recipients, and thank you to our presenters and serve program our sponsor. good night, and god bless. [applause]nt ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to a special, a genuinely special edition of "tucker carlson tonight." thanksgiving, hope you're having a wonderful time with your family. nothing is more important or happier than spending time with the people you love. we haven't had a lot of chances to do that this year. we been pulled apart. many americans are alone tonight, more than any time in our history. a lot has changed in this country, but a lot remains the same, and we should be thankful for that. in a year when cultural vandals and tragically unhappy graduate student set out to destroy virtually everything in sight, from statues of the saints to the very idea of columbus day,

they haven't gotten thanksgiving yet. it remains. and there is a reason for that. americans care about thanksgiving, and i have for a very long time. back in 1935, franklin roosevelt move the holiday a week earlier, he said it was an effort to boost the economy during the great depression, but it seemed to many americans, weird and undignified, and they mocked him for it. they called thanksgiving "franks-giving." congress heard what they were saying it eventually moved thanksgiving back where it belongs and where it is now. we have been celebrating thanksgiving on the fourth thursday of november ever since then. in a time of political upheaval -- and this certainly is one -- you will notice no politician tried to move thanksgiving or call it juneteenth, we should be grateful for that, it is an enduring american tradition. at the same time, though, we have to tell you the obvious. we are witnessing fundamental changes in the way this country works. changes that congress won't be able to undo simply by voting. it is not just because the coronavirus came here from

wuhan, china, and upended everything, although it did. it is because our political class has deliberately decided to use this pandemic as a way to gain political power for themselves. we are not speculating about that. it's not a conspiracy theory. they have said so, out loud, over and over and over again. >> we should not be intimidated when people say, "oh, you can use this covert crisis, a catalyst for a solution to climate change." we have to recognize the necessity of this moment. >> if there's any silver lining in the midst of this terrible, terrible, and unprecedented moment in american history in terms of the economy, in terms of the pandemic, it is that maybe we thought rethinking fundamental tenets of how our society works. >> the old saying goes, never let a crisis go to waste. >> tucker: this would be a terrible crisis to waste, says hillary clinton. if you wonder why biden kept hillary clinton on the campaign

trail this fall, that is why. she doesn't care anymore, so she can say what everyone else in the democratic party knows but is not dumb enough to say out loud. as long as public health meerkats are throwing around oxymoronic doublespeak like "social distancing" and "flatten the curve," politicians have a cover they need to empower themselves and their friends. that's exactly what they have been doing. it's wound up in the form of tyranny. some of the tierney has been petty. it's hard to forget, for example, in nassau county executive told residents don't even think of touching another person's tennis balls on the court. >> singles only, no doubles, only every other court, you have to have a court between players, between sets of people playing. every player, unless they are from the same household, has to bring their own tennis balls. so that you don't touch other people's tennis balls. >> tucker: "you do not touch

other people's tennis balls." the famous tennis balls conference, your grandkids will watch that kind of thing and laugh. this has happened all over the country for months, it became a kind of arms race for the and -- and once the meal moment, and there were many, an illinois governor explained to reporters that henceforth, only two people would be allowed on a boat in his state, no exception. >> it is restricted to two people per boat. it is not, you can't have five people or ten people i in a boa. >> if it is a family of four or five, husband, wife, and kids, they are going to have to take two them at a time? >> they would. >> tucker: only two people in a boat, and no tennis balls! kind of hilarious. obviously, it is authoritarian. but a lot less threatening than some forms of authoritarianism because it is out in the open. we can laugh at it. much has been happening quietly, and you are not supposed to notice as it does. and joe biden, for example, named ron klain to be his chief

of staff, the media played it totally straight, he was picked because he is one of ida's most trusted campaign advisors. who writes this crap? they went through his whole résume, from birth to present, but they left something out, and they did it on purpose. ron klain was appointed in 2016 to the executive council, something called technet. do you know that is? oh, you don't, then you don't work in silicon valley. if you did, you would know that technet is the trade group that represents big tech in washington, they are lobbyists, now they have their man in the white house. that seems like a story. but the corporate media did not report it. they didn't want you to know, so they didn't say anything. they also didn't mention that according to emails uncovered by wikileaks in 2015, ron klain wrote this, "it's been a little hard for me to play such a role in the biden demise, and i am definitely dead to them, but i'm glad to be on team hillary, and i'm glad she had a great debate last night."

