♪ ♪ tucker: welcome to a special edition of tucker carlson tonight. the firstd reports of a mysterious new virus spreading through china last winter. that was nearly a year ago. for the past 11 months, the world has been waiting with increasing desperation for a tour, for a vaccine. more thanha a million and a half people have dude. now a vaccine -- have died. we should be rejoicing, yet many americans are reluctant to take the vaccine. why? it's not all superstition. there are rational reasons to be

skeptical, to ask questions. there's never been a successful vaccine for any variety of the coronavirus. thee last one scientists developed for sars proved to dangerous to -- too dangerous to bring to market. the only thing that came close was the mumps vaccine in 1967, and that took four years. authorities assure us this new vaccine is completely safe and, of course, we want to believe that badly. on the other hand, it's not crazy to wonder. you may have seen video of that nurse in chattanooga yesterday passing outet cold after getting her shot. you may have seen the press conference on tuesday in san antonio where a health care worker received a fake vaccination on camera.he he got the needle in the arm, but he didn't actually get a dose. the hospital conceded that's what happened but never explained it. so it's fair to have questions. you are not a conspiracy nut for wanting answers. on the other hand, rushed development and a clumsy rollout do not fully explain many

people'sta reluctance to take ts drug. the worry goes deeper than that, because concern isn't simply the vaccine, it's the people in charge of the vaccine and their basic moral rottenness. americans understand many of our leaders don't care about them, they don't care about human beings in general. they're religious fanatics who worship money, power, wokeness. whether their policies help or hurt individuals doesn't seem of great interest to them. these are the people who with emremove police from poor neighborhoods because it made them feel less guilty about their own pampered lives and ill-gotten wealth. as a result of that decision, many americans died including small children,al but they kept doing it. they never apologized. even suffering seemed irrelevant to them. it was the theory that mattered. unfortunately, some of these very same people, the worst in our already-unimpressive professional class, are now in charge of the coronavirus vaccine, and that should make you nervous. tonight officials of the cdc are

debating pow to distribute the vaccine -- how to distribute the vaccine, who gets it first. that discussion will, to soming extent, determine who lives and who dies. it shouldn't be complicated. according to the cdc's own models, the way to save the most americans is to give the vaccine to front-line health care workers first and then to the elderly, people over the age of 65. older people are by far the most vulnerable ase we now know well. every other age group has a survival rate of over 99.9%. that's why in britain, authorities are giving the vaccine to elderly as quickly as they can. but in this country, they have decided the elderly should not be at the front of the line. tethe reasoning is simple: old people innt this country are too white to save. that sounds shocking because it is shocking, but they put it in writing. the cdc's vaccine advisory

committee unanimously approved recommendations last month from a doctor called kathleen dueling. according to her presentation, more lives would bedu saved if e elderly had priority access to the vaccine, but here's the problem. quote: racial and ethnic if minorityty groups are underrepresented among adults age 65 and older, therefore, the elderly should not be a top priority. according to the cdc's panel, another was officially classifiednt as, quote, non-heah care essential workers should get the vaccine first. why is that? quote: racialgr and ethnic minority groups are disproportionately represented in many essential industries, end quote. in other words, it's entirely racial. they're making decisions based on race. the presentation concluded doling out life saving medicine basis of skin color would, quote, mitigate health inequities. of course, it would kill people, and shefectively concedes that, but the people it would kill come from a disfavored race, so

it's not a big deal. it's been a very long time since anyone from the mainstream has endorsed eugenics. that's exactly what that is. suddenly it's everywhere. earlier this month "the new york times" interviewed aa leading expert on medical ethics and vaccinations, harold. >> schmidt. here's how harold schmidt advised the c, the c. ldquote: older populations are whiter. society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already have more of them, we can saw start to level the playing field a bit. level the playing field. that means intentionally causing people's deaths because their the wrong -- they're the wrong color. when was the last time you heard someone say something like that out loud in this country? probably not since around 1945. that's when we all agreed that letting certain people die because of their race was bad public policy not to mention evil.t

