>> martha: our gratitude to his family and we are so glad that honor flight gave them that moment. that's a story of monday november 23rd. at that story continues and we will see you back here tomorrow night at seven. have a good night, everybody, tucker is up a ♪ musicanext.>> tucker: it you'va lot about the last few days about our security of our electronic voting machine. electronic voting is not as secure as traditional hand counting, period. it never will be as secure. voters can see this because it's obvious and it makes them nervous. and why wouldn't it make them nervous? our leaders have given us every reason not to trust technology. people now tell us to stop asking questions about voting machines are the same ones who claim that our phones were not

listening to us. they live. we all know that. other countries understand that they don't use electronic voting because they know it undermines confidence in democracy. a system cannot function if no one trusts the vote and that's true here, too, as we are finding out. going forward we need to find out exactly what happened in this month's presidential election. we need to find out how long it takes the investigation to enfold her how much it costs. once we get answers to that investigation, we will refer immediately to the traditional system of voting, the one that served our democracy for hundreds of years. what we are doing now is not working. as of tonight the state of new york and still hasn't managed to count the votes in five house races to mail-in voting and that's a disaster to stop pretending that it's not. but at the same time we should let our focus on voting machines distract us from all the happened earlier this month. the 2020 presidential election was not fair. no honest person would claim that it was fair.

on many levels the system was rigged against one candidate and in favor of another. it was raked in ways that were not hidden from view. we also might have been. the media openly colluded with the democratic nominees. joe biden and kamala harris refused to explain what they would do if they were elected. that's never happened before in any presidential election in american history. but the media allowed them to do it. at the same time beginning in the spring, democrats used our public health emergency for nakedly partisan ends. they punished them for getting to gather the restrictions they did and for us? a small businesses, the heart of the republican party, and yet they made their own donors fantastically richer. jeff bezos alone saw his net worth jumped by more than $70 billion during the pandemic. then, democrats use the

coronavirus to change their system of voting. the vastly increased number of mail-in ballots. they knew their candidates would benefit from less secure voting and they were right. they use the single most effective "get out the vote" operation which for generations had been the national rifle association. not enough has been written about this but anyone on the ground saw it. thanks to legal harassment from the left, the nra played vastly reduced role in this election, and that made a huge difference in swing states like pennsylvania and others. but above all, democrats harness the power of big tech to win this election. virtually all news and all information, the english-speaking world travels through a single company, goog google. if you use technology to censor the ideas that people are allowed to express online, ultimately you control how the

population votes and that's exactly what they did. they rigged the election in front of all of us, and nobody did anything about it. dr. robert epstein saw this coming, one of the world's foremost experts on the effective big, big tech on politics. epstein is not a partisan trump supporter, in fact he's a democrat. but he believes in democracy and for years he has warned that silicon valley could still this election. this is what he said when we spoke to him about a year ago. >> google and similar companies like facebook are completely unregulated in the united states, so they can do whatever they please. if they all work together in 2020 to support the same presidential candidate which is very likely and probably, it will be a candidate that i support, by the way, they can shift upwards of 15 million votes with no one knowing that they have been manipulated and without leaving a paper trail

for authorities to trace. >> tucker: dr. epstein has tracked to the effect it has had on this month's election and he joins us now to explain what he's found. thanks so much for coming on. what effect do you think, have you measured come of big tech on the voting outcome this month? >> a couple of things that we have looked at so far. first of all we had 733 yield agents in three key swing states this year. arizona, north carolina and florida. we preserved more than 500,000 ephemeral experiences, that's a lot. that's about 30 times more data than we got in 2016. we are finding a couple of things that are pretty clear. number one is that google's search results were strongly biased in favor of liberals and democrats and this is not true

on being or yahoo. the bias was shown to pretty much every demographic group we looked at including conservatives. they got slightly more liberal bias in their search results than liberals dead. how do you account for that? we also found what seems to be a smoking gun which as we found a period of days when the vote reminder on google's home page was being sent only to liberals, not one of our conservative free comic field agents received a vote reminder during those days. the good news is we went public with some of our findings and google backed off and literally shut off that manipulation that night and so for four days before the election they were showing vote reminder as to everyone finally. >> tucker: what effect -- and we are thankful that you are apparently the only person monitoring this.