wait a minute. wortley just told by cnn and the other reporters that joe biden y because they are very close, old friends? why is this old friend writing keep played a role in biden's "demise" and he is not "dead to them?" why do joe biden really pick ron klain? that's a real question. if we had a functioning media in this country, we might know the answer. but if there is one bright spot to joe biden's candidacy, it's that he sometimes can't help himself. he says the quiet part out loud, and you can hear it. that happened back in may when he issued a request to silicon valley. sensor the president of the united states and people who agree with him, and do it now. >> this president spends a lot of time, especially this past weekend, tweeting some pretty outlandish comments, retreating others. >> yeah. >> should twitter do something and take action? >> i think they should come i think they should say when things are patently not true,

they should say so. >> tucker: we know what happened after that, twitter started slapping warning labels on the president's tweets almost immediately after joe biden called for it. weird. almost like it was coordinated. just a month later, in june, the president dared to want rioters and anarchists that they cannot set up a lawless commune on the streets of the nation's capital. he tweeted this, "there will never be an autonomous zone in washington, d.c., as long as i am your president. if they try it, they will be met with serious force." twitter then did what joe biden ordered, they hid that post from you. they said it was "abusive" to defend the capital city of the united states from occupation by people claiming they are another country. that's abusive. so, silicon valley did everything it could to help joe biden become president, making sure that voters saw what he wanted them to see, and nothing else. in return, joe biden is looking out for silicon valley. it's an arrangement of four years in the making, and it is about to pay dividends for some

of the richest people in the world. in the near term, the implications for our democracy are very clear. section 230 reform is not going to happen. the multibillion dollar companies enjoyed legal immunity as "content platforms" can continue to pretend they aren't publishing anything. if only we had that freedom here at fox news. it doesn't matter if they continue to write bogus fact checks and sensor posts, sensor and tire newspapers, as they did this year. donald trump was standing in their way, joe biden will not stand in their way. just the opposite. that is a problem that can't be solved easily. you can move to power, we have, by the way, and we are happy about it, but it doesn't solve the whole problem. i cannot be solved by deleting twitter and facebook from your phone. those sites aren't simply hostile to anyone outside the academic left, they are also meeting places for the thugs who plan punishment for their political enemies. that is happening now, it could get worse.

earlier this month, for example, former pete buttigieg staffer set up something called the trump accountability project, that's an effort to make trump administration officials unemployable in this country. we've never seen anything like that in this country before. of course, cnn anchors and celebrated it. sandy cortez celebrated it come too, she is a sitting member of congress. "is anyone trying to track these trump sycophants for the future" this isn't anything new commencement happening for a while, but it has been happening for a while. jen rubin announced trump's advisor should never be welcome in polite company. >> what we should be doing is shunning these people. shunning, shaming these people as a statement of moral indignation, that these people are not fit for polite society. i think it is absolutely abhorrent that any institution of higher learning, any news

organization, or any entertainment organization that has a news outlet, would hire these people. it is not only that trump has to lose, all his enablers have to lose. we have to collectively, in essence, burned down the republican party. >> tucker: burn it down! says jen rubin. do a study, has anyone ever been won over by that person? as anybody watched that person on television and said "whatever she is and to come i want to be into it?" probably not. when she says we need to bring on the party, of course, we need to burn on the country. anyone else who disagrees with her. that hasn't happened yet, despite what has happened this year, and it has been a very long year for a lot of people, we can be grateful for that. it is still america. victor davis hanson is a senior fellow at the huber institute and we're happy to have them on and tonight. good to see you, professor. what should be thankful for this thanksgiving? >> well, we have a great country, and we have a great constitution, so far, the left hasn't been able to alter that fact.

