>> jon: that "the story" on friday, the 13th. if "the story" continues, i will see you tomorrow for fox sports weekend. have a great time. ♪ >> tucker: codeine, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." there is a huge amount to going right now. really a torrent of news, historic tonight. to begin tonight, we're going to ignore all of it. we've never done that before. and you shall brought to you on abc's channel, but in the second friday after the election come on let's take a 20 minute break from development. so many things seem so completely screwed up right now that it can be overwhelming and over time, it's also misleading. if you pay too much attention to what's happening, you can easily conclude that america is a rotten country. but that's wrong. it's not. america is still the best.

two things about america make it great. at the and its people. this is a truly beautiful place. that's the first thing. if you're absorbed in your phone you might forget that but look around. it's stunning. some probably has victoria falls, but the entire continent, you've got what we have come to. from the islands and casco bay, to the rockies, the badlands, the upper peninsula, the appalachian mountains in between. spend the day hiking through the national pharmacist in wyoming. how can a place so gorgeous be so empty? we've got a lot of those here. wake up in california somewhere. the smell of red words will change you. youth feel things you inherited from ancestors coming from places the modern world cannot touch. we are blessed to live in a place like this. no matter what happens next, no

matter who becomes the president now or in the future, nothing can diminish the magnitude of the eastern white pine towering above the spruce. all of it is ours to enjoy, think on. we got a lot of people to enjoy it with, unlawful lot. americans are the best people. this isn't especially religious country, but serve the ongoing cannot tell the full story. even now, most americans know they're not really in charged of the universe. they know there's something bigger out there, bigger than all of us combined. we understand that, when you know in your bones how small you are and how short the ride is, you tend to treat people better. americans do. don't let cable news fool you, don't let us fool you will come of this is a profoundly nice country. the nicest in the world. americans are kind of children, strangers we pay more money to

charity than any other place. we tip our waiters more. there is no other country on earth more likely that someone will help you. dog sleep on the bed, we give them funny names, we cry when they die. it's a sweet country. in some ways it's getting better. the music is definitely improving. so is the food. believe it or not, we still make things here and a lot of it's pretty good. i probably won't change. america loves innovation but they're distrustful of anyone's radical plans for the future. what most people here don't want an abrupt reshuffling of everything. they prefer incremental improvement. that's why we put off the metric system all these years. that's what we have christmas and all was well. christmas in america is great. even if you don't really understand what it's about, many people don't, it still the happiest time of the year and therefore it's the most americ

american. america is a happy country, despite everything. our happiness is fundamental. it's in our founding document. it's in our people. nothing happening can take that away. our site from america, following nearly, but he stated on awfully long time. he joins us now for a long time. mark steyn, why are you still here? >> well, i first stayed here and i settled with a small town in new hampshire that had a tough time of it. but it's interesting to me, what stayed you back struck me, you can have a really nice town next to a very crummy town. because the people decide how the government felt and i very agreed with them in the sense that the government in new hampshire is the best system of government ever devised. in a grueling time like this, it's my observation that the

integrity and the health of government diminishes as you go upwards. from towns, states, to the federal level. i think there's a lot to be said. when you look at town governmental, americans are still free to govern themselves where it matters. to go to the border point which is what you have been talking about, the politics is enable life. if you're obsessed with who is looking good for 2022, do you like 2024 or you prefer -- to with that. nothing conservative about that. the point of conservatism, the point of politics is to enable life. as he said, all other areas of life. they felt pretty good for society. we should not wall ourselves up in horse race politics because if you're into politics, on the action is being made elsewhere. whatever you feel about

transgender resume, it's not because joe biden and hillary started advocating it. it's because they created the positions for its in that great mass of 95% alike that has nothing to do with the electoral politics. it too much of which conservatives have abandoned. i think it's great just to get out into that space and say that their 73 million people here who want to be playing on doctors as well. >> tucker: it does seem to me like this is a political show. you know, it's kind of what we do, but it does seem like a lot of people are utterly focused on the political system as you know to the exclusion of everything else. what should we be looking actively want to gauge the health of the country and appreciate the country? >> well, i think you look on it on broader issues.

