♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the coronavirus vaccine is finally here. it's arriving in small bottles, but with a glitzy entrance. it has been accompanied by the kind of corporate image campaign you typically associate with higher end products. like the new iphone, that is what it is like. suddenly the covid vaccine is on the morning shows, touted on celebrity twitter accounts, and the news about it is uniformly glowing. this stuff is just great. a lot of famous people say so. just the other day, the guy who played gandalf in the "lord of the rings" series got the vaccine.

as on any media tour, the paparazzi were there for the dramatic moment when they stuck the needle in his arm. he is a very special day, the gandalf actor told reuters. i feel euphoric. i would have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone. i feel very lucky to have had the vaccination. in other words, tastes great, less filling, he is indeed a very lucky man. he will feel lucky when you finally get the vaccine, that is what a health care worker in juneau, alaska, feels, lucky. she got the vaccine two days ago. no history of allergies, but within minutes, she developed a severe anaphylactic reaction to it, and had trouble breathing and wound up in the emergency room overnight. it was all a fantastic experience, who treated her. during the whole time, she was enthusiastic she got the vaccine, and the benefits it would give her in the future. what a cheerful patient, she must be. we've got to assume she is, in any case, because we can't really know. the authorities did not release her name. all we know is she is a highly satisfied customer. yet another. have a vaccine and a smile. just do it.

so, how are the rest of us supposed to respond to a marketing campaign like this? well, nervously. even if you are strongly supportive of vaccines, and we are, even if you recognize how many millions of lives have been saved over the past 50 years by vaccine, and we do, it all seems a bit much, it feels false, because it is, it's too slick. the gandalf guy was euphoric because he got a shot? it wasn't heroin, it was the corona vaccine. the lady who couldn't breathe is enthusiastic as she was rushed to the emergency room? come on. this is patronizing. stop with the slogans. better to treat americans like adults, explain the benefits, be honest about the risks, and let the rest of us decide. in this country, we control our own bodies. they are always telling us that. but no. suddenly, the rules have changed. on the question of the corona vaccine, our leaders definitely not pro-choice. their view is do as you are told and don't complain. no uncomfortable questions.

those are not just suggestions, they are rules and silicon valley claims to enforce them. twitter announced a new policy to censor any unauthorized inquiries about the vaccine. or the company put it, false or misleading narratives about covid-19 vaccinations. among other things, twitter is censoring any claim that this vaccine might be used to "control populations." so whatever you do, don't say this is social control, because if you do, the richest and most powerful people in the world will act in perfect coordination to shut down immediately. so to repeat, there is no social control going on here. none. and if you suggest otherwise, twitter's social controls will censor you. not just twitters. facebook has now decided it must "build demand" for vaccination in communities worldwide by sharing "reassuring information" about getting the vaccine. so mark zuckerberg was a tech tycoon. now, he is a professional marketer. mark zuckerberg's job is to make

you want this vaccine, like a cold beer on a hot day. ask for it by name whatever medicines are sold. fortunately for mark zuckerberg, he gets to control this conversation about the product you're selling. facebook has announced it will squelch "any misinformation" it sees about this vaccine. other billionaires think this is a great idea. >> do the social media companies, facebook, twitter, youtube, on and on, have a responsibility to do more right now, melinda, in terms of getting this misinformation, this disinformation, off the platform? >> they absolutely have a responsibility. the internet and the rise of social media has happened so quickly that really, the regulations and the good policymaking hasn't stayed out in front of it. and quite frankly, he needs to catch up. >> tucker: now wait a second. that was melinda gates. seems like a nice enough person.