i think what you are referring to is sometime in the 21st century, we had this perfect storms of globalized capital pouring into our two coast, 50 million people that were not born in the united states residing here, many of them under the idea of the melting pot is through and thibsalad bowl or identity polis arrived. pinnacles of social media, facebook, twitter, put that all together and we created this bicoastal elite, talker, and they have this agenda, the new green deal, medicare for everybody, open borders, trans-nationalism, transgender-ism, and nobody likes it. and we know that nobody likes it because when they are running in georgia, they don't run on it, they run as "i made good old boy from georgia" if you are a left-winger, and then when they won the house in 2018, they did by saying "we are chamber of commerce candidates, moderate democrats." joe biden stayed in his

basement, not because he was uncomfortable, but because he was afraid they would catch him on fracking or something, so the people still are in the majority, and they don't like this, and the problem we are seeing is so far, they've been treated to a monastery of the mind, and by that i mean academy awards, turn it off. emmys, haven't watched in years. nfl, nba, pollsters, never talk to. they are sort of retreating into their own isolated, but they are coming out of that, and they get angry enough, as we saw on the house races, they start to be heard. what i'm kind of worried about is usually when we have these cultural political differences, they transcend geography, the roosevelt coalition of new england and the old south, or the dewey republicans of the '50s with eisenhower, the mid atlantic states, the farm states. what we have right now is a geographical difference. we have two coast and a red

interior. people are self-selecting, and they are not having any commonality. when you play jennifer rubin, she has no idea what people think of what she just said and what that people think of what she just set our 51-55% of the people, so we are creating two different nations, not just ideologically and culturally, but geographically, and we know how that went in 1860, so it is something to watch out for. the people haven't spoken out yet. we get little tremors, but the earthquake hasn't come, and if they keep pushing it, i'm really afraid that things are not going to be good. >> tucker: i -- i fear that come too. but in the meantime, it is thanksgiving, and we do have much to be thankful for, as you just said. victor davis hanson, thank you so much. >> we do. >> tucker: amen. >> thank you. >> tucker: so, a year ago, it was hard to tell what was going to happen in the election. looked like donald trump was going to have a pretty easy path. that has changed. so, what happened? and what can republicans learn from what happened? that's next.

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♪ >> tucker: by now, you've probably seen all of the exit polls and vote or analysis you want to see, ready for the rest of your life, but it is still worth knowing what happened on november 3rd, and if you want to know, it's important to take a step back and remember what was happening in america a few

months ago. at the time, many of us didn't want to think about it, but back in june, donald trump began chasing a very real -- and to some unexpected -- possibility he could lose. how did that happen? it's worth knowing. by the time, we explained why we thought the republican party's chances were diminishing and what all of us could learn from it going forward. here is what we said, at the time. >> not many people are saying it out loud, on the right, but the fact is that president trump could well lose this election. in fact, unless fundamental facts change soon, it could be tough for him to be reelected. the president does lose, that would mean that just a few months from now, joe biden would become the president. the united states government would fall under control of the radicals, who control joe biden, and they will remake the country. now, we are fully of air that virtually nobody watching the show tonight wants to hear that, but it's true, and key people around the president no. they have seen the numbers, they

are concerned. at some point in the future, historians will marvel at the fact that the president lost ground during a pandemic, endurin, andduring mass riots. alone among national leaders, donald trump warned china and the perils of globalization. everything about the wuhan coronavirus proved donald trump right. china really is our main global adversary. the chinese government really does want to take over the world. meanwhile, the fact we sent our manufacturing base abroad really has weakened us. badly. the most powerful nation on earth no matte longer makes antibiotics. maybe we are not as powerful as we think. all of that is now very obvious after the pandemic, but donald trump called it. you would think voters would reward him for that. you would think the riots would have increased their support for him. an awful lot of people voted for donald trump precisely to avoid a moment like the one we are now in. none of this arrive suddenly.

we saw it coming. social cohesion in america has been eroding for decades. people sense that. it made them nervous. it should make them nervous. donald trump seem like insurance against the consequences of that. the court appeal of trump was if things ever started to fall apart, he would defend you. yes, he was loud and crude, most bodyguards are. only a man like donald trump was tough enough to fight the creeping authoritarianism of the education cartel and corporate america. if trump got elected, you could say what you really believed. the basic promise of america could be restored. you could live with dignity. under donald trump, you wouldn't be forced to mount the lyrics to some repulsive little orthodoxy you hate, you could declare out loud that all lives matter, because our lives do matter. god made us all. and if you can't say that, what's the point of having here? donald trump never quite articulated any of this in a precise way. he is not an intellectual or an ideologue. it was obvious he felt that strongly.