google single-handedly controls our view of the world, and yet no one seems to care. but what do you imagine the effects -- what if you measured the effect of this manipulation that had on the outcome of the election? >> there are multiple manipulations, we are also monitoring youtube at this time and facebook and bing and yahoo. the bottom line at the moment is that these manipulations, the ones that we have so far quantified could easily have shifted at least 6 million votes in just one direction. that's the bare minimum at this point that i'm confident of. the maximum, we haven't even begun to estimate that yet because we have so much data to look at. >> tucker: so that's a margin of the election right there. so you are saying what you feared could have been may indeed have happened, that the manipulation of one company,

google will come up may have determined the outcome of the presidential election. >> we have been told this for nearly a year by whistle-blowers from google. we seen it in leaked documents from google and leaked videos from google and there's no question that they set about after the 2016 election to make sure that president trump, who might do not support, by the way, to make sure he is not reelected and the massive amount of data we collected is consistent with what the whistle-blowers and leeks have been telling us for a long time now. so yes, the answer is yes. >> tucker: so why is this not at the top of a concern about anybody who cares about democracy? why are we allowing this to happen? >> the answer is pretty obvious, google literally buys candidates and politicians, and my colleagues and fellow academics

are often bought by google with the large grants. the fact is if you are a democrat or liberal, you like what these other tech companies are doing. we don't know who in different countries around the world don't necessarily support liberals. in some countries they support conservatives, in china, they work with the chinese government to help surveilled and of chinese population. >> tucker: this is the story right here. dr. epstein, i hope you get the funding to continue the research. i think it's hard to think of many things more important and i hope that changes are made more immediately. we are doing our best. >> i hope that you will. thank you.

so big tech clearly influence the outcome of this election and this should be shopping comic is shocking and unacceptable to anyone who believes in democracy or good government and yet it was essentially celebrated by national media with the goal of removing someone from office. cheryl atkinson is the author of the book "census." she joins us tonight. that title is chilling but true. cheryl atkinson, thank you. what effect do you think the tech companies had on this election? >> i think it was big at looking at it in the nonforensic way. looking at the influence that they have had over the past couple of years after a concerted campaign that began in 2016 on the part of political and corporate interests to try to control the internet's landscape, the information we get online. these forces knew that anyone who largely controlled the terms

of how we talk about new stories and new divisions, and on tv and on cable news, there was still this place that they saw people getting unfettered access to off narrative information. opinions maybe they don't want you to have or know about. they set up their goals as we move into the internet in a way like we hadn't seen before, in a very overt way in the weeks before the election, to try to control that information landscape as well. >> tucker: i don't know how frequently we can sound the alarm, i hope something is done about it soon. but give us an example of what they did in the weeks before the election if you would. >> there are plenty of ways, and in ways that every day our information is controlled. google actually made this announcement when coronavirus hit that they were going to direct searches to the world health organization which in retrospect admitted to w.h.o.

that it had gotten certain things completely wrong. but that's where we were being directed because of the partnership that they developed because interests wanted us to go there and believe that. but right before the election, in ways that weren't even partly hidden, i felt like there was a sense of desperation because a tech companies began overtly censoring and taking down accounts rather than minimizing them or minimizing their reach. in ways that could be denied. so you look at "the new york post" story on hunter biden, and the audacity of that, but to not even care in those couple of weeks leading up to the election that we saw exactly what they were doing. we knew there would be no repercussions about the electi election. >> tucker: do you think that there is any way to reign this end before the next election? even before the runoff in january in georgia that will determine control of the

congress? >> i doubt before the runoff but if we are looking for years down the road, we are looking at strong technical minds and independent minds and information people looking in all kinds of ways where information can be disseminated without being curated by the and parties who have their own conflict of interest where people won't beat the platform that they share factual information, or if they want to share information that's not true but leave it up to you to decide what is and isn't rather than letting these unnamed faceless people with conflicts of interest do it for you. lots of people are searching for ways to do that and i do think something will be born of all >> tucker: that can't come too soon. cheryl atkinson, thank you so much. if you are a trump voter and you suspect this election was stolen, it was rigged, you are onto something. it's a tech company above all that did it, keep that in mind.

