♪ >> good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." i mark steyn. tucker is out this evening. a couple of hours ago the house of representatives increased the individual payment in the so-called covid relief bill from $600 to 2,000. enjoy it while you can. the senate won't vote for that, so we'll be back to that lousy 600 bucks, but instead of getting it next month, the following month, the first day of baseball season, they'll be arguing about it through the new year, so the lousy 600 bucks will be going out, oh, second quarter, third quarter, the first ramadan after the next boxing day.

600 bucks to cover the last eight months, works out to $75 per month, which is pretty competitive with, say, the average congressman's grade schoolers allowance. webs, no, actually it isn't. 2019 average american kids allowance, $120 per month. but that's the turf where playing on. you're the child, there the grown-ups. 600 bucks from big nanny and in return, all you got to do is be grounded forever. >> health experts have warned about the dangers of traveling right now due to covid-19. yet millions of americans are ignoring that advice. >> on this covid christmas, america's airports are packed full of people. >> images of so many air travelers are fueling fears we will in fact see another surge. superimposed on the surge and dark january days ahead. >> more travelers than you can imagine packing airports and many people that are going on those vacations are going to die at the end of january.

>> mark: you're going to die at the end of january, so the laugh is on you. you're going to die before you even get that lousy 600 bucks and when you do, they're just going to add it to the $13 million they are sending to libya to build a center and benghazi and that will show you. >> why have so many couples prioritized a party over human life? >> there are incentives for people to be selfish. we have people in power who are encouraging people to be selfish, who are promoting reckless reopening policies. >> and you point out, i'm going to read part of your article, call the wedding stupid or selfish if you want, i can't argue with either characterization but they aren't weber aberrant, is nothing more american than a gaudy, expensive party that kills people. >> mark: there's nothing more american than a gaudy, extensive party that kills people, so the six murderous -- sick murderous like a wedding with dad dancing

with his lovely daughter to some shimmering tune and the rustle of catheter under the lights of the glitter ball, instead, do the responsible thing and have an emotionally endless, casual hook up with a random stranger you met on the internet. as his holiness, the infallible fauci recommends. >> if you're swiping on a dating app like tinder or bumble or grinder and you match with someone and you just kind of like maybe find it this one stranger comes over. what you say to that person? >> you know ever but he has their own tolerance for risks and it depends on the level of the interaction that you want to have. you're looking for a friend, sit in a room, put a mask on. and chat a bit. if you want to go a little bit more intimate, well, then, that's your choice, you go at your own risk. >> mark: there's nothing i enjoy more than dr. fauci talk about hooking up. that is awfully generous of the infallible fauci and our rulers in the united states congress considering that experts are now warning of a new strain of

covid-related super mega hyper gonorrhea. dear me, i do apologize. if you're just sitting down to eat, i am so sorry for putting you off your dinner by using the truly disgusting phrase, the united states congress. now back to super mega hyper gonorrhea. after eight months of wall-to-wall hookups, do you feel you may be a deserve a night off, perhaps a romantic dinner for two at that candlelit corner table in your favorite california eatery mack not a chance. the golden state's shelter-in-place order is being extended, however the $700 million windfall that you the american taxpayer have generously given to the sudanese government seems to have done the trick and unleashed the awesome economic potential of sudan. chairman of the sudan policy network says sudan is finally open for business. so the good news is thanks to

the washington party, sudan is open for business. the bad news is california and new york will never be open for business ever again. if you're one of those manhattan restaurateurs who today sued cuomo and de blasio it might be easier just to reopen your elegant french bistro in a more favorable business climate, such as dongle, the upper west side of northern sudan. in other restaurant industry development, the good news is the covid relief bill has renewed the expanded deductibility of a business lunch. the bad news is you have to have a business in order to claim a business lunch and you have to live in a jurisdiction that is not criminalized lunching. speaking of -- when the flu struck sandwiches go bars and restaurants were encouraged to create attractive outdoor patio areas so they could cater to all those chief execs expensing