trumps gut level in incidents were on order and stability, they still are, yet when widespread looting and disorder arrived, the president did not act, he said little, did last. some voters felt undefended, others turned against him. why did this happen? well, there are many reasons. trump was exhausted, for one thing, after three years of defending himself against russia gate, the most elaborate and effective hoax in american history. his staff did not do very much to help. some of them were actively disloyal, most were just confused. they definitely were not prepared for chinese viruses or burning cities. we had ministrations main problems were conceptual. few seemed to understand what was really happening. their first mistake was forgetting the primary rule of washington. in an election year, everything that happens is about the election. there are no exceptions to that rule. washington is a political city. it is run by politicians. if the chinese navy sailed up the potomac in the fall of an

election year, the first thing most people in d.c. would wonder is, "how is that going to affect turnout?" that is who they are. it's how they think. only the naive were surprised when democratic governors immediately used the coronavirus quarantines to punish people who didn't vote for them. christian churches and small businesses were locked down. weed shops and abortion clinics stayed open. most trump voters seems not to notice, they accepted the restrictions without question. this was a health crisis, and they wanted to do the right thing. so they obeyed, they cowered in their homes, and that is exactly where democratic leaders wanted them. cut off from one another, alone. the few conservatives who tried to organize resistance to lockdowns were indicted or threatened with arrest. none of this had to do with public health, of course, it was electoral politics, and especially brutal form of it. republican leaders, meanwhile, were markedly slow to catch on to what was happening. some of them aren't very bright, but most just couldn't imagine anyone acting with that level of

cynicism and ruthlessness. there good faith made them vulnerable to their opponent lies. they were used. in the days after george floyd died, and these same trends accelerated dramatically. it all happened so fast that it seemed like chaos at the time, but it wasn't chaos. it was designed just beneath the surface. consider the targets the mop joe's, law enforcement, obviously, but not all law enforcement. local police departments must be eliminated, they said, but the fbi is just fine, and that was telling. then they claimed capitalism was the enemy, but only certain kinds of capitalism. the mob burned independent businesses to the ground by the score, but did not say a word about the digital competitors, google, apple, amazon. all of those companies were funding the destruction. then the mob told us that traditional christianity was racist, desecrated churches in the name of avenging slavery.

yet, they did not touch a single mosque, despite the fact that historians say mohammed owned slaves. is all of this progressed, democrats continued lecturing about gun control, as they always do, but they ignored the rifles of their own supporters in downtown seattle. the real threat they told us was rural americans with their ar-15s. "better get the fbi on that." "arrest more farmers!" in other words, would look like protests were in fact highly effective attacks on donald trump's power base. few in washington clearly appreciated this, at least on the right. if they had, they would have told the country what was really happening. this is not about george floyd, it's not about police brutality, it's a power grab by violent extremists. but they didn't understand that. weeks into the rioting, social media accounts of the white house were still producing ham-handed posts about juneteenth. no one was convinced by them, no one was reassured. instead, many voters were becoming increasingly agitated

by the lawlessness they saw around them. "who is good to protect us from this," they wondered? it is not a local problem. this is a national crisis. the riots are designed to produce a national result, the destruction of our system of government and the removal of donald trump. people expect a resident to respond to a moment like this and fix it, they have a right to expect that. the president runs the country. at the with saudi national, it would be very clear there was nothing local about what we were watching. we would understand immediately, the president would give a prime time address, the feds would be hunting them down and arresting them. if the rioters -- they would be in prison facing life. why is in the justice department respond in like this? that's not clear. some blame the white house counsel's office, dang it is populated by bush pardons since. we do not know if it is true, there is an easy solution:

