but with walmart's low prices, you still know how to do it up. and keep costs down. let's end the year enjoying more. ♪ you are all i need baby baby to get by ♪ good night, everybody, tucker carlson is coming up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlsonon tonight." relief is finally here.r after tense negotiations and multiple rounds of televised theatrics, the congress has passed a definitive spending bill. it's 55,953 pages long. it amounts to $2.3 trillion. that includes nearly a trillion in covid relief. all of it 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 need. thanks in part to government lockdowns, more than 100 millior

americans are out of the workforce tonight. one in six restaurants is esclosed. huge parts of the retail sector are in tatters. j.crew is in bankruptcy. so is pier one, neiman marcus, brooks brothers, century 21, many others. so if there was ever a time that americans need relief, it's right now. glad to know there is something for you in this bill. it ismeth entirely possible thau could getbl a $600 check courtey of the u.s. $ congress. that money, should you receive it, is yours to keep. do what you wish. buy a moderately sizeded television set and watch the free channels all night if you want. rent a tesla for the day and drive it till the power runs out. or splurge and order two full appetizers right up the tasting menu at the french laundry in napa. tip not included. whatever. the sky is the limit here. go crazy. $600 all for you. it's good to be an american.

on the other hand, it's also pretty good to be ao jordanian. the same bill passed but not read by the united states congress allocates $500 million for border security in jordan. that's enough cash to buy the french laundryh in napa a couple times over but that's not what the money is for. congress wants to help jordan its 275-milealong long border with syria. apparently congress is worried about illegal immigration over there and you can see why. illegal immigration is illegal and that's bad. that's why congress allocated another quarter billion dollars for additional border security in lebanon, egypt, tunisia, and oman. god knows those countries needed. borders make a nation. where member that. except here in the united states, which is unique among nations through history. borders are not relevant. in fact, borders are racist and that's why this very same bill, which does so much for thejo

jordanians and the egyptians and the lebanese and the tunisians and the people of oman, defines american border security. and ladies and gentlemen, we need that defunding. that way we won't be bigots. so the bill slashes funding for i.c.e. detention space and blocks a request to hire more deportation officials. excuse me. it catches in the throat. [clears throat] regression authorities will have, i beg your pardon, 11,000 fewer detention beds starting this year. and if that hurts, imagine all of those people moving hereen permanently. they'll have to. problemy. solved. it's 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. t there's 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's

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's 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 to the interest groups that have the most political power at the moment. so henceforth the smithsonian will create a women's history museum as well as what's called the national museum of the american latino. and that's 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. now, congress doesn't specify exactly what those are. lindsey graham seems to know it he's thrilled about it. watch graham's enthusiasm this morning. >> pakistan is a place i really worry about. 85 countries a woman can't open up a o bank account without her

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

pakistan society. he's got big ideas for how to create more enlightened urdu-speaking households on the subcontinent. it is going to use your money to do it. we arese trying to make life better for women throat the world, graham announces, like of course is capable of doing that. it's now on the list. takee out the trash, pick up the cat, pick up spaghetti sauce, make life better for women throat the world. it's all in a days 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 in those aspirations are all over the spending bill. on one page you will find tens of millions of dollars set aside to recruit and retain women in the afghan army. okay. but why is the u.s. paying for this? is that something that will help ethe united states in some measurable way? would it help afghanistan? why are we doing this? welcome to the real reason congress is spending that money, of course, is because crazed ideologues and veriest interest