their free martini lunches. three weeks ago, outdoor dining was banned in the city, so those attractive patio park puts, as they're called, now stand, well, not entirely empty. san francisco's massive homeless population can't afford to do lunch, but they can do their business in there. they are now being used as bathrooms, as brian cason nagel, owner of the one jar and lounge, some guy was camping in one, i find empty cans of beer, needles, they have become homeless shelters and drug dens just like everything else in san francisco. how long has this going on for? not 15 days to flatten the curve, not 15 months to flatten everything else, but now and forever. >> you'll see, i think, in the next few weeks, but we have our own homegrown strains and we have to start thinking about adjusting the vaccine. so this is probably going to be much more like a decades long

battle that we have with the flu then a once and done battle that we've had with polio. >> mark: a decades long battle, so is he saying we just need to live with it? no. that's the same guy who says you're going to die if you visit auntie mabel for christmas. meanwhile, the infallible fauci, director of the centers for goalpost moving has a touch of the old [indiscernible]. >> you would need somewhere between 70, 75, may be 80% the population vaccinated. the number that i've been using, again, it's an estimate. you can make an extrapolation from other infection, i say between 75 and 80, 85% of the population. >> mark: okay, but it could soon be 99.99%. how does that sound for herd immunity? as long as there's one, the herd is staying home. meanwhile, what's up with the vaccine distribution? in virginia, over 6,200 people

under 30 have gotten the vaccine. only 857 virginians over 70. in massachusetts, again, 6,000 people under 30 have gotten it, but only 715 over 70 buried in a state where the average age of covid fatalities is 80 and whose laughably mislabeled long-term care facilities were turned into slaughterhouses and were some of them are once again taking in covid patients because they feel they didn't kill enough seniors last time around. still and all in troubled times. we turn to the ancient enduring truths and celebrate the birth of our savior. on christmas eve, a star appeared in the sky and the strains of joe, jim and hunter biden singing we three kings of orient investment llc, a 500 -- registered around the back of the wuhan institute of virology, drifted across the air as the

world came together to celebrate the birth of a child come to save us all. physical physical >> hey, pal, it's joe and jill biden. >> mark: if it's been a while since you've read the u.s. constitution, the line of succession is, well, the incumbent ruler is the connoisseur of contagion followed by the vice commissar, and the speaker of the centers for disease control, the president of climate change, the doctor of education of delaware and then the old guy sleeping naked in the stable in wilmington and chasing the dog around. and totally unrelated news, in the city of san francisco this year there have been 173 deaths, but 621 deaths from drug

overdoses. that's basically a 50% increase in fatal drug overdoses since last year and the additional deaths alone, 180, outnumber those 173 covid deaths, but for some reason that's of no interest to our all-powerful experts. alex berenson is a former "new york times" reporter and author of "unreported truths and no one knows more about this subject than he does. he joins us now. alex, we've been at this thing for ten months now and as california demonstrates, they still have no ideas other than lockdown. >> yes, and lockdowns don't work. masks don't work. if they did, california wouldn't be seeing 30 or 40 or 50,000 new positive tests a day. and yet, you know, the response from the public health establishment as we are just going to double down on this. we are going to ban all sorts of

stuff that seems to be totally irrelevant to the spread of the virus. you know, the virus spreads inside, it spreads -- it's airborne, wearing masks is basically irrelevant to it because the size of the virus is such that unless you're wearing a properly fitted n95 respirator or mask, it's basically useless for you. we know all this and yet it doesn't seem to matter to anybody buried or doesn't seem to matter to anybody in a public health establishment. a lot of americans seem to have made their own minds up right now unless you have more and more people on cnn, et cetera, sort of screeching at the sky telling us how terrible we are and we are all going to die when there's essentially no evidence for that either. >> mark: what's interesting -- >> we are all going to die but we are not all going to die of covid. >> mark: right, right. but even when someone does try and recommend a different approach as the three very respectable people from harvard, oxford, and i think it was