if it's the way that things used to be universally accepted, such as free speech for example. now seen as weird right wing obsession. i think, again, it's actually very healthy what's happened in the last couple of weeks. the 73 million people who turns down the back out to vote for president trump, that's an extraordinary number. and more extraordinary when you consider how much the republican party and conservatives in general. we don't play in the pop culture, big tack, and yet somehow we managed to be holding onto and surviving. if we took the mass, the target tried to ban some book today that was allegedly trans full bank. if people pushed back and they got there reward. the lesson is, if you take 73 million people out into the great broad span of american life, you find that they are

real for us. it's more important than everything worrying about which congressman is going to be elected and which district in ohio. life, life is where you express your values, including your political. >> tucker: i want to ask you a personal question. you grew up in another country and lived in other country, international in the truest sized, you children live here. what is it about america that you like? >> well, it's the small things. my first child was born, my daughter, i found out just from a casual conversation with a librarian was congratulating them. she said that we always do a hand painted book for the child and it's there in the library for all eternity. i was so touched by that.

the other thing i think it's the great span of american's life. as you know, a couple days away from the 400 anniversary of the landing of the mayflower. my towns overseer of the poor as they called it, and the fire chief, are descendants of john and priscilla auburn of the mayflower as is marilyn monroe. they are the overseer in my small town. this couple that happened to arrive in the 400 years ago, actually, normally expressive of the great expanse of american life and how anything is possible. just a small point. we sought very touching, especially on this anniversary. >> tucker: that's wonderful. this is a wonderful time and were great to have you.

mark steyn, thank you. one of our favorites. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: here's an indication of how good we have it. journalists now are demanding that you capitalize certain letters. absolutely demanding it. we saw all the other problems. what's wrong with this? jason whitlock is talking more about this thing, it seems like a small thing. but people say it's not. even if they tell you something much bigger. torch bearing, straight ahead. ♪ - the world is in turmoil. been turned on it's head. of a possible recession..

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♪ >> tucker: with everything going on, you may have missed the fact that the associated press, the people who write the news most capitalize the d. the capitalization is a shared sense of history, identity, and people who identify as black. when he says they don't want to capitalize white. okay, why? here's the quote. why people generally do not share the same history and culture. okay. so, what does this mean? is there a deeper meaning that we can take from its? and what effect doesn't have on

society? language changes the way we think and by which we communicate but also understanding. when words change so do our ideas and understanding. he's of course one of the founders and he joins us tonight. it jason, thank you for coming on. this is one of those little changes capitalizing one letter. where journalists are worth paying attention. when he found it through and you believe it's actually a bigger deal. what you think it means? >> is a much bigger deal, it's a way defined by black people, that your most prized possession, your greatest asset, your most defining characteristic is your skin color. and once you convince people that their skin color is their most important asset in defining characteristic, they then

started to cater all of their behavior to show off that attribute. no one else has to live up to their skin color. they are free to accentuate to their intelligence, they are faith in god, their commitment to family, their love of freedom. but we as black people, as defined by the white liberals in my view running the mainstream media, running hollywood, we have to live up to our skin color of all above all else. and that's not much of an attribute in terms of like it's a great packaging. i'm very proud of being black. but that's not my number one attribute. because i want to be defined by my faith in god. i want to be defined by manning intelligence. that's what i want people to see when they think about me. not my skin color. >> tucker: you have a completely different take and i think most people when they saw this they say, okay, this is a

elaborate show of respect. you're saying it's a mean of control? >> no question about it. tucker, if you go back for hundred years when america instituted linden. black people skin color was hey, that's a special classification of people. they are black. therefore, because of their skin color, they don't have as much freedom as everybody else. their skin color tells you all you need to know about this. that's their defining characteristic. these people, 400 years later, these are the ideological descendants of those bigots for hundred years ago saying and doubling down a written reminder to black people your skin color is your defining characteristic. therefore, we are going to limit your freedom. you spent all of your energy trying to be unapologetically black. everybody else gets the glove

trying to be intelligent, responsible, god-fearing, patriotic. it looks asian-americans come into the country and they don't try to live up to their skin colors. they're not sending their kids off into the world, be yellow. they consider the word yellow a slur, and insult. if they don't want to be defined by their skin color. they send their kids out into the world, no, you will be smarter than everybody else. it defined yourself by your intelligence and ability to achieve in this country. black people, unlike everybody else, you have to prove how black you are. because unapologetically black is another. as black people, we don't control what is black. that's told to us by chelsea dengler, and every liberal running hollywood, joe biden, you don't vote for him, you're not black. if you don't get the little

boats, you're not black. we are actually trying to meet standards defined for us by other people by other people. they divined by black people. a lot of things just aren't helping for us. being a rapper in singly and where it is about the blackest thing you can do according to hollywood. this is crazy. it all started watching dave chappelle's "saturday night live" monologue last friday and i'm saying dave chappelle is smarter than this. and when he sighed for for everybody else and is black and celebrity, when they put you on your hollywood stage, people who control how the blood, when they grant you that stage, you're going to be black, man. you're going to cost, say the n-word, that's how white people, be racist, angry. it will be those things.

