it was just the right thing to do. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight." merry christmas. if you're spending the final days of 2020 with the ones you love, congratulations. that wasn't easy. a lot of powerful people tried to force you to remain cut off from your family, unable to worship, sad and solitary state. they told you we had to be alone because the other coronavirus. of course, it's more than that. there's something about christmas that drives a certain sort of bureaucrat completely nuts. maybe it's all the unregulated joy. maybe the idea of small independent families following

their own cheerful customs only from centralized control. who knows? but whatever it is, the impulse has been around for a long time. 100 years ago, america faced on another global pandemic, the spanish flu. then, there was never any evidence that christian holidays played a significant factor in the virus. troop movements around the world but the authorities attack christmas anyway. be aware of the mistletoe, wrote the director of the ohio state n december of 1918. it'll show your love for dad and mother, brother and sister, and to stick to your own homes instead of paying annual christmas visits holding family reunions and parties generally. no celebrating, they said, science has spoken. but people celebrated anyway. the human spirit persisted and sustained by the very human need for fellowship and warmth. the familiar touch of the human

being. stories in 1918 remained packed with christmas shoppers. as one newspaper reported at the time "to the churches were especially well attended this year by worshipers thankful for the safety of love ones." public officials at the time he did all of this, they wanted lockdowns. but the public wanted to live and so they did. 100 years later, not much changed. the one thing that's very different is democracy itself. leaders no longer pander to the public, they no longer feel the obligation to convince the rest of us of much of anything. they ignore their own rules and when they are caught they feel no shame. they tell half-hearted lies, they don't even expect you to believe. they don't care. this summer, the federal government released a video bragging about how much they have lied to you. remember those ventilators that we urgently needed here in this country that people would die without? of the ventilators, remember those? what happened to them? here's where they went.

♪ when a crisis arises, america acts. you can see the guitar riffs. not acting in our own interest, that was flying 1,000 ventilators to indonesia, a faraway country. average cost per ventilator, $20,000. up to our elected leaders it was a bargain because the indonesians when taking the ventilators off her hands, they were erasing evidence of our leaders and competence. ventilators work in there in indonesia. this kind of thing is so, now that nobody notices. the video you just i was uploaded to youtube back in september by the u.s. air force. the grand total of 75 views. two of them from the producers.

the rest are probably from indonesians wondering what the big cargo plane was doing unloading medical equipment they did not need. no one thought it was remarkable. but it was remarkable. a few months ago the political leaders who united on one point and it turned out to be wrong, the point was we don't have enough ventilators and tens of thousands of people are going to die unless we pay for more ventilators right now. >> we are sending 400 ventilators. really? when am i going to do with 400 ventilators? when i need 30,000? you pick 20,000 people were going to die. >> tucker: well, thousands of people did die in new york. that they died in nursing homes because of the man you just saw, governor andrew cuomo. but not a single person died because we did not have enough ventilators, not in new york, not anywhere. but forget that. it's not important, they will tell you, think about the

indonesians we are saving despite the fact they don't need the ventilators either. why did they tell us things like this? because if they never tell the truth, it's hard to tell when they are lying. remember when we learned about the medical shipment in new york city back in march, the comforts, wasn't exactly a subtle arrival. were told we needed it desperately and every member of the 1200 member crew, every one of the thousand hospital beds. this was a crisis, the experts told us, we had to bring out the big guns. >> where expecting up to 50 patients a day to be admitted on board the comfort. were talking about some 1,000 hospital beds, but the greatest ad sites are the 1200 medical personnel. of nurses surgeons, doctors all up and down the east coast. >> tucker: okay, we knew much less then we know now but what's infuriating nobody ever goes back and compare his reality. you heard the estimates, 50

patients a day. by the time the ship left, four months later, the comfort traded 182 people in a month. not 50 a day. just on the street from the comforts of the army corps of engineers converted the convention center into a hospital. thousands of the beds went unused. how much did that cost you? has anyone bothered to ask the question? no, no one's ever asked because no one cares. for the last half of the year, the government did more to help indonesians then small business owners in the country, the ones actually paying their taxes. at a certain point, the question becomes why are they still paying their taxes? is there a reason why any small business owner, any restaurant owner, and would send a single dime to the eternal revenue? there praying property tax, paying police who can't do their jobs, and they're doing it for

