♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy veterans day. it's been more than a week since the final votes were cast and still many of donald trump's 72 million voters believe this election was fundamentally unfair and they are right about that. there was massive outside interference in our democracy and it didn't come from russia. the tech monopolies of silicon valley used their unprecedented control to silence donald trump voters and at the same time protect joe biden. and in public health authorities and blue state governors wielded the pandemic like it was a partisan political weapon. it's hard to believe they actually did that, but they did do it.

corporate america helped them. the moment we will have a report on big pharma's role in what happened. it's an amazing story. and then there was the question of the votes themselves, the actual ballots. democrats completely changed the way we voted in this election. our system has never been more disorganized and it's never been more vulnerable to manipulation, so was their voter fraud last week? that's a question we've been working on since election night. we tried to be careful and precise as we report this out. in moments like this, truth really matters more than ever. false allegations of fraud can cause as much damage as the fraud itself. just a small it hurt more people with his lies than any actual hate crime and the last america needs right now is more damage. so we want to be accurate. if what we are about to tell you is accurate. it happened and we can prove it. other news organizations could prove it too. they simply chose not to. the position of corporate media across the country this week has

been very simple. it was no voter fraud. "the new york times," once a paper of record, declares that as fact this morning across the entire front page. look at this banner headline. election officials nationwide find no fraud. and no fraud, none, end of story, move on and listen to kamala. your hearing virtually the same thing from everyone in the media, everyone. at sea and in the been repeating the approved message for days. they say it with a kind of brutal intensity that suggests precisely because they don't really believe what they're saying, you absolutely must believe it. shut up and accept the verdict, america. >> sources tell cnn that top aides suggesting that the defeated president, president trump, hold rallies to drum up bogus conspiracies about election fraud. >> the g.o.p. keeps spreading complete the unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. >> the attorney general now telling federal prosecutors to look into those unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.

>> there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, no evidence of widespread flaws in the mail and voting process. >> tucker: bogus conspiracy theories, completely unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud! they say it again and again, but what exactly are they talking about? they won't tell you, so we are going to tell you. right now, fewer than 15,000 votes separate donald trump from joe biden in the state of georgia. it's close enough that it's worth getting specific about what happened there in georgia secretary of state has now confirmed there will be a hand recount of all votes cast in georgia. among those votes, auditors will find a valid cast by woman called deborah jean christiansen. it would be hard to find anyone who's got a bad word to say about deborah. she was well known in her community for years as a bird watcher, an avid gardener, a committed fan of the georgia bulldogs. those who knew her sad when she died last may and they might be sad to learn that even after her death, deborah jean christiansen still managed to register to

vote and then cast a ballot, presumably for joe biden. in some ways, it's an inspiring story. the triumph of voting over death. and no one quite embodies that story like james blalock of covington georgia. he was a mailman for 33 years until he passed away into 2006. 14 years later, according to state records he was still mailing things. he cast a ballot in last week's election. how did he do that? it might be worth asking "the new york times." maybe james blalock was just one of those extraordinary mail carriers, neither rain nor snow, nor gloom of night, nor even death itself could keep him from the mail. in his case, may be voting from the grave wasn't really fraud, it was just commitment. okay. but what about linda kessler of nicholson georgia? linda kessler died in 2003. 17 years later, she was still voting in presidential electio elections. edward of trenton georgia spent his life working construction and teaching school.

in his spare time he loved bluegrass music. according to those who knew him, he played multiple instruments and enjoy jam sessions. when he died five years ago at the age of 82, it seemed like he was gone from this world for good, but no, last week he voted for president. and he wasn't the only one. on your screen right now you will see the names of other deceased voters. everyone of them played a role in last week's presidential election. as of tonight there aren't enough of them to alter the outcome that could change as we learn more. but for the moment, the point is they exist. they are dead, but they voted anyway. the question is how did they do that? how exactly did they cast their ballots? and the short answer is, by ma mail. dead people tend to vote more often when you make it easier for them to vote. they are like any other group. and this year we made it much easier for the dead to vote. state sent ballots and registration forms to millions of people totally unsolicited.

