miss this beautiful special. that is the story of tuesday. i will see you back here tomorrow night. we thank you so much for letting us tell the story with you. tomorrow night at seven. good night, everybody, tucker carlson is coming up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." relief is finally here. after tense negotiations and multiple rounds of televised theatrics, the congress has passed a definitive spending bill. it's 5,593 pages long and amounts to $2.3 trillion. that includes nearly a trillion dollars in covid relief. all of that comes right from the u.s. treasury, which is busy printing it right now. that's a lot of money. on the other hand, there's a lot of neat. thanks in part to government markdowns, more than 100 million americans are out of the

workforce tonight. one and six restaurants is closed. huge parts of the retail sectors are in tatters. j.crew in bankruptcy, pier one, neiman marcus, brooks brothers, century 21, and many others. so, if there ever is a time that americans needed relief, it was right now. so be glad to know, there is something for you in this bill. it is entirely possible that you could get a $600 check courtesy of the u.s. congress. that money, should you receive it, is yours to keep. do what you wish. buy a moderately sized television set and watch the free channels. all might come if you want. rent a tesla for a day and drive it until the power runs out. or splurge and ordered two full appetizers at the restaurant in napa, tip not included. the sky's the limit, go crazy. $600, all for you.

it's good to be an american. on the other hand, it is also good to be a jordanian. this same bill, past but not read by the united states congress, allocates $500 million for border security in jordan. that's enough cash to buy the french laundry in napa, a couple times over. but that is not with the money is for. congress wants to help jordan build a wall along its 275-mile long border with syria. apparently, congress is worried about illegal immigration over there, and you can see why. the illegal immigration is illegal, and that is bad. that's why congress allocated another quarter billion dollars for additional border security, in lebanon, egypt, to me see h her, god knows those countries need it. borders make a nation. remember that. accept here, in the united states, which is unique among nations through history, borders are not relevant. in fact, porters are racist. that is why this very same bill, which does so much for the jordanians and egyptians and

lebanese and tunisians, and the people of oman, the funds american border security. and ladies and gentlemen, we need that defunding. that way we won't be big it's. 's of the bill slashes funding for ice i.c.e. detention -- excuse me. it catches in the throat. immigration authorities in this country will have -- i beg your pardon. 11,000 fewer detention beds starting this year. and if that hurts, imagine all of those people moving here permanently. they'll have to. problem solved. does not like they're trying to sneak into jordan. vermont senator patrick lahey is excited about this. he bragged about it in a press release today. but there is also, you should know, $33 million in the bill for what are called democracy programs in venezuela, because we are experts on democracy. we are spending $231 million to help pay down the national debt of sudan, and of course, that is another area of expertise for

us, national debt. meanwhile, the bill, and you want to know this for certain, spends huge amounts of money to diversify the workforce in our so-called intelligence community. that is another key national security objective. and just in case you were worried that american society wasn't yet divided enough, this bill creates two new monuments the interest groups with the most political power at the moment. henceforth, the smithsonian will create a women's history museum, as well as what is called the national museum of the american latino. that is just here in america. there's a whole lot more for the rest of the world. this bill spends $10 million on what it calls gender programs in pakistan. congress does not specify exactly what those are. lindsey graham seems to know, and he is thrilled about it. watch gram's enthusiasm this morning. >> pakistan is a place i really worry about. 85 countries, a woman can't open up a bank account without her husband's signature.

she can't inherit property if you are young girl in pakistan, life is pretty tough, so they we are trying to make life better for women throughout the world. >> tucker: so, lindsey graham is worried about a lot of things, but he's really worried about pakistan. he's not worried about the fact pakistan has built a vast nuclear arsenal, that happened during the clinton administration. graham was in congress at the time. that's a minor concern given that pakistan is an unstable country in a permanent state of war with india. most statesmen can handle that. concerns and most, what he is "really worried about" is the state of gender roles in pakistan. now, graham, who has never had a family, now imagines he is an expert on how the people of a country, 7,000 miles away, whose language he does not speak, whose culture he does not understand, should be running their families. lindsey graham doesn't like how young people, two easily accepted customs of their