stanford did in the great barrington declaration, we now have that 86, vaporous, vanished from the internet. i don't understand the logic here. basically everyone, every nation except sweden has done a variant of the same thing and, is it -- is it that they simply can't admit they got the last ten months wrong? >> i mean, that's probably part of it. you know, the other half of it is when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. these people are not -- you know, they should not be in charge. our leaders should be in charge and they should be making decisions and it said this -- i've really been saying this for ten months. the job of a politician and our political leader is to balance everything, right? balance the needs of the business owner who split his or her life into a business and the needs of a schoolchild who should be getting face-to-face education with the needs of an 85-year-old in a nursing home. the public health establishment only cares about one metric here it seems like and that is

reducing covid deaths and they frankly have done a horrible job of that too. let me tell you how strange the public health establishment has become about this. in terms of rolling out the vaccine, it is 100% clear that the best thing to do with these mrna vaccines would be to give them really essentially only to the people who are most at risk, which is people 75 and over, 80 and over, in nursing homes or at very high risk of death in general and from covid. guess what? one of the dash there is a doctor named helen talbot. she openly said that she didn't want nursing home residents to be vaccinated first because they die so frequently that it would reduce public confidence in the vaccine if they died incidentally. by the way, what you think is dying from covid? its nursing home residents and why are they dying? a lot of them are dying incidentally, but you never hear anybody say that. we are not allowed to say that. >> mark: why are we not doing -- i mean, in germany for example, the first person they vaccinated was a survivor of the

spanish flu a century ago. i think she is 101, 102. in britain, the first person, my old pal, boris johnson, vaccinated was a telegenic -- why are we not doing that here? >> i mean, it seems pretty clear, there's this effort, where going to try to push/force health care workers into being vaccinated. is going to be a lot of peer pressure on them and that is going to roll the vaccine out successfully. the problem is there's been a number of adverse events in those groups. your hearing very little about that, media outlets are kind of trying to play that down, but the cdc has some date on its website. there have already been -- this is a blessed friday and it understates the case substantially, but there have been five life-threatening events reported related to the vaccine. we don't know -- you know, we don't know how effective the mrna vaccines are long-term. not to say that there's not a place for them, but it is to say that this effort to shove this

vaccine done everybody's throats or into everybody's arms is just -- it's just of a peace with everything else they've done with lockdowns and masks. it's we are going to overstate the efficacy here, we're going to understate the side effects and we are going to try to force this on people instead of letting people make their own reasonable decisions. >> mark: we got to run, alex. thank you for that. the government's entire response to this pandemic has been based on the belief that the virus spreads through asymptomatic carriers, that is, people who look perfectly healthy, but a new analysis in the british medical journal highlights research in wuhan that found no instances of a symptom medic spread. fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel joins us. what you make of this study, dr.? >> well, mark, i don't find it surprising, because it builds on other science that's been building up for weeks now nobody's been talking about, a symptom medic spread not being

what we expected or heard that it was. with all of the attention now, by the way, focused on the mutant strain coming out and spreading in london and everyone is panicked. no attention was paid out of a study that came out this week from the imperial college of london which showed no spread in the air and hospitals. in other words, everyone thinks if they walk into a hospital they're going to suddenly get afflicted by covid from the air, but there's actually very, very little of that. not only hospitals though. beyond hospitals, get this, mark, early in a pandemic, we all heard the number, 81% of the cases are a symptom medic. 81%. recent studies, and this was reviewed in the revered journal nature, it's actually 17%. huge study out of australia looking at multiple other studies, 17%, and that includes about eight or 9% of people that are about to have symptoms, so 8% causing a zombie apocalypse? where people are walking down

the streets, looking around to see if the person next to them could could afflict them? all of this based on 8% and another study showed a huge study just showed out of switzerland that you're only about 25% is likely to spread covid if you're a symptom medic or presymptom medic, so 75% more likely if you actually have symptoms, so all of this brings me back to what my best source, an original source of medical intuition told me. my grandma ida. my grandma ida said to me, mark. she said watch out, mark, for people who are coughing and sneezing. mark. >> mark: yes, that's very true. as they used to say in war time coughs and sneezes spread diseases. if you're not coughing internet sneezing, maybe there's less to be worried about. dr. siegel, thank you, as always, for that. "the new york times" is helping

a teenager destroy a classmate's life because she uttered a racial slur when she was 15 years old. the great candace owens is standing by on that. live, "tucker carlson tonight" special continues. ♪