ignore their counsel, send the to be basement with a card catalog and "reader's digest" from the 70s. if they were wise, they wouldn't be lawyers. career doj and prosecutors dragging their feet. attorney general bill barr says he is overseeing 500 separate investigations into rioters. good for him. presumably one of them is the destruction of the albert pike statue in washington that took place last friday, on live television. so far, no one has been arrested for it. it would change the course of this country's future if the justice department rounded up the leaders of antifa tomorrow, along with every single person caught on camera torching a building, destroying a monument, defacing a church, and put them all in shackles. and frog marched them in front of cameras like ms-13 and call them what they actually are: domestic terrorists. not protesters, not civil rights

activist, not cnn contributors, but domestic terrorists. that would be their new government approved title. once they are charged, it is official, in fact, they are literally, as a factual matter, accused terrorists, and that would change minds right away. the people destroying this country are criminals. if you are brave enough to call them down, so naturally, their popularity grows. everyone supports protesters. this is america. we believe in protests. but watch what happens when you start calling them what they really are. most people don't like terrorists. terrorists will never be popular, even among democratic voters. so charge them for the crimes they've committed and call them what they are. right now, the opposite is happening. the terrorists are more popular than the president of the united states, and not just more popular than donald trump, personally, but more popular than the system he represents and administers. and it's obvious why. our system is weak. it refuses to defend itself.

mayors like new countries spout in the middle of their cities. all leaders act like laws are irrelevant. everyone watches this happen. it is a potentially fatal problem. weak institutions of dye, citizens develop contempt for them, and then they get overthrown, the same is true, by the way, for heads of state, you refuse to fight for the system, you are done. spent an hour on google and see if you find a single leader in the history of the world who stayed in power after failing to quell a rebellion. you can't. the saddest part of all of this is the system is very much worth saving. it administers justice more fairly than any system in the world. we want to keep that system, we have to use that system, and that means enforcing america's loss with certainty. enforcing them right now come at the moment of greatest peril. if we don't do it now, we never will do it. ignore a law long enough, and it becomes unenforceable. you would be shocked if you got pulled over for doing 58 in a

55-mile-an-hour zone, obviously. antifa's leaders would be shocked if they were arrested for destroying a statue of abraham lincoln. just a month ago, destroying statues with a felony. now, it is allowed. will we allow a month from now? what will be allow by november? things change fast, and that includes social standards, they change quickly, so also. a few weeks ago, defunding the fleece sounded like a crackpot idea. now it is happening. millions of americans support it. many republican officeholders haven't bought very deeply about why this is. even now, you will see them green at the latest insanity from the left. "can you believe this? they've gone too far this time," they'll say. "there is meant to be a backlash!" really? when will that backlash arrive? because the opposite seems to be happening. what seemed awful the other day is normal now. it turns out that if you don't bother to explain precisely why certain ideas are bad, if you don't vigorously defend your own

worldview, then you lose. bad ideas spread. they quickly congeal into conventional wisdom, and then you are done. this is especially true right now, when everything in american life is up for grabs. the lockdowns shuffle the deck completely. four months ago, you assume you were going to spend the next 20 years going to an office somewhere. now you are working from your couch, started to consider may be moving to bozeman, and why wouldn't you? and while we're at it, what else should we do differently? normal people are starting to think like this. wants big things start changing, they tend to change more quickly than we expect. all of this means this is precisely the time -- right now, tonight, to defend the institutions that we desperately need to keep in this country. those institutions include the nuclear family, our freedom of speech, small, independent businesses, absolute colorblindness under the law, the noble tradition of nonviolent protest. those are the things that make us proud to be americans. those are the things that make

america a place worth living in. we need to defend these things with everything we have, all of us must defend them, including the president. that is his hope of reelection. for the rest of us, it's our only hope as a country. >> tucker: well, defending the country means also planning for the next major pandemic. it's going to happen in a globalized world. that is inevitable. when it does, people are not going to cower in their homes on thanksgiving day for years, that is not a solution. so have we made any progress on useful policies? things like controlling our border and our ability to manufacture vital drugs over the past eight months? will tell you next. ♪

