to us@jer on fnc. i'm paul gigot, hope to see you right here next week. ♪ eric: breaking news from washington at this hour. police have arrested and charged a man who they say tried to get past a checkpoint with a gun and 500 rounds of ammunition. this as tens of thousands of national guard troops are are deployed on the streets of the nation's capital, bolstering security ahead of president-elect joe biden's inauguration this coming wednesday. welcome to a brand new hour of "america's news headquarters," i'm eric shawn. arthel: hello, everyone, i'm arthel neville. police say that man was stopped close to the u.s. capitol building with a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. there is now a massive security presence in the nation's capital with roads blocked off and

barriers erected around the white house and national mall after last week's riot that -- at the capitol that left five people dead in that terror attack. former secret service agent dan emmett spoke with neil cavuto earlier today saying that attack at the capitol cannot be allowed to happen again. >> no, i don't think it's overkill, i don't think there's any such thing as overkill in a situation like this because it's just, it can't be allowed to happen again. eric: former assistant fbi director chris schrecker is with us with insider insight. casey stegall is live in austin, texas, at the capitol there. but let's start with steve harrigan who's down in d.c. with the latest on this chilling arrest. steve, what's the latest? >> reporter: that's right, eric. more questions than answers at

this point, but as you look around, you can see the levels and layers of security here. we've got metal fences, dump trucks, concrete barriers and these 8-foot-high metal fences that are going up all around the capitol to create a perimeter around the entire white house. what we know at this point is that the capitol police on friday afternoon arrested a man who tried to go through a checkpoint. that man had a handgun and more than 500 rounds of ammunition. some of those rounds for the handgun, others shotgun shells. what we don't know at this point is what were his intentions. but certainly in the wake of last week's violence, definitely unsettling news that someone with that many rounds tried to get through one of these checkpoints, and it really puts some of the security in perspective. this passive -- massive display of security with 25,000 armed national zoneses and really a -- national guard and really a green zone, it really puts into perspective when an incident like this occurs, a man with 500 rounds heading towards the scene

of previous violence. of course, we have seen a shutdown in the city. people on bikes and walking are out, but cars and vehicles mainly shut down entirely from this part of the city. they've shut down four major bridges into virginia, they've shut down metros, shut down bus stations as well, and the d.c. mayor is telling people to stay home. ordinarily, there'd be hundreds of thousands of people here to celebrate, now really barren except for a few people out to see the security on foot. eric, back to you. eric: yes, security is certainly needed, and we have heard also that that suspect who had 500 rounds of ammunition and a weapon was apparently trying to get through a checkpoint, and he had fake inaugural credentials, you know? fake, allegedly, a fake manufactured credentials, counterfeit, to get in. steve harrigan on the streets of d.c., thank you. arthel? arthel: eric, and security is on alert across the nation. texas has abruptly closed the state capitol in austin after reports this week of pro-trump

groups and extremists planning marches this weekend on capitol buildings across the country. now, we're told that unverified internet chatter seems to have calmed down, but the lone star state is not alone in taking no chances. casey stegall live in austin with details. casey. >> reporter: arthel, as you know, the fbi issued a bulletin saying that armed protests were expected not just here in austin, but in all 50 states at the respective capitol buildings. and we're not just talking about this weekend as well, but into next week leading up to the inauguration. texas department of public safety saying that it is an all hands on deck situation, adding that they have ample troopers and other officers working and able to respond to any threats. in pennsylvania orange barriers have gone up around many key entry points to the capitol grounds there in harrisburg.

while in salem, oregon, members of the national guard have been called up to provide an extra layer of security should it be necessary and should things get out of hand. >> i want to put them in the best position we can to make sure that at the end of the day they get to go back to their families. so i'm very worried about them. they are about to put it all on the line for us, for oregon and her people. so i hope that they don't get hurt. >> reporter: now national guard troops have also been deployed in other states as well like california and michigan, for example. look at this, a temporary fence has gone up around the capitol in lancing, michigan, and -- lansing, michigan, and some state office buildings have been boarded up. state officials and law enforcement groups around the country are very, very hesitant to give us any numbers, specific plans that they have because they say that, clearly, they don't want those broadcast to