♪ >> mark: every major religion has some means of forgiveness for people who do something wrong. unfortunately, the new religion of wokeness doesn't allow for forgiveness and redemption, doing something insensitive or offensive makes you a bad person permanently. one high schooler in virginia found that out the hard way. one of her classmates waited for her to be accepted by university before publicly releasing a social media video in which she used a racial slur. the video went viral and destroyed her life. she was forced to withdraw from her college and was kicked off a cheer team. she was publicly humiliated on the internet and by the press. in "the new york times" gleefully piled on to rejoice in her plight. candace owens has some thoughts

aboute. the story and she joins us, always great to see candace. this is a harsh and unforgiving world. i would not want to be 15 years old again in this new world, candace. >> i couldn't agree with you more, i feel positively blessedi that i grew up without twitter and social media where these things could be captured and childrenhi are low mike no longr allowed to grow up and be children. let me just say this about the story, it really is indicative of just how far we are diving into this culture. when adults are aiding this culture beyond just trying to destroy adults,st be on "the new york times" just trying to destroy conservatives, republicans and finding tweets from 25 years c ago. now they're going after children. were talking about a girl who's 15 years old and it should be set for clarification that she used the slur not directed towards black people, that meant to be derogatory but she used it to be cool, right? so she said this in the same context that rappers say this word all the time, cardi b, a

woman of the year, she's also not black, she's hispanic, drops this word virtually after every line in every song that she has. so this girl didn't understand the nuance that she supposed to take in the culture, think it's cool, but she can't then say that word when she's trying to say to her friend, look how cool am, i got my learner's permit. that is the actual context that she used this word. look at me, i can drive and then she used a racial slur at the end.e rather than taking this momentra to teacher nuance, nuance that i think it's foolish to begin with, we have a a bunch of aduls that are piling on and we have a child, another child who should also have been taught and stoppedho and said why are you holding onto this video for years to make sure that you can extend the most damage to a child? to me, that's completely sadistic, but that is what it is. it is sadistic.m it's not about actually trying t to heal the society of any ills. it's about going after people and trying to cause them the most public, vicious hurtful harm to them down the line and

now we have people that are part of this ecosystem being the universities being "the new york times." this is sick stuff we are talking about. >> mark: but why isar it important to take out the 15-year-old and say governor northam can dress up as a klansman or justin trudeau and climb into blackface and sing manly songs until early middle-age and then they get past and a 15-year-old girl nobody has heard of doesn't? >> that's exec rate. joe biden, things he's done, legislation he's imparted. who is the irony of the universities, you can look at any university, go back into the past and they want set policies that were actually racist, against black people, you know, against jewish people, you don't have to go back far, you can go back to the progress of error. all of these universities have a horrible history. they are not closing down the doors, they managed to forgive themselves but got a bit a 15 euro girl is growing up, trying to be cool using a word that we have allowed in the society to be culturally okay depending on what color your skin is. >> mark: depending on who --

you can't have a system -- you can't have a society where some people can use words and others can't. thank you. thank you for that i'm a candace. great to see you and have a terrific new year. up next, the bizarre case of hilario baldwin. the exotic foreign wife of actor alec baldwin, who spent years pretending to be b spanish. it turns out she's actually from massachusetts. plus, the pandemic is forcing many talking heads to broadcast from their homes and people are paying attention to the artfully arranged bookshelves behind them so that they look smarter than they are. that storyrt and more straight ahead "tucker carlson tonight." ♪ on "tucker carlson tonight