up next, solar panels on signing international agreements that destroy american jobs, it seems like something that would happen in 2009. joe biden wants to bring it all back. ♪

>> tucker: turns out john kerry like barack obama is what they call a claimant denier. how do we know that? well because like obama john kerry recently purchased a $12 million waterfront homes on the island of martha's vineyard. so obviously he's not really worried about rising sea levels. the passive indifference that most countries are excepting is basically a mutual suicide pact. that's what people are on right now. because we are not doing what is necessary to save the planet. he's not helping the forgotten american company is hurting him and the kids will have worse asthma in the summer. president trump pulling out of the paris agreement, that will cost lives. that's not a simple political move, people are going to die because of the decision he made.

>> tucker: it's or joe biden wants to spend a lot of the next four years talking about climate. what's interesting is that climate is very low on every survey of voters actual concerns. they are worried about things like paying off their debt. many people are drowning in debt. they are worried about relatives that are dying of drug o.d. they are worried about a stalled economy. so why do they keep talking about to this? katie vance has thought more about the subject and anyone. the movie version of his book is streaming in theaters tomorrow and we wanted to ask him these questions. j.d. vance, thanks so much for coming out. before i ask about the movie, let me ask you about the central place in the elite liberal mind occupied by climate. they've never succeeded above in convincing the population that this should be a top concern, why is that? >> i think that's because people organize and they are

fundamentally unserious. i think most people recognize if you are lecturing the average american about how much they drive their car but you are letting the two biggest polluters in the world china and india basically do whatever they want to, you are not interested in environmental damage, they are interested in gaslighting. so when people like john kerry want to preach about the importance of self denials to save the climate and then go and buy a $13 million mansion and say nothing to china and india, people recognize they are full of. >> tucker: but to keep trying. these are people who come by the way hate nature, are at war with nature and not interested in the actual environment at all. but climate is always at the top of their plan. what's in it for them, why? >> that's a pretty complicated question. i will give you one part of my

answer, a lot of what these people have is they have lost any sense of real religious faith. they are often tied up with a sense of denial. they don't drive the car, they don't go to certain actions. they take certain actions that are perceived as virtuous and it's an organizing principle around which they can kind of organize their life. a lot of people may care about the environment in a very real way and recognize that that sort of religious approach to the issue doesn't make any sense. i also think there's a component of basic power going on here. if you look at the agenda that's been pushed by people who care the most or at least claim that they care the most about the environment, it's very often making industries that are important in the heartland more economically troubled and it's making other industries like digital technology easier to sort of push and make the centerpiece of an american economic policy. so i think in a lot of ways

these people have sort of a sense of virtue and self-interest align and intersect in a way that makes the environmental issue pretty tough to bring any rationality two. >> tucker: nicely put. you wrote one of your best-selling books, the reviews of the film have been tinged by politics, why do you think that is? >> there are a lot of things going on. one a lot of people don't like that i'm a conservative and a talk about these issues in a comment on these things from a writer's perspective, and i'm fine with that. i think it was something a little bit more pernicious that i'm starting to pick up on and it's this idea that hollywood has made a movie about working-class white people. tucker, you know the story and a lot of folks have read the book,

it's a story about addiction, resilience, family overcoming obstacles but also suffering and really important and profound ways. unfortunately those movies i think aren't especially popular, those stories are popular among the intelligent and they don't want to hear stories about working-class america. i personally think that's disgusting and wrong but ron howard in the team imagined and thought enough about it. i think the folks who watched a movie on netflix tomorrow when it comes out will hopefully find something about my family that they can sympathize with and that is i think really the goal of telling the story in the first place. >> tucker: i think urinalysis is exactly right. the reviews i have read it reject the idea of chronicling the lives of people who they think should just shut up or go away and die. i commend you for telling your story in a way that millions of

people saw. i think that's very important. j.d. vance, congrats on the movie. sell l.a. county is shutting down restaurants and bars. because of coronavirus. here's a funny thing. their own data shows that restaurants and bars are not responsible for the spread of the virus. what is that? we will tell you. plus the governor of new york one his enemy today. a television critic reacts, when we come back. 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: los angeles is famous for its restaurants and law bars and restaurants in that area have done the very best to make coronavirus restrictions. they built it. eric went fear to control and most importantly in this case the cruelty of closing restaurants come up with the timing is here right before thanksgiving. governor newsom himself is a primquarantine because of expose and his family, and i wish him