the pretext was covid. we had to do this for public health reasons, remember? we had no choice. it was a public health emergency. the effect was to encourage fraud. 12012 study found there were close to 2 million dead people still on voter rolls around this country. that study also found that approximately 24 million voter registration that is one out of every eight in america. were wrong. they were no longer valid, or they were significantly incorrect. close to 3 million people in america had registrations in more than one state. 3 million. so what happens if you start sending ballots and registrations to lists like this? well, you're guaranteed to increase the amount of fraudulent voting, and that's exactly what democrats did. republicans, we should add, let them do it. take the state of nevada, where joe biden is currently leading donald trump by fewer than 40,000 votes. this year, state democrats and

their lawyers made certain nevada sent ballots -- not ballot applications -- but actual ballots, to every single registered voter in the state whether they requested those ballots or not. and they did this even though they knew, they were perfectly aware that more than 41,000 people who are registered to vote in nevada haven't voted or updated their registrations in more than ten years. why? because many of these people are dead or gone. but they got ballots anyway. one of those people was a former elementary school teacher called rosemary. according to her 2017 obituary, rosemary was a loving, fun, sassy and sarcastic in a fun way, beautiful, powerful, [indiscernible] inspiring. sadly, now she's gone but her voter registration remains. she still on the roles. someone received her valid in the mail and then cast it. who did this? we don't know who did it. we wish we did. we should know. it's fraud, it's a threat to our

system and is being hidden by a news media totally invested in a joe biden presidency. again, we have a right to know. we have an obligation to know. but thanks to the media blackout, it is left to independent conservative sites, places like "the federalist" to report what the rest should be reporting but are not. thanks to "the federalist" we know that on october 9th, for example, a man called fred stokes jr. received an unsolicited ballot in clark county, nevada, that's where las vegas is. three weeks later the county received his ballot back by mail. voting records indicate that ballot was "completed." fred stokes voted for president, but fred stokes had been dead for three years. he died in june of 2017 at the age of 92. how did that happen? we don't know. no one is reporting on it. in pennsylvania the state that may joe biden the president-elect, there are like liquid a few dead bolts. how do we know that? because the state told us. according to a report from last

december, less than a year ago, from the state department of auditor general, nearly 3,000 potentially deceased voters remained on the voter rolls in pennsylvania. the term camping says it has found evidence that some of them voted this year. for example, on october 24th, allegheny county officials mail the ballot to one denise. she died two days before. yet somehow, records show the county officials received that ballot back completed, voted for president on november 2nd. again, we're showing you more names on the screen just like denise. we can confirm that they all voted in the election last week and all of them were dead when they did so. none of this is conjecture. it's not one of those bogus conspiracy theories that cnn worries about. it is entirely real. why did it happen? how can we prevent it from happening again? those are the questions. the first is very simple to

answer. it democrats it. they understand that when you send mail and ballots to an entire unverified voter role, you can't really know who's voting. but just to make certain that fraud remains likely, democrats filed lawsuits in nevada to eliminate signature verification. think about that. in 2019, well before the coronavirus panic, a democratic senator from oregon sponsored the vote by mail act, the vote by mail act demands that every state in the union males ballots to their entire unverified voter list. whether you ask for it or not, whether you're alive or not, you get a ballot. there's no other way to interpret this. democrats are abetting fraud. this summer democrats in the house of representatives passed something called heroes act. it wouldn't simply have provided "automatic mailing of absentee ballots to all voters in ameri america," it also would have prevented states from restricting in any way ballot

harvesting. that means that anyone could collect and return bundles of ballots from dead or living voters to polling stations and there would be no oversight of this at all. that's insane. but expect more of it. loose voting rolls are too useful for the left to pass out. in january, democrats could very well gain control of the united states senate. if that happens, much will change, but one of the things that will happen, they will pass the heroes act into law. right now they are claiming universal mail-in balloting is necessary because of coronavir coronavirus. it's a public health emergency, we have to have it. but they're lying. they've been pushing for this very thing for years. for one reason. it gives them an advantage because it increases the incidence of fraud. according to barack obama, the most divisive president in our history, if you're against this, if you're against sending ballots to unverified voter lists in every state in the country unsolicited, you are a racist.