>> mark: we all love alec baldwin -- wait a minute, is thee something wrong with prompter -- on saturday night live, he placed president trump,

who is married to an exotic slovene and just like the president, alec baldwin also has an exotic misses. he married an authenticis spanid born in my your group. that's how authentically spanish he is,s, she knows how to pronounce the double l as a y sound, as she would as if she would say from massachusetts.tt she also has the hilariously authentic name of hilaria. hilaria. >> how his married life? >> married life is really nice. it feels different. it really feels different, i didn't think was going to be different but it feels very different. the. entire morning i was just walking around and before i knew that all of the photographers everyone was saying to me why are you so calm, are you so calm? and i said what is there to be nervous about? what is going to go wrong? >> mark: she likes him very much. ♪

>> mark: how authentically spanish is she? so authentically spanish that she often has difficulty remembering the english word cucumber. >> very few ingredients. tomatoes, we have a cucumber. we haveou red pepper. we have of course the critical onions. >> mark: try to remover the word for cucumber. when she's not forgetting cucumber, senorita baldwin sings her favorite spanish songs, such as avi maria... ♪ >> mark: wait a minute, that is in spanish, it's latin. close enough, you hispanic

phobic haters. in latin it means hail -- spanish means bird. that's what mrs. baldwin is being given all of her social media, the bird. it turns out hilaria, hilaria, it is plain -- plain old hillary and not even with the double l like that hillary who pretend to be named after sir edmund hillary, conqueror of everest. this hillary was born not in mallorca but in boston, boston, massachusetts, where her family has lived since the revolution. the american revolution, not any old spanish one. one appreciates that living with alec baldwin poses its challenges and one can well imagine how an otherwise well-adjusted person might retreat into a fantasy world where she's the hottie contessa from mallorca and he is the deranged certificate -- a little red bolero jacket, but it's a sad comment on our world with so many people some dissatisfied wh their own heritage.

next thing you know there will be a half indian, half jamaican raised in montreal aiming to have celebrated kwanzaa all through her childhood. full disclosure, i was actually raised in topeka, kansas, and if the show went on another 15 minutes i wouldn't be able to keep up this unconvincing acce accent. the coronavirus has forced many tv personalities to transform their living rooms into television studios and it didn't take long for these guys to realize that they could class up the joint by filling them with dusty never-opened hardcover books. here's "the new york times" in march. >> the bookcase has emerged as the o background of choice for politicians, executives, liberties, and anyone else hoping to add a touch of authority to their amateur video feeds. >> it tells us what they arehe kind of intellectually curious about, how much they are following the trends and how much they sort of have their own pursuits, but the one that

really got me is cate blanchett's complete 20 volume oxford english dictionary. you know, i think we've always thought of her as the sort o rare creature. just kind of heightened that sense. >> mark: got to love that cate blanchett. someme people are actually payig professionals to arrange and dress their bookshelves so they can look as smart as kate and they regularly show up with rows upon rows of dusty hardcovers behind them. it's turned into something of an industry in washington, d.c. steve krakauer is an editor of fourth watch and we always enjoy releasing it. i can't stand this, steve. it sums up everything that is most grotesque and pretentious and pompous and portentous about the buffoon american media. have at it. >> yeah, it is. it's not only that, but it's the perfect 2020 story to o encapsulate all of that also,

that self obsession, but also stuck at home and just looking for that validation online. you know, who on twitter is going to say that your resume backdrop was the best? it is, it is pure vanity andit honestly, it calls to mind for his twitter account i have written about. there's a guy named like room raider or something, 300,000 followers. screenshotsis take and rate the rooms of these pundits and people and reporters are they at all they do is just retweet it and share it. this is a guy who mother jones called a resistance huckster who is trying to raise money for his super pac and no one really cares. all they care about is i got a 9 out of 10 on the room rate or account. it is completely ridiculous and it is so pandemic 2020. >> mark: that's the new pulitzer. i was watching the bbc the other day, that was my first mistake, and they went to their deputy south east chief economics editor inn singapore, whatever she was, and she gave her report