elders. he would like to shake things up in pakistan society, big ideas of how to create more enlightened urdu-speaking households on the subcontinent, and he is going to use her money to do it. we are trying to make life better for women throughout the world, graham announces, of course he is capable of doing that. take out the trash, make life better for women throughout the world. it is all in a day's work for an american politician. overreach, you say? these are the same people who can't get the votes counted in a congressional election? yeah. but they've got bigger aspirations than that. and those aspirations are all over this spending bill. on one page, you will find tens of millions of dollars set aside to recruit and retain women in afghan army. okay. but why is the u.s. paying for this? is that something that will help the united states in some measurable way? would help afghanistan? why are we doing this? well, the real reason congress is spending that money, of course, because crazed ideologues and various interest

groups in the federal bureaucracy would like to change one of the world's last remaining traditional societies. someday, some unhappy 26-year-old american foreign service officer can write her masters thesis in gender studies on how she undermines the patriarchy in southwest asia. that is the whole point of it. meanwhile, no one in the state department or congress has pause to think about what the afghans think. the very same people who lecture you about cultural imperialism think it is totally irrelevant. what the native population might think of that. in fact, it's possible they might not consider it as progress. maybe they are happy with their ancient culture, unsavory as we may find it. that culture existed a thousand years before ours arrived. maybe they would like to keep it. come to think of it, why would anyone pakistan ever take advice from us on how to organize a society? you must allow market forces to destroy your gender roles, says the civilization that has become miserable by doing the exact thing thing. yeah, no thanks. maybe they will tell us to keep our money. but no matter what they say, we

will not stop sending them our money. foreign aid is the most effective possible way for the academic left to export its poisonous social program to the rest of the world. the roman empire build roads. we demand poorer countries become woke. before long, or aid budget will consist entirely of advanced weapon systems in the middle east and taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgery for africa, and the state department will be happy about that. lindsey graham will celebrate it. but how will you feel about it? well, who cares about how you feel about it? you got $600. so shut up. matt walsh writes for the daily wire and joins us tonight. matt, great to see you. there are a lot of parts of this that raise all kinds of questions. again, why in the world is a country whose social fabric is unraveling, doubling down on social engineering and countries it doesn't understand? it baffles me. may be the deeper question is, how is our economy collapsing -- is this the answer? >> i'm kind of an extremist on this issue, i guess.

i don't exactly see why we should be sending foreign governments our taxpayer money for any reason, ever, but especially not now, and when you look at this bill, i mean, $600 to americans in this situation, it's amazing because it is exactly the wrong thing. they've chosen, of all the possible doors to walk through, the worst possible one. i mean, you could make an argument, may be, that congress shouldn't be sending anyone $600, or any money at all because if a business owner in new york has been bankrupted by the decisions made by their governor, then why should a taxpayer in north dakota have to pay for it? it should be up to new york to pay for that. so you can make that argument. now, i would tend to say the federal government hasn't had a lot to do with pushing these lockdowns, in any case, you know, americans are suffering and they need help and we are congress for that. but then, $600, as you point out, what is that supposed to do for anyone? if you're in a financial -- financially desperate situation, and you have $4,000 worth of

expenses and a month to pay, $60 is basically nothing. so, either congress should give nothing, or they should give enough to make some kind of difference for people who are in a desperate spot, but what they do here, just -- we are still spending billions of dollars to send these checks out, but it's not going to accomplish anything at all, for anybody. >> tucker: well, exactly. so they have no idea what they are doing. they can't keep our parks clean. they can't keep people from odeon on the sidewalks coming at the same time, they're telling us they are going to increase human happenings in countries whom language they don't speak. that is what lindsey graham just announced on this channel this morning. you have to wonder, maybe hubris is part of the problem peter could you imagine you could increase human happiness in a country you know nothing about? >> it's hubris. it's incredible on that end. it also seems to me, one thing you hear about our lawmakers, conservatives will say this a lot, well, they hate us. they just don't like us, as