but why is she weighing in on an international health emergency? melinda gates is not a doctor. she is not a research scientist vehicle in fact, her last full time job was years ago as a marketing department got a software company. so i see on cnn? and why is cnn asking her how this country should handle covid? while simple. melinda gates is married to a billionaire. and in 2020, that is enough to give you control over an entire country. melinda gates is happy to take control. she wants control. so she is demanding the tech companies censor anyone who contradicts the official story line on the covid vaccine, and she is getting her wish. none of this inspires confidence. censorship will not convince a single person to take the coronavirus vaccine. in fact, it will have the opposite effect. let's say you sincerely wanted to roll out a national vaccination campaign. the first thing you would need after the vaccine itself is social trust. people have to believe that the authorities know what they are doing. otherwise, they won't participate. censorship is the enemy of social trust. once the population understands people are holding back critical information, trust evaporates,

and people become suspicious. they start wondering, if the vaccine is as safe and effective as you claim it is, why do you have to lie about it? why are you threatening us if we don't take it? so, censorship doesn't work. if you want people to take your vaccine, they must trust your vaccine. and if you want them to trust it, you have to let them speak freely about it. that is obvious. it's always been true. but authorities have long been. smallpox was the first contagious disease controlled by a vaccine. smallpox was a horrible disease bureau and for many hundreds of years, people were afraid of it. but they were also afraid of the vaccine. like most vaccines, they could have significant side effects including death. in the end, smallpox vaccine turned out to be well worth it. it's a far more people than it hurt. but government officials could not be bothered to patiently explain that. so instead, they used force. sound familiar? several american states made the smallpox vaccine mandatory. in 1853, the british government to the same thing.

the rules are simple. take the vaccine and shut up. well, a medical george bamford was not on board. he refused funeral he did not want his kids taking the smallpox vaccine, and he had good reason for that. the smallpox vaccine had already killed one of his other children. so it went to court, but the courts didn't care. they offered bamford a choice. pay a steep fine or go to prison. so what was the effect of this? everyone was watching. inevitably, many peoples of george bamford's side. in the united states and great britain, national anti-vaccination leagues formed. tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to protest. people like frederick douglass supported that. eventually, the british government ended its forced vaccination policy. the lesson? if you want people to get vaccinated, you need to convince them to get vaccinated, and you must do it with a reason. lying and force do not work. yet, with our current

leadership, you sometimes get the impression that lying and force of the whole point. if they can keep ordering you around like you are an animal, if they can censor you when you start asking hard questions, maybe you won't notice how totally incompetent they are. that is clearly tony fauci strategy. just before this past thanksgiving, fauci and the cdc warned americans not to travel to see their families. here is what they said would happen if you disobeyed. >> as vaccine efforts provide a charge of hope, urgent warnings from health officials about the dangers of traveling over the holidays proved far less potent. >> what we expect, unfortunately, as we go for the next couple of weeks into december, that we might see a surge, superimposed upon that surge that we are already in. >> tucker: a surge superimposed on a surge. that was fauci's prediction. well, as it turns out, fauci's credibility has been sufficiently degraded that a lot of people just ignored him. at noon the day before thanksgiving, there were a total of 6,972 commercial aircraft in

the skies over america. that is more flights that were in the air on the same date two years before. and as a result, countless millions died. oh, wait, that didn't happen. in fact, the massive surge that fauci predicted never came. "we haven't seen something significant," said the director of health in the state of illinois. the state of washington confirmed a similar lack of mass deaths from thanksgiving, so did the state of michigan. "we are cautiously optimistic there was not a post-thanksgiving surge in cases" bureau in minnesota, a local reporter looked at the actual date and hear what he found. "absolutely no signs of a direct, trend changing impact from thanksgiving gatherings here in minnesota." so clearly, tony fauci on the cdc were wrong. there was no reason for you to eat thanksgiving dinner alone pulling up your mask in between bites. in a normal country, with the freedom of speech, everyone

would know this. you would be able to say it out loud. tony fauci would have to admit that he was wrong. that is when honest men of science do when it is proven they have made a mistake, happens all the time. but it's not happening now because silicon valley won't let us tell the truth. so tony fauci is back, unchastened, with still more commands. this christmas, fauci says, you should not to see her family and should definitely not go to church. >> with the crisis surgeon, a warning and a plea from dr. anthony fauci. should people now cancel their travel plans for christmas? >> to the extent possible, don't travel, don't congregate together. >> tucker: notice how the other tv channels work in concert with the censors and the hysterics to clamp down on the population. you just sought a second ago. you saw melinda gates on one channel being egged on by the anchor. don't you think we should commit more censorship? oh, deftly, says melinda gates. on another channel, with fauci, do you think people should leave their homes? of course, people should not