anyone that might be trying to do something nefarious, and they do not want those plans or the personnel jeopardized in the any way. arthel? arthel: absolutely not. casey stegall live in austin, texas, thanks. eric? eric: arthel, for more on what we can expect next week at the inauguration and at the fortified state capitols across the country, we're joined by the former assistant director of the fbi, chris schrecker. what do you think poses the greatest threat to our nation over the next few days? >> well, as a security professional, law enforcement career person that's had to handle special events and actually lived in the green zone, i would tell you that the areas of concern now, to me, are the state capitols and the soft areas outside the inner perimeter in washington d.c. i don't think anybody's going to get inside the inner perimeter in washington with 25,000 national guard troops there and

people on top of every tall building in the area. it's going to be covered. what i'm worried about is the state capitols where each police department has different capabilities. some are trained in what we call field force operations which is, in essence, crowd control and they work as a team, others don't have that training. so i think it's going to be hit or miss out at the state capitols. and, of course, some departments have been neutered or they've been undersupported by their executives. so that, they're going to be the ones that are going to be quicker to call in the national guard because they've actually crippled their own police departments. eric: yeah. and in some cases the guard is out, and they're trying to protect those buildings as best they can. it really got out of hand, obviously, last week, and there is a lot of concern that it was a capture-kill operation, that there were plans to go in and assassinate some of the politicians, nancy pelosi, vice president mike pence. there were chants of hang mike pence. thursday u.s. attorneys in

arizona said, quote: there's strong evidence of a, quote, capture and assassinate plan for officials. but yesterday michael sherwin, the u.s. attorney in washington, he kind of backed some of that back. let's listen to what he said, and and i'll ask you about it. >> we have specialized prosecutors here working with specialized counterterrorism investigators looking at these type of organizations for these most egregious acts. but right now, again, we don't have any direct evidence of kill-capture teams. eric: so he says they don't have direct evidence. you've got prosecutors in arizona claiming that. what do authorities need, what is the point to say, you know, there could be a plan or not or if there was? >> that's fairly irresponsible for a prosecutor. there are ethics for prosecutors, federal and state. i was a state prosecutor. you really shouldn't be talking about cases that you can't make. and so i have no idea why they're out there speculating. that's what happens, you have to

back off on it. rumor is one thing, what you can prove in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt in front of a jury is something different entirely here. eric: so when you have a situation like the man who was arrested at a checkpoint allegedly with fake inaugural credentials, he has a gun, 500 rounds of ammunition. if you go to social media where people make threats, are threats enough in obviously, you could have a weapons charge with this man. what, as a former prosecutor, what do you need for intent? the how does that become a broader issue versus, you know, just someone standing there in the hallway at the at the capitol yelling about it? >> first of all, it's significant he was picked up at a checkpoint. that shows you security is working. but as a prosecutor and as a career fbi agent, i would tell you you've got to have capability. a threat is one thing, but the fbi is always walking that fine line between just exercise maybe

poor judgment exercise of first amendment rights and actual crossing the line into having the capability, making a threat, having the capability and the intention. e-mails often prove intent, writings prove intent, actions prove intelligent. there's a whole lot of things that the you can prove circumstantially. if you come through a secure checkpoint and you have weapons, ammunition, etc., there are going to be charges filed. that's enough of an intent, trying to penetrate a checkpoint armed with all of those weapons. i would suspect that they're looking through all of his communications, his mobile device and that sort of thing to prove that. eric: yeah. and finally, you were, led the capture of eric rudolph. of course, rudolph was convicted as the atlanta centennial park olympic park bomber. he had planted bombs elsewhere, he was aligned with the christian identity movement what

is your concern when you have movements, when you have beliefs, when you have things that are based on misinformation, disinformation and falsehoods? how to you reverse some of these -- how do you reverse some of these beliefs amongst some of these groups out there? is that even possible? >> well, there are quite a few what we call true believers out there on both ends of the political spectrum. they're the unhinged and the extremists on both ends of the political spectrum. these people, you can't, you can't incite them. i don't use that word loosely. they're always looking for that sort of slight, somebody's coming after their guns, their ammunition, their rights and that sort of thing. it's very hard to convince them that that's not actually happening when they believe it really is. and these are, i'm talking about now the far right wing, they've been around since the '90s, and they've been fairly dormant. they really have been awakened. the impeachment didn't help last week with. there are other things that are