don't be intelligent things, leaned into being black being black. >> tucker: so smart. i've never heard anybody say that. i hope people will see thus. thank you. as you know, the summer of the city of minneapolis, the peaceful prosperous city of minneapolis, voted to defund the police. what happened the next? tonight because we can't control our cells, we will continue conclusion of state council of city the city of minneapolis has come to. that's next. a ♪

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against the police. the minneapolis city council unanimously voted to begin the process of replacing the police department with something called a community-led public safety system. it was never clear exactly what that was, but they voted to do it. they also got $1 million in funding from the police department give it to the health department, okay, so less -- but more martyrs something you could predict began happening, what could have caused that? in september, members of the minneapolis city council had a zoom meeting come up with their heads together. here are some of the brainstorming that resulted. >> i would appreciate some more information on how we are addressing the carjackings. i know there's been a number of them in the community, and they really terrorized residents. >> gun violence, drug dealing, intimidation, extortion, people

are having to pay to get out of their alleys. >> last night, i had yet another 17-year-old murdered in my ward. i would say -- i don't have an exact number, but it's been at least five 17-year-olds who have been murdered in my ward. >> tucker: you could flip through the phone book and find a smarter group of people, but those are the people who run the city of minneapolis. "i would appreciate some more information on carjackings," the politician says to the cops he wants to fire. that was two months ago. today, after a lot of careful thought, the minneapolis city council appears to have zeroed in on a potential solution to the crime wave wrecking the city. here is the plan, they are going to spend half a million dollars to hire dozens of -- not health experts, additional law enforcement personnel. so, that is good news for the people being killed in minneapolis. just this year, 74 of them have been killed, nearly 500 have

been shot and wounded. it is bad news for people like bennett mcnulty, a philosophy professor at the university of minnesota. today, mcnulty wrote this, "it is unconscionable to give $500,000 from the city's contingency fund when there is housing insecurity in the city. a crisis of housing insecurity." if you've ever wondered where the dumbest people in america live, you just saw it come on the minneapolis city council and in your neighborhood philosophy department. the people actually affected by defunding the police, goes without saying, are not the ones defunded the police. it's the local professors with tenure who are destroying your . the people in charge of the country clearly have an enemy. it's not criminals, it's the middle class. and the result is obvious. 500 people shot. amazing. minneapolis, of course, is not the only city to face the consequences after defunding the

police. lots of places tried it. in seattle, homelessness and drug abuse have gotten worse than they were before, and they were already bad. the city council there voted to defund a specialized program that helped move homeless people into shelters -- no, they have a right to live on the sidewalk, they love it. local governments and removing the homeless and their encampments was "inhumane." jason rantz is one of the few sane people who has remained in the city of seattle, he's been watching since the beginning and joins us tonight with an update. jason, good to see you. how are things in your state? >> it's pretty bad. seattle, the city council, this mayor's office, they are just irredeemably progressive, and as a result, they have created a homelessness crisis that no one thought to get as bad as it is. i defy you to go anywhere in seattle and find a park that has been completely overtaken by tents, by homeless people shooting up, by homeless people who have set up these kind of

bazars where you can show up and purchased -- it is completely overtaking the city. in large part, it is because of the defunding the police movement. getting rid of the navigation team because they happen to have police as part of this program to connect people who are living on the streets with resources, but part of what they were doing was sweeping these encampments, as well. apparently it is inhumane to sweep the encampments, but not inhumane to keep people living in these parks, surrounded by use, dirty needles, and their own human waste. something tells me that's the actual thing that is inhumane. >> tucker: that is the most inhumane thing i've seen in a long time. i can't control myself. i noticed there are lots of tense, i assume your local churches gave those to the junkies so they could feel virtuous, is that where they came from? >> will try to figure that i would a lot of them happen to be stolen. the trash is -- if you try to

pick it up, they will tell you theyou are stealing their goods. the city doesn't want to sweep any of us up, but we are forcing them to. hopefully it will continue. >> tucker: we didn't build the parks for heroin addicts, we built them for normal people and their children. tells you so much. jason rantz, thanks for the update. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: elon musk is the ceo of tesla and recently said he had cold like symptoms, so he took four coronavirus test, all administered by the same machine, a guy fluent in science, by the way. he posted the results on twitter. torque will of elon musk's test came back positive, the other two came back negative. musk tweeted this, "something externally bogus is going on if it's happening to me, it's happening to others." so how do we trust the coronavirus numbers we are getting if the tests are inaccurate. dr. marc siegel is a fox news medical contributor, he joins us tonight to answer this question. doctor, great to see you.