leave their homes. that was the message with tony fauci, don't travel or congregate. didn't he not tell us just last month? indeed he did, and he was wrong. but he will tell us again and google will not censor him for misinformation. fauci is too useful to censor. for example, when joe biden tells you a quarter million more americans will die because he celebrated christmas, you can just cite tony fauci. do not call it social control, by the way, and definitely do not ask questions about the numbers, because all statistics are true. the official ones especially. that includes the inflation and on appointment rates and definitely includes a number of people who died of covid officially. one county in colorado noticed 40% of the virus coronavirus test they were reporting also had gunshot wounds, 2 out of 5. we probably have not read that because it officially irrelevant, no need to talk about it. we know the numbers are. around the world, experts have also noted seasonal flu cases

are down by as much as 98% this year. 98%. well, what does that mean, exactly? don't ask what it means. you are not allowed to ask. a frequent guest on this program, alex berenson, compulsively honest, very brave, pointed out today that we are seeing far fewer so-called normal deaths this year, that means deaths unrelated to the coronavirus. so is it possible that the cdc has been classifying those deaths, deaths from old age or other factors, as can a virus deaths? well, yes, it is possible. over the week of april 4th, for example, america reported 72,000 total deaths. last month, during the week of november 15th, the cdc identified only 61,500 total deaths. but here's the weird thing, in case you are following the math vehicle in both weeks, in april and november, coronavirus deaths in america came in at around 10,000. so either americans got much luck year in november, meaning much less likely to die of cancer or heart disease, old age, traffic accidents. for the cdc has a major, meaning

joe biden level, accounting problem. of course, for the people in charge, a problem like this isn't really a problem at all. it is a source of their power. so, unfortunately, and this is defiling science, is the coronavirus vaccine. a vaccine you can absolutely not question under any circumstances. on msnbc, noted medical expert explain the point of the coronavirus vaccine was not so you could resume your unmasked life. that's what they promised many months ago, but that is no longer true. even with a vaccine, they are now telling us, a vaccine they are going to make you take, you are going to have to take along with your face cover on. >> just because you get vaccinated with that second dose does not mean you should be participating in things like traveling in the middle of an out-of-control pandemic or that you are liberated from masks.

everything still applies until all of us get the 2-dose regimen. really, really critical, do not let your guard down just because you got vaccinated. >> tucker: so to be clear, most americans support vaccines. the track record for vaccine is better than for any other part of medicine. it's the basis of modern medicine. it's people like that who discredit the vaccine. it is not the conspiracy theorists. people like that create conspiracy theorists. because they are so clearly lying. don't let your guard down, he says. what does that mean, exactly? states like texas and florida have let their guard down, relatively speaking, anyway. those states allow people to eat in restaurants and see their families, all of the forbidden things. yet, and here's the amazing part, the part we would be wondering aloud about on christmas twitter and facebook if we were allowed to. new york, a place where it is a crime to live a normal life. texas and florida have more people than new york does. and a whole lot more freedom, yet new york has seen more people die from covid.

huh. explained that one, tony fauci. unfortunately for all of us, president fauci could not make it on the show, he has a country to run. we did invite dr. neal elattrache to unravel the mystery. doctor, thank you much very much for coming on. let me start with a very simple question. if texas and florida famously, you hear this all the time, have let their guard down and let people kind of do what they want, and they have bigger populations than new york, new york is shut down completely, why does new york have more coronavirus deaths? >> well, you know, the issue, there are several reasons, but the most important reason is if you look at the living conditions of a place like new york versus florida and texas, and the speed with which new york was hit with the virus at the beginning of the pandemic, you have a very densely populated area in new york that was hit with a

heavy viral load, so basically whatever you turned in the densely populated area, you are running into virus in big doses. so, the hospitals and the medical system became very quickly overrun by this. and the mistakes made, in hindsight, where that we did not protect the vulnerable people that it was apparent that the virus was going to hurt, and then allow the people that could handle the virus to move on, and so, extended care facilities, people living in extended nursing home facilities, when they would get sick, instead of isolating them and protecting them, those people ended up going back. those extended care facilities became, basically, super-spreader facilities, and you had people that were living and traveling in the densely populated area that were facing a huge viral load.