watch. >> even as we sit here, there are those in power who are doing their darndest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations and targeting minorities and [indiscernible] with restrictive idea laws and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision, even undermining the postal service in the run-up to an election. it's going to be dependent on mail-in ballots, so people don't get sick! >> tucker: barack obama, product of georgia, he's a preacher. obey or i will call you racist. obama spent eight years working that scam. pretty effectively, but amazingly a lot of people still fall for it, so they shut up and obey. but we should stop doing that, because if we care about our

democracy, we must demand clean and honest voting regardless of the outcome. the matter who wins or who loses, the system is what we must protect. sending ballots to entire unverified voter lists unsolicited gets you dead people voting. and what does that do? it puts us where we are now. cynical, distrustful, withdrawn. if you want to run a democracy, you need one thing above all, social trust. if you want people to have social trust, if you want them to believe in the system, it's not enough to yell at them on television and tell them they must believe. you have to create a system that is worth believing in. adam lacks all is the former attorney general, he's been warg about voter fraud including on this show for months. we are happy to have him on tonight. thanks so much, adam, for joining us tonight. so tell us if we are misreading what apparently happened here.

ballots were sent to people in your state who were dead and inevitably some of them voted. is that correct? >> you know, first of all, it's important for people to understand there is absolutely voter fraud as you continue to try to point out, as we continue to try to point out, but in the campaign, we aren't the system, we don't have access to the clark county voting system. we can't call them and say "it looks like tucker carlson died, can you confirm if you voted or not"? this all has to happen on the outside and so yes, we've confirmed dead voters and so finally, we are no longer being accused of producing zero fraud, now we are being accused of not producing systemic or widespread fraud, and i've been attacked viciously by the sitting attorney general and other people for being somehow, you

know, attacking our system. last time i checked i served both in the navy and in iraq and was the top law enforcement officer. all i want to do is what you want. i want to put a spotlight on this system because the bottom line is there is fraud. i don't know how widescale it is. for all the reasons you pointed out, and we don't own the system in america needs to understand this. we keep being told well, all the fraud will be investigated. by who? there is no investigative body that goes in independently and actually investigates elections. this is why we have this mess, and if they are suggesting that the local registrar is going to do its own audit after the fact, of course we know that isn't a real investigation. the fbi was doing these little videos before election saying nothing to see here, it's a secure election. and you're asking the fbi come excuse me, were you in their checking signatures map were you

running lists to see if dead voters made it on the roles and actually voted? the answer is of course not, right? and so this is what we deal with, is that we put out a list of over 3,000 people that moved out of the state of nevada and they voted in this election. we said -- we referred it with no name for an investigation. about 100 of these people apparently were military voters and they have a ballot exemption. great, of course their vote counts, but we are being accused of improprieties here and we don't have all the information. they just want to shut down any spotlight to the fact that there is voter fraud in our state. >> tucker: of course. i'm not surprised. adam, thanks for that update. appreciate it, we will talk to you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: here you have the people whose job it is to worry about fraud, the attorney general of the state, the fbi, democratic officeholders, the media, telling you that you're wrong if

you're worried about fraud. totally incurious about how the fraud happened when the fraud incontrovertible evidence of fraud is right in front of thei. what does that tell you? what do you it tells you? democrats could control the senate, it comes down to two runoff elections in the state of georgia. those races really matter, may be more than any senate races in our lifetime. what's the state of play in that state? we will talk to water representative doug collins next. ♪ we believe at newday usa we have a noble purpose. we want to be known as america's mortgage company for veterans and active-duty service people. some of them are giving their lives right now, today, for the freedoms that we have here in this country. so for us, at newday to help those people at this point in time. it's a labor of love, it's a noble service, and that's what we're all about.