♪ >> live from america's news headquarters, i'm ashley strohmier. president trump and president-elect joe biden both

staying close to home this thanksgiving amid another surge in coronavirus cases. biden celebrated the holiday in a delaware seaside town with his wife, daughter, and her husband. often celebrates at mar-a-lago come in the d.c. area, played golf in the morning and spoke to the military via video. italian authorities are considering so-called covid-tested lights. if this is approved, passengers who test negative for coronavirus 48 hours before departure and again on arrival would not have to quarantine. i'm ashley strohmier. now back to "tucker carlson tonight." ♪ >> tucker: well, back in march, the government told us about a plan called 15 days to slow the spread. 15 days became eight months to show slow the spread, and we are still counting. in many states, as of tonight,

governors are telling you not to celebrate thanksgiving with your family. so the one obvious answer we can draw from this as we never want to go through it again. this is a disaster. how do we prevent it? that is a question as relevant now as it was back in march when we made our best effort to answer it. here's what we said at the time. >> anyone who thinks this is the last global pandemic america will face lacks sufficient imagination. there is no question this will happen again. in a world connected by jet travel, that is guaranteed. as we suffer through this virus, maybe we should learn something useful for the next time. going forward, our leaders ought to be certain we have enough medicine and tests and hospital beds, at the least, in case something awful happens unexpectedly, because it will. there should be a plan to respond quickly, in ways that ensure the public the people in charge and what they are doing. those of the obvious lessons from the epidemic now in progress, but there is more to learn. here are a few other things to think about. first, borders matter.

it turns out that immigration isn't something boutique political issue that on the activist need to tear about. the question of who lives in your country is the most basic issue than any nation faces, ever. immediately after the coronavirus began to spread globally, same country started to secure their borders. they wanted to know exactly who was coming in and out and wanted to control it. that was the first thing they did. in israel, where leaders care deeply about their country, border controls were swift and highly aggressive. the israelis did not want a single person who was even potentially infected to cross into israel, and good for them. unfortunately, nothing like that could ever happen here in the u.s. democrats would denounce it instantly as racist and xenophobic! maybe nancy pelosi will give us a stern lecture about how immoral israel is. be waiting for that speech, probably forever. next, gun control takes on new significant when things fall apart. doesn't take much for law and order to collapse. civilization itself can evaporate quickly, and over the centuries, it often has. on some level, all of us know

this. we are animals with a collective memory of prior chaos embedded in our genes. at times like this, we are reminded how precarious any society is. given that, you've got to wonder about our leaders demands that we disarm. anyone who increases the threat to you and your family, and at the same time tries to prevent you from defending yourself, is your enemy. by definition. it's scary, when you think about that in the context of what is happening now, and apparently a lot of people have thought about it. ammunition sales jumped by hundreds of percents this week. if americans really believe their leaders would protect them when it came down to it, that wouldn't be happening. speaking of our leaders, who is really in charge of this country? we think we know the answer, the people on the ballot at election time. if you want to know who is actually in control of anything, ask yourself: who can make you beg for mercy? if one of your kids had a bad infection, you would do anything for antibiotics. but our leaders don't control

those drugs. china does. the chinese manufacture our entire supply of antibiotics, not to mention countless other good your family literally could not live without. the worse news, the chinese hate us and have threatened to withhold life-saving medicine from us. our most powerful enemy in the world has the power of life and death over our country. we should not let a single day pass before fixing this. we should also recognize that not all of our opponents are foreign. in the next few months, american hospitals are likely to overthrow the desperately ill. it's possible many who need immediately care will be turned away to suffer and die, that is a horrifying prospect. so, does this seem like the right time to open our entire health care system to the rest of the world for free? what would happen to sick people in america if we did that? it sounds like a form of sabotage. yet that's exactly what every democrat who ran for president proposed in public. even now, as we face an unprecedented strain on our health care system thanks to coronavirus, they have not

change their view on that. what are they thinking? well, they are not thinking. they are believing. believing fervently in the cult of identity politics. joe biden released his plan for coronavirus today. the first bullet point for claims this, "acts of racism and xenophobia against the asian and pacific islander community must not be tolerated." that is number one on biden's list. is racism against the "pacific islander community" really our country's most urgent problem right now? no, it is not. it is not even in the top 500 problems. you are not going to the angry mobs lynching people in the streets because of coronavirus. you never will see that. it won't happen here. this is not that kind of country. america is a welcoming place filled with unusually kind and open hearted people. the merchants of bulkness cannot see that. they refused to see it. as a matter of faith, they believe all bad things emanate from america and will always put america last, it is their creed.