but somehow leaders have forgotten that lesson. it's like the second world war never happened. in the same new york times piece that quotes harold. >> schmidt, yet another doctor makes a similar point. his name is mark lip sit, an epidemiologist at harvard. here's why he i thinks teachers should not be included in the now-favoredd category of hanon-health care essential workers. teachers havery middle colossal trues, are very often white, and they have college degrees. in other words, wrong color, not essential. is the hair on anyone else's arm as standing up? what the hell is going on? talk like that from the people in charge makes the population highly paranoid and fearful about the future, and it should. in california the governor's already announced the state will distributeme medicine based on w people look. >> experts in safety as well as experts looking at equity and looking at the distribution from

the geriatric perspective, again, along the perspective of making sure black and brown communities disproportionately benefited because of the impact they have felt disproportionately because of covid-19. tucker: so certain ethnicities will get the vaccine first because of their ethnicity e, says the governor of california. and it doesn't matter if that policy winds up killing more people or it's not based in science because it's not based in science. in fact, maybe that's the point. it'll level the playing field. in oregon the head of the public health d., rachel banks, has made the same commitment. if you w want the vaccine, you d better not be white. quote: we have a variety of ways to insure there's equitable distributioned both geographicay and particularly focused on communities of color who have seen unfair, dis proportionate impacts from from covid-19. oregon's health authority has released a statement that promises that, quote: black,

indigenous, latinx and tribal communities will have priority. in other words, first dibs. it's no wonder that many have decided to transition to a new race. why wouldn't they? it doesn't pay to be in your old race. in oregon a group of slavic-americans has we if decisioned communities of color for membership, and it was granted so they're no longer white. apparently, neither is nancy pelosi. she was one of the first people in the country to get the vaccine. so pelosi is now a person of color as well as essential. that is the consensus now all over the country from our leaders. >> justt over half of states wh publicly-available plans for vaccine distribution have at least one mention of incorporating racial equity. >> there's a great amount of mistrust -- >> vicki hernandez runs a community center here. >> black and brown communities primarily make up essential

workers, and they have been disproportionately affectedd by covid. so for that reason, they should be prioritized. tucker: this is insanity. when you are planning to distribute life-saving medicine on the basis of race, not on the basis of science, but on the basis of race, you are by definition dividingre the county more deeply and more permanently really than you can under any circumstance. nothing is worse than that if you want a cohesive country. the case they're making when you're the right color, you're essential. and that makes sense considering increasingly your color is your asset, the most important thing about you. in this case, it could determine whether youy live or die. that's the country they are creating. iss it any wonder that this vaccine rollout makes people nervous? the ceo and founder of rout orer sciences is currently serving on ohio's coronavirus response team. we're happy to have him on

tonight. thanks for coming. >> glad to be here. tucker: it seems to me that you need for a vaccine rollout like this forof people to believe ths is rootedte in science and it wl be handled fairly. and i can'te new of a clearer wy to send the opposite message than that. >> i agree with you. i think the public are trust in the vaccine is key. this is the fastest vaccine development program we've seen, and i can't think of a worse way to foster public trust than to say, hey, black and brown communities, why don't you guys go first. the principle is simple, take the approach that saves the maximum number of lives in the near term, and that's going to be elderly population, working backwards, and then everyone else waits in line after that. same for health care workers, of course. tucker: but there's an undertone here that i know is politically useful for the democratic party buts. seems gravely damaging, ad it's this: that somehow there is a conspiracy on the part of somebody to use covid-19 to kill people on the basis of race. now, i'm open to any theory on

anything, but i don't see any evidence whatsoever for that, and yet politicians keep suggesting it. is there any evidence of that? >> i don't think there's evidence of that, but i think you get to the hart of the matter where this is divisive. using race as the basis of distributing a public good in this country is the antithesis of what t america is supposed to be about. i think it sets a dangerous precedent. and i think, tucker, think about .it the other way. now, we hope that all is going to go well, and i fully expect that it is, but this is a powder keg waiting to explode if we say go to minority communities first, and then god forbid even something appears to go wrong. if we use this moment to racialize distribution of the public good. tucker: that is such a wise point. that is exactly right. and we we all pray, i mean, we are rooting -- i think everybody is rooting for this vaccine profoundly. but if there were a problem and we don't know and they were on record saying, oh, black people take itt first, i mean, talk about increasing the level of