>> tucker, the answer is we can't trust the numbers. fear is what drives this. fear causes, tucker, these pseudo-religions, masks will make you in vulnerable even if it is hanging off your face, lockdowns, elon musk the visionary set of the very beginning that lockdowns were fascist and undemocratic. tucker come i must confess, i aa big fan of elon musk, he's around the same age as you, created things people said they couldn't create, much as you have done here. he created the tesla, which completes with the porsche and beats it off the line. amazing visionary, elon musk. so, lockdowns, from a medical point of view, of course, don't work, because only rich people can afford to go to their country house while poor people are stuck together not knowing if the person next to them, by the way, make maybe actually has covid-19, and there is a physical and economic cost we talked about here.

elon musk is facing another pseudo-religion, of testing. once again, he is being a visionary. he is saying tonight, four tes tests, two positive, two negative. i thought that antigen test is pretty good. when you have mild symptoms, we were told that antigen test was quite accurate. well, two positive and two negative come i want to submit to the viewer tonight that it is another pseudo-religion. as a physician, a test may be helpful, just like a mask may be helpful, lockdowns not helpful at all, but a test may be helpful, but tucker, a test is not a cure. >> tucker: i think that's totally fair. i also think you are right that elon musk is a legitimate visionary. i, by contrast, in a talk show host. but i appreciate it. >> the same age, tucker. >> tucker: [laughs] well, i've got that in common. up next, new york governor andrew cuomo has announced that bars and

restaurants in his state must close by 10:00 p.m. what does that mean for the people who run those businesses, and in many cases are barely holding on? tyler hollinger is an owner of a restaurant in new york city and we talked to him sometime ago, he opened that restaurant a little over two months ago. despite the lockdowns, he did it anyway. we talked to him when he opened. >> i believe in the power of community. i believe in the power of new yorkers. let's be honest, cuomo, de blasio, they didn't stop the virus. new yorkers stop the virus here, and new yorkers will survive. >> tucker: tyler hollinger is back, straight ahead. ♪

♪ >> tucker: since march, more than a thousand restaurants have closed in new york city. not because people stopped eating though because the city and state have crushed them with coronavirus lockdowns, but that number apparently isn't high enough for some politicians, they decided to close all bars and restaurants after 10:00 p.m. a must for a dance party celebrating joe biden.

otherwise, it is very dangerous, according to the party of science. tyler hollinger is the owner of the festival restaurant in new york city. he opened a couple months ago, even though the city has done everything it can to wreck his livelihood. at the time, i spoke to him a couple months ago, he said new yorkers will survive. are they? tyler hollinger joins us tonight. how are you surviving? >> tucker it is so good to be on the show again. >> tucker: thank you. >> first of all, i want to say thank you to you, and thank you to your community. after i came on the show the first time, the overwhelming support, love, compassion of your community buying gift cards, coming to the restaurant, was absolutely mind-blowing, -- >> tucker: good. >> it is a testament to the beauty of humankind that we look after one another, and i want to thank you. >> tucker: well, thank you for saying that. we have the best viewers. >> you have the most amazing viewers, and this kindness is

overwhelming, and the gratitude is amazing. de blasio and cuomo will not stop us. let's be clear. they will not stop new yorkers. they will not stop new york businesses, because they are temporary individuals, and the businesses and the people that live in new york are permanent. >> tucker: that is such a nice point. i wonder come in the short term, though, they are still here. can you make a living if you have to close at 10, 10 being the hour at which coronavirus becomes dangerous, apparently. >> [laughs] apparently goes out after 10 get coronavirus. >> tucker: yeah. >> what cuomo doesn't realize is those individuals who want to dine late are just going to come an hour early, on top of the people that are already there, so what you created is a bad situation with more crowding, as opposed to allowing people to spread out over time, enjoy their meal. so now people are going to be more on top of each other, which