♪ >> tucker: you may never have heard of dana nessel. she is the highly partisan, not especially bright attorney general and the state michigan. she ran for office two years ago with an ad, we are not making this up, bragging that she "doet have a penis. she's divisive, she's a buffoon. unfortunately, dana nessel has power now and she set about abusing it in the un-american possible ways. michigan cities are almost the most violent places in the western hemisphere. you might think dana nessel might work on that, but no, she spent her time trying to cut down catholic charities for being pro-life.

one of her cases against the turks done my church was so transparent the unconstitutional that a federal judge accused her of committing "a targeted tack on a sincerely held religious belief." then when citizens in michigan protested their governor's absurdly partisan covid lockdowns, abortion clinics and her husband were against them. she dismissed those complaints as "white folks outraged because they can't go golfing," and so on. dana nessel may be the worst attorney general in the country, and there is stiff competition in that category, so it was just a matter of time before dana nessel tried to invalidate the first amendment. now she is doing that. she is threatening to imprison the debtors of news organizations vaguely politics for the crime of reporting the news. that site has posted audio recordings of poll workers in michigan. nestle claims their report is "misleading." that's a crime now. in michigan apparently. in case that wasn't clear, nestled warned vaguely politics

the "failure to apply will resut in criminal prosecution, so if you disagree with dana nessel, you will go to jail. that's the new third world standard. what's interesting is that other news organizations have said virtually nothing about this. cnn isn't complaining about it, neither was "the washington post" of "the new york times." they love authoritarianism, as long as their team is benefiting from it. we don't like it, no matter who is in charge. maybe dana nessel should fight someone her own sized instead of terrorizing an independent website, why doesn't dana nessel try that with us? go ahead, dana nessel. see how that goes, good luck. two upcoming runoff elections in the state of georgia could determine, in fact will determine, the control of the senate. democrats are hiding what they plan to do if they win this to races and take control. they plan to fundamentally change this country and its systems and they are saying so out loud. >> now we take georgia, then we take the world.

[indiscernible]. >> now we take georgia, and then we change america! >> tucker: so the question is -- we will be covering this in much greater detail as you move towards january 5th -- but how were those races looking right now? doug collins is a member of congress from georgia coordinating the republican response to all of this and we are happy to have them on tonight. congressman, thanks so much for coming on. where do you think, as honestly as you can assess, we are now with these two races? >> well, i think right now we are getting ready for a tough race but i have every confidence that david perdue and kelly loeffler will be presenting an argument to the people of georgia taking what chuck schumer just said, this is become a valley for really the ideological soul of our countrys the left and more of a socialist ideal -- again, taking it out of the terminology, it is simply this purity with a vote for david or kelly down here in georgia or against jon ossoff or

a film or not. if you want more personal responsibility, do you want more freedoms and liberties that we just talked about, being able to actually stand up for a first and second -- all of armaments, or do you want one that moves us away from those whom i can think that's we are at. it's going to be tough but we are fighting and i think they're going to win. >> tucker: so it's going to be tough, the democrats graphics of georgia have changed from a heart republicans than it once was but a lot of attention on the systems in place with georgia. if we just read the names of dead people who voted in your state last week. will mail and balloting be allowed? will ballots or registration forms will be sent to people who didn't ask for them? and will outside groups be allowed to collect those ballots and drop them off? will there be valley harvesting? >> that's one of the things we are voted -- make sure we have every legal boat counted. we are beginning to look at how may people voted from the same location. where they allowed independent voting while they were there? we also have an issue -- this is one thing i want to emphasize for georgia and this is what our

secretary of state and others seem to emphasize. we need to have a stringent check on our signatures going forward, especially on our absentee ballots, because we have [indiscernible] to which that was not checked as well as it should be and if we want to come make sure that those are confirmed and those ballots are secure, we are going to have to have every county, not just the ones who want to participate, to make sure that those signatures are counted as the law provides for th the week and maintain vad integrity. these are the areas where the democrats are trying to encourage others and open ourselves up to suspicions in our election. >> tucker: i just talked to someone who ran a campaign in georgia last week who said that it's very common in the state for outside groups to collect ballots and bring them and turn them in. that's ballot harvesting, maybe it goes by the name of georgia. will that be allowed in a special election? >> it should be allowed. the people who know about that, they need to get in contact with us. they need to contact -- this is not allowed. this is not something you're able to do as a state in

harvesting boats. these are the kinds of things we have to fight against but this has to be a vigilant activity, tucker, and i'm tired of the left always saying that when we are standing up for these rights and is ballots to make our election law integrity firm, if they call us every name in the book, you've been facing it, everybody has been facing across the country but the question is it's not a matter of now they say any fraud there, which i've still got officials in georgia saying there's not any fraud buried that's just not true. one issue of an illegal ballots cast takes away the legal boat of someone else and we have to admit that. either it's all wrong or it's all right. we've got to sadie's ballots have to be checked. otherwise we lose our most precious gift. >> tucker: of course. congressman, thanks so much for coming on sunday. >> thanks, tucker, appreciate it. >> tucker: things are happening now that would've been impossible to imagine six month ago, states trying to control what you can do in your home over thanksgiving. these are coronavirus rules. what happens if you don't obey? that's straight ahead.