americans. there is something to that, possibly. i think it is more total disregard. these are empty, vacuous people, who just don't -- they don't care, really, one way or another, that is how they have approached this entire crisis, just as people -- you know, your well-being is a person. if your kids can't go to school for a year, they don't care. it means nothing to them. so, it's just disregard, and that's how they seem to be treating it. >> tucker: it does seem, even by the standards of the congress, take quite a bit of searching for the word here, boldness, to take u.s. tax dollars to fund border security in the middle east. how can they look us right in the face and say it's really important to fund a border wall in jordan, but it's immoral to have a border wall here? >> yeah, it makes no sense. it makes no sense, whatsoever. obviously, i am all for any country protecting their borders. i think that countries should do that and have a right to do it, and their citizens have a right to expect it, but if we can do

it in the middle east, then why can't we do it here? it's totally insane. >> tucker: it's almost like they are baiting us. [laughs] it is all most like they are seeing if we would notice. we are going to defund your border security, but send money to jordan for a border wall. it's -- it's beyond belief. matt, i hope you have a merry christmas, totally unburdened by what congress just did. >> i will try as best i can. >> tucker: thank you. so, what should have been in this bill? jesse watters' cohost of "the five," host of "watters' world," and were happy to have them join us tonight. jesse watters come if you are writing this bill, what would you put in it? >> so, my lobbyist, talker, are already working on what we are going to do the next covid relief package because we believe that is coming any day now. we are thinking about $45 million for the fang fang appreciation center in the bay area. this is where congressman that are brokenhearted can

comingle with chinese spies and just kind of remember how simple life used to be. we are also looking at a direct $65 million infusion to the badminton courts at john kerry's club. i don't know if you've seen the nets, tucker, they are afraid beyond repair, and teresa, she cannot serve birdies in the state, so that needs to happen almost immediately. we also have a defund the police interactive exhibit. that is going to be in cuba. that will cost a full 16 million. that is where you can get pepper sprayed, and they will send you photographs of yourself. you can post those on your social media. then you can cool down in the ch az wing, where you douse your eyes with abby on water, and that is just for vips only, so those are the kind of things we are cooking up. >> tucker: just announce your senate bid any day, because i will be your finance director. i have to ask you about the president's response to this. you may not have seen, he just

tweeted out his view of this bill. here is what he said. >> congress found plenty of money for foreign countries, lobbyists, and special interest, while sending the bare minimum to the american people who need it. it wasn't their fault. it was china's fault. not their fault. i am asking congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 to $2,000, or $4,000 for a couple. >> tucker: there it is, a republican president wants direct payments to be more generous. >> well, after the trump tax cut, people got, what, a thousand dollar bonus from some of these nice companies? nancy called those crumbs. and now, she wants and atta-girl for $600? tucker, money for gender studies

in pakistan? if you listen closely, you can hear the pakistani generals laughing at us. they were hiding bin laden for years while we were sending them billions of dollars. do you know they can have up to four wives in pakistan? i have a feeling this money is good to be spent on arranged marriages, not gender studies. i want to help american women first before help those women. how about $70 million in cambodia? can we get that in the carolinas? i mean, you wrote about "a ship of fools," this is a den of thieves. they are literally stealing from us while we are dying. used to sharpen their pitchforks and storm the castle after an abuse of power like this. now, our eyes are so glazed over sitting on our coaches staring at our iphones made in china but all we can do is order delivery because they said we can't eat out. we have to eat inside because of the virus, also made in china. so the least they can do is calm

the funerals for the 300,000 dead americans from the china virus. that's a great idea. i don't know if trump is listening. how about you, the funerals? >> tucker: kind of weird there, pushing for legalized weed at the same time. i wonder if that has any kind of confection here. i got to ask about -- [laughs] a passive population is a good population. so, joe biden, obviously not the articulate man in politics, but pretty good insults. earlier this year he told a new hampshire voter he was a "dogface pony soldier." he kept that equine fema live this morning. >> do you still think the story from the fall [indistinct] >> yes, yes, yes. yogod love you, you are a one horse pony. >> tucker: the horse