biden's plan goes on to demand that we change the trump administration s so-called publc charge rule, which would allow more immigrants to move into this country at taxpayer expense in use our health care system, in the middle of a terrible epidemic. how does that help? it doesn't help, it hurts, that is the point of it. people like this are dangerous. they are the reason things are falling apart. suddenly, they seem to run everything, but they are not in the majority in this country, and we should remember that. most americans are not cult members, they are not ideological, they are sensible. they understand what our leaders need to do. they need to treat us as we would treat our own children. if there is a threat to your kids, you do not pause to think of an excuse or pretend it is not happening. you act. you do whatever is necessary to protect them, period. if you die trying, it is a life well spent. if you're forced to choose between your own children and the kids next door, you understand that is not really a choice. you have only one duty: to the lives in your care, your people,

the ones who depend on you. in the end, that is what it means to lead a family. it means no less than to lead a country. >> tucker: well, there are many more lessons that all of us have learned since this spring, things we could not have imagined when we first aired that segment. alex berenson is here to discuss where we go next. we'll be right back. ♪

♪ >> tucker: well, if you're celebrating thanksgiving tonight with other living human beings, you're a crazy person. we assume your other hobbies or free solo rock climbing, skydiving without a parachute. you're into risks. in fact, you are a lawbreaker that needs to be disciplined. that is what political leaders are telling us. that is where we are in this country right now. how did we get here? and how are we ever going to get back what we thought was normal? alex berenson has thought more about this than any person in the united states. he is the author of "unreported truths about covid-19 and lockdowns," and we are happy to have them on tonight. alex, good to see you. that is the question -- we talk a lot about this, you are a main

source of scientific data on this pandemic, but i have never asked you: how do we get back to normal? how do we? >> how do we -- that is a great question. i want to respond to one point that you made a bit earlier about, you know, what we knew in march and what we didn't know, because it got me thinking. can we please have an independent investigation, a truly independent international investigation into the origin of sars-cov-2. we are almost a year in and we have no plausible animal host, and we have guesses, but no one ever found the animal host, no one has found a closely related animal virus for the original sars, already had found those things by this point. it is time to find out where this really came from. by the way, that is not necessarily to punish the chinese, but there has been an argument about what is called gain of function research for viruses, essentially trying to make viruses more dangerous, been going on for 15 years, we are better than we've ever been

at being able to manipulate these viruses, and we do decide, not just in the united states, because china has the ability to do this, european countries have the ability to do this, whether or not we are going to it permit this as a world. because this virus is very close to really really, really having destructible and terrible effects. if it were a little bit more dangerous, you know, if it killed even ten times or five times the number of people it's likely to kill, i can't imagine what we'd be like as a society, much less if it were a lot more dangerous, so let's figure out where this came from and let's make some reasonable decisions about whether we are going to allowed gain of function research going forward, worldwide. okay? once his accident, twice is a coincidence, three times as enemy action. >> tucker: that's such a good point and i'm glad you raised that, we need to know. give us the briefest somatic outline of what we ought to do next to get back to normal. >> what should we do next to get

back to normal? first of all, we have this vaccine coming. it would be really, really nice if we had more safety data on it before we pushed it out. that's not going to happen, but let's make smart decisions about who we are going to prioritize. and that really obviously should be the elderly and the very sick, but really the elderly because the risk is so age-stratified, the risk associated fried by each year. i think if we just encourage people over 70, 65, 70, to get the vaccine, it probably won't be that hard, we will be a long way toward getting back to normal. that is assuming the vaccine is as safe as it seems to be, based on the data we have now. >> tucker: so, older people get the vaccine, start there. that seems really wise to me. and i hope you will come back so we can have a much longer conversation about the origin of the virus, think that really matters. we need transparency. >> amen. thanks, tucker. >> tucker: well, 2020 was the year democratic voters decided to tear down all the statues.