happening, and we are seeing a resurgence of the hard-right militias, christian identity, etc., anti-government. and they've been training. they've been at it, again, since the '80s and '90s. they've been training, they have ammunition stockpiles, they have former military experience, they know about weaponry and tactics. so these are the ones that i fear the most. eric: and finally, do you feel we are in a new era with these groups after what happened last week and this is really the domestic challenge for us going forward? >> it is a tremendously challenging environment especially for law enforcement and the security people who are involved in security around these events. i keep saying the politicians need to bring the temperature down, they need to take steps to stop with the inflammatory rhetoric out there. when you start talking retribution and settling scores, that leaks out. that becomes viral with these groups. and then you have the very hard core extremists and the unhinged

people who are going to take it and take action. i fear the lone, you know, the lone operator as much as i do the groups. eric: chris schrecker, former assistant fbi director, thank you for the service with the nation to keep it safe. thank you for what you've done and thank you for your insight this afternoon. >> thank you. ♪ ♪ arthel: senate judiciary committee chairman lindsey graham slamming the fbi's trump-you should shah investigation as, quote, one of the most incompetent and corrupt in history. this as senator graham released hundreds of documents related to his committee's investigation of the origins of that probe. mark meredith live at the white house with more. mark. >> reporter: president trump spent so much of his term focused on questions about that all-encompassing russia probe. now one of his closest allies up on capitol hill, senator lindsey graham, is releasing documents tied to the senate's probe about the operation that started this whole thing, crossfire

hurricane. graham says the documents that came out yesterday prove that the justice department relied too heavily on unverified and some say politically motivated intelligence to scruff the spying on the trump campaign -- justify the spying on the trump campaign, saying quote: there was no there there. the investigation was pushed when it should have been stopped, and the only logical investigation is that the investigators wanted an outcome because of their bias. democrats argue there was plenty of reason to investigate. >> number one, it's irrefutable, the russian government interfered in the 2016 election. the president at the time welcomed that. but, look, there's just no question about it that russia and vladimir putin particularly was allowed to do things that in the last couple of years that he was not allowed to do when president obama was in office. >> reporter: now, one big question that is still unanswered is what's going to happen with the probe being launched by u.s. attorney john durham. that investigation, there's been rumors forever that a report was

going to be coming out, but still no word if and when we're going to get one or what happens after wednesday when joe biden is sworn in. the president is here at the white house, we are not expecting to see the president on camera today. we haven't seen him since tuesday night. we do expect to see the president wednesday morning as he will hold a ceremony of some sort over at joint base andrews. unclear what kind of remarks the president may deliver while there. the president's not going to be at the capitol for joe biden's swearing in, but it's likely the president will thank his staff and supporters before he gets on the plane to head down to south florida. vice president pence on his way to california right now also thanking some of america's finest that are heading to new york tomorrow, and he'll also be at the capitol for the swearing in on wednesday. arthel? arthel: okay. mark meredith live at the white house, thank you. eric? eric: arthel, president-elect joe biden unveiling a massive budget plan to rescue small

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coronavirus vaccine doses in his first 100 days. the announcement comes as cases rise across the country and as states from oregon to new york report sudden shortages of vaccine doses. and this puts a huge challenge at the feet of the new administration that will have to figure out how to ramp up production and distribution. hillary vaughn live in wilmington, delaware, with more. hillary? >> reporter: hi, arthel. well, that is biden's plan for the first 100 days while he is in office, but we did get new breaking details about his plans for the first 10 days of miss vermont is president -- his presidency, and that includes sign ising dozens of executive orders on things like climate change, immigration, student loan relief over those 10 is days. that's according to a memo that the transition released from incoming chief of staff ron klain. but his larger plan over the

next 100 days is going to be the science team that he announced this afternoon. and he's making a point in the announcement today by elevating his science adviser to a cabinet-level position for the first time in history. [laughter] >> you can tell this is real. we are both really excited about this. [laughter] really excited. because i think there's so much we can do. we saved it for last. i know it's not, you know, we're not naming the department of defense and the attorney general, but i tell you what, you have more impact on what our children are going to face, our grandchildren, what they're going to have opportunities to do, than anybody. >> reporter: this team helps biden craft his national vaccine program. he announced the plan yesterday, but it hinges on getting more inventory of the vaccine so they can meet the demand and the deadline. 100 million shots in americans' arms in biden's first 100 days in office. part of biden's plan to get