groups in the federal bureaucracy would like to change one of the world's luster many traditionall societies. someday someone happy 26 rolled can write her masters thesis in gender studies on how she undermined the patriarchy ina. southwest asia. that's the whole point of it. meanwhile, no one in the state department of the congress has paused to think about what the afghans think. the very same people who lecture you about cultural imperialism think it's totally irrelevant with the native population might think of that andht it's possibe they may not consider this progress.. maybe they are happy with their ancient culture of unsavory 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 in pakistan ever take advice from us on how to organize a society.iz you must allow market forces to destroy her generals, says the civilization it's become miserable by doing the exact same 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 thes academic left to export its poisonous social program to the rest of the world. the roman empire built roads. we demand poor countries become woke. before long, our aid budget will exist entirely of advanced weapon system the middle east and taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgery is on the state department will be happy and lindsey graham will celebrate it, but how would you feel about it? well, who cares about how you feel about a? you got 600 bucks, so shut up. matt walls lights for the mike democratsnd for the daily wire d he joins. great to see you. there are a lot of parts of this that raise all kind of questions. again, why in the world is a country whose social fabric is unraveling doubling down on social engineering in countries it doesn't understand? it baffles me but maybe the deeperer question is how is our economy collapsing, is this the answer? >> yeah, 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's exactly the wrong thing. they'veng chosen of all the possible doors to walk through the worst possible one. i mean, you can make an argument may be that congress shouldn't be sending anyone $600 or any money at all because, you know, if a business owner in new york has been bankrupted by 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 that the federal government has had a lot to do with pushingen his lockdowns and in any case, americans are suffering and they need help and we have 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, $600 is basically nothing. so either congress should give nothing, or they should give enough to make some kind of difference for people are in a desperate spot, but what they do here, 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're doing, they can't keep our parks clean, can't keep people from o.d. and on the sidewalk and yet at the same time they are telling us they are going to increase human happiness and countries who language they don't speak. if that's what lindsey graham just announced on the morning show on this channel and you've got wonder, maybe hubris is part of the problem. do you imagine you can increasea human happiness in a country you know nothing about? >> yeah, that's -- it is, it's hubris, it's incredible on that end. it also seems to me that one thing you hear about our lawmakers, conservatives will say this a lot, they hate us,

they just don't like us as americans and there is something to that possibly, but i think it's more just total disregard. i think that these are empty, vacuous people who just don't -- they don't care really one way or another and that's what they've approached this entire crisis, just as people don't -- you know, your well-being is a person. if your kids have too -- theya 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 -- i'm 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'm all for any country protectingny 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: well, it's almost like they are baiting us. it's on us like they are seeing if we notice, we are going to defund your border security, but we will send money to jordan for a border wall. 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 as cohost of "the five," host of waters well, happy to havehe them join us tonight. jesse, if you're writing this bill, what would you have put in it? >> so my lobbyists, tucker, are we working on what we are going to do in the next covid relief package, because we believe that that's 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 broken hearted can kind of 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 clubs. i don't know if you've seen the nets, tucker. they are afraid beyond repair and teresa, she can't a serve birdies in the state, so that needs to happen almost immediately. we also have a defund the police interactive exhibit. that's going to be in cuba. that will cost a cool 16 million. that's where you can get pepper spray and they will send you photographs of yourself, you can post those on your social media. then you can cool down in the chaz wing where you douse your eyes withaz evian water and thas just for vips only, so those of the kinds of things we are cooking up. >> tucker: just announce your senate bid any day because i will be her finance director. i've got to ask about the president's response to this.

just tweeted out his view of this bill. here's what hee said. >> congress found plenty of money for foreign countries, lobbyists, and special interests 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, president -- a republican president wants the 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 add a girl for 600? i don't think so. tucker, millions of dollars for gender studies in pakistan?

if you listen really 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. did you know that you can have up to four wives in pakistan? i have a feeling this money is going to be spent on arranged marriages, not gender studies. i want to help american women first before i help those women. how about $70 million in cambodia? can we get that in the abo carolinas? i mean, g you wrote about a ship of fools. this is a den of thieves. they are literally stealing from us while we are dying. they 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 couches staring at our iphones made in china that all we can do is order delivery because they said we can't eat out. we have to eat inside because of the virus. it also made in china. so the least they can do is comp