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>> tucker: so, if you were to somehow get inside the brain of any authoritarian, you would find that their fantasies are the conventional fantasies. an authoritarian fantasizes about controlling you. and coronavirus has given the perfect pretext to do that. now they've forced their way into your home. you're not going to bleed the story. rick leventhal has a forest. >> tucker, for anyone in new york or california, it will be a holiday season like no other. arguing the the only way to slow it is to start down again. starting tonight, at 10:00 p.m. curfew will be in effect in the state of new york. restaurants can still serve food curbside for pickup or delivery, but no alcohol to go and indoor and outdoor gatherings on your own property will be limited to

no more than ten people. evan andrew cuomo says the parties the problem, blaming them for the spike in cases and says if the new restrictions don't slow the spread, he may shut down jim's and indoor dining altogether he's demanding new york city's mayor deploy the nypd to enforce the new rules. >> there are only two fundamental truths in this situation. it's individual, disciplin discd its government enforcement. >> and over here on the left coast, governor gavin newsom has issued a similar new guidelines ahead of the thanksgiving holiday. no more than three households can gather together at a time. gatherings must be outside and last two hours or less. attendees can use restrooms as long as they are frequently sanitized and singing, chanting, and shouting are strongly discouraged. talker, i swear i did not make

these up. >> tucker: i was literally just thinking that exact same thing. rick leventhal has gone rogue, he's writing fake news again. >> no, i didn't, i didn't do it! i'm just telling you what he said. >> tucker: it's unbelievable. so much is. rick leventhal, thank you for that. >> sure. >> tucker: so andrew cuomo's new rules in the state of new york raise an important question. will his much buffer other at cnn follow those rules? earlier this year you remember we showed you a picture of chris cuomo itself, cnn anchor, standing a monument without a mask next to several other people, smoking a cigar, and then last month we obtained exclusively a letter from chris cuomo's landlord reminding him that he was defying repeatedly mandatory mask rules in his building and could be find if he kept it up. a week ago a photo emerged of someone looking suspiciously like chris cuomo. shaved legs, chiseled jaw, getting a haircut without a mask

on. does this and with a s.w.a.t. team dissenting on the cuomo family as they celebrate things getting? mark steyn is our expert on illegal thanksgiving dennis, long has spent and of course the best-selling author. thanks for joining us. how illegal do you imagine the cuomo family thinks getting dinner could be? >> yeah, i'm interested in this with the new crackdown on public singing that if you were to kick open the door of the cuomo household, my chance to be singing jingle bells other than new york s.w.a.t. team might have to take him down over the holidays. this is great implications for powerful democrats and i believe under the new rules the polling precincts, no more than ten democrat voters will be permitted at one time, so that actually could affect some of the recounts and change some of the election results we've seen, but what's interesting to me, tucker, is that basically

covid-19 has now become the afghan war of public health issues. we actually no longer recall why we got into this whole lockdown scenario, but nobody has any other ideas, so lockdown has to keep going on. and vote in new york and california, they have now moved to the european stage where regulating the number of people you're allowed to have inside your house or indeed in the garden, and as we've seen especially in the united kingdom, the police haven't been shy about kicking down the doors of houses and saying somebody two doors away said it sounded like you had more than ten people in here, and that's -- that's a very different intensity of lockdown for no good reason. right now, what matters -- i mean, all this case stuff is silly. if you test positive, is that impact a case in any meaningful sense? new york state, only today, as of today, only 1600 people are