there does look similar to some of what the trump administration has been doing including using the defense authorization act to supercharge supply, something the trump the administration has also -- trump administration has also tried to do. >> and we're going to lead with science and truth. we believe in both. [laughter] >> reporter: the vaccine program includes making all people 65 and up eligible for the vaccine including front-line workers, making the vaccine easier to find by putting up pop-up vaccination stations in pharmacies. he also would deploy the national guard and fema to help states distribute the vaccine. but this $20 billion program needs to be approved by congress, and it's folded into biden's massive $2 trillion rescue package that he also announced this week. the price tag has some republicans reacting. senator pat toomey said, quote: blasting out another $2 trillion in borrowed or printed money would be a colossal waste and

economically harmful. arthel? arthel: hillary vaughn, thank you very much for that report there live in wilmington the, delaware. eric? eric: the vaccine plan is part of a nearly $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package that he has just unveiled. that package also includes a controversial proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. many small be businesses say that could destroy their chances at recovery. alex hogan live here in new york city with more on that plan. hi, or alex. >> reporter: hi, eric. well, some larger cities have already increased their minimum wage to $15 an hour, but small businesses really across the country are having conversations about what this would mean to their bottom line especially for those businesses who are already struggling. the last time that the federal minimum wage was increased was in 2009, and it went up by 70 cents. it's never gone up by more than $1. this change would more than

double it. heidi inman owns a clothing story in naples, florida. it's been in the family for about 40 years. after a difficult year because of the pandemic, she remains cautiously hopeful, but she says if she's required to lock down again, she won't reopen. >> some days my optimism is complete garbage, 100%, because most of the time you're putting on a smiley face because you have to be happy because customers are out because they want to, like, enjoy themselves. meanwhile, in the back of your head you're going i don't know if i can pay my bills. >> reporter: still, she argues the federal minimum wage proposal is the right and fair thing to do. another man argues this is a tremendous amount of pressure simply to survive. >> it certainly will have an inflationary effect on prices of meals in a restaurant the, and, you know, to the extent that we

can't pass those costs on to customers, just cuts into the profit margins further in an industry that has been decimated because of covid-19. >> reporter: yesterday workers around the country united through fight for 15, that organization. they went on strike demanding that congress raise their wage. eric? eric all right, alex, thank you. arthel? arthel: for more on president-elect biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief plan, let's bring in jon hilsenrath, senior writer for "the wall street journal." so, or jon, we just heard before alex, we heard hillary vaughn report on president-elect biden's plan for his first ten days, but i want us to discuss his plans for his first 100 days which includes, as you know, more pandemic relief. if congress would only approve $600 for stimulus checks versus the $2,000 that president trump requested, will congress approve $2,000 stimulus checks for

president biden? >> well, i mean, it looks like what the president-elect is proposing is an effort to top off that $600 payments to the $2,000, so another $1,400 of payments. frankly, because president trump was behind the $2,000 in payments, it could be hard for a lot of lawmakers to say, to say no having done $600 and the president wanted $2,000. people might say why not do another $1400. i think the other important thing here is to recognize that the new biden administration's plan is two-pronged. they're looking to do short-term relief right now and then come back with another program later in the year with even more. and i suspect we're going to see some of the things he's proposing now getting pushed off to that second package later in the year. arthel: so you're saying that,

you know, again, as you said, it's a two-part plan. when you get to that the, you think that instead of getting to that second part or fulfilling things in the first plan, you feel that it will get pushed back. so then i ask you, i asked you, jon, we could assume senate democrats would approve, you know, the $1.9 trillion that the president is asking for, president biden at the time when we get to that. >> right. arthel: assuming that all the democrats will pass it, will senate republicans approve it though? because -- and they afford not to given that so many americans are in dire straits? >> yeah. i mean, i think that's a really good and important question. the way this is setting up, it looks like the biden administration is going to need some republicans to go along with this because if they are going to do the two-part plan the way i talked about it, because of the obscure rules in the senate, they're going to need 60 votes to do the first plan. and that's where i think some of these proposals like a $15

minimum wage are going to have to get put off, and they're going to have to do some things that have bipartisan appeal up front. and that would include that $1400 check that we talked about that tops off the $600 that's already been approved by congress. arthel: well, that would be good news. people are desperately, you know, trying to hold on, as you know. they're holding on for things to open up and improve. how do you think things look according to your reporting? >> well, in terms of the economic outlook, it's, i think we're set up for a very volatile time that starts bad and ends pretty well. you know, you could argue that we're back in recession right now. the labor department reported a couple of weeks ago that we've lost jobs, 140,000 in december and that retail sales in a holiday month fell. we might be seeing more of that in january because of all these state shutdowns and local