so, it hit new york in a different way. florida and texas had the ability to observe what was happening. they were hit a little bit later. they have a little bit more room, so they are not as packed on top of each other. so, the viral kinetics in places like florida and texas was a bit different. that was to their advantage. >> tucker: i just want to ask you really quickly about this vaccine. there's a lot of questions about it, and i just want to be clear, i think most people, and i am in that group, support vaccines. it seems a little bit like a bait and switch to hear all of a sudden after we are all forced to get the vaccines, we can't resume our normal lives. what do you of that? >> those comments are unfortunate, and it could potentially be damaging in a few very important ways.

if you look at what you were mentioning at the beginning, the euphoria of people that are now able to get the vaccine, even those that are having the rare side effects, they are just very thankful that they were able to get the vaccine. that is reflective of the misery that this country is going through, that our population is going through. not only from the virus but our response to the virus with the lockdowns, so when you look at the hope that the public has for this vaccine, you have to be very careful on how you instill that bit of doubt into the public. when -- when -- if you take those comments to their logical conclusion, that implies that you are going to gear the vaccine toward the spreaders, and until you eliminate all spreaders, we cannot help our population get unlocked, get back to their life, back to their education, feed their families. we should not be gearing the vaccine toward eliminating

spreaders. that is a fool's errand. that will take an extended amount of time and because continued misery. we should be protecting the well-defined vulnerable population. >> tucker: i hope we will. doctor, thanks so much for your analysis. appreciate it. we know that our leaders, the elected leaders, are not waiting for the coronavirus vaccine in order to live their lives as they choose. they already are. they are defying their own lockdowns. they have been for months. yet another example for you tonight, fox news' rick leventhal has it for us. he joins us now. hey, rick. >> hey, tucker. gina raimondo, a graduate of harvard and yale, the 75th governor of rhode island, first woman to hold the job, and now a member of the "do is i say, not as i do" club. she tweeted "it is week two of the pause, i know it has been hard but i want to think every rhode island are following our guidelines. please stay home, except for

essential activities, and wear mask any time you're with people you do not live with." together, we can turn our cases around. four days later, she was photographed at a table without a mask, sipping her drink at a wine and paint party. the woman who took the picture defended the governor, saying she only took her mask off to drink her wine, but others are calling her a hypocrite and since asked everyone else to hunker down except for essential activities, and now we have heard she is self-quarantining at home after being exposed to the department of health director who then tested positive for the virus. by the way, the cdc says cases are spiking in rhode island. its average daily cases are the third highest in the nation, tucker. >> tucker: irony upon irony. the great rick leventhal for us. thanks. >> happy to share it. >> tucker: as we told you on this show with some detail, george soros had a number of other billionaires are putting a lot of money behind district attorneys who have said from the

first day they will not enforce the law. this is happening all over the country with horrifying effect. now, some prosecutors are revolting against this trend. we will talk to one of them after the break. ♪

♪ >> tucker: recently, we told you about the new district attorney in los angeles, a man called george gascon. george gascon got elected more than any other factor by george soros, his biggest campaign donor, gave him more than $2 million. gascon got elected, was backed by soros, because he promised to stop enforcing the law. and he's done it already. he's ended the practice of seeking sentencing enhancements in court. now, that means, in effect, that many violent criminals, cop killers, double murderers, and others, will be eligible for parole and they wouldn't have been. yesterday, after a lot of criticism, gascon doubled down. watch.rie >> i eliminated sentencing enhancements because sentencing enhancements do not create more safety. in fact, they often create more recidivism and make us less safe. >> tucker: they make us less