distrust, paranoia, craziness, madness in the country or even the appearance of that, right? >> even the appearance. there couldn't be a single thing worse for undermining our solidarity in this country, and i also am worried about the precedent it sets in the future. is this how we're going to distribute public goods or medicines in the future? ifan so, that's the beginning of the end of the american vision as we know it. tucker: why wouldn't it be? we're told every day this is the greatest public health crisis of our time, this is the vaccine for it, and they're using those criteria to be distributing it, so why wouldn't those be the cry criteria for everything? >> complexity favors the people that are well connected. new york investment bankers have managed to qualify themselves as essential workers, and that for a provision in the rules that was designed to apply to bank tellers. so in a certain sense, this is what we've seen all along, the well-connected are using a smoke screen of woke values to cover up for a complex system the same reason that the t federal tax code's comply candidated, it

helps those in power. you know that as well as nub. tucker: that is such a great point. will you just repeat that one line so everyone can put it on the fringe? >> complex few favors the wellfected. and they use these woke values to truck you from seeing that. that is what companies up and down silicon valley, both of our coasts and wall street are doing is espousing these seemingly progressivee social values to hide the fact that they want to make an extra buck and consolidate power. now we're seeing it in science too. it's pathetic. tucker: nicely put. thanks so much. great to see you tonight. >> good to see you. tucker: so the cdc appears to be moving toward the decision the elderly are not, quote, essential. what's the message of that? what are the ethics that undergird that decision? charles hennessey has thought a lot about this, how a consistent life ethic can unite the fractured people, what a great

title. he joins us. thanks so much for coming on. this is a topic, the treatment the of our elderly in a time of plague, that you've written and talked on this show a lot about. assess these apparent developments, if you would. >> tucker, i want to give you a number. 6,000. i didn. the math this afternoon, that's the number of people that will die more from this plan from the cdc if they prioritize essential workers. 6,000 more people will diaper month. if they prioritize the most vulnerable, high risk populations over 65, 6,000 more people will live. that's -- i love your first guest. that's the simple f fact of the matter, and that's what we ought to be focused on. tucker: i guess a lot of us who are not, you know, connected to medicine or don't know much aboutou medical ethics would hae assumed that all medical ethicists would be thinking in the way you just described, and i thought they did. when did that change?

>> academia? laugh there -- [laughter] there are incentives in my world to arrive at certain conclusions. my favorite photographer when i was an undergrad said a philosophical principle is like getting on a bus. it's not like getting into a taxi. you have to follow it wherever it goes. these folksan want an outcome. they want a situation that they in their groups want to arrive at. their principles are geared towards that outcome. not towards justice, not towards ethics,to certainly not prioritizing the most vulnerable with predictable results. tucker: so basically you're saying thatts if you are in chae and you want to reward, say, a group that votes for you and punish agr group that doesn't, u just kind of come up with whatever justification you need in order to achieve that. >>ed they wanted essential works to go next. they were w going to -- i've gotten a lot of dnf papers in my

time, tuck or. i looked at the plan on the cdc web site. it is terrible. the only thing that could justify their plan is a arriving at the kind of conclusion they want to arrive at. the very principles they espouse like racial justice, which i support, would give a different conclusion. you know who's most high risk? you know who's most likely to die? people of color. that's who's most likely to due. white people p too, but people f color are most likely to die. why wouldn't you prioritize people over 65? if you care about justice? we heard some in your earlier package. but if you really want to protect people of color from diagnose, protect highov risk ad over 65. that's it. tucker: yeah. you treat people like people, as individuals, as children of god, as all equal in the end. they all have equal value, ever person. charles, great to see you tonight, thank you. >> thanks. tucker: sope people saw joe bidn