shutdowns related to the virus. so it's a terrible time for millions of americans right now. if that vaccine gets out there and gets into the population, there's an enormous amount of pent-up demand. there are millions of americans who want to go out, spend time with their family and friends in restaurants, in the bars, in movie theaters. and when you tie that pent-up demand together with a flood of money that's going to be hitting the economy from the federal government in the next few months, we could have a gangbusters second half of the year. but i think the first step is right now getting, still getting this virus under control so we can open restaurants and bars and everything else. arthel: that's right. step one cannot happen -- or step two can't happen without step one, right? >> absolutely. arthel: all right. jon hilsenrath, thank you very much. thank you. take care. >> thanks, arthel. eric: thousands of twitter accounts suddenly purged amid a

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and having been to both locations, it's not that far off. if you see this unclimb bl fencing all over d.c. and you can't really get anywhere without running through a checkpoint, that's really opposed to what you see in baghdad. the security concerns are not without merit. as you mentioned, fox news has confirmed that last night on the north side of the capitol, wesley allan beeler from west virginia was picked up with two glock .9 mms found in his possession if. he's looking at phi different charges -- five different charges. what you're looking at is some of the guardsmen, 25,000 national guardsmen are now on the scene. some of them will be carrying lethal weaponry. the guideline at least for one unit, i've been told the, is those with police training, either military police or civilian police, will be armed. meantime, a joint threat

assessment from multiple federal and local police agencies has determined any threat to the inauguration is domestic. part of the assessment reads we assess that domestic violent extremists pose the most likely threat to the presidential inauguration or associated events, particularly those who believe that the incoming administration is illegitimate. now, following the storming and vandalism of the capitol january 6th, there are now 275 open investigations, more than 100 people have been arrested. 200 have been identified, and the fbi said it's a matter of time before they're picked up. >> here's something you should know. every fbi field office in the country is looking for you. so you might want to consider turning yourself in instead of wondering when we're going to come knocking on your door, because we will. >> reporter: so in addition to the fencing, the jersey barriers

and the checkpoints, we now know that virginia is closing the major bridges into d.c. so right now it's hard to get around d.c. come inauguration day, it's going to be hard to get into d.c. you've heard the criticism that after the 6th people were saying that the security forces were ill-prepared for what happened, and authorities now are trying to prevent that same kind of criticism from happening again. arthel? arthel: absolutely. one of the best workhorses in the business, by the way, mike tobin. live in washington, thank you. eric? ♪ muck. ♪ ♪ eric: well, there's more fallout from the social media purge sparked by last week's deadly attack on the u.s. capitol. "usa today" reports republican lawmakers lost thousands of twitter followers when that company cracked down on accounts for q-anon. meanwhile, parler says its ceo and his family are now in hiding

over death threats. and a new georgetown university poll shows most americans do fault social media platforms like facebook and twitter for the increased emotions, inflammatory accusations, disinformation and falsehoods that have motivated lots of the wrongdoing that we've seen in politics. howie kurtz here, host of "mediabuzz" and a fox news media analyst. howie, has social media gotten to a point it's just out of control? >> yeah. most people in that georgetown survey are right. i mean, facebook and twitter have become depositories for a lot of toxic sludge, but in a year when we've been through two impeachments, a crippling pan dem stick now the -- pandemic, and now the siege on the the capitol, i'm tired of hearing mark zuckerberg or jack dorsey saying, you know, we're going to do something about this. seems like they're always behind in terms of getting the hate, the threats, the violent stuff, the baseless conspiracies off of

their site. we can't completely blame silicon valley. obviously, the people who post this kind of stuff, who fill it up with these vile postings, personal attacks, threats and the like bear some responsibility as well. eric: how can it be countered, or is it not possible? look, in journalism there's an editorial process, or there should be, in which you look at facts and you put both sides of the story on, and you challenge facts and analyze. then on social media they can put up any disinformation or falsehood, and some people, sadly, buy that. how do you unwind that? how do you get the people who have been brainwashedded on false facts, false issues, how do you get them to realize, no, that's not true and you've been duped? >> these companies are really in a situation where they have to start acting like media companies which is just like any network, any newspaper, any web site. they have to spend the money and take more seriously responsibility for their content