is insane. this government just allowed thousand person rallies to happen for joe biden all over the city, yet you can't have thanksgiving for ten people? something is very, very wrong. >> tucker: you make such a good point about forcing people to eat in larger numbers when you constrain when they can eat. did you tell the city that, or the state that? did they consult you before shutting down your business at 10:00 p.m.? >> the city has no interest in hearing what small businesses think. every day, we are visited by another government official trying to shut us down, trying to impose fines, legislations, restrictions, when we are just out there keeping people safe, and this is the hypocrisy we are living in right now, but i can tell you one thing. the power of love, the power of kindness, and respect for one another, trumps anything that any of these politicians want to

say. because it's about neighborhood and it is about community, and protecting those who you love. >> tucker: that's an inspiring thing you are saying and a great thing to hear. tyler hollinger, we are rooting for you. >> i refuse to be negative about this, tucker. and we have a drink for you, a perrier, waiting when you come. >> tucker: [laughs] so embarrassing, that's actually what i drink. thanks, i appreciate it. i noticed the party of big business crushing independent business. see what i mean? hard to believe a military coup could happen in this country, but in an interview this week, tim jeffries, the outgoing u.s. envoy to syria and an advisor to joe biden, admitted he was part of just that. jeffries said this, "we were always playing shell games do not make clear to our leadership how many troops we had there in syria." jeffrey said the actual number of american troops stationed northeast syria is "a lot more than the 200 troops the

president said we were leaving there in 2019." this sounds a lot like treason. you're not allowed to make your own foreign policy, only people elected by the public can do that. the chain of command is a sacred structure that gives us democracy. media weren't bothered by that, though. they cheered it on. a "washington post" chief covering syria wrote "the joke is on trump, who told so many lies, for being so easily lied to by his officials." so, she hates trump, okay. but why is she backing a subversion of our democracy? because that is what it is. back in august, susan rice, you remember her, went on television to say she was losing her mind over the president's planned withdrawal from syria. >> i woke up this morning to hear that news, and as i do, it seems like six days a week, i

just put my head in my hands. this is the [bleep] crazy. >> tucker: yeah, it's crazy to pull american troops out of syria. what are they doing there in the first place, susan rice? anybody? anybody? do we have any clue why american troops need to be in syria? at great expense, waiting to be killed? no, no one explains. but they must be. at the democratic national convention, a video montage for a stream of bureaucrats and officials complaining about pulling out of syria. >> our military policy, to maintain our presence in syria, we came to the aid of the kurds and help stop the advance. president trump told us to simply abandon the kurds. it's shameful. >> joe biden will be strong against dictators. >> i've heard him on the phone some pretty tough characters. you talk about joe biden's empathy and decently, but joe biden is tough as nails, and everyone knows it. >> he will do the right thing, no matter the political cost.

>> observed two republican presidents and one democrat resident, without any thoughts, any preparation, that have massive life end. >> tucker: republicans come, they go. democrats come, they go. aaron monty is a journalist with "the gray zone," we are happy to have them on tonight. thanks so much for coming on. i don't think you need to be a partisan republican or a trump supporter to be bothered by the fact that people whose job it is to carry out policy were lying about it. >> exactly, there's two issues. de civilian leadership and the policy of staying in syria. i'm not a supporter of president trump come i never have been, but i respect the fact he was elected. nobody elected james jeffrey or

any other unelected bureaucrats command if we believe in the -- respect the chain of command. why lie to the president keep u.s. troops occupying syria? and has nothing to do with helping out the kurds. the u.s. has abandoned the kurds for a long time, going back many administrations. >> tucker: good point. >> as james jeffrey said earlier this year, he said my job is to create a quagmire for the russians. why would he want to keep u.s. troops, put them in harm's way, steal a country's oil, cut off syria from its own people. just to create a quagmire for another nuclear arms power. we tried that in afghanistan, and that led to the rise of al qaeda, and similarly, in syria, the proxy war we have been involved in over a decade also created the rise of al qaeda. james jeffrey put us there, brett mcgurk said that al qaeda now has its longest lat