doesn't interact with the press. well, yesterday he sat for an interview. he brought along dr. jill biden just in case there was a medical emergency. but the interview -- [laughter] actually budget what you htthought. it -- wasn't what youew thought. it wasn't on a news station with a reporter, it was manager very is different. we'll tell you what it was next. ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ >> as the husband who loves this person, did you ever want to get out of the pool chain and go full corn pop on these people? [laughter] >> the answers is -- >> no. [laughter] >> but there are somee of these -- anyway. [laughter] tucker: what a shameless shill that guy is. that, of course, was joe biden omsitting across saying he's totally comfortable with his wife performing surgery over prescribing medication, she's a doctor. biden also wanted to defend his son. yes, hunter biden is under federal criminal investigation. on the other hand, he's a genius. >> we have great confidence in our son. i am not concerned about any

accusations made against him. it's used to get to me. i think it's kind of foul play, but look, it is what it is. he's a grown man. he is the smartest man i know, i mean, in a pure intellectual capacity. and as long as he's good, we're good. >>os can you reach across the aisle to people who will be using this as an attack on you when it is such a personal attack? because it's about family. >> if it benefits the country, yes. [laughter]r] tucker: it's about family. yes, it's about family doing business with foreign countries usthat hate us in order to get rich. that't part didn't come up in te interview. the whole thing was like this. and even for our compromised, filthy news media, the level of schilling for a politician was a little nauseating. today the biden team took a zoom press conference and only saved time for five questions.

the reports were offended. who knowsbu what they thought ts were getting, but that was what they were getting. a reporter from the daily beast asked this: hey, guys, there are tons of folks looking to ask questions, and since this is being done once a week, could we at least go longer, please? [laughter] please? we got you elected, will you talk to us? oh, it's pathetic. steve p watches this for a livi, great to see you. so they suspended all disbelief for a full year with this guy. they never asked about his obviously declining mental state, they never asked about his business deals, and now they're surprised he's not talking the them? should they be? >> no. [laughter] i mean, it's kind of sad and really a little embarrassing. clips from joe biden and dr. jill biden's interview with stephen colbert have to now air on the cbs evening news, nora o donnell'sur got to throw to

stephen colbert. it's completely absurd. i don't fault joe joe biden or the transition team, they can get away with it. the reporters who are covering joe biden have a weekly zoom call where they take five questions, that is it. and if it weren't for peter doocy, we wouldn't hear a single thing where joe biden responded for a few seconds to a shouted question. he's the only one trying to get some answers. nine dayss ago the biden campain put out a statement about the hunter biden investigation. that preemptied reports that, you know, cnn and other news outlets were trying to get this story. again, screwing over the media. the media didn't seem to take personally. stephen colbert, that's the first thing we're getting on the recordrd from joe biden, and the media seems to be okay with it. they are running the clips. they are not really pressing the biden transition any more than i would imagine, i mean, i would be furious if i were covering

joe biden on a regular basis, and stephen colbert's what you have to go to, to get answers. tubbing i think stephen -- tucker: i think stephen colbert was at one time kind of clever. i think he takes himself more serious than jim acosta, and i didn't think that was possible. he's kindt of this overeager guy with no sense of humor. am i misremembering,-like a comedian at one point, right? >> yeah, he was on comedy central for a very long time, and actually -- honestly, this is reallyth the drift of the lat four years, right? stephen colbert, st. knew yers, jimmy kimmel, they've become political commentators in the era of trump, and it's a little too serious for comedy these days. so t besides jimmy fallon, thers really no one else on late night that's trying to have a good time. this interview was pretty serious although it could not get any moring friendly than it was. the question even about hunter widen was essentially -- hunter

biden was essentially asking him about how do you feel people using this against you. that's a far way going about trying to got some sort of answer, and he did get an answer for him a little bit. tucker: spoon colbert's a very serious man, steve, he's the conscience of the nation. he and oprah. [laughter] it's so embarrassing! am i the only one that's embarrassed? steve, great to see you, thank you. >> thanks, tucker. tucker: well, democrats have decided to pull out all the keep you away from your own children. family unity is a threat to their plan, so this christmas they're enlisting santa's help to keep us atomized. we'll tell you how. ♪ ♪ ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic®! ♪