safe. fox's bill melugin has -- jon hatami has been in on the system a long time, los angeles county c district attorney joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. you just heard the prosecutor saying these enhancements make us less safe and increase recidivism.t is that true? >> no. and thank you for having me, tucker. that is absolutely false. how can a murderer or a rapist who is released from custody early make anybody safer?erer wouldn't people be safer if they were kept in custody?n that is just the most absurd statement i've ever heard. and the problem is you have a soros-backed candidate who, now the effect of that is you have a prosecutor who is in charge, who has absolutely no experience being a prosecutor, no experience being a trial attorney, and the effects on the people of los angeles i is realy

going to be damaging. you now have zero bail and cases such as domestic violence and child abuse, cases that are not considered serious or violent under california law, the bail is going to be presumptive zero bail. domestic violence and child abuse are repeat offenders. these individuals are going to be arrested, and they are goingm to be released back into society to repeat offend andan hurt vulnerable and innocent victims. you have a candidate who is not going to seek a hate crime allegation.se how is that a reform? how does that help all the vulnerable victims, vulnerable society? we have a d.a. backed by george soros who is now told the d.a. they can't go to parole hearings. we recently, day 2, there was a murderer who was up for parole, and he was released on day 2 of this d.a., and he was released,n

and ada wasn't present for the parole hearing, wasn't present to fight for that victim, and that victim was re-victimized.as i do not understand how any of these policies at all provide safety for anyone. >> tucker: do you have any doubt that the net effect of this overtime will be death? people beingth killed, people being raped, people being hurt in violent crime? >> the reason i came forward and risked my job is because of that. because i cannot sit idly by and watch somebody get released and a child get killed, or a police officer get killed, or a child get raped, or a vulnerable person get raped, or a person of color get discriminated against and get killed. i don't understand how any of these things are reforms. i think, when you talklkag about people in prison, the majority of people don't want to a lot of

people in prison. however, the normal person, the normal angeleno, does not expect that means we are goingpl to release murderers, we are going to release rapists, we are going to release child abusers. that is not right, those are not reforms. >> tucker: the guy caught with a joint in his car. >> exactly. >> tucker: that is a great point, you are brave to make that point in public. i appreciate you coming out tonight, jon, thank you. >> thank you so much. >> tucker: so, activists from blm spent most of the summer lecturingg the rest of us about our moral inferiority as they were destroying businesses, setting things on fire, and tearing down monuments they didn't own. so what happens when you criticize blm for doing any of that? very few people did because they knew the consequences. one special education teacher did anyway, and she found out what happens. we will talk to her next. ♪ (announcer) need to lose weight?

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>> tucker: ashley bennett taught special education for 27 years at north bend school for district in philadelphia. she was fired for criticizing blm in a private facebook post. here is what she wrote, "i see signs all over san black lives matter, just time to figure out which black lives matter. it can't be the unborn black ladies being stored about a second, not black cops, they don't seem to matter at all. so which black lives matter?" again, those are entirely fair questions, but according to the district she worked for, "the views expressed conflict with our work to develop the community that values diversity." ashley bennett justly is now suing the school district.t she is here with her attorney, francis malofiy. thank you both for coming on. actually, to you, these were written, i want to be clear, on a private facebook page, not something that you put in the window of your classroom, correct? >> correct. it was a post that i had actually seen on facebook, and i actually shared it.

and so, it was -- again, not my words, but i did share the post because i thought they raise -- it grades valid points and valid questions. i was trying towo show support f all black lives. if black lives matter, all black lives matter. so, that was my intent in sharing the post. it certainly was not meant to be in any way offensive, and i woke up one morning, and my world and my career and my life was basically turned upside down. i was blindsided by the hr director basically calling me a racist and telling me that my thoughts on my vision did not align with theirs. and after 27 years of being in the field of special education and fighting for people with disabilities and students with disabilities, of all races, i was completely blindsided, and i have been, over the past six months, my life has completely been turned upside down, destroyed.