references confuse me. what is a a one horse pony? you know? >> i can only guess he was mixing metaphors, one-trick pony and peter doocy beating a dead horse. until we see -- i don't know what we are going to make of -- i'm kidding. in all seriousness, doesn't it make sense, though, tucker, that the chinese in joe? i mean, he is an easy mark. we are going to get into a summit with the chinese and joe is going to say pony instead of tariff, and we are going to have surrendered the trade war, and we are not even going to know what happened. >> tucker: every time i see by then, i want to say i have three walnuts, there is a glass bead under one of them, see if you can -- [laughs] such an easy mark. >> i know. >> tucker: the great jesse watters. thanks for that. good to see you tonight. >> thank you. >> tucker: so, the president

has announced 15 new pardons tonight, that would include some people caught up in the mueller probe. we will tell you who they are after the break. thanks to the wuhan virus, many americans relied on the video chat service zoom. in fact, let's be honest, the whole country is on zoom. the chinese government controls zoom. what have they been doing with their new power? over our communications? there is a story there. we will tell you what it is after the break. ♪ we're the croods. -we are the bettermens.

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♪ >> tucker: this is a fox news alert. the president just announced a slate of pardons being issued, including george papadopoulos. he is the former -- his conversation was the pretext for the probe. papadopoulos pleaded guilty in the mueller probe for lying to federal agents. other pardons including two republican members of congress, a man called alexander swan, a dutch national also charged by the mueller investigation for making false statements. will have more more on the fullest and its applications later.

♪ eric to want is the ceo of zoom. he was just named businessperson of the year by "time" magazine, not that anyone cares, but the business press appears to. they love yuan and want you to believe he is a good person. >> do you believe you have a duty to do something greater for society? >> we've got to think about, what is your social responsibility. if every company -- hope to make the community and society a better place. >> thank you so much for joining me, congratulations on the year you've had. >> tucker: do you have flecks of slobber on your screen? check carefully. that is not out of character, that is how the business press

"press" in this country treat most ceos. tell us why you are so wonderful. why shouldn't your stock price be even higher? that is not journalism, that is an extended suck up. this wa was particularly egregi. such a great person, so much better than you are? that man emma company worked with china to censor and monitor video calls. executives of zoom working with the chinese government to shut down meetings on the tiananmen square protests. you are not allowed to talk about that in china, or on zoom, apparently. that is product every american uses. when was the last time you run a zoom call? probably today. here's a filing at a subsequent statement from zoom. we learn the company agreed to monitor u.s.-based criticism of china after china blocked its services in 2019. the ceo of zoom was even involved in a discussion on which apps to use to "exchange

classified information" with the chinese government. zoom, as we just said, is used by everyone in th this country. government, corporations, individual families coming china was able to use its market size to bully zoom into spying for them. what? why is this not a massive threat to our national security? it sure seems like it. michael bloomsbury is a senior fellow and the director of chinese strategy at the hudson institute and we're happy to have him on tonight. michaemichael pillsbury, thank o much for coming on. one of the effects of this virus from chinese are total reliance on the chinese software zoom that it turns out the chinese government is using to spy on us. explain the parameters of this, if you would. >> well, the indictment in brooklyn on friday is very revealing, tucker. its arms that zoom has a capacity to figure out the content of conversations, and if

there considered to be anti-china, think back to the tiananmen incident, anything anti-china. zoom is able to shut down that conversation within one minute. there is a second part of the indictment, the settlement on the run now in china, it was able -- was willing to provide data -- in one case, 20,000 zoom users, including their i.d.s and what else that they do on zoom, so the whole zoom operation seems to be at the behest of china. and there is even a law in china that mandates companies do this. now, people think this was an american company, but the indictments exist that at least some zoom employees are serving the interest of china to spy on americans having conversations. it's really quite a stunning indictment by the department of justice. >> tucker: so come if the software is effectively controlled by the chinese government, why are u.s. government agencies using it? >> well, as i say, this was

quite a surprise, this indictment. there is a big movement in our country, tucker, to play down the chinese, say they are going to collapse, they are not very smart. my own book on chinese strategy has been attacked for being conspiracy theory, that they have no plan or capability, but this indictment show is really quite stunning capabilities to monitor conversations and shut them down within one minute. if it offends the chinese government. >> tucker: it's -- it's beyond belief. it is almost like our leaders have given up. i appreciate that. dr. michael pillsbury joining us tonight. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: so, there is this all-important couple of senate races unfolding right now in the state of georgia. the election is on january 5th. tonight, we have exclusive and remarkable body cam footage from the police in georgia that one of those candidates does not want you to see, and once you see it, you will understand why. we'll be right back. ♪