hospitalized. in a state with something like 220 hospitals -- so you do the math. i will wait -- nobody can do the math because none of the kids have been to school for a year, so nobody can work out the math, which is that it's about six or seven covid cases per hospital. there is no justification for this and it's all these guys got. boris johnson of all people -- boris, i know his habits rather well because i've seen some of them in action and boris johnson's country, if you are what they call noncohabiting couples in tier 2 and tier three zones, boris has prohibited new to have sex! the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. under covid they are all in the bedrooms. >> tucker: so i need your i.d. skills really quickly. i'm going to put picture on the screen and i'm going to want you help us ascertain whether it's

actually chris, getting a mask with her car. i think i'm too close to the story at this point, i don't really trust my own judgment. do you think that's chris cuomo? >> [laughs] i declined to comment. i don't want his brother's s.w.a.t. team kicking my door down. oh, my goodness! oh! yes, he is! the mask list -- hey, he's a regular nancy pelosi there. i think he has the same coloring too. >> tucker: as his brother the governor explained, when you criticize the cuomos, you are anti-italian because in 2020 everyone gets [indiscernible]. so put that -- >> that's right. that's right. >> tucker: unbelievable. mark steyn, great to see you. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: so it's interesting, apparently there's a coronavirus vaccine on the way but we didn't learn about it until days after the presidential election. just in time for joe biden to declare himself the president-elect. and it's time for the ceo of pfizer, one of our biggest pharma companies to sell a ton of his stock in the opening.

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♪ >> tucker: we learned on monday that the drug company pfizer, one of the biggest in the world, has a potentially viable coronavirus vaccine. we learned that just six days after the presidential election. you don't need to be a crazy person to wonder about the timing there. back in september, the president said that he was informed he could expect to learn whether the vaccine would be viable by the end of october. >> we remain on track to deliver a vaccine before the end of the year and maybe even before november 1st. we think we can probably have it sometime during the month of october and pfizer is among the leaders, as you know. >> tucker: but it wasn't just trump. also in september of this year, the ceo of pfizer predicted the same thing. he said we would know whether pfizer had a workable vaccine by the end of october.

>> [indiscernible] a few times that we will know how the product works by the end of october and that of course it is regulators job to issue license or not. but what i know -- >> you could get that -- do you think you could get the fda to approve it as safe and distribute it across to americans before the end of the year? >> i cannot say what the fda will do but i think it's a likely scenario and we are preparing for it. for example, we started already manufacturing we have already manufactured hundreds of thousands of doses. >> tucker: so we are going to know by the end of october. it may or may not be related, but it is interesting, the man you just saw, the ceo of pfizer sold 62% of his stock in pfizer on monday, that's the same day the company announced the vaccine worked, that it was coming, that was a prearranged stock sale. in effect, pfizer's announcement allowed its ceo to cash out to one of the highest points all

year. a statement released by joe biden on monday raises even more questions about the timing of all of this. biden said this. "last night my public health advisors were informed of this excellent news about pfizer's vaccine." that means that joe biden's team, the president-elect's people, knew it was coming up sunday evening. what's interesting is the actual president at the white house said they learned about the vaccine on monday and they heard about it from the media. >> pfizer is a public company with obligations to shareholders and truthfulness in their statements. i have to take them on the word that they saw the data on sunday and made the public announcement monday. secretary of self, health and human services learned from the media. >> tucker: kind of where the secretary of hhs heard about it from media reports. now pfizer, according to the newspapers who are covering this was initially set to reveal its vaccine results in october but

they delayed after discussion with the fda. we reached out to clarify what's going on here. they claim to the ceo didn't even find out about the vaccine news until sunday at 1:30 a.m. and worked all night to announce it on monday morning. they denied politics at anything to do with this, but politics was involved in this, because some of the top people at pfizer are highly political. is there a connection? we are not sure and that's why we've asked [indiscernible] who has worked on the story to join us tonight and to explain. thanks so much for coming on. is there evidence that politics -- the effect was clearly political. i mean, it had an effect, but was that the intent? to think politics played a role here? >> there's no question the pharmaceutical industry does have a political incentive to throw donald trump out of office. have you noticed all of the advertising this year dedicated to saying the president is somehow socialist or demand and that we pay just as much as foreign countries pay for the drugs we developed? they are really angry at him.