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 comp the funerals? >> tucker: kind of weird they're pushing for legalized weed at the same time. i wonder if that has any kind of connection. i forgot to ask you about -- about joe biden. a passive population is a good population. joe biden obviously not the most articulate man in politics, but pretty good at insults. earlier this year he told a new hampshire voters she was a dog faced pony soldier and he kept that equine theme alive when he attacked our own peter doocy this morning. watch this. >> do you still think there's a story from the fall about your son hunter? [indiscernible]. >> yes, yes, yes. god love you, man. you are a one horse y pony. >> tucker: i know biden is from an earlier time, but the horse references kind of

confusing. what's a one horse pony? do you know? >> i can only guess that he was mixing metaphors, a one-trick pony and peter doocy likes to beat a dead horse. now, until we see the official cognitive assessment done by dr. jill biden, i don't know what we are going to make of this.ng but i'm kidding, in all seriousness, doesn't it make sense though, tucker, that the chinese invested in joe? i mean, he's 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 biden i want to say i've got three walnuts, there's a glass bead under one of them, see if you can -- [laughs] is such an easy mark! i feel like a gypsy. totally. of the great jesse watters. thanks for that. good to see her tonight. >> thank you.

>> tucker: so the president has announced 50 new pardons tonight, that would include some people caught up in the muellerr pro. we will tell you what they are after the break. and thanks to the wuhan virus, many americans relied on the video chat service zoom -- let's be honest, the whole country is on it. the chinese government controls zoom. what have they been doing with their new power over our communication? there's a story there. we will tell you what it is after the break. ♪ ter the brbrbrbrbr

♪ >> tucker: this is a fox news alert, the president just announced a slate of pardons. they include george papadopoulos. he is the former naval officer and campaign aide whose conversation with an australian diplomat set off the russia probe, or was the pretext for it. in the end, he pleaded guilty in the mueller probe to lying to federal agents. right. he was pardoned. other pardons included two or republican numbers of congress and ar man called alexander swa, a dutch national who was also charged by the mueller investigation with making false statements. we will have more on the full list and its applications later. ♪

>> tucker: eric 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 him and they want you to know is a very good person. >> as a tech entrepreneur, do believe you have a larger responsibility to do something better, greater ford society? >> to care about a community and a society that are important thing. we have to think about what's your social responsibility? if every company is thinking about this, it will help to make the community and society a better place. >> thank you so much for joining me and congratulations, what a year you've had. >> tucker: do you have flecks of slobber on your screen? probably, check carefully. that's not out of character.

that's how the business pressry "press" treats most ceos. tell us why you're so wonderful, why should your stock price be evenou higher?ck that's not journalism. it's an extended suck up but in this case -- such a great person, so much better than you are. what msnbc and "time" magazine didn't mention is that that man and his company worked with the government of china to censor and monitor video calls. the justice department announced last week that it has filed charges against an executive at zoom for working with the chinese government to shut down meetings on tiananmen square protests. you're not allowed to talk about huthat in china or on zoom apparently. that's a product, that every american company uses. one was the last and you are on a zoom call? probably today. in the filing, a subsequent statement from zoom, we learned 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 buried zoom, as we just said, is used by everyone in this country, government agencies, large corporations, individual families, and china was able to use its market size to bully zoom into spying for them. what to why is this not a massive threat to our national security? it sure seems like it. michael is a senior fellow and the director of training strategy at the hudson institute we are happy to governmentig tonight. thanks so much for coming on. so all of a sudden one of the effects of this virus from china is our total reliance on 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. it turns out that zoom has a capacity to figure out the content of conversations and if

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

>> well, as i say, this was quite a surprise, this indictment. there's a big movement in our country, tucker, to play down the chinese, say they're going to collapse, they are notin very smart and my own book on shiny strategies has been attacked for being conspiracy theory, that they have no plan or capability, but this indictment shows really quite stunning capabilities, to monitor conversations and shut them down within one minute if it offends the chinese government. >> tucker: it's beyond belief. it's all most like our leaders have given up. i appreciate that, dr. michael pillsbury, joining us tonight. >> thinks, tucker. >> tucker: so there's 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 want to see it, you will understand why. we will be right back. ♪