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>> tucker: raphael warnock is a highly political preacher who is now running for senate and the state of georgia. in 1 of 2 races that will determine who controls the federal government. that grace is two weeks from now, on january 5th. so it's a little late in the game to be getting the footage we are about to show you, exclusively. this is footage of raphael warnock's wife. fox news senior correspondent rick leventhal has the story for us tonight. hey, rick. >> hey, tucker. this is never before seen video, "tucker carlson tonight" exclusive. georgia democrat rafael warnock accused by an ex-wife of running over her foot. here is the police body cam footage response to the scene. >> i want to file a report. >> she told a police officer her estranged husband ran over her foot back in march while trying to leave with the young children in the backseat.

>> so he walked over. >> she won't move. i'm like, just stay in the car. and i move, and my car door, get in the car, and i start to move slightly, thinking she is here. >> clearly -- >> yeah, i'm thinking she is clear. end. and all of a sudden, she is screaming i ran over her foot. i don't believe it. >> warnock, a senior pastor in atlanta, was not charged in the incident. first responders to his wife was able to wiggle her toes and there is no redness, blueness, or broken bones, but ouleye had more to say about warnock's character. >> this man is running for the u.s. senate. i've been trying to be very quiet about the way he is for the sake of my kids and his reputation. tried to keep the way he acts

under wraps for a long time, and today he crossed a line. that is what is going on here. and he is a great actor. he is phenomenal on putting on a really good show. >> as you mentioned, tucker, warnock is in a tight run off with kelly loeffler, a race that two weeks from now could decide power in the u.s. senate. >> tucker: well, that video is unbelievable. that woman is believable. i appreciate it, rick leventhal. good to see you. >> you too. >> tucker: anthony fauci for many years was a physician and a man of science, and at some point, he ascended to the level of religious figure. he hasn't yet obtained the ability to heal people, so he has opted to take the coronavirus vaccine. here is cnn reacting to that. >> what was it like watching that? >> it was amazing to watch it, and i thought it was, you know, i smiled when i saw he was asked, do you have any questions or concerns? which is, force, the protocol and what should happen.

this is the man who probably knows more about this vaccine than almost anyone on earth. what a moment for the man who played such a role in developing that vaccine to get the vaccine himself. >> tucker: what a moment. just to watch another person get a vaccine. it just -- by uh it touches youa very private place. you can't help but notice the people getting the vaccine tend to be people on a certain side with certain political connections. tony fauci, sandy cortez, nancy pelosi. they were all among the first to get the vaccine. so, who is deciding who gets it first? that is a question the rest of us should be asking. these are usually opaque questions. we don't know how these decisions are made. we tried to find out. we learned that one person over at the cdc is responsible for modeling the vaccine's distribution is not a disinterested scientist. he is a left-wing activist.

his name is joe walker. he describes himself as nonbinary. he's barely in his 20s. he proudly displays a transgender flag on his twitter accounts. he tells you his preferred pronouns are they and them. he supports the d from the police movement. he appears to be american. he works in the state of georgia. but he describes his location as "occupied land." if so, there you go. a man of science or political activist? let you answer the question. but if you're wondering why the people making critical decisions at our most critical health agencies are deciding to do very strange things like not give the vaccines to the elderly first because they are not diverse enough -- and that was their plan, before they were criticized. how did they reach that decision? well, now you know. well, massachusetts is prioritizing felons over the elderly for the coronavirus

vaccine. that's a pretty amazing story. we'll have it for you after the break. plus, the federal government is moving to promote beautiful architecture. boy, that's a departure. people who brought you brutalism are rediscovering aesthetics. amazing. we'll have details on that. ♪

