. except donald trump. trump, whatever you think of him, does not agree, he does not believe that and he has said so over the last five years. he has been talking relentlessly about bringing the troops home from countries around the world and may be more than any other single reason, talk like that makes official washington hate

donald trump. last night, the white house announced we are finally bringing home many american soldiers from iraq and afghanistan and you would think there would be widespread the celebration, families united, americans out of harm's way. very few in washington areer celebrating, the press corps including some people who should know better are still tellinghi you how much donald trump hates, the troops and wants them to die, the guy who's bringing then home. add that to the irony file which is bulging. what exactly is going on here? one clue comes from the deputy assistant secretary of defense. she testified before congress during the impeachmentde proceedings last year and during those proceedings she said that pentagon officials began receiving "phone calls from industry" in other words calls from private companies that produce and supply weapons and military hardware to our military. after the white house put a hold on high-priced military aid on the ukraine, weapons manufacturers wanted more weapons flowing into ukraine

because they wanted to make money from the sale of theseo weapons, it's not complicated and they knew they could pressure the pentagon to override a decision by the democratically elected president of the united states. that's what they did. this happens a lot and everyone in washington knows it. on labor day, the president finally said this out loud, he called out the defense industry for the first time in decades, watch this. >> biden shipped away our jobs, threw open our borders and sent our youth to fight in these crazy endless wars, i'm not saying the military is in love o with me -- the soldiers are. the top people in the pentagon probably aren't because they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and everything else stay happy. >> tucker: there's a lot of truth in that and the president of the united states would know. precisely because a lot of whatr trump said is true, donald trump was not allowed to say it out loud.

democrats in the media were enraged that he said that. nearly half of senior defense department officials are linked with military contractors. no one ever says that out loud and if you do, you hate the troops -- what is going on here? you might think it's purelyy partisan, that this dishonesty is a way to get rid of trump, h there's no doubt that is part of what is going on.y there is something bigger. democrats and some republicans are priming the public for a revival of interventionism if joe biden and kamala harris are elected. if they make it to the white house, biden and harrisre are planning a new war, thisa e in the far away ande strategically irrelevant nation of syria, they aren't even trying to hide that and they haven't been for a long time. back in 2018, we were told we need to intervene in syria immediately because bashar al-assad had used chemical weapons against his own people. every channel told you that. this show noted correctly that

there wasn't actually any evidence that had happened,ed despite what they were telling you. there was a lot of lying going on and that has never been proven despite what they say, but the left didn't even ask questions. they swallowed the whole things whole the first day, watch the hysterics on it on msnbc. >> if vladimir putin masterminded the last week in syria, he has gotten everything he could have asked for. through a small chemical attack, nothing like the big ones in the past, and then donald trump canh fire some missiles at syria that will do no real damage, then the american news media will change the subject from russian influence in the trump campaign and the trump transition and the trump white house. it's perfect. will do no real damage, then the

>> tucker: oh, it's perfect! this is lunacy. who cares how much of syria vladimir putin controls? good luck with that. of rational people who care about the united states realized that syria was a classic quagmire and there was no obvious advantage for us, the largehed committing numbers of troops there. we argued at the time that a foreign war staged on behalf of the syrian rebels, many in facto islamic extremists who hate our country is unwise, the president settled on firing rockets into syria and bureaucratic tapeworms like john bolton were furious. he claimed the absence of a total all-out war was personal crisis. later, the president said we are pulling entirely out of syria, he called syria a land of sand and death. the syrian civil war is still ongoing and for war purveyors o like john bolton and other liberals, it's still an opportunity. at a fund-raiser this summer,

joe biden declared that the president's approach to syria is not enough, crippling sanctions aren't enough biden said, we need to escalate in syria. you've seen this logic before, we saw it in iraq, that was bipartisan, joe biden supported the iraq war. when asked about it by a veteran, he used the tragic death of his son from cancer as a shield from the question, watch. >> tucker: this moment is bewildering to people who haven't followed the shift in american politics over the last 30 years, liberals used to say they were against war and give

peace a chance, remember that? joe biden's unquestioning support for wars, wars that don't help this country at all is one of his chief qualifications as a democratic nominee. in may, his policy advisor confirmed that his administration would be eager to get the united states into a war in syria, he described american troops in syria, that would be americans risking their lives as a form of leverage. lincoln vowed that joe biden would return to syria in force if he wins in november. >> to the extent of the united states has any remaining leverage in syria to try to effectuate some positive outcome -- unfortunately the trump administration has more or less upon that up too. pulling out entirely. in syria. he has taken away significant leverage.ia >> tucker: leverage for what?