>> tucker: raphael warnock is a highly political preacher who is now running for senate in the state of georgia in one of the two races that will determine who controls the federal government. that race 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. >> this is never before seen video on "tucker carlson tonight" exclusive. raphael warnock, accused by his now ex-wife of running over her foot. here is the police body cam footage as the officer response to the scene. >> i want to file a report. >> she told an atlanta police officer her estranged husband ran over at her foot during a heated argument back in march while he was trying to leave with her young children in the

backseat. >> so you walked over. >> slime like move, she won't move, she's keeping the door open. so i might just stay in the car and i move and i close my car door, get in the car and i start to move slightly thinking she's here. >> clear. >> i'm thinking she's clear and i barely s move and all of a sudden she's screaming that i ran over her foot. i don't believe it. >> the senior pastor at ebenezer baptist church in atlanta was not charged in the incident. hospital first responders say his wife was able to wiggle her toes there was no redness, bruising or broken bones, but she had more to say about his character. >> this man is covering for united states senate and only cares about right now is his reputation. i work at the mayor's office and this is a big problem. i've been trying to be very quiet about the way that he is for the sake of my kids and his reputation. i've tried to keep the way that

he acts under wraps for a long time and today he crossed the line. that is what is going on here and he's a great actor. he is phenomenal at putting on a really good show. >> as you mentioned, tucker, he is locked in a tight runoff against republican kelly loeffler, a race that two weeks from now could develop to decide the balance of power in the u.s. senate. >> tucker: that video was unbelievable. that woman is believable. i appreciate it, rick leventhal, good to see w you. welcome anthony fauci for manygo years was a physician, a a man f science and then at some point he ascended to the level of religious figure. he hasn't yet attained the ability to heal people, so he's opted to take the coronavirusru 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 that he was asked do you have any questions or concerns, which is of course the protocol that

absolutely should happen. this is amanda probably knows more about this vaccine that almost anyone on earth. what a moment for the man who played such a role in developing that -- this vexing to get the vaccine himself. >> tucker: what a moment just to watch another person get a vaccine. just touches you. in a very private place, but if you take three steps back you can't help but notice that the people getting the vaccines 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's a question the rest of us should be asking. these are usually opaque questions. wepa don't know how these decisions are made. we tried to find out. we learned that one person over at the cdc responsible for modeling the vaccines distribution is not a

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

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

♪ >> tucker: let's say you've got elderly relatives in the commonwealth of massachusetts, and aunt for example or a grandmother in malden and you g want them to get priority access to the coronavirus vaccine. too bad, because in massachusetts, murderers and rapists are in line first. that's because state leaders. have decided to give prison inmates early access. if they will get it before senior citizens and those who are medically vulnerable. what's the making herene exactl? the man who has seen more insanity in the last year more than any other american, jason ramsey, joins us tonight to explain. what is this about do you think? >> it's about a new social justice cause. every single day this movement has a new cause and this is the newest one. it's tied to what d they generay

view the world through the social justice lens of equity. l they view people through two differentro roles. one, you have privilege. you and i, most of the people are watching and the other people who are victims. 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. they are justud throwing peoplen jail because of the color of their j skin. thus, they find themselves in positions that they are at a higher likelihood of getting covid because they're not able to sociallyin distance. so of course they should be thee ones to get vaccinated before anybody else. the mostly white elderly people in massachusetts who have the ability to actually separate from other folks.om but i mean, think about this for a moment.ry we have christmas coming up. you've got some grandmother right now who is unable to spend time with her 9-year-old grandson, not see the smile on his face as he's opening christmas gifts, over concern

due to covid but the rapist who is in jail will get vaccinated first grade that is not a social justice movement that anyone should want to be a part of and it is certainly not equitable. >> tucker: it is so sick and so dark, so wrong, so contrary to american ideals and traditions that it's going to have massive consequences. we are not thinking throughout thee country is going to look like ifg we keep up with this. jason rantz, thanks for explaining 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, it's a pitiful place. there are many others, but the federal government has, for decades, intentionally desecrated our cities with bad architecture. not architecture that is in bad taste buried architecture that is designed to offend and alienate you. it's ugly on purpose for ideological reasons that is an attack on beauty, which in thee end is one of the most important