safe haven since 9/11, a result of the proxy war we have been engaged in, going back to the presidency of barack obama. he was elected on a antiwar platform in 2017, he criticized these wars. he could end them now, pull troops out, tell james jeffrey and joe biden that it is not our job to be occupying other countries, it is our job to bring our troops home and give syria back to syria. >> tucker: what is so interesting is the orthodoxy on the subject is we are not allowed to disagree, everyone is on the same side as susan rice and hillary clinton and john bolton. you are very well informed in this. what are the chances you could get a job at "the washington post" -- and you are very left wing, i should say. what are the chances you can get a job at "the washington post" with the views you have on

syria? >> well, look, it's not just syria come as any major national security issue. the media has been in lockstep with the national security stage, whether -- you look at a issue you covered, covered it well, scandal of the ocp pw, inspectors go in and conduct an investigation in aprn was covered up because it undermines the claim that syria had committed a chemical weapons attack. no one in the media except for us, basically, has covered it. on top of the cover-up scandal, there is a media scandal, as well. >> tucker: they lied about a poison gas attack. the state department lied about it, flat out. and then we killed people in response to it. and we are not allowed to talk about that? it's one of the most frustrating things i've ever seen. aaron mate, thank you for your bravery. i hope "the washington post" is higher you. we've got some good news tonight, and an apology. one of the people who voted in

last week's election isn't dead. james blalock is still dead, we told you about him, but it was his wife who voted. she voted as mrs. james blalock, so we missed it. a whole bunch of dead people did vote. we show you their names and proved it, but james blalock was not among them. it was mrs. james blalock. so, apologies for that, and of course, will always get it correct when we are wrong, and we were. cnn promises to have the governors brother and don lemon bring you facts first. welcome here is a fact about cnn. apparently, the company is for sale, and the suppose it cnn fact finders aren't telling you much about it, but we will. the great charlie gasparino with us after the break. ♪ - hello, i'm michael youssef.

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>> tucker: one thing we can be certain of is the news media is going to change quite a bit over the last year. it's already changed an awful

lot, and not for the better. we are learning tonight that at&t is eyeing a possible sale of cnn, which it owns to pay its massive debt. fox business senior correspondent charlie gasparino broke this story, and a lot of other stories, an actual reporter, and we're happy to have them on tonight. charlie, thanks so much for coming on. what is the story? >> any time, my friend. well, we should point out cnn contrast, some of the suits, recently, so they are not for sale, great plans for sale,s came after some of our reporting on jeff bezos may be being interested in it. here's what i can tell you and why this is such a fascinating story and how it's not going to go away over the next four yea years, and for all of the column agents people write about us, the balance sheet over there is a real problem, and that is -- i mean, look at it this way. cnn does not have donald trump toot kick around anymore. the ratings will take a hit.

player owned by a company that is financially unstable of all, $150 billion in debt, at&t has. they need to cut costs. there is an activist investor out there. the other part is the wireless part, distribution uses satellite. the content part is not analogous, it sticks out like a sore thumb. and you can probably get now a premium for it. maybe not two years from now, hence what you have his intense banker speculation that this is for sale. you have activist investors pushing it, i believe one of the activist investors, and i can tell you even after the town hall meeting they had earlier in the week where they said they have such great plans for cnn going forward, the people i know there, i have a lot of respect for the people there. i am not a cnn hater. there are some really good journalist there. they believe they are for sale. if you can find a buyer.

one of the problems at&t has here is there is not a lot of natural buyers. jeff bezos' name came up because he has $200 billion and can spend the $10 billion for it, but we think of it, tech is out because of antichris antitrust,t can't buy it come again, antitrust, and the billionaires out there can't afford it. >> tucker: bezos would be allowed, he owns a programmin pe could buy at. >> he would buy it, i believe -- that's why his name is out there. i can tell you, tucker, i got this from prominent bankers, both private equity and on the street that do this for a livi living. this rumor is a real. i mean, what i used to do when i worked at "the wall street journal," is heard on the street, not quite the story yet, but this is going to keep coming, and we are going to hear a lot more about this because at&t is a screwed up company, let me tell you

something, cnn, like a lot of media, it may have hit its peak. hating trump. >> sean: i will call don lemon on th after the show for an upd. we are glad you stayed with us. see you monday. see you monday. ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity," news breaking friday night. we begin with great news from the trump administration's public-private partnership, what is known as operation warp spe speed, crafted and created to assist with the rapid production and distribution of a safe vaccine. during remarks at the white house, the president announced that 20 million vaccine doses will be available december to high-risk populations. let's take a look. >> as a result of operation warp speed, pfizer announced on monday that its china virus vaccine is more