♪ >> tucker: let's say you've got elderly relatives in the commonwealth of massachusetts. an aunt or grandmother, and you want them to get priority access to the coronavirus vaccine. too bad, because massachusetts murderers and rapists are in line first. they have decided to give prison inmates early access, before senior citizens in those medically vulnerable. what is the thinking here exactly? the man who has seen more insanity this year than any man in america, jason rantz of seattle, joins us to explain. what is this about, do you think? >> it is about a new social justice cost. every day there is a new cause, and this is the newest one. it's tied to what they generally

view the world through the social justice lens of equity. they view people through two different roles. one, you have privilege. you and i, most of the people watching, and other people are victims. if you are in jail, you are the actual victim. because jails are filled with people disproportionately who are people of color. thanks to a system, thanks to a justice system of police officers and judges and juries that are racist, just throwing people in jail because of the color of their skin. thus, they find themselves in position that they are at a higher likelihood of getting covid because they are not able to socially distance, so of course, they should be the ones to get vaccinated before anybody else. the mostly white, elderly people in massachusetts who have the ability to actually separate from other folks. but i mean, think about this very moment. we have christmas coming up. you've got a grandmother right now who is unable to spend time with her 9-year-old grandson. not see the smile on his face as he is opening in christmas gifts. over concern due to covid.

but the rapist who is in jail will get vaccinated first. that is not a social justice movement that anyone should want to be a part of, and it's certainly not equitable. >> tucker: so sick and so dark, so wrong, so contrary to american ideals and traditions. and it's going to have massive consequences. we are not thinking through what the country is going to look like if we keep up with the stuff, and i think we should. jason rantz, thanks for expanding that. it was worse even than i imagine. >> it is. thanks, tucker. >> tucker: this country has some of the most beautiful cities in the world. washington, d.c., strip away the nonsense, is a beautiful place. there are many others. but the federal government has, for decades, intentionally desecrated our cities with that architecture. not architecture that is in bad taste come architecture that is designed to offend and alienate you. it is ugly on purpose, for ideological reasons. it is an attack on beauty, which, in the end, is one of the most important things, beauty,

it matters. no one says that, but it's true. in washington, the j. edgar hoover at the building pennsylvania avenue. it wrecks the day of everyone who walks past. in cincinnati, there is something called the john wells passed federal building. it houses the internal revenue service. for johns while peck, it doesn't matter what he did on this earth, he did not deserve a building like that. the new bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms building in two built in 2008, it's horrifying. who is in charge of making our public spaces discussed in? well, we are not exactly sure, but president trump wants to fix it. yesterday, he issued an executive order promoting, here's an idea, beauty in architecture. in federal buildings. new buildings, said the order, should "uplift and beautify public spaces post quote and "inspire the human spirit." you would not think anyone had to issue an order demanding that, but we do, and thank god he did.

what does this mean? and why should you care? chris bedford is the senior editor at "the federalist" and joins us tonight. chris, thank you so much for coming on. we spend the most no time talking about beauty, aestheti aesthetics, the quality of our public spaces. we should. tell us what this order will do, do you think? >> we absolutely should. -winston churchill -- toparaphr buildings and they shape us because they are part of our civilization. they help us, they connect us with our forefathers, with our national values, with what justice means. you look at an old-fashioned courthouse, the supreme court, you know that is a place for justice. the federal courthouse, now days, it is very difficult to see that appear on like a book o pick it up and read it, or unlike a painting where you can refuse to see in a museum, it is the civic architecture in our public space, either attacking us every day or lifting us every day. president trump remove this from the experts for the first time

in about 60 or so years. we have had ruled by experts in architecture where they are deciding what is beautiful, and well, 70% or more than for 70% of americans according to a poll by the national civic art society this fall, find traditional architecture to be much more uplifting. we have had a tear any of experts. sounds pretty familiar if you are living through the coping years, no one has been allowed to have an opinion except architects until now. >> tucker: what does it tell you about our ruling class that they consider him a genius? you really have to be a new money poser to look at a frank . that's beautiful, really impressive, i mean, it is abstract art designed to challenge rather than up list. the whole thing is a sham, is it not? >> it is a sham. the people who built a lot of this architecture named it themselves. they called it brutalism. now, i know that is not what gehry does, but at least with the brutalist, they are upfront.