rather than saying, oh, we're just a public entity, anybody can say anything that they want. at the same time, you mentioned parler as an example, and i was initially sympathetic to parler because it looked like a bunch of bigger competitors, big tech was conspiring to grieve this newcomer -- drive this newcomer off the air. and i'm very sympathetic to the ceo to have to go into hiding with his family. this is the an awful situation. but parler has allowed finish i'll just read you a few -- time to burn down amazon delivery trucks. be a shame if those amazon servers were blown into the stratosphere. also calling for the death of jeff bezos, jack dorsey and mark zuckerberg. now, this is a problem on other social media sites as well, but one can understand a little bit better why amazon felt the need to act, arguing that parler hasn't done nearly a good enough job at keeping those kinds of specific threats off of its site. eric: and finally, quickly, to those who say, oh, it's

censorship, you know, shouldn't do this. >> well, you know, private companies can do what they want, but that's not an excuse. you also have, of course, the permanent twitter ban on president trump, snapchat joining that as well. i can sort of understand wanting to mute that voice, but how to you justify it being forever as a private citizen trump won't be able to post on some of these sites as well? so i do think these companies have a real perception problem, they're left-leaning companies, they seem to not have much sympathy for conservatives and republicans, and this all adds up to not a pretty picture, eric. eric: yeah, that is for sure. dangerous sometimes. howie kurtz, like the caricature of you behind you on the wall. we'll see you tomorrow -- >> everyone notices that. thanks. [laughter] eric: of course. of course howie will be on "mediabuzz" 11 a.m. tomorrow here on the fox news channel, and we will be right back.

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deployed to help with the mass vaccination sites. you know, this new covid variant, arthel, it's going to create a huge wrench in the equation because it's a lot more contagious. we're going to have a a lot more cases and hospitalizations, and places like california, they're struggling. one person dies every six minutes in california from covid. so we can have the national guard and fema to help manage these mass vaccination sites so we can get the vaccines that we have into arms immediately, that should be our nation's top priority, to vaccinate. we have 30 million, you know, people that need to be vaccinated right this moment, and we should be able to get that done as soon as possible. arthel: and, you know, as you well know, there are people who already got their first shot, and they're waiting for the second shot. should they be worried or there will not be enough supply in time for that sec dose, and how long will the elderly be protected with just one shot? >> that's a great question. no, do not be worried that you're not going to get the

second dose. we have manufacturing going on now as we speak, pfizer, moderna, they are pumping out vaccines owned the clock trying to produce as many as they can. and remember, even if you get one shot, you're going to get some protection. you'll have about 50-60% protection from one shot, and it's okay to see a they of a week or two weeks. -- a delay. we want to get as many people vaccinated as possible. that's why i'm so glad that the administration has released a all of the supply of the vaccination. for example, from to moderna, the ceo thinks that the vaccine will last for about a year, but we really don't know for sure. the only way we're going to know is with time and continued trials and testing. arthel: quickly, if you could, if this new strain is going to be the dominant strain in the u.s., do the current vaccines protect us from that? will they work against that variant? >> very good question. so far the tests that are being taken right now with moderna and with pfizer show that in the laboratory with animals with the

cells, they show the results are that, yes, it is effective right now. now, will it still remain 94, 95% effective? we don't know that for sure. could it be a little bit less? that's a possibility. that's why we want everyone to get vaccinated right now for impact. vaccinate those at highest risk, the elderly, the health care workers, those with underlying medical problems. and we're coming along. we have about i would say a third of the vaccines that we we have have been used, we really need to make it 100% as soon as possible. arthel: indeed. thank you, dr. jeanette flesh want. take care. we'll be right back. there this is the sound of an asthma attack... that doesn't happen.