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york, the economy is evaporating, people with money are leaving, so the city's about to be broke, but he has a solution. you're going to pay! >> and if we're really going to have that recovery we deserve, with we need that stimulus. still no clear direction coming from washington, but we're going. to keep fighting for a stimulus that allows the small businesses in new york city to recover and the representers of new york city to recover and the people of new york city to recover and our economy to come c back. , n in parks?in seth baren is associate editor with the city journal and he is joining us. i shouldn't be surprised but the gall of de blasio after a wrecking the city and driving out the tax base to demand the rest of us bail him out, hard to know what to say. >> well, that is his number one solution. he has been saying the same thing since march or april.

he just repeats it. recently he had a whole litany of ways of different stimuli he would like to receive.nt first for the small wbusinesses. then one for the subways.. then one for everything else. this is his plan. 300,000 households have left the city, filed change of address forms. goldman sachs asset management is leaving. big business has said please, do something to improve livability. he just thinks that is a joke. his spokesman said kick rocks, billionaires. they think they are doing a great job. >> tucker: but how can you -- i mean, there are very few disasters of this magnitude in american history that can bee pinned really on one guy. we know how it happened. bill de blasio did it. he didn't do it alone but he drove it. how can the democratic party reward that with the money of the rest of the country? >> well, that is a national question.

you know, that is something for them. there is a good argument to be made that the goal in a lot of the blue states is to crater the economy so badly and cripple it that, you know, we can just turn to state ownership of everything. just take over. just have absolute socialism. bill de blasio has in his term in office he has expanded the city budget three times faster than the rate of inflation. he has hired a videographer that works for his wife. dr. gray. she does have an honorary doctor of science she puts on official documentation and takes video of her dancing on the front step of gracie mansion. this is his response. and to just demand a bailout. so we are in, we are in for it. >> tucker: i just got to ask you really quick since you covered de blasio and know him. everybody in new york hates de blasio. i don't care how liberal you are. nobody supports bill de blasio who i have never met in my life.al has de blasio ever one time

acknowledged that maybe he is the worst governor in history or has done anything wrong? mayor, rather. >> well, i mean, like today hewe said oh, yes, he should have restrained the nypd more in the protests. all he will say things like that. or yes, he s should have fired the cop who arrested eric garner sooner. you know, things that appease his base. he will say things like that.. but no, he doesn't take responsibility for anything that has gone wrong. >> tucker: it's just really, it's amazing how one guy who got the support of less than 10% of the population in the city is allowed to destroy everything. it does make you wonder about democracy as we are practicing it. >> it sort of does. >> tucker: it raises real questions, i would say. great to see you tonight. thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: so democrats want your kids to know one thing.t these lockdowns are good for you. now that is not an easy case

to make because the lockdowns have destroyed a generation of children.ec so when a lie is that big, you need the big guns to help you sell it. othey have them now. they brought help from the north pole to make their case. fox's rick levinthal has the story for us. hey, rick. >> hey, tucker. i thought santa wasn't supposed to be scary but thiske is a whole new world, and in 2020, mr. claus wants kids to know they have to do more than be nice. we have video highlights to prove20 it. my favorite part is the beginning where the michigan governor appears to read herhe name off the prompter. >> thank you for joining us, i'm governor gretchen whitmer. and i'm really excited. >> i'm in my workshop with all my elves. we all are masked up and social distancing. >> yeah. >> is the coronavirus at the north pole? >> everyone has tested negative. we are still getting tested.rt i think we are so far up north it might not be getting s to us

but we are not going to take any chances. social distance. wash your hands, and make sure you wear your masks when you're outside your home. >> and another way to stay safe during the holiday is to stay home but call your grandparents and your cousins and your family. it's the safest way to tellou the people you love how much you care about them. >> is it comforting to learn that santa and the elves are masked up and social distancing and there is no covid at the north pole yet, tucker? i was kind of disturbed by the whole thing. >> tucker: kind of disturbed. that was like an ad for xanax. what happened to the governor? would you let your kids sit on his lap? no chance! i won't make you answer -- rick leventhal! great to see you tonight. >> you, too.