the benefit of politicians who explicitly hate them. they're getting nothing in return. why are they paying their taxes? people like her are beginning to ask the question. if she's a single mother who owns a bar and restaurant in minnesota, a small town with a total population 448. at times, she also opens her restaurant for nondenominational church services. those are two mortal sins in modern minnesota. allowing people to eat and allowing people to worship. for doing those things, the state of minnesota is finding her hundreds of dollars a day. they suspended her liquor license. meanwhile, indian casinos which are not paying the taxes that she is, are allowed to operate like there's no pandemic at all. how is this happening? what's the scene inside havens garden, this dangerous restaurant? wire officials in minnesota so determined to destroy it and

her? we took a look around and there's no violence inside, no one's throwing rocks spray painting buildings, or chanting blm slogans, maybe if they were the place would stay open. this is what minnesota officials consider it clear and present danger to the safety of their state. ♪ that case is not unusual, we've talked to many business owners. all over the country and they told us the same story. dave moore in the upper midwest for example tried for months to keep his business open. it's called dnr's daily cafe. he's got no help from the government and instead government officials worked overtime to destroy him. he's had it. watch. >> several months of frustration and i think i'm speaking for a whole lot of millions and

millions of americans, i'm speaking for here. our so-called leaders using our tax money to pay themselves while their instilling policy to ruin our businesses and lives. not making much sense to me and after months and months of watching this, they put me in a position where you know you can only be backed in a corner so far, we've got to come out and find a little bit. >> tucker: that man was calmer than he probably is inside, and he put it crisply. you can only be backed in the corner so far. in some cases, that's literally true. true in september when the school resource officer tasered a woman ohio for the crime of watching her son's middle school football game in the stands. she wasn't wearing a mask, now she wasn't sitting near anyone. if she hurting anyone. but the authorities decided the safest course of action was to assault her violently in front of her child. >> get off of me! it off of me!

i'm not doing anything wrong! get off of me! what the [bleep] is wrong with you! get off of me! you're not arresting me for nothing! >> come on! >> taser, wow. >> teasing this lady over and over. >> tucker: noticed none of the other men in the stands did anything to stop it. now we try to suspend judgment in moments like this, people make mistakes under pressure and week of the benefit of the doubt particular to malt law enforcement but there's no way to watch the video and be appalled because it's disgustin. authorities elected leaders in the state of ohio were not embarrassed when the video came to light and in fact they went ahead and pressed charges against alicia kit. the crime of watching a football game sitting alone without

wearing a mask. the pretrial hearing last month, to her great credit she refused to a plea deal. she knows she did nothing wrong, she didn't topple a statue, she didn't loot a store, torch wendy's. she believes this country she ought to watch her son play football. her trials and parenting my january come i hope she'll come on the show it's infuriating. it's not sustainable over time. tonight, we will devote most of the hour to highlighting the story so people like alicia and dave morris, people wouldn't go along with this. who stood up for their freedom even in the face of profound personal and financial cost. these people would not have been lawbreaker six months ago, we force them to become that. but before we get to their story, we want to take it back

to christmas 1918. many ways, 1918 was a very different time, in harsher world back then. no internet to entertain us, huber eats her door -- to bring us food. modern medicine was a long way off and people died of minor infections. at the same time, millions of americans were confronting the very same things today. a global pandemic, government imposed lock downs, financial ruins and then sometimes death. this is why the british newspaper said to its audience at the time. "for life on this old planet will always be a struggle and for most of us, a bitter and triumphant struggle. to all our readers, a happy christmas and a bright and hopeful new year." well put. we send the same wishes to you tonight. adam corolla is the author of "i'm your emotional support animal."

we thought a lot about the effects of the lockdowns and we've been talking to you, adam corolla, since the first day these went into effect an hour at the end of the year, nine months later. what's your assessment? >> it said small business owners have to become essentially the french underground. because big business and big attack and big government are all sort of colluding to squash small businesses. i think our last chance for small businesses and small business standing up. >> tucker: the french underground. how long did it take you to connect those dots? so many things have been that once. we had the arrival of the coronavirus, the lockdowns, the blm riots. how long did it take you to kind of figure out that this was the big against the small, the powerful against the week? >> i didn't think about it until

last night when i was watching an episode of hogan heroes and then it came together for me. >> tucker: [laughs] i'm glad i asked you that question, what a great show. how do you think we're going to come out of this? >> well, people are going to have to stop apologizing and people have to stop apologizing in this country for everything. somebody figured out on the left if you accused people of endangering other people by being selfish, by opening your business for outdoor dining, if we call everyone a racist or xenophobic, homophobic, we can get everyone to shut up. and it worked for a long time. but at some point, the people who were getting their finger wag at them constantly come on talking about taxpayers, parents, business owners, these people got to stand up and go, fine. call me a racist, call me xenophobic. sam endangering people. i'm no longer apologizing, i