and she had a bare mantelpiece, but with an empty bottle of wine actually on it as if she'd just got it down before him. and i got to tell you, i got no use from the bbc, but that seemed to be a more honest statement of where we are at ten months into this thing. >> yeah, yeah, at least you have some authenticity there instead of the officially billed backdrops or you know, reporters and editors can be sitting in their condo for their vacationsi home in cancun now and have a little fake backdrop behind them.ro it is honestly -- there is something meta-about this because here i am, a pundit opining on the pundits, but all these people who are used to getting a black car and driven to the studio and get their hair and makeup done and sitting in the chair, getting their little earpiece and, now they are just stuck at home and they are trying to make the best of their situation with their backdrop so they can get there 5 minutes of fame on cable news or on the bbc. it's a set statement or this is the media in 2020, all they're

looking for us twitter mentions in trying to get a nice little shout out from that account. >> mark: yeah, i really don't want to know what jeffrey toobin has on his bookshelf. i hope they keep that managed -- >> [indiscernible]. >> mark: [laughs] okay. i don't want to know what he's got on any of those shelves. thank you for that, steve, happy new year, merry christmas, bank holiday, post boxing day, whatever it is to you. lawmakers have included billions of dollars for special interest groups and pork barrel projects in their so-called coronavirus relief package. somehow congress prefers women serving in the afghan military to american citizens. the most outrageous examples of this phony baloney fake law coming up after the break. ♪ baloney think law after the

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♪ >> mark: our elected representatives in congress have buried all sorts of bizarre provisions into this year's bill, which includes the latest

round of so-called coronavirus relief. in addition to $600 checks for most americans, congress has banned the postal service from mailing the cigarettes and vaping fluid. they found millions of dollars for gender programs in pakistan, and a five-year study on poverty in el salvador during the legislation bands racehorse doping and creates a national center of excellence for liquefied national gas safety. those are just some of the provisions in the bill. no one read it, no one can read it, it's o nearly 6,000 pages. it passed anyway, but charlie hurt is an opinions editor at "the washington times," we haven't been so cruel as to make him read this. god almighty, charlie, it was a condition when i immigrated to this country, u.s. immigration read me promise that i would not ferment the overthrow of the united states government.

this swampy, swampy, swampy bill, i am in a fermenting mood. have at it. >> it's truly incredible when you go through the list of things that are paid for in this bill, it's enough to make you lose your mind, but i've said, to me the most appalling part of all of it is the fact they're going to give us $600 back. they're going to give us $600 back? we are supposed to say thank you for this? $600 of our money that we made? of course it ought to be a whole lot more than that in the first place, but the funny thing about this is if they want to give us our money back to fight the pandemic, how about just don't take it from us in the first place? how about that? that would be attractive. of course they will never do that because they always want the money to flow through washington so they can take their skim. then they can give it back to us and then they can stand there and wait to be thanked for them giving it to us. >> mark: oh come on, charlie. you know the old grandma 600 bucks could easily have been added to that program that lindsey graham is so excited about, whatever it is, the pilot

program for take your child bridepi to work date -- i don't- i don't understand why republicans talk as crazy as democrats about this stuff. not just lindsey graham, but what's his name, john barroso in wyoming, talks about co2 and no differently than aoc does. >> well, i mean, the truth is that they are all disastrously out of touch. and also, you know -- this is a very serious question. name for me onery single thing, one single -- you know, look around you, look at yourself, look at your neighbors. look at everybody around you. everybody has made enormous sacrifices in this past year in order to deal with the pandemic. name for me one single sacrifice that congress has made or the federal government has made to accommodate this very serious crisis. this very serious pandemic. the serious health crisis that threatens all of our lives, name

for me one sacrifice. i don't think you could pick a single one. and you look around through this entire past year, although lawlessness, all of the very angry people in the streets that are breaking the law in order to make statements about things, you know, what if america actually, the taxpayers, decided that onha april 15th there were going to do a little lawlessness of their own and just not pay their taxes? >> mark: well, you start to feel -- it's come to that. the one thing they could have done, since you ask the question, charlie, if they could've said okay, we're going to set aside the sloppiness and the pork just to show we are taking the covid seriously and i don't know why people don't actually just raise the city to the ground and if anybody misses it, with all the money was given to sudan, they can build a washington, d.c., theme park out in desert and anyone who misses it can go there and visit it. it would be great for sudanese tourism. >> the sad truth about it is, if