did not matter with the statues was. it could have been a statue of teddy roosevelt, one of greatest americans in history, or a spanish missionary. all politician sat back and allow that to happen. why did they? that's next. ♪

>> tucker: anything older than last wednesday and this country is under attack, thanksgiving itself is being erased. we saw that over the summer when blm and unemployed grad students did their best to take down statues no matter who it portrayed, including monuments to former presidents, even the spanish missionary and saint. this shows taking a look at why this is happening and how it will get worse if politicians refuse to protect the nation. city officials announced a plan to remove a statue of teddy roosevelt. the bronze statue has stood in the theodore roosevelt rotunda facing central park since before

the second world war. soon, it will be gone. the people who erected that statue 80 years ago would be confused by this, no doubt. they did not consider teddy roosevelt a controversial finger. in fact, roosevelt was the most popular president in american history. personally, roosevelt was a famously decent man, he invited his friend booker t. washington to dinner, no african-american had never eat it in the white house, democrats roared with rage at the idea, for the crime of having a meal with a black man,d teddy roosevelt and his wife for the rest of their lives. roosevelt never filed, he gave the finger to the mob, and continue cheerfully on. teddy roosevelt was a hero to millions of americans. he still is. that is precisely why they are tearing down the statue. they know that if they can force you to watch as they topple your heroes, they have won. there is nothing they can't do next. they can decide how you raise your children, how you vote, what you are allowed to believe. once they have humiliated you, they can control you, and that is why across the country, mobs

are tearing down america's monuments. in the cities of richmond and st. paul, minnesota, they have torn down statues of christopher columbus. they did the same thing in boston. boston mayors now says it is time to tear down a statue of abraham lincoln, the man who freed the slaves. in dallas, they put on a texas ranger statue in the airport after more than 50 years. in michigan, toppled a statue of the former mayor, and did the same thing in philadelphia. nashville, a former u.s. senator. 's name in alvin oregon, thomas jefferson and george washington were torn down. in san francisco, they demolished statues. a pedestal of the key monument, they spray-painted "kill the colonizers" and "kill whiteys." just in case you missed the point. one of the things of the things theseamericans haf pulling down her statues had to do with the civil war, at least not the first civil war, the one

that took place 150 years ago. democrats understand that very well and support all of it. in every place where the mob has monuments, democrats have backed them as they did it. at the same time, and you should know this, so have many republicans. elected republicans are in no hurry to stop the disorder. they appear to believe what we are seeing is a version of the rodney king riots. they upset, but they'll calm down soon. we can get back to capital gains taxes. they are wrong. this is not a momentary civil disturbance. this is a serious and highly organized political movement. it is not superficial. it is deep and profound. it has vast ambitions. even now, so many continue to pretend it is about police brutality and the death of a man called george floyd in minneapolis. we still imagine we can fix it by regulating choke hold or

de-escalation training. we are too good-hearted to understand what is really happening. our decency is the mob's main weapon against us. we have no idea what we're up against. just this afternoon around lunchtime, an activist called shawn king issued the following demand on twitter: "all murals and stained glass windows of white jesus should all come down. they are gross form of white supremacy created as tools of oppression, racist propaganda. they should all come down." before you dismiss that idea as absurd, the rantings of some crank on social media, keep in mind that shawn king is the most famous black lives matter leader in this country. black lives matter is now more popular than either major political party. so don't be surprised when they come for your church. why wouldn't they. no one is stopping them. that is it for us tonight, we will see you, 8:00 p.m. eastern,

every night. happy thanksgiving to you, and whatever you do, give thanks. you have a lot to be thankful for. we will see you tomorrow. ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to this special edition of "hannity," and happy thanksgiving. tonight for the hour, we will bring you some of our biggest moments and most important monologues from the past couple of months. first up, democrats, the mob, the media attacking president trump from day one, but now those same trump haters, they have done a 180 and are now pushing for unity. okay. here is my monologue exposing that hypocrisy. i want to start with this tonight, and i want to start by saying this: because this is important. the double standard that we are watching with the mob and the media is beyond disgusting,