>> tucker: gretchen whitmer. goes to the nancy pelosi school of cosmetology. that waset really weird. really weird. we have to play that monday again just because it was, we want to savor it. help is finally on the way for small businesses but it's not coming from thely w government. it's coming from the spiritual cavalry. dave portnoy to the rescue. he's here to explain next.

>> tucker: want to bring you back on a fox news alert. ever responsive to our viewers, we heard from a very sharp-eyed watcher tonight who brought this to our attention it's about that slobbery, embarrassing schmooze fest between stephen colbert and joe biden we brought you.ss w look how far apart they are sitting. you could park an airplane between them and run a marching band through there. not that they are allowed. not clear why. maybe a recommendation from dr. jill biden. 60 feet of social distancing! she has never been great at math. we'll keep you posted as we find out. b dave portnoy is a frequent guest on the program and we are proud of that.

he's a genuine supporter of small businesses. he built one himself. he has been watching as america's independent business sector is destroyed. on thursday in frustration he announced that he is creating a fund for small businesses to help them survive. dave portnoy is the founder of barstool sports and he joins us to explain the fund. dave, thank you for coming on. you said you would do this. i knew you would. i'm impressed you have.ou tell us how it works. >> i appreciate you letting us back on. basically we donated $500,000, half of million of our own money and we said we would raise more funds from our readers, friends we may have who are fortunate, whatever it may be. we'll feature a new business every day. they tell us how much they need, struggling small business. the only requirement is their payroll has to be on. then we will hit that goal and move to the next business. once we hit the goal, we hit the next. hopefully we can save as many small businesses or bridge the gap, really, till covid is done cd they can go back to earning a living. by the way, when we talk to

these people, that is all they want. they want the opportunity to work. we put t-shirts on sale last night and we sold $1 million in a couple of hours. i think it could be tens of millions of dollars. i didn't think i'd be the guy doing it. i would rather be sitting on ang beach or betting on horses drinking but nobody else will do it. we have a big platform so we'll try to help as many small businesses as we can. if you want to donate, i asked to come back on. thank you, tucker. i don't think i have done that. you have a big platform barstoolsports.com/fund. you can donate. 100%. we won't take a penny of it. everything will go right back f rthe businesses who need help right now because as we have seen and as we have heard, nobody else will do it. we have to do it. >> tucker: that is right. no one else has done it. you said the one requirement has to be payroll has to be on. you have to be paying your employees. you have to be employing people. >> correct. it's so hard to help everybody.

we want to kill two birds in one stone. not just business owners. the perfect example is barelli. they are on the verge of going out of business. he wasn't going to ask for help. the owner. he kept his payroll on. today i met with a guy. he is going on hannity next and he made a video in the snow. you can only have outdoor dining. we had a blizzard in new york. staff eating a nice dinner. he had to lay off 40 of 45 people. we want to help not only the business but pay the employees so they can have christmas and all that. have a payroll still on. keep your business. tell us how much you need. we'll get you a goal and then we don't just disappear. if you have it $75,00 a month, you have it. we don't just disappear. we'll do it for the life of this thing and get through hopefully to the summer at the

very latest. but as many businesses we can help, it's better than nothing. >> tucker: first, bless you for doing this. i love it. y i know the people you are helping will be grateful. you are a founder of a big digital property. it's not black stone. you are not in finance. you are paying 50% taxes like everybody else. what about the really rich people? why isn't amazon doing this? >> i don't have the answers. to be honest, i wasn't planning. on doing it. mark lamones said put your money where your mouth is. i was like, he is right. i don't have answers for anybody else. i don't pretend to. it's crazy that i pay all the taxes and the tax money isn't going to this very use to help other people. i h have no idea. it's one of those things you look around. everyone is talking and pointing and no one is doing. that is how we jumped in to it. we are not a charity

organization. we raised money in the past. it's a huge undertaking. but, you know, sometimes you just got to do it. that is one of those situations. i don't have answers why nobodyth has, government has, super rich people. if you are a rich friend of mine i'll be hitting you up. get ready for that call. i have no idea. i have no idea. i don't have the answers right now. i know just nobody is doing something, somebody has to do something. barstoolsports.com/fund. i hope you raise a ton. thank you for doing this. good to see you. >> thank you. >> tucker: the coronavirus pandemic, as bad as it's been, is not the only public health emergency right now. tens of thousands of people are dying, and no one is talking about how they are dying or why. that number is accelerating. we are talking about the drug epidemic which has got much worse under the lockdown. details ahead.