well. but the mayor says he wants the bubble to be as little as possible. the public can't afford to be small unless you can afford it cannot really afford it, the way that his family can. i want to point out some students statistics that come out of our local foxborough tonight which is shocking. but less than 3% of those are restaurants and bars. tucker, you know what's more than 7%? l.a. government buildings, they are more than the problem. you know what the problem is, its staffing, not even customers. if you are a customer that wants to go to a restaurant in los angeles on wednesday or thursday, but you can't do it even with outdoor dining. even when it's 63 degrees in los angeles, you can't afford to eat outdoors. at its poor people we are talking about here because the few cases we've seen of covid-19 are occurring in dominoes or

that's who the valley all the food you want to eat. so on thanksgiving, restaurants and others were asked a reporter, tyler? many of them is that we were close, we will not be able to reopen. guess what we had here. we have plenty of food for thanksgiving. we have turkey. we have dressing. we have stuffing for everyone who would be here. so my message for america our study tonight as this. they are, please reconsider closing the bars and restaurants in los angeles when they are not spreading covid-19. when many people, mayor, are waiting for their turn at many of these, they will be gathering much bigger crowds and they would have potentially spreading covid-19.

that is the currency of the the spread. good news from the political world, governor andrew cuomo of new york has accepted deserved enemy. here's a montage the academy played it during the celebration. his contribution to television history. >> flatten the curve, flatten the curve this is an n95 mask. we talk about social distancing. slow the spread. including this short end of the stick from the federal from day one right across the board. let's stop. just for one moment, the partisanship. speak with the newest season of the andrew cuomo show debuted today, filling the empty spot where the friends. he appears to be listening for the food network.

the tv story governor reveals his creative take on the traditional thanksgiving dinner. speak yes, it will be along physically but we are spiritually together celebrating in a way that's even deeper. you are giving thanks and a global family, it's an thanksgiving it's part of it's better than that. deeper than that are spiritual. >> tucker: your global family. has there ever been a dumber person in public office? you should know that governor cuomo is not spending thanksgiving with his global family online or on the resume company spending it with his actual family because he's in charge. he gets to do exactly what you want. but everyone else to load his

rules they are having turkey with a heap of loneliness. the critically acclaimed governor also made it clear that if law enforcement's response a building to make certain that after nearly 400 years of tradition, that you eat thanksgiving alone. >> how a law enforcement officer says i choose not to enforce that law, i believed that law enforcement with his or survival it's his or her constitutional duty. i don't consider him a enforcement officer. >> tucker: that guy assents to a cabinet position, we have to listen to him for four more years, it will be absolutely unbearable. candace owens joins us tonight. governor cuomo says you need to spend the holiday along with your global family, apparently like randoms on facebook, but he spending with his actual family. tell me how this works. >> it's covid for the and not

for me, you have to love these democrat governors. they have no shame. in america right now it feels like everything is upside down. you have this week, rapper cardi b wins woman of the year for rapping about her and now we have a governor who oversaw the most covid deaths in his state and he wins an enemy. he gets to win the and home and emmy. i think around the corner aoc will likely pick up a pulitzer prize in economics for her, and the government should just pay us to stay at home. it feels like we are honestly playing the crazy game. it's hard to mince words here whether it's los angeles or whether it's california or new york. it's horrible stuff that we are seeing in the american people are suffering. this guy during all of this coronavirus pandemic, took the time to offer a book.