my family has been suffering, and it's just been a really -- a horrible situation that i hope no one else ever has to go through. >> tucker: i don't even recognize this country sometimes. you are defending black lives, black police officers, i guess your school doesn't recognize that. francis, is this legal? can you go to someone's facebook page, an employee's facebook page of a school district and say i don't agree with their political views and fire that person? >> you absolutely cannot. we have the first amendment, it's a constitutional right. ashley bennett had every right in posting what she posted andne expressing her views, political views. you know, the first amendment protects a person in disagreeing with their government. inin the school district endorsd

the black lives matter movement and basically said that ashley bennett and what she had done in critiquing it misaligned with the core values of the district, it basically admitted liability in this case. the district knows this. this conduct is indefensible. they violated the constitutional right, the first amendment, which is one of the greatest rights we have, and distinguishes this country from every other country out there, and we are going to fight hard to make sure she gets justice, and make sure the district is held accountable. north bend is not north korea, and we have to make sure the administrators are not violating their duties when they are put in positions of power. because it is not just the teacherss and administrators, it's also the students. >> tucker: i hope you crush them. i really do. i hope you made a big example, this is complete the outrageous. thank you both for coming on.it i appreciated. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> tucker: so, as all of this was going on over the summer, what were blm activists doing in america? well, here's what they wereke

doing. ♪ [indistinct shouting] [siren sounding] >> [bleep] >> tucker: so much destruction. kenosha still destroyed, so many cities are. how did this happen? some of our biggest corporations, public corporation, pay for this. why? we are not going to getso into motive here, but we got to tell you, a lot of those companies are richer than they've ever been, coming out of lockdowns and riots, both of which they supported.

an analysis of "the washington post" found 45 out of the 50 largest countries in the u.s. have turned a profit since march. in some cases, big profits. the top executive at nike put it this way, "these are times when the strong can get stronger." the ceo of a gaming hardware company said something similar, "with all that's happening around the world it's really unfortunate, but it has made gaming the largest entertainment medium in the world." now, this does seem unfair. the smallest businesses are destroyed. owners sometimes -- but if you ask kamala harris, blm did the right thing. small businesses are gone in a lot of places, including our nation's capital, but big corporations are fine, so kamala harris content. >> the brilliant and the impact of black lives matter and their brilliance in conceiving it, history is going to show, was an inflection point in the ongoing fight, suggestive to your point, nothing that we have achieved in our country that has been about progress, particularly around civil rights, has come without a

fight. >> tucker: victor davis hanson is a senior fellow at the hoover institution. we are happy to have him on , , tonight. professor, trying to see the bigger picture here, and it did not escape our attention that the biggest companies are richer than they've ever been whether competition has disappeared and a lot of places. >> blm, remember, tucker, was founded by neo-marxist, three of them. and they said during the trayvon martin disaster, tragedy, whatever you want to call it, they became a funnel for corporate largess, kind of this generation's replacement of al sharpton and jesse jackson, so when the george floyd tragedy

happened, corporate america enriched in ways that arehe unimaginable this bicoastal culture because of the skype-zoom economy. they became the receptacle, $10 billion or more came into the hands of blm. it was probably the most successful capitalist -- socialist we have ever seen in the history of philanthropy. and then they institutionalized certain ideas that we all had to accept, critical legal theory that old white men made laws that don't have to be followed because they were innately oppressive and therefore looting, all summer, looting and arson by antifa and blm, were excused because of the ideology or the race of the perpetrators. then they also, remember, said -- and this gets back to your point, class doesn't matter very much anymore. ideology and race matter.k we are in this situation that oprah is a victim or jay-z is a victim or kareem abdul-jabbar is, but a truck driver in reno, nevada, is not appear within a

hijacked american history because it's of the founding in 1619, which was not true, and where deplatforming -- "time" magazine deplatformed helen keller, of all people. san francisco renaming a school because abraham lincoln, who really save the union and stop slavery is somehow a racist because he is not perfect by our standards. it's going to continue. this is the most frightening period of my life and reminiscent of the mccarthy period. i don't think we can let it rdhappen. i know my father grew up in poverty, flew 40 missions in a b-29 over japan.t and his cousin, who was adopted, was killed, my namesake, and okinawa. i'm not ready to accept that they fought for a racist country that was in here and fought. it's going w to be perpetuated. you are not, blm, going to hijack the totality of american history because it is not perfect.