how does this help us? nobody ever answers the simplest of all questions, the most profound, the only question that matters., he added it is impossible for him to imagine a biden administration normalizing relations with bashar al-assad's government, he didn't address how sanctioning syria helps the united states, it's not the point, it's never the point. john kerry made the point on msnbc that nobody loves the troops more than john kerry does, the obama administration may have lied about plans to withdraw from afghanistan and didn't and turn the nation of libya into a health scape of civil war and slavery. trust me, says john kerry, i love the troops. >> we have a president who is not protecting our troops, not protecting the interest of the united states of america, these young men and women are extraordinary in today's generation, they serve willingly, they are volunteers and they deserve the respect of the commander in chief if not every single american.

>> tucker: so john kerry respects our troops so much but he would like to send them to countries you can't find on a map, put them in places they may die for purposes that have nothing to do with our national security or the advancement of american interests only to support crumbling postwar international institutions that everyone knows is a joke and are going away, that's john kerry that she respects our troops. it was just last month that carrie who cares about the truth took the stage of the democratic national convention and longed for the days that hundreds of thousands of our soldiers died in world war ii.i. >> the only thing exceptional about the incoherent trump of foreign policy as it has made our nation more isolated than ever before. on june 6th 1944, young americans gave their lives on the beaches of normandy to liberate the world from tyranny. out of the ashes of that war, we made peace and rebuilt the

world. that was and remains exceptional.l. it is the opposite of everything donald trump stands for. >> tucker: that was the golden books first world war ii, cliche piled up on cliche, mindless. it's propaganda and democratic voters are starting to believe it. one poll shows among people who voted for hillary clinton in 2016, just 26% now support withdrawing troops from syria. if pollsters didn't ask why they should stay but almost no democrats are for pulling them out. in contrast, nearly 60% opposed pulling out. trump voters overwhelmingly support withdrawing from syria, wanted them home instead of suffering for years. lieutenant colonel daniel davise is a senior fellow and military expert, thanks so much for joining us.

so how is it that the president who has done more to withdraw american troops from war zones is the guy who hates the troops? >> you have to look at everything in context. in context from the very beginning going all the way back to the 2016 campaign, president trump has been saying he wants no more stupid wars, no more regime change wars and he has been on that. from the very first few months he has been in office, he went about trying to say why do wers need any troops in afghanistan? let's get the troops out of afghanistan, that has been covered many places. something that started right then and has gone all the way through, he was immediately pushed back by his most seniorug advisors whether it's generals and civilian people -- every one and established in washington as you said both republican and democrat pushed back on that and president trump said i'm going to defer to the professionals at this time. now that you see after year after year after year of the

same thing, everyone resistingng any attempt to get out of anywhere even know there is no national security threat to the united states, he's saying forget it, on the commander-in-chief and here's what we are going to do, we are going to reduce the troops in germany, reduce the troops in iraq and reduce the troops in afghanistan, he is in the right here. his instincts have been proven right and as someone who was fought on the ground twice in both iraq and afghanistan, i can tell you he is dead spot on. >> tucker: the numbers on the number of senior pentagon brass who transition seamlessly into the defense industry are shocking, i know some of them are good patriotic people. there is also corruption and thy system gives the appearance of corruption and shakes the country's faith in its military leadership, why is this allowed? >> because it is an institutional morass.ow

every colonel wants to be a general and once there generally want to be a two star general. it is baked into the calculation that you can't go against the status quo and if you want to be the next commander, you want to get command, you have to get a war to fight in, you have to have a place to deploy to. that is how you get moved up the chain. the system predicates that. >> tucker: it definitely is a corrupting influence. appreciate you coming on tonight. you may have seen the news today about bob woodward's new book which apparently spends 480 pages trashing the president, it's coming out next week just in time to influence the election. none of that should surprise you. "the washington post" has made defeating donald trump it's all consuming mission. of course bob woodward's book is exactly what you thought it would be.