>> tucker: are moral leaders used to talkk about nothing and called called equality, we are all for that. if we don't use the word anymore, we use the word equity. and how was it different from a quality? let's illustrate, here's the story, from the state of california. in california were learning tonight officials have released a convicted child murderer from prison, happened earlier this month. the man's name is carlos morales ramirez, 34 and an illegal alien. a federal officials made sure before the feds could arrest him. he was here illegally. a week after he was released, the feds tracked him down in l.a. he's not alone, los angeles approximately 100 illegal criminal aliens a day, 80% of them go on to commit more crime. we don't get the consideration because you'reay born here.

that's not justice, it's not equality, it's equity. the's opposite. the opioid epidemic and people who caused it has been largely forgotten, faced all the drama we seen. this week during the hearing on capitol hill, the founders marketed oxycontin and lied about it denied doing anything wrong. but the problem is with us and still getting worse, and the cdc recorded a total of 80,230 drug overdose deaths, the highest number of drug ods and any one year. period in the history of the country. almost more than anybody to ask why is it happening? we spoke to him earlier. >> economic displacement rippled through the generations and kills people, we saw with the death of the industrial economy and now we have seen really the death of small businesses by the thousands in this country. do you expect that that will

lead to increased death and despair? >> it depends on what we do now. it's important to say that you're right, part economic despair, partly other factors. my book is about this because we lost our connection to so many other things. one of them is that economic security and give you the obvious example, many more i go through in the book. 40% of americans agree with the statement nobody knows me well. the answer to your question is entirely dependent on what we do now. in the year 2,000, switzerland had a horrendous opioid crisis. they dealt with it very differently than how we deal to with it in the united states. they did two essential things, theyct realized that once someone's convicted if you throw them off they'll go get street heroin. that's even worse. what they did was to things, first thing, they prescribed the safest possible version v of the drug and at the same time once

someone became addicted, at the same timeic they gave the push f huge amount of support to deal with the pain. in some wife's therapy, rehab, a lot of it was getting people subsidized jobs. housing, getting them back into a meaningful life. regenerating the communities in working with families. you think that strategy, switzerland has ended its opioid crisis, virtually no opioid-related deaths in now.erland it's a strategy that deals both with the problem of the drug and the problem it deals with the pain and it's something i desperately want to communicate to viewers because i know so many of them are suffering in this crisis. this isn't your fault. you don't deserve this. you didn't design the society, screwing people overd that's not meeting their needs and not hurtful to feel this way. we can rebuild hope, and i've been to the places that have

done that. it has to start by acknowledging what's really going on and i thinkk there's three things we have to do to deal with the opioid crisis. stop the promotion and imprisonment of criminals who lied over years and made a fortune while you make $35 billion in the crisis. secondly, stay with someone who's artie got it in addiction and provide them the safest possible version of the drug, crucially, also provide them with extensive help. thirdly, we've got to heal society and deal with a deeper pain that's driving so many people to suicide and opioid problems. >> tucker: i couldn't agree withth the last point more. thank you, one of the few who looks at the causes and i appreciate it. good to see. >> thank you so much, tucker, cheers. >> tucker: beforeee we go, michigan governor gretchen whitmer would like to which you a merry christmas. >> thank you fors. joining us, m

governor gretchen whitmer and i'm really excited. >> i'm in my workshop with all my elves and were all messed up >> tucker: that's real. we will play that every the second vaccine joined the fight against coronavirus. good evening, i am jon scott and this is the fox report. ♪ another major milestone for operation warp speed. moderna has already been disturbing focuses vaccine less than 24 hours after getting fda approval. at least 128,000 americans have received a shot from pfizer, the first company out with a vaccine according to a new york times survey but the pandemic was driving up jobless claims pushing small businesses to the