don't care what the twitter mob says anymore. you're the boy who called wolf who called racism, who called everything. at some point, we're going to hit a saturation point and the people, the honest people, the hardworking people in the business owners are just going to have to rise up and go i don't care what you call me. >> tucker: that's right. thi was getting emotional listening to say that. i hope you have a merry christmas, thank you. >> thanks, tucker, merry christmas. >> tucker: back in april, we did a unexpectedly remarkable interview and talk to a man called rick savage, the owner of the brewing company in western maine. at times, state officials told rick savage he needs to close his business for health and safety reasons. of course, walmart and home depot another big box stores were allowed to remain open because they were the ones who send money to politician. it's how science works. but rick savage, alone among

business owners did not go along with it and he came on this show and announced he planned to defy the orders. >> so, we've had enough of it come over encouraging all businesses to open up. we should never have been shot down in the first place. we need to open back up or were going to lose a third of our restaurants. who knows how many motels and other businesses. if you were advocating for everybody, not just my restaurant, it's time to go back to work. >> tucker: for the crime of saying that in public, for complaining, and means incompetent governor shannon mills made it her mission to destroy rick savage's life. she took away his liquor licen license, reopen the courts so they could find rick savage. eventually, she had the restaurant shut down completely. rick savage still lives in mai maine. he still standing, joining us tonight with an update on where his life is now. thank you so much for coming on.

where is your life now? you really, really took a lot of abuse for that episode on the show. where are you tonight? >> well, tucker, we don't have any licenses, we got shot down for two weeks for the food license and a month for a liquor license. a day before we were going to open back up and start food, the human health services sent us an email that they were never going to give us our license back again which expired december 19th. we've been in court over that. right after that, a liquor license at they're not going to give us the license again and stated that it was because of our character. we are in court and the judge asked the assistant district attorney with the merit was behind on giving us the license back on the health side and she said because they think were going to violate it in the future. >> tucker: your character. if they don't like you, you can operate a business in the state. looking back on this and back to april, if you had taken the course so many others took witches sort of eat the bullet

and go along with it and take the orders, not respectfully to the authoritarian in charge of the state, you would have your restaurant open right now. do you regret telling the truth in public? >> not at all. we are standing strong and were going to open back out. we are actually opening going to run back. were not going to serve alcohol until the 30th of december because that's what the court order was and then were going full force business as usual. actually going to put the pandemic behind us and try to do business as normal. >> tucker: it seems like they had to crush you, they had to try to wreck your life because if they allowed you to complain in public, maybe others would do the same thing. do you feel singled out? >> no delaware singled out, we had 35, 40 inspections, undercover agents, now there's a 9:00 curfew they've been outside my restaurant to see if are going to close at 9:00. i haven't been there but there watching my stuff come out of the kitchen to make sure they

have masks on. it's out of control and everybody in the state of maine is ready to go back to work and move on in the future and get covid behind us and honestly, this lockdown is just killing the state of maine. >> tucker: if you can survive this, man, it will be an inspiration i think not just to your state but to the rest of the country. were rooting for you, rick savage, merry christmas and thank you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: earlier this year, the people in charge decided to nullify every part of the bill of rights, freedom of assembly, the right to defend yourself, freedom of speech. it just amount of time before religious liberty was eliminated and has been. threatened if he had mass at church, he did not obey and he fought back. we will tell you how he did.

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♪ >> tucker: welcome back to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight." again, it's hard to believe this can happen in this country but it has. earlier this year, officials in new jersey threatened a priest with jail if he held mass in his church. the priest was kevin robinson, catholic priest at the st. anthony church. robinson responded by filing a lawsuit against the governor in jersey, phil murphy. he joins us tonight with a update on where things stand. and thank you so much for coming on. you're a priest and part of your job is to help people worship their god and you try to do it in the state threatened to arrest you any filed suit. where are you now? >> well, thank you for having me back on and i appreciate everything you said. so, we shut down for two months, but i went on saturdays to confessions, counseling.