what is surprising is that donald trump participated in making the book, the president sat with repeated interviews with bob woodward. why would he do that? tonight from a source who knows, the answer to that mystery. senator lindsey graham of south carolina, it was lindsey graham who helped convince donald trump to talk to bob woodward, lindsey graham even sat on the first interview between bob woodward and the president? how did that turn out? lindsey graham is supposed to be a republican, why would he do something like that? you would have to ask him. keep in mind that lindsey graham has passionately opposed to virtually every major policy initiative that donald trump articulated when he first rammed. from ending illegal immigration to pulling back from pointless wars, to maintaining law and order at home. lindsey graham was against all of that. maybe you already know the answer. up next, the salon owner who exposed the nancy pelosi's mask

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♪ >> tucker: it's official -- no one is allowed to ask the speaker nancy pelosi about her illegal trip to the hair salon in san francisco last week, so nobody does. when you're in trouble, go on msnbc, they follow the rules on this. she sat for 14 minutes for an interview on sunday, she wasn't asked a single time about why she violated her own party's lockdown restriction to get her hair done. she also wasn't asked why she wasn't wearing a mask at the time. according to nancy pelosi herself, not wearing a mask is immoral -- watch. >> members and staff will be required to wear masks at all times. >> this is a mask from all over the country come on gettingg

these masks. >> real men wear masks and these masks are essentially important. >> the chair views a failure to wear a mask is a serious breach of decorum. >> i have no advice for them except they have to wear a mask. >> i totally agree with joe biden, as long as we are faced with this crisis, masks should be mandatory. >> in any case, i'm a big believer in wearing a mask and not sharing any, shall we say, air unnecessarily. >> tucker: the second they take power, they crush you, they humiliate you, we're going to look back on this moment in horror and embarrassment. and they don't even follow their own rules. meanwhile, the owner of the salon and questions has her business has been destroyed because she told the truth about what happened. she joins us with an update. thanks so much for coming on..si i was interested in hearing

whatever happened, all of a sudden you went from being a salon owner and the cityit tryig to cope with the lockdowns to being a very famous personit in the camera receded from you, what happened next? >> i don't want to be known as famous, but i started to get a ton of phone calls, text messages, emails, all my yelp reviews just all saying that i am -- saying they hope i go under and that i fail. just a lot of negativity. towards my business. towards my business. >> tucker: what does that mean for the business? >> that means i'm actually done in san francisco and closing my doors. unfortunately. >> tucker: because you told the truth about the speaker of the house, you're not a political person -- you told the truth about a politician violating her own rules in your

store, you have to close the store and go out of business. >> yes. i'm actually afraid to go back, just because of the messages and emails i've been getting.. it's a little scary and sad. i do have a lot of positive calls and text messages from clients, but other than that, nothing but negativity. >> tucker: you're afraid to physically go back to the city of san francisco? >> i am, righto now. >> tucker: you are from this country. i assume you grew up here. you sound like you did. >> yes. >> tucker: did you ever imagine you would live in a place where you would be in danger going into a city just for saying something that was true?ng >> never, i've been there for 15 years, i have never felt that way. about san francisco. unfortunately, it's going down a path that a lot of people felt

that way -- i'm not the only one. i'm not the only one in the situation but a lot of people are leaving, they are feeling unsafe. it's sad.. >> tucker: so you're just going to keep the shop closed? >> yes. >> tucker: so much destroyed, godspeed -- we arere rooting for you and i hope you rebuild somewhere else more hospitable. >> thank you. >> tucker: a professor at a major university -- george washington university in washington, d.c. has admit that she has lied w about being black her entire career. in this white supremacist country, she pretended to be african-american. remarkable story. toh remarkable video accompany it, we'll to show it you next. ♪