you did that, nobody would know it was gone for the media, no one would know the federal government was gone for about three years. >> mark: that's very true. charlie, thank you for that, have a great newew year. >> very quickly -- >> mark: hey, thank you. outdoor dining in san francisco has become a magnet for that city's booming homeless population. a live report up next. ♪

♪ >> mark: many restaurants in san francisco, california built sidewalk patios for the loud diners to eat outside. now the city has suspended outdoor dining commandos patios like everything else is being colonized by the vast populace population. the city has approved $5,000 grants to reimburse small

business owners for their sidewalk structures, but it is going to divvy the money up by race to advance the cities "equity goals." jason rantz and radio host and the expert on the dying city of the west coast. it is w with this racially targeted reimbursemente for the patios? >> it is kind of what we have dancing across the country. you slap the term "equity" in front of it and basically a path we will choose to help on the basis of race. and if we only help white people, they would be outraged. there should be outrage, that would be outrageous. this is social engineering we have too many successful businesses that are not diverse enough in san francisco so we will help the ones that are struggling.ly the problem is literally every business in san francisco like much of this country is struggling, at least if you are a restaurant. this is the perfect intersection

of thoughtless covid policy and aggressive homelessness. so you force restaurants to pay out of their own pocket for these because that is the only way to stay open and survive. using no data whatsoever to justify your position, you end up closing down the restaurants in the outdoor dining completely. what does that mean? you have the structures where homeless people are hanging out, living in, shooting up then, using as toilets and you've caused all of these problems with these restaurants that they have to clean up. t they are the ones that are going to have to take care of this. the city is letting homeless people run amok and choosing only to help certain folks.>> it is patently unfair. >> mark: why do you think anyone is still in the restaurant business in san francisco because you have got this, you know you stick the lockdown end, take the lockdown end, alec, you shake it all

about, the hokey pokey and the rules change. it was only hard-core lockdown in march. and you don't know what the modifications for next week will be. why is anyone still in business there? >> you definitely have ael lot e people in general asking that question. they came to san francisco like they come to so many different cities with the dream of opening that restaurant, opening that business. and now they find themselves in a horrible situation. they areys still in a city they love and hoping to turn around. so many of us are. they don't know what that breaking point is.fr unfortunately, due to the policies whether london buried in san francisco or any other progressive leader, you are pushing people further into thes not worth it anymore. that is a shame for the cities. the souls of these cities are on the line right now. >> mark: that is a good way to

put it, jason from a hole and the soul. thank you very much for that report for the beleaguered west coast. thanks for dialing in for this special edition of "tucker carlson tonight." tune into the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity come pomposity, smugness and groupthink. tomorrow night, we have a special report on the georgia senate candidate raphael warno raphael warnock. and about one point ahead of kelly loeffler in the polls and he is embroiled in an abuse scandal regarding a camp he wants ran in georgia. don't miss that. also, don't forget to dvr the show if you haven't set that up already. that will do it for us for the night. have a terrific evening. you are in for a treat for the next 60 minutes. luke who is in for sean hannity,

the one and only, the man, the great dan bongino. he has interrupted his celebrations to come in and take it from here.te you do celebrate, you observe boxing day, don't you, dan?an be well done mike >> who doesn't celebrate boxing day? >> mark: come on, we need $60 million in this covid a bill for a boxing day promotion program. thank you, thank you dan, have a terrific show. >> dan: you got it, mark, hav a great night. welcome t to a special edition f "hannity." we will bring you the latest from the two critical senate runoffs in georgia plus we will show you how governors are satisfying god complex with a new round of idiotic failed lockdown's. and a full report on the last cancel c