harassment for many local authorities. if we pentecost at the met end of may ends of the outdoor services, then we moved back into the church with distancing and people started coming. more than double the congregation, were still keeping some distancing. we've been very blessed and your program was phenomenal. it was a big help. you may remember her within the week of your program, the president called for the reopening of the churches. the governor has been modifying his executive orders. the latest numbers were hundred and 92. he even admitted that the first amendment should be taken into account in the freedom of religion respected. there are some real good news since then. >> tucker: i'm amazed by what you just said to come of the size of your congregation has doubled. we've seen some teeter on the

edge of going under. but yours has doubled and why do you think that is? >> people are looking for the truth, holiness, some courage, conviction. other churches are very restricted, if not closed altogether and the people who come to us are very grateful. if you may have heard the supreme court's just this last week. >> tucker: so many churches have not done what you did. witches gently resist and stand on principle, and rights as americans. what's your superior saying what you did? >> he was really happy that the lawsuit went through and we should open. other of her own churches had to close, longer than we did, but we were able to get back on board. the local police donated many gallons of hand sanitizer and they've been good to us. we've had lawyers and police in the parish and some really good

people. the thomas more society, god bless them, took us all the way to the supreme court's. if you know what happened just last week. >> tucker: yes. >> yeah, the supreme court, they said simply you must treat churches as favorably as secular to contain the virus. at the end of november, there was the brooklyn decision. the supreme court vacated the local district court's refusal to grant us the injunction which we thought was an unfair invitation rate of churches, 25% capacity. if secular businesses and schools can be 100% or 50%. the supreme court now requires the district ought to reconsider its clearly false decision then that's where we're at now. >> tucker: thank you for doing that, not just for the congregation the country. a father robinson, thank you for

coming on tonight. >> thank you for promoting us. it's wonderful blessing for many people think dear promotional truth. >> tucker: it's heartfelt. i promise you that. father robinson, thank you. earlier in the show we told you about a particularly brave business owner whose defying state orders to shut down. he joins us after the break to tell his story. ♪

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of "tucker carlson tonight." >> tucker: sometimes the hypocrisy of the people in charge is so glaring, so completely over the top and flamboyant, it makes your head spin and it doesn't seem real. we found earlier this month when a californian restaurant owner reported this video. >> everything i moaned is being taken away from me and they set up the moving company right next to my outdoor patio. tell me that this is dangerous, but right next to me as a slap to my face. that safe. >> tucker: that's the story of so many small business owners across the country is struggling to survive lockdown orders. she is one of them, she owns the restaurant and small town minnesota, defying the shutdown order and joins us tonight.

thank you so much for joining us. so, you're in this little town in minnesota, you have a restaurant, you open it from time to time to nondenominational church services. i don't think anyone has gotten the coronavirus in your establishment but the state of minnesota's trying to shut you down. where are they trying to do that to you? >> the truth is i have no idea. you know they're open, this casinos are open and they have full dining. the governor has the authority to close them down. under the usc code 2521. my lawyers are going equal protection and the 14th amendment. i have no idea why they're trying to shut small businesses and restaurants down. neither of my businesses are able to be open. >> tucker: it's just heartbreaking but it's also infuriating because they taxes

you pay are the lifeblood of the people trying to destroy you. you're finding them to wreck your life and apply the law unequally. why are you still paying your taxes? sincere question. >> good question. we pay it's because that's what americans do, you know, we try to pay our taxes on time but as of right now we can't because we have no income coming in. i'm so glad you brought it up because you know i had a car to date hearing last wednesday and the state was arguing the reason why the reservations could stay open is because they have to pay taxes but they don't collect taxes, they have to feed their family. the judges even said, isn't that the thing that what she's arguing for? that's why i was so confused when she rolled against me. we are in the same boat, were all fighting to survive. i don't understand why our government is picking winners and losers. up to me, everyone is essential

and every life is essential. i don't understand and you can see the blatant disrespect that he has for small businesses. even the airports, but the airports, they are open. the restaurants in the airports, you can sit and eat. it's no different and i wish i can answer these questions like i wish i could say this is the reason why. >> tucker: right. to speak but there's no rhyme or reason for it. i don't know how to answer that. >> tucker: you answer the big question which is every life is essential and that's exactly right. if you go into something with that in mind. i don't want to make you paranoid but has it occurred that may be the people who own the airport restaurants or the casinos on the reservation may be bigger donors to these politicians than you are? >> exactly, we all know. we like to talk about it but not in public. but we know it's what's going on. big corporations, walmarts, they get to stay open when a small

mom-and-pop businesses are struggling. i get calls from other businesses every single day telling me i'm losing everything unknown here losing everything. we're calling on our governor to do something about it and he just puts more and more restrictions on us and we don't understand. we are allowed to open outside in the cold of minnesota winter. i don't really understand what our governor things and of course he's not from minnesota and the government doesn't understand the weather pattern. i'm sorry, i don't get it. >> tucker: man, i hope you do as much media as you can because you have a powerful voice on this topic. i dig it will affect others. thank you for coming on i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> tucker: no one says it out loud but on some deep level all of us know what. death is coming for all of us. with that in mind, how should we live? mike rowe of all people is one