it's good. does not have to be perfect, but it is better than the alternative.t i that is what it is about. it is very disturbing to hear these stories tonight about intolerance. i just hope we can speak out, all of us. >> tucker: that is one of the most stirring summations i have in a long time. victor davis hanson, you are right. speaking out is the only solution. fox news has obtained more text messages from the biden families business partners. they are not in code. they mention the big guy by name, saying mr. biden. we can tell you whataten they sy straight ahead. ♪ ing mr. biden. we can tell you what they say straight ahead. ♪

♪ >> we have great confidence in our son. i am not concerned about any accusations that have been made against him. it's used to get to me. i think it's kind of foul play, but it looks, it is what it is. he's aai grown man. he is the smartest man i know, i mean, from a pure intellectual capacity. and as long as he's good, we are good. >> tucker: i thinks it's kind

of foul play.. so said joe biden today, speaking to a shill on a totally humorless comedy show about the federal investigation into his family's business dealings in china. those are business deals joe biden pretended, you remember, to know nothing about. today, fox news obtained more text messages that show otherwise. these are between two of the biden family ex-business associations, james gilliar and tony bobulinski, who we spoke to on the show.ot a central figure in a deal with the chinese energy company cefc. you should go online and read the story because it is great, writing, "let's get the company set up, then tell hunter and family the high-stakes and get joe involved." tom cotton as a senator from arkansas and calling for a special counsel into all of this because there's a lot we don't know. senator, thank you so much for coming on.l what more would you like to know about what happened here? >> i would like joe biden to come clean entirely about what was going on with not just his son, but his brother and sister, his entire family has been trading on his name in his

public life for 50 years. fox news is doing some outstanding reporting uncovering these texts and emails as you did in october in your interview with tony bobulinski, tucker. joe biden should have a press conference to address all of this. if you recall, then president-elect donald trump had a press conference in early january and took -- it was a classic. he denounced the so-called dossier, claimed there was no collusion, later established by none other than robert mueller himself. he tackled questions about his business. i think it was the first press conference in which he called jim acosta "fake news," tucker. that's exactly what joe biden needs to do. come out and speak to the press, speak to everyone in the press, and answer all of their questions. not go on and try to cover this on some late-night comedian's talk show to try to cover this all up. >> tucker: it does not seem

like he has much incentive to do that. i don't think it is easy for him to speak extemporaneous land for any circumstances. nobody is pushing him. i mean, we are, but i'm not sure he is listening. no one else is. is it possible he could go on indefinitely without answering basic questions? >> i certainly hope not, tucker. an indictment of his son could happen at any time given the state of the investigations currently being reported and whether they are in delaware for tax fraud and money laundering or new york for securities fraud or pennsylvania, an alleged fraudulent purchase in the health care system. this is one reason why the special counsel regulation seems to apply here. you've got joe biden, whose son is being investigated for trading on his name, and if he becomes president next month, he's got the opportunity to replace all those u.s. attorneys, to replace the attorney general. there could not be a bigger conflict of interest. >> tucker: brother, too, under investigation.

we have to think, at some point, kamala harris people will leak enough to knock biden out of the seat. waiting for that eagerly. senator cotton, great to see you tonight. thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: it is a busy news night. we will have more straight ahead. ♪

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works, please set it up for this show. thanks for watching, have a great evening, sean hannity joins us live from new york. >> sean: when they learn how to set it, can they come to my house, i can barely download an app.nn great show, thank you. welcome to "hannity." newly uncovered footage shows georgia senator vowingng to dismantle the value system of "the american empire." wow. apparently they think the very way of life is very evil. we've got the tape, we will give you a preview of just what is at stake, as all eyes in this country, 19 days on georgia for these two senate runoff races. also we will take a closer look at the small businesses in this country getting absolutely destroyed by broadbrush covid-19 lockdowns by rigid government officials that tend to not pay attention t