>> tucker: here's a characteristically bizarre story for the world of higher education, a professor at washington university has resigned after admitting she has been lying about who she really is. for years, she pretended to be a black woman. she is a woman called jessica krug and she admitted in a blog post, she lived as a white jewish child in kansas city and decided to adopt a new identity rooted in north africane blackness and caribbean bronx blackness. she had a scholarship about racial issues that was well regarded by the same academic levers who awarded elizabeth warren with the american indian chair at harvard. krug pretended to for years and

occasionally was caught onch camera pretending to be someone she's not, watch this. >> i got a couple things to say, when you come on and tell me my time to stop, not only did i have to listen to these copsme d not just the cops but to be honest, city council members, you're posing like your opposinu them for your sound bites your social media, [bleep] out of here, you've been supporting the cops. >> tucker: that is apparently how white liberal academics think black people talk, pretty revealing. jason whitlock is a writer with outkick.com. if it feels like there are lessons embedded in the story and it's not the one. >> this really blows my mind, where we've gone in this country is that there is a business built around racial grievance. that business is booming at such a level that white people are like hey, i'm going to adopt a whole new identity so i can benefit from being baby al sharpton, baby jesse jackson,,

and in academia, this has been embraced and she has been able to pull off this scam. it's not just her, this isn't just an anecdote. we had it with rachel dolezal, we had it with shawn king who was white to his pretended to be black, who has lied and said "my mother slept with a black man and she didn't tell anybody about it." all of these people moving in to the race bait industry and business and it must be very profitable and lucrative because everybody wants to be down withn the calls. y'all know that jessica krug is keeping it real. >> tucker: that's what struck me so forcefully. here is an academic with advanced degrees who when she wants to sound african-american doesn't sound like langstonad hughes, she sounds like someonee

who is illiterate, what does that tell you that she thinks about black people? it's so patronizing. >> i keep trying to explain it over and over and over again and people think i'm crazy. the branding has been so strong that if you put on this label of being a liberal, there is virtually nothing you can do negative against black people that will be seen as negative. white liberals -- i'm sorry, they are the actual bigots. i know that's going to blow a lot of people's minds. but liberalism to me is now the new kkk hood. bigots use to hide under hoods, now they hide under the label of being a liberal end of progressive and that allows you to be as bigoted as you want to be. if you want to call yourself an antifascist and support supportt of black lives matter as a white person, that means you can goti out into the streets, tear down

neighborhoods, harass people, say all kinds of disrespectful stuff to white and black people, and it's all good because allegedly, your fighting racism. allegedly, you're on the side of black people and actually if you evaluate their actions and their mindsets, they actually can't stand the black people, they have no respect for black people, think very little of black people, and certainly aren't working towards our benefit. the world is upside down. it's a big lie and a scam and people are -- i call it, white people, white liberals are going out on a black person's credit card and making up a bunch of charges, charging of a bunch of things that we have to pay the bill for. they are doing it in our name. this is crazy.rg >> tucker: you mentioned al sharpton, there was an amazing quote from him yesterday and you think of him as a radical but on television yesterday he said "defund the police?"

that's a latte liberal idea, if you have to live in a tough neighborhood, you don't want ton get rid of the police because you're the one who could geted killed. >> if you are a white liberal and you would like to see more african-americans murdered, supporting defunding the police is the best way to accomplish that. the murder rates and all these cities with hostility towards police is astronomical, the disrespect for the police is astronomical and the police are justifiably pulling back -- i don't want to get caught up in this, i don't want to be accused of being a racist and have my life destroyed. the murder rates in those communities are going up. if you evaluate the actions of these white liberals who claim they are fighting for equality. evaluate their actions andife evaluate the results of their actions and it paints them as the true racist. >> tucker: i think you're right about that.he bold thing to say, i appreciate you coming on.

sometimes when you watch the news shows particularly political shows on cnn you get the feeling that this seems kind of scripted to. there's a reason for that, it turns out sometimes it is literally scripted. we have tape of a cnn anchoree scripting a segment with a guest, it's amazing.