of the few public figures who thought about it and we'll talal

♪ >> tucker: welcome back to a special edition of "tucker carlson tonight." if government officials across the country has embraced the chinese model in respond to the wuhan virus. in doing that they put millions of federal americans out of work. earlier this month we talked to a man who thought a lot about work, mike rowe, and he explained another approach, not something to work but to life. if it turned out to be one of the more interesting conversations we had this year so we asked him to come back and expand a little bit.

if mike rowe is the host of one of the biggest shows in digital media. called returning the favor airs on facebook and the way i thirdd it. mike, great to see a period of safety authority, those have been reverberating in my head ever since you were on. i'm wondering as people go into new year's and how they want to approach 2021. translate the idea into some of the posture they should bring with them into the new year. >> sure, we have a tendency in our culture to overreach with every single thing we try and correct. we always go too far. safety first bromide, the platitude, the trope has been with us for a long, long time. it relies primarily on of the attempt to improve occupational safety. the emphasis, whenever you see a safety first banner and sit through a safety first

presentation, what you're going to see is a lot of emphasis on rules, regulation, and compliance. of course, just because you're in compliance doesn't mean you're out of danger. that's one of the great lessons from "dirty jobs" and something most people don't disagree with who've been out there in the world. saying safety third is not to suggest that we should engage in risky behavior that's not necessary, it's just an attempt to inject a bit of personal responsibility into the equation. because the unintended consequence of saying safety first to a worker over and over and over again and again and again, the unintended consequence of telling your customers for instance that their safety is their top priority is to create a level of complacency that ultimately negates the role of responsibility when it comes to coming home in one piece. that's the basis of the conversation. i put it on masks because i love

the irony of a cloth mask that says safety third that allows you to be in compliance, but in fact will probably not keep a microscopic germ from getting into your system or out. >> tucker: [laughs] that's one of the subversive things i've heard in a long ti time. well, safety third -- >> it gets better. >> tucker: okay, go ahead. >> it's not just subversive, it that's actually diabolically opportunistic and capitalistic because we've sold thousands to raise money for our work ethic scholarship program. we have over $300,000 come in as a result of selling safety third masks. to people who understand that tn compliance even if, in fact, they are not entirely out of danger. it's opened up a mind-boggling conversation online and yeah, thanks for starting it.

it kept the conversation lively. >> tucker: it also suggests, like, there's another point to life distinct from just preserving it. like you have to live it at some point too. >> the funny thing that happened and you and i talked about it last, we mentioned in passing, an essay by c.s. lewis called how to live in the atomic age where he answered -- he answered this similar question back in 1948. people were saying how are we supposed to even function knowing that the bomb is out there? and that people have the bomb. of course, the answer is the same way you function when you don't know if the vikings are going to show up on your shore with swords. and pillage and do all the -- this thing, this thing we've dealt with this year is a very serious thing, but it's one more thing. it's not a new thing. it even though we call it novel. it's another thing that can frighten us, terrify us, put us

in a place where for a brief period, we will treat our safety like it's the most important thing. but fundamentally, tucker, were not a safety first nation. we are of safety third nation. we might take steps and do something along the way to focus on our long-term preservation and that is smart. but it's not sustainable. you can't live your whole life as if the entire purpose of your existence is to merely stay alive. >> tucker: i don't know how it felt to you become one of america's most important philosophers, but i'm glad it has. i really am. >> it's kind of a big deal. thank you. >> tucker: [laughs] merry christmas. >> you too. >> tucker: the question is, you can't have a lockdown order without enforcement and many of the orders are completely illegal. how much longer will police officers and force them? that's become a real concern for some of our elected officials and we talked with one who already refused to enforce

blatantly illegal orders. we go to a restaurant that has a very important message to the people in

welcome back to a special edition of tonto national tucken tonight. we learned earlier that deborah birx broke her own rules, ones she was to abide by, in order to spend time with family at the vacation

properties. need another example of ruling class telling you what to do and then doing the opposite? there you go. the hypocrisy raises a question. how much longer are we going to control rate this? not much longer. when andrew cuomo restricted gatherings to ten people, several sheriffs said they wouldn't enforce it because it was illegal. one was the richard giordino, and he joins us with an update on how it's going for him. sheriff, thank you for coming on. when you were last on you explained in your view this was an illegal order and you are bound by the law and conscience not to enforce illegal orders. what happened next? where are you now on this? >> well, where i am now -- it's interesting. within a week the supreme court ruled as the father said you can't restrict the religious organizations to ten people and have the strip clubs and bars with 50 people. >> right.