things. beauty, it matters. nobody says that but it's true buried in washington there's the j. edgar hoover fbi building on pennsylvania avenue. it wrecks the day of everyone who walks past. in cincinnati there is something called the john wealth peck federal building. it houses the internal revenue service. for john weld pack. it doesn't matter what he did on this earth, he didn't deserve a building like that. the new bureau of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms building in washington built in 2008 is absolutely hideous. it's horrifying. who's in charge of making our public spaces disgusting? i well, we are not exec was sure, but president trump wants to fix it. yesterday he issued an executive order promoting -- and here's an idea -- beauty and architecture, and federal buildings. new buildings says the order should "uplift and beautify public spaces and inspire the human spirit." you wouldn't think anyone would have to issue an order commanding that, but we do and thank god he did.

what does this mean? and why should you care? chris bedford is a senior editor of "the federalist," he joins ui tonight. thanks so much for coming on. we spend almost no time talking about beauty, aesthetics, the quality of our public spaces. we should. tell us what this order will do. >> we absolutely should. winston churchill said -- to paraphrase, we build our buildings and afterwards they shapeld us because they are part of our civilization. o they connect us with our forefathers with our national values, with what justice means. you look at an old-fashioned courthouse, supreme court, you know that's a place for justice. you look at a new federalst courthouse, nowadays it's very difficult to see that and i unle ase book where you can choose to pick it up and read it or unlike even a painting where you can choose to go see it at them as em, this is civic architecture, its public space and it's in ous public square either attacking us everyday or uplifting as everyday.

now, president trump has removed this from the experts for the first time in about 60 or so years. without rule by experts in architecture where they are deciding what is beautiful and 70% or more than 70% of americans according to a poll by the national civic's art society this ball find architecture to be much more uplifting. we had a tyranny of experts, which sounds pretty familiar looking through the covid years were no one else was been allowed to have an opinion except for architects until nowh >> tucker: i mean, what does it tell you about our ruling class that they consider like frank gary a genius? you really have to be like a new money poser moron to look at a frank gary building and say that's beautiful, that's really impressive.i it is kind of a species of abstract art designed to challenge rather than uplift.he the whole thing is a sham, is it not? >> it's is a sham. i mean, the people who built a lot of this architecture named it themselves. they called it brutalism. i know that's not what gary does but at least with the brutalist seer, they are upfront about it.

this is steel and its cement. it's not drawn back from the cathedrals of europe, it's drawn back possibly to the flack towers of germany duringacin world war ii. it's unbelievable. they had gary build a monument to eisenhower in washington, d.c., recently. so the plan was to design a monument to frank gary himself. when he got pushed back from the family and's from some better architects than him, he decided to basically take his name off of it. you can barely even find it anywhere, so now it's difficult to discern who it's a monument to it all and it won't even be seen by most people unless it's pointed out as the homeless camp it's already become. >> tucker: i don't want them laughing. later generations are going to look back on the people who built these buildings withth tol contempt. total, and it will be well-earned. it's great to see you tonight, chris bedford,at thank you. >> merry christmas, tucker. >> tucker: merry christmas. earlier in this hour we told to the president had attacked the corona relief bill coming out of the congress because it didn't give enough money directly to

americans. he proposed to grand. minutes ago, the house speaker nancy pelosi announced that she agreed with the president after apparently following his twitter feed and pledged the house would bring his proposal to the floor by the end of the week and we will follow that story as it develo 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 the last few years joins us after the break.e they will tell us where it's going and what we might learn from the durham investigation. remember that? what's in it? you may find out. just a second. ♪

'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 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 onn 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 will be back tomorrow. tammy bruce in for sean. >> tammy: thank you, everyone, and welcome to this 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 relief bill,