>> tucker: over the past week we flayed you recordings of a couple of well-known figures at cnn, chris cuomo is the 9:00 p.m. anchor there and jeff zucker who was the president of the network speaking to their friend michael: in unguarded ways. if you've heard the tapes, you know they are not at all what they seem to be. in public, both of them are sanctimonious moralizers giving lectures about propriety, racism, and white privilege. they are frauds, just like the channel they work for. despite its name cnn is not a cable news network, it is a slickly produced propaganda loop. every topic they cover has been

chosen for its political effect. every word has been curated to manipulate you, nothing winds up on cnn by accident. the whole thing is a scripted drama written for the benefit of the democratic party. that's not an overstatement, tonight we have proof. this is a conversation that took place in 2018 between cnn anchor chris cuomo and his friend michael cohen. he wanted him to prepare for ann interview he had been asked to do on cnn, he wanted "guidance, as a friend more than anything." chris cuomo was happy to oblige. before we play you the exchange between the two of them, listen to how michael cohen describes his interaction with another cnl anchor. >> were going to ask you for your advice on how to handle the interview. aaron burnett wants me to do hers first. she goes it's better if i do it with a woman as opposed to withh

you. i said what chris is a woman. >> you have a news anchor telling a potential guest he better talk to her first because she is a woman, at cnnot everything is about identitye politics. regardless, michael cohen was worried about doing the interview because he knew he would get questions about the a payments he made too stormy daniels, he wanted chris cuomo to tell him what to say. on tv, he might've launched into a lecture about how it's wrong to send money to strippers, but in private, he skipped that lecture. you will be asked that and you can say "i did it for him, for donald trump." my relationship has always been for him, i don't speak for the campaign, i speak for him as his attorney. he went on to elaborate "and to the question of motive, the response would have to be you

can speculate as to why youf think i did it all day long. but the only answer is my answer and i just told you why i did it. you don't get the speculate because if you can't prove that i got paid back by trump, it is slander and defamation for you to say that i did." there is no record of whether michael cohen was taking notes as chris cuomo was talking, he should have been taking notes because the script that cuomo provided him is time-tested, it's that classic last chance defense of the obviously guilty. when you don't have a good answer, threaten the person who's asking the question. he gamed out what would happen next when cohen went on his own channel. i think the conversation goes exactly the way we are having it now, i say this looks shady and you say it looks shady to you because you're coming in with specific intention. again, cuomo advised cohen to attack the anchor.

it's not clear that he understood what he was saying. on the tape, some ofay michael cohen's response to chris cuomo seemed disjointed, others sound like he's gruntinge perhaps to make it easier to follow, chris cuomo began acting out both sides of the exchange, he acted out the news anchors question and then he acted out the scripted response to that question. the conversation devolved into a one-man play with chris cuomo as the performer and michael cohen as the audience. here is one act.e- >> why didn't you let it come out and let the people decide? because is not a fair process, they would defend any of the counter facts, if she was somehow convinced to do it and believe it her denials were less true than her admissions emma everything was tilted against mr. trump. that's what it is, there's no way he didn't know.

>> tucker: chris cuomo soundso like he's got experience making excuses. sometimes when you watch a political show on television, you notice the dialogue seems unnatural, almost like parts of it had been been unscripted. at cnn, that is literally what you are seeing, scripted conversation. what you just heard there was the writer's meeting before the show. chris cuomo is just starting, he then told cohen how to dodge questions about a shell corporation he is to make payments to stormy daniels. i'm not being shady, i was being legal and i did with my rightak away, you are wrong about the llc, i used it for other things, i have tons of llcs, i didn't form it just to do this and even if i have, my whole point would have been to keep it quiet but that happened to just not be true. that's slick, and case that excuse didn't work, chris cuomo advised michael cohen once again to attack the person asking the question.

"unlike the media who was reporting on this, i don't like to say things just because they are convenient when they are untrue." there is no record on how muchay of this michael cohen was absorbing or capable of absorbing and giving his natural limitation. the cnn anchor is going to ask you "why didn't you just let it all out and let the people decide?ab "good question, there is an long pause in the tape, michael cohen doesn't have any idea with the answer should be but chris cuomo knows exactly what the say. he jumps back in and takes his part. "because it's not a fair process! they wouldn't have had any of the counter facts. if people had decided to believe denials were less true than the admission, i don't want to play that game, everything was tilted against w mr. trump." said to chris cuomo. at this point michael cohen starts to get it, chris cuomo

decides to take the training wheels off and act out the scene together, here it is. >> if it looks shady, it's a shady business, politics is a shady business. i didn't like that i had to pay to keep her quiet because she decided to [bleep]. >> tucker: it goes on like this and on and on. chris cuomo writing a script for a live interview on his own network that hasn't yet taken place. he gives it his all, he tries his hardest. he plumbs the depths of his legal well but in the end, chris cuomo senses that his friend michael cohen could be in serious legal trouble anyway, so he offers to get the big guns involved, listen. "you don't get in trouble, i'm going to make some phone calls and make sure [bleep]."