he authored a book, a grandstanding book and talked about how good of a governor he is from outside the mansion walls. from rioting, looting, he is qualified to write a how-to manual. that's all i see when i look at governor cuomo. >> tucker: you take the thing that you are guilty of, you are opposite of guilty and you are the greatest thing in the world, is this going to work? >> i don't know if it's going to work but i recommend nicolas maduro write a book and figure out how to feed the masses. maybe write a book on economics, this is crazy stuff we are seeing but the american people are getting sick of it. we saw last week the new yorkers

are starting to stand up and rioting and protesting these mass in the lockdowns. you see this taking place across california as well. the american people are fed up with the hypocrisy. gavin newsom dining with his family without a mask when restaurant owners are told they have to shut down and not enjoy thanksgiving. i don't think this will end well for him to make them because this hypocrisy is not working. >> tucker: you can push people to a point where they start to respond and then politics become radical and angry, kind of the last place we want to go. >> that's exactly right. i will say this, i know i will be hosting a big thanksgiving with my family this year, i don't need the government to give me permission to do so. this is america, this is a free country and we've given politicians far too much power this year in terms of covid-19. >> tucker: is good for you. thank you for your clarity. candace owens, good to see you tonight.

so the city council of the city of new york voted to cut the budget of the nypd, the largest and best police department in the western hemisphere by a billion dollars when they had the plainclothes police unit. city residents didn't welcome this, never wanted it. like so many cities across the country, 25 people were shot over the weekend. just last night six people were wounded and one killed at a single shooting in brooklyn. but that is not grotesque enough for you, then how about this? the sudden spike in subway passengers being pushed. last week two others were shoved onto the tracks and separate incidences in the city. bill de blasio who is completely wrecked at the largest city in the united states is not responding, sort of. he's promising to increase nypd

presence on the subway. a little late for the people who have been killed. governor cuomo is not the only one who has threatened to send our men to your home to stop you from celebrating thanksgiving with your family, others have, too. we will have that for you next. ♪

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♪ >> tucker: thanksgiving has been around for nearly 400 years in this country, just in the last century. it endured and continued despite two world wars and it global depression. but now in 12 states, it's canceled. and governor kate brown is ordering her subjects to keep their dinners to six guests or less. rick leventhal has the story in its entirety and were happy to have him tonight. >> if you see something, say something, that use to apply to terrorists among us. now in oregon it means call the cops and your neighbors if they have too many guests for thanksgiving dinner.

remember the state just decriminalize the possession of cocaine and lst is so hard drugs are essentially okay but the governor says gyms, zoos and museums are not. restaurants will also be close to indoor and outdoor dining for the next two weeks, don't even think about having more than six people at your dinner table from no more than two families, or else. >> do you want police calling to being called on your neighbors? >> if there is party down the street, what do neighbors do? they call law enforcement because it's too noisy. >> meanwhile pennsylvania shutting down one of the biggest party nights of the year, the wednesday before thanksgiving the state is banning all alcohol sales from 5:00 p.m. until eight the next morning, begging residents to stay home to mitigate any new cases of coronavirus. pennsylvania is not threatening penalties but oregon says

violators of the new restrictions including the six person dinner limit face up to 30 days in jail, at $1250 in fines or both. >> tucker: it all defies belief. rick leventhal, thank you for that report. so harvard university is richer than you may understand. harvard has an endowment, untaxed, worth $40 billion. despite having this much money, the second coronavirus hit, harvard attempted to fire most of its unskilled staff. harvard i has students paying fl tuition to lie mostly online and recently harvard attempted to get rich off of a coronavirus tax break by encouraging alumni to donate to the school.

unlike a lot of harvard graduates he's pretty honest about his alma mater. we are happy to have them on tonight. tell us what harvard is doing exactly here. >> i just received the usual alumni email and the subject was, smart giving thanks to the cares act. i thought it was going to be telling me, be sure to give a little extra to someone in need locally but it was actually tax planning advice for how i could take advantage of the cares act to make a larger gift than ever to harvard and pay less tax in the process. apparently this is something that day and a lot of other quite wealthy institutions are pushing pretty hard. >> tucker: saw the cares act was written and presented to the rest of us to help people suffering from the effects of the coronavirus lockdowns but harvard is trying to leverage us to get even richer. do they need the money? >> they definitely don't come up there endowment is above