>> same thing i was saying. you can't take an executive order and pretend it's a law to police people's homes. as you saw across the country, many law enforcement officers, sheriffs, chiefs, stood up and said look, it's unconstitutional, it's illegal. part of it is they spent six months telling us that law enforcement is bad. law enforcement needs to be reformed. law enforcement gets up in the morning and they want to hurt people. now we are sending them to your house to how many people you have at thanksgiving. that makes no sense. >> so, basically you are telling the same story we keep hearing again and again. you were one of the rare people to stand on principal and law to say i'm not going along with the program. you were vindicated in the end. why didn't more people do this in your position? >> i think some people are afraid to stand up. i got some criticism from some corners. it's interesting, we are

experiencing the post-thanksgiving surge that we were going to have across the country. the same people who believe dr. birx, dr. fauci and the c.d.c. about the surge and the doubling of the deaths, they are saying you told people to gather and have big parties. i did not. i said we are not going to use law enforcement to overreach by governors and government people across the country. what is interesting the common theme they want you to submit. when we were kids and they wanted you to say "uncle." it's do as i say, not as i do. if you don't, we'll come after you. yeah. if you don't, they will come after you. good luck to you. i hope you are okay. they don't like it when you disobey. and we're grateful you did. be careful. >> can i say one thing? >> of course. >> i want to acknowledge and i want to wish merry christmas and happy holidays to all the law enforcement officers the 800,000 plus in this country every day go out and do their job. we do it after people spit on

us and ambush us in the police cars, try to kill us. say that we are racist and want to shoot people. the next day we get a 911 call and the law enforcement goes. they don't care what your race is, what your religion is, or your politics or gender. merry christmas to you, tucker. congratulations on being the third most influential member of the media in this country. keep doing good work. thank you, sir. >> i appreciate, sheriff. thanks a million. merry christmas. >> thank you. merry christmas. >> well, officials in new york still staying up late to figure out how to destroy the pesky businesses called "restaurants." they banned indoor dining and sent out cops to chase down bar owners in staten island. but a few are unbowed and one in particular. tyler hollinger opened his restaurant festival in the middle of the lockdown. act of boldness in itself. he joins us from the outdoor dining cabana with a message to the people trying to destroy his livelihood. great to see you.

your cabana looks great. merry christmas. tell us your message. >> merry christmas to you, tucker. all i got to say is that, you know, the new yorkers are resilients and they are strong. just like the individuals you listed in the intro. we are not going to stop. we aren't going to stand up or lay down. we will do what we need to do to survive. we have pivoted here. to offer not only probably the safest experience. but als new york city. right now. right now i'm standing live in the warmest table setup in all of new york city. this here is the personal heated holiday chalet. it's delightful and a merry christmas. [laughter] >> i never use the word "pluck" or "moxie" but you have them both in spades. how is it paying off? are you going to be able to stay open? are you going to survive this?

>> you know, only time is going to tell whether or not. but we're booked. we are very fortunate to be booked. because we have created a great community. this neighborhood, this area of the upper east side where we are in is filled with the caring, loving, warm individuals who come and they support us. whether they support us on the gofundme page or they buy gift cards for people who come later on to redeem them for cocktails. tucker, we have a cocktail here called "the vaccine" and it's flying off the shelves. we are distributing more vaccines than pfizer and it's amazing to see the response. >> no one is afraid of your vaccine. tyler hollinger, merry christmas! congratulations. >> no, no. tucker, with any good vaccine, a lot of testing is required. [laughter] >> i love that. you are doing it longitudinally. good job. great to see you.

>> merry christmas, tucker. >> merry christmas. and to you. and a happy new year. we'll be back soon. in the meantime, keep the ones you love close. ♪ >> associate the press reports federal investigators identified a person of interest in connection with christmas day bomb that exploded yesterday in downtown nashville good evening i'm jon scott and this is the "fox report." ♪ >> authorities in the national suburb tennessee with a person of interest in connection with bombing bombing that according to the ap. bomb went off inside an rv parked outside an at&t communications building. destroying multiple buildings heavily damage manager causing cell phone outages all across the city at least three people hospitalized in stable condition. experts