>> tucker: presumably so you don't get indicted, chris cuomo offers that help to michael cohen unsolicited and it's more than most news anchors will do for a guest. did he call his brother the governor of new york on behalf of michael cohen? we don't know the answer to that. o we do know whatever he did, it didn't work. in the end, he went to prison anyway but chris cuomo did try even back then, he understood that michael cohen could be useful someday and he definitely has been useful. tonight, two months before the presidential election, he is appearing on cnn in prime timeth to make the case against donald trump. in the end come at al. paid off. we have new data tonight, new numbers, new science on the coronavirus and its spread across this country, good news

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>> tucker: t >> these pictures are remarkable, apocalyptic really -- several large wildfires have turned the sky of san francisco orange today, literally orange. more than 5,000 total square miles have burned. rick leventhal has an update for us from california tonight. >> unprecedented amount of wildfires scorching the west coast heream in california, 50 new fires ignited overnight. at 28 major blazes burning, that is the worst in the state's history. we have live images for you from hillsboro, oregon, three or four mega blazes as we call them, the worstt in more than 20 years. the governor said this could be

the largest loss of property in that state's history. at least two deaths now being blamed, and in the state of california, the skies are oran orange. massive, extremely dense smoke cloud have created a layer over the city, the air unhealthy to breathe, drivers were forced to turn on their headlights, office towers did the same. 2.3 million acres have burned in california alone, there are 14,000 firefighters struggling to gain control of these fires. some of them are now under control but many of them areut not. >> tucker: rick leventhal, thank you. meanwhile around the country, new cases of the coronavirus are down to levels we haven't seen since late june, deaths have plummeted to their lowest levels in months.e these are positive numbers, very hopeful good news and yet they are being ignored, why is that?

dr. marc siegel is the fox news medical contributor, hee joins s with details t tonight. >> good news tonight out of the united states and new york city, i'm reporting to you from the heart of new york tonight. we were among the first back in the end of january to warn how scary this virus is when no one else was reporting it, now we are going to be the first to report some good news, everyone worrying after the labor day weekend but i want to report in the united states over the last two weeks, new cases are down 13%, deaths are down 25% and over the last three days, we are having a dramatic decrease, less than 30,000 new cases across the united states over the last threeab days post labor dayd weekend, we are still keeping an eye on that. here in new york city, i'm looking for a restaurant tonight, almost impossible to find one. the problem in new york is even though the cases have gone way down, the last 24 hours, less than 300 new cases in new york,

we still remain in a lockdown situation. the new york city mayor says today they are going to reopen the restaurants on september 30th. how they are going to reopen them is a 25% occupancy, everyone wearing personal protective equipment, tables 6 feet apart. it's not going to feel like the restaurant that you are usedst o but at least the restaurants are .pen finally tonight, i want to say that spirit cases very low in new york but the effect of these extensive lockdowns, emotional, physical, and economic remain extremely high. >> tucker: it'ss unbelievable. remarkable the country has put up with that, great to see you -- thank you so much. the oscars have gone completely woke in a way that would've been unimaginableix even six months ago, mark steyn joins us tomorrow to discuss that, he has some ideas for diverse movies that might win awards in

hollywood, you're not going to want to miss that. will not be back too. tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. we will see you then. in the meantime, have a great evening, handing off in new york to sean hannity. >> sean: thank you as always, welcome to "hannity" and we begin tonight with breaking news, a fox news alert because breaking, this show has exclusively now uncovered video of joe biden downplaying the coronavirus one month after the president's travel ban and of course over a month after the first identified case of corona in america, take a look. >> i want to talk a moment about thet coronavirus.wa i just wanted to say a few things to set the record straight. barack and i when we were president and vice president, we took on the virus that was threatening