it is drawn back possibly to the flack towers of germany during world war ii. this is unbelievable. they had gehry till they monument to eisenhower recently. he planned to design a monument to frank gehry himself. he got pushed back from the family and better architects than him, he decided to basically take his name off of it. you can barely find it anywhere. now, it is difficult to discern who it is a monument to at all and will not even be seen by most people unless pointed out as the homeless camp it has already become. >> tucker: later generations are going to look back on the people who built these buildings with total contempt. total. it's great to see you tonight. chris bedford, thank you. speak with merry christmas, tucker. >> tucker: merry christmas. earlier this hour, we told you the president had attacked the coronavirus relief bill because it did not give enough directly to americans.

when he proposed $2,000. minutes ago, house speaker, nancy pelosi announced that she agreed with the president, after apparently following his twitter feed come and fly to the house would bring his proposal to the floor by the end of the week. of course, we will follow that story as it develops. we've got amazing new details on the russia investigation. one of the people at the very center of it who hasn't really been in public for the last few years joins us after the break. to tell us where it is going and what we might learn from the durham investigation. remember that? what is in it? we may find out. ♪

's >> tucker: so the russia hoax was an incredibly destructive fraud and really hurt this country and a lot of individuals very badly. how did it happen? well, the justice department appointed a special counsel to find out. he has about had about a year and a half to get to the bottom of it. the man's name is john durham and he is a prosecutor but we don't know what he has found if

anything yet. rick gates played an essential role in the mueller probe. he was caught up in it. when he was the criminal of the day for a little while. he was sentenced to 45 days in jail. no one remembers exactly why. he is the author of "wicked game: an inside story about how to trump won and america lost." rick, thank you so much for coming on. we figured, someone who got swept up in this hysteria, this absurdity, you might have some sense of where -- rather where the durham probe is now. what is he going to find and when are we going to hear about it? any clue? >> tucker, it's great to be with you. of course many americans are frustrated and disappointed. that he is not released his findings. the president's disappointed. i'm externally disappointed. the special counsel has seen many lives destroyed in the process, mine included. there is a lot of information that durham has looked at,

investigated. this is the last chance that americans have to uncover the political motivations that drove mueller's team and their treacherous plot to remove president trump. i believe and i am very hopeful that durham will expose the lies, the misconduct, the cover ups, and certainly the abuse of power. so, when you break it all down, what does that mean? somebody who was a primary target of mueller's operation, interrogated for almost a thousand hours, knowing how they work, their structure, their tactics, i can tell you without question there are going to be additional indictments. if you look at the existing record, recently declassified information, and information that is still classified, we know a lot more today than we did two years ago. and there are a lot of bad actors inside government that are, you know, potential targets, and ones i believe are going to be james comey, andrew mccabe, peter strzok, lisa page, and bill priestap. all names that people have heard in the past, but all that are in

john durham sites. in addition, durham expanded his probe. the probe now is including an investigation on hillary clinton, her foundation, many of the people around her that were part of what we now believe and have been told that is a plot to link president trump to russia as an effort to deflect from her own problems from that part of the world. her own pay for play scheme. in addition, i think durham is going to expose a lot of the cover-up and the work of the special counsel, the tactics that they used. going after individuals for just unreal circumstances, yeah, absolutely. and this is important. i mean, you know, we have to have complete transparency of our democracy is going to survive, and right now, it doesn't. it doesn't exist, and we need that to happen. so, durham's probe is important.

>> tucker: and itself like it is real. have not talked a lot about it on the show because it's so hard to know, but you are one of the few people who might have been in on this. it sounds more serious than i realized it was. we will have you back. rick gates, great to see you tonight. >> merry christmas, tucker. thanks. >> tucker: merry christmas. without, we are no mike will be back tomorrow. tammy bruce in for sean. >> tammy: thank you, everyone, and welcome to the special edition of "hannity." i am tammy bruce in tonight for sean. we begin with a fox news alert. president trump is calling on congress to amend its massive packed spending bill and increase direct payments to at least $2,000 per person. here's president trump earlier tonight. >> among the more than 5,000 pages in this bill, which nobody in congress has read because of its length and complexity, it's called the covid