$40 million. in fact it went up $2 billion just this year so with all of the struggling that you see going on, harvard is actually better off than ever. as you mentioned, they are still collecting full tuition from all of their students even though they are not offering a full education. now on top of that they are hoping to vacuum up a little bit more, even as in their own operations frankly, they haven't made a point of attending to those in their own community who are in need. >> tucker: grade is a word that's fallen out of use, but this is greedy. >> it's always interesting to see them raise money for these institutions that have more than what they know what to do with. there's an argument that we want our university to be teaching and investing in research,

that's how we get the coronavirus vaccine. at the problem of course is that's not where most of the money in these universities are going. and at a lot of places that aren't as much. i went to the alumni web page, and the antiracism guy, a latina x gathering, and if you want to do those things with your own money that's fine but i'm not sure we are giving people tax breaks to donate even more to that when they have already gotten $40 million to spend on it if they want. >> tucker: to teach some of the smartest kids in the country to hate the nation that made all of this possible. i'm wondering how long this kind

of poison machine can continue, do you think? >> i don't know. if it was that the first thing you heard everyone talking about what it looked like joe biden had won the election was, how much student loans can he forgive, how quickly can he give forgive $50,000 of student loans? and i thought why not mortgages if we are just waving people's data way. the reality is a lot of people in power have this weird idea of higher education is kind of a noble pursuit. when you look at what they are actually doing their the same interest as any other end doing a particular amount of damage to our nation and a tremendous amount of harm to prospective young people who might be better off on different pathways than spending money on degrees that don't pay off in the long run.

>> tucker: that's exactly right. but they have one of the most powerful lobbies in washington. thank you for saying so. for this one night only we are bringing back the friend zone, that's a portion of this show where we meet an old friend from fox news. we are happy to have pete hegseth joining us tonight. ♪

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>> tucker: tonight, we are resurrecting the friend zone where we invite one of our friends on the show. he's from fox & friends weekend. author of the new book "modern warriors. happy to have him on tonight. great to see you. who are these modern warriors? speaker you know, on your show every night, tucker, you do such a great job of exposing the misplaced priorities, the anti-american priorities of the so-called elite. the 1%. this book is about the real 1% of america, the men and women who put on the uniform and answer freedom's call and are not afraid to do the dirt. their story deserves to be told. the things we celebrate and honor are a reflection of what we value. we honor so many vapid actors and things that don't matter. this is meant to put the spotlight squarely on the men who have done the dirty work and

the heavy lifting for freedom. and so, often times on shows we get 3 minutes to talk to someone and i will talk to a medal of honor and know it's a great story but you just scratch the surface. my show gets these guys in a room, have a couple of beers. let's have the no b.s. criticall.bomb technicians, sni. what's it like to be in the heat of combat? what are your fears? how do you manage pain? how do you transition the sacrifice in a comfortable place where we know all we want to do is celebrate what you have done. the book tries to channel that and we just don't hear enough of the stories. a lot of vets don't want to talk to the media and share their stories. this is meant to celebrate all those who have done deployment, after deployment, after deployment, regardless of what the cost is. >> tucker: you must have met some very cool people in writing

this book. >> unbelievable. i believe will. the most difficult part was honing in on 15 stories to tell with all of them that you could. the snipers and bomb texts, the guys who walk the ground, they don't know one day or another wl live or die, but they do it bece they love their brother and they love our country. it was a humbling experience. and you meet them all and you meet the human side of them. these are average folks from towns we grew up in. they have had extraordinary training and went and did extraordinarilextraordinary thit of battle. it's not an easy task. they don't necessarily come home. because i'm not a reporter out to get them, i think they were honest with me in a way that they may not always be about some of the challenges they face and why they do what they do. >> tucker: i believe that. these are really unusual people. some great people. thank you. pete, it's terrific to see you tonight. >> tucker, you're the man.

>> thank you. that's it for us this evening. we'll be back tomorrow night, every night 8:00 p.m. the shell that is the sworn enemy of lying and groupthink. one of our favorites. he came on the show to complain about the coronavirus pier will tell you what happened next. he is here now. trey gowen sitting in for sean. >> tucker, thank you. welcome to the special edition of "hannity." i'm trey gowdy in tonight for sean. with thanksgiving just days away, democrats across the country stand ready and able to tell you exactly what you can and cannot do even if they are unwilling to follow their own rules. and nothing is off-limits. pennsylvanian's secretary just announced a ban on alcohol sales beginning this wednesday at 5:00 p.m. the state's governor imposedn