they think that we are going to lose a lot of money if he stays in office so there's a lot of incentive there in the political acts i think of been pretty clear here. pfizer, if you check their political affiliations, you can do it online if you like tonight, very clearly donated more to joe biden than they did to donald trump. that's true of the entire pharmaceutical industry and also this week in the announcement, when pfizer announced that the vaccine was on its way and that it was doing well, they claimed to "the new york times" that the president's operation warp speed, remember that, launched in may, dedicated to sprinting this type of vaccine to the american public was a not a part of the developed of the vaccine. a bunch of equally dominant gradual supporters quickly ran with that winning the president doesn't deserve credit but the truth was he did. pfizer later came out and recanted that statement saying actually, yes, we were part of operation warp speed to the tune of 2 billion taxpayer dollars. that's right, you and i are paying a lot of money for pfizer to develop this vaccine, so they lied about that because, you

know -- why? i'm not sure, but lying about it, the effective it was not to give a win to donald trump and the fact is, as you noted, they could have released data on this in october and instead, when did they release it? first full business day after the media declared victory for joe biden. >> tucker: so the bottom line here according to the story you just told is that donald trump more than any president probably in our history has explicitly threatened the bottom line of pharma companies by saying we should pay the same price as the canadians pay for drugs developed in our country. they don't like and for that, they funded an ad campaign against him and it seems entirely possible they timed the release of this news in a way that would help biden. >> and what's troubling beyond that -- there have always been business incentives that have tried to push politicians around, and certainly in a health crisis you would think they would set aside the politics and advance the

interest of the american people, but the fda here i think stands out as a very important thing. the president has been at war with his own fda over the past few months who have tried to place barriers in place to try and slow down the vaccine from getting to the public. they put in a never before seen 60 day safety period to ensure the safety of the vaccine. they don't do that in any other vaccine. this is the very first time it was done. it was announced just two months before the election. you do the math. why is the fda at war with its own president? why did the fda consult with pfizer? they did in mid-october, and slow down the release of this positive news until after the election. i think the fda has a lot to answer here as well. they are supposed to regulate pfizer. not be in bed with pfizer. this is i think a huge deal and i will add one more. eli lilly this week, you remember on monday you got announcement about an antiviral drug, another breakthrough medicine, it's huge.

it's really important for people who get coronavirus to get treated. we found out about this -- that eli lilly emergency use operation sent to the fda a month ago. it took over a month for them to approve this and they did it one business day after the media declared joe biden to be the victor. >> tucker: a lot of federal dollars, a lot of tax dollars moving towards these pharma companies. vaccine are good business, so it's not a bad thing to make a big time vaccine. i think we have a right to know more about this i hope you will stay on it. vince, thank you for your reporting. >> thanks so much, tucker. >> tucker: so much more ahead tonight, but first the latest print advertisement just out from the joe biden team, you'll want to see this. ♪

>> tucker: it's veterans day. we want to close tonight by honoring a veteran in our fox family. bill gargano began his service for this country during the second world war, immediately after he graduated high school in 1942. he joined the army air force, three years in a b-17 bomber. try that. he was awarded the distinguished flying prospect among other metals. he went on to graduate from quinnipiac college. bill gargano passed away octobe. his legacy lives on through his family, including trey gargano, a good man, head of sales in new york. we are grateful for bill gargano and all of our veterans to my. bless them. that's it for tonight. will be back, each night, 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. enjoy the ones you love in the midst of all of this. sean hannity right now. >> sean: great message on veterans day. i want to honor one, as well, tucker, our own colonel oliver north and all of the

years he served this country, purple heart, went to iran, had a suicide pill, if he needed to take it, all of them, our freedoms come from them. great honor tonight. thanks, tucker. >> tucker: he is a great man. >> sean: amen. welcome to "hannity." it is 9:00 p.m. on the east coast, 6:00 p.m. on the west coast, and while the very frail, the very weak, cognitively struggling joe biden is probably fast asleep in his basement bunker, dreaming of picking out drapes for the oval office, well, investigations continue in multiple key states, where hundreds now of sworn affidavits are being filed, lawsuits are being filed, alleging serious election misconduct. and i have a message for the media mob and hypocritical democratic socialist tonight, but we begin tonight, let's start with a look at the state of pennsylvania. after shocking scenes of election day chaos in philadelphia, questions about mail-in ballots and across the