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eric: more migrants again heading to e united states, thousands of hondurans now making the long and dangerous trek trying to escape poverty, unemployment and gang violence. christina coleman keeping tabs on all of this from los angeles. christina? >> reporter: hi, eric. yeah, outgoing customs and border protection's acting commissioner mark morgan says the biden's administration's advertised policies have emboldened groups. now this caravan is attempting the dangerous trip north just days before president-elect biden is sworn into office.

biden intends on getting rid of much of trump's agenda in his first 100 days in office including stopping the remain in mexico program. a spokesman for immigrants' rights tells fox news we will insure that biden honors his commitment and work with the mexican government to develop a cooperation plan with central america. civil society organizations an opportunity to increase cooperation regarding the persons in need of protection and to dismantle illegal and inhumane programs such as remain in mexico. the mexican national guard has mobilized units to try and stop the migrants from reaching the u.s. border. meantime, the red cross has set up points for humanitarian care including handing out hygiene kits, face masks and information on covid-19 prevention. and as for the number of border

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more than 60 combat missions in world war ii, and today he's celebrating another remarkable accomplishment, turning 100 years old. ah, mr. saylor had a bird's eye view of the normandy invasion in the cockpit of a p-38 fighter plane. he is also, has befriended famous pilots charles lindbergh. after the war he got a job in the pentagon and worked with president eisenhower. listen to this story about being called to the oval office. >> i knew him as general. i said, general, is it about time for us to leaf leave? he turned to me and said when i want you to leave, i'll tell you. [laughter] i think those were probably his exact words. so i shut up after that. [laughter] arthel: okay. mr. saylor's family celebrated today with a socially-distanced birthday party in st.

petersburg, florida, where he lives. we join them in wishing this american hero a very happy birthday. ♪ eric: that we do. they are the greatest generation. man, oh man, i've got four of them in my family. mug. ♪ >> good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. here's an interesting fact to think about, the new hampshire primary took place less than a year ago. it was february 11th, 2020. now think back. if you'd ask anyone who knows a lot about politics on that day who was going to be the democratic nominee, likely not one of them would have predicted joe biden. joe biden came in fifth in new hampshire below bernie sanders, below pete buttigieg, below amy klobuchar, below elizabeth warren, just above tom steyer. in the end, biden won a total of 8% of the vote in new hampshire.

now, for a former vice president with 50 years of public service, that was a thoroughly humiliating performance. but it was not surprising. even democrats considered joe biden a sad old fool, worn out, empty and confused, a ghost from a working class democratic party that disappeared decades before. again, that was just in february. but next week joe biden will be sworn in as president of the united states. how exactly did that all happen? how biden went from a much-mocked after thought liked my some but respected by nobody to becoming the single most powerful man in the world at the age of almost 80 is a remarkable story. someday when the mania recedes and we can all agree to stop lying for a moment, it will be told. but in the meantime, here's part of that story. joe biden didn't seem scary are. that was not a small thing in a year when our core institutions appeared to be falling apart. biden's p.r. team told voters

that donald trump was a divisive figure.e even of many donald trump's own voters had to admit there was some truth to that. so biden pledged to be the opposite. biden promised to the america's gentle grandfather, soothing hurt feelings. biden promised to unite the country. he said so again and again. >> you want us to hear one another again, see one another again, respect one another again. >> so let's begin the work to heal, to unite. the only way we can do it is to come together, to come together as fellow americans, as neighbors. if we open our arms rather than brandishing our fists, we can, with the help of god, heal. tucker: holy smokes, yes. let's begin the work to heal, to unite, to come together as neighbors, to open our arms to the people around us. nethey're americans too. all of us live under god, we should be united. that was the pitch.

he seemed to kind of mean it. joe biden would emulate president-elect ronald reagan after his contentious campaign with jimmy carter or 40 years ago. according to a speech writer for reagan, quote: among the first instructions reagan gave was to be careful not to take a crack at the previous administration. and that seemed like the kind of gentle, unifying approach that joe biden might take. no cheap shots, no attacks on his predecessor and time to heal as americans under god. that was the idea. before long biden was on tv comparing sitting u.s. senators to nazis. last week as thousands of trump supporters gathered in washington and tens of millions more of them watched on television, joe biden made certain to remind every one of them that they voted for a disgustingen man, probably becae they're disgusting too. >> he is not fit to serve. he is not fit to serve. he's one of the most incompetent

presidents in the history of the united states of america. he exceeded even my worst notionsst about him. he's been an embarrassment to the country. tucker: so you say trump lost, but you're attacking him anyway and the people who voted for him. maybe you're not the loving grandfather dispensing wisdom in front of the fire. maybe that's not the presidency we're actually getting. maybe we shouldn't be surprised because the real joe biden has a tend i to scream at people who -- tendency to scream at people whole disagree with him. >> focus on this man, what he's doing that no president has ever done. why the hell would i take a test? come on, man. that's like saying, you know, before you got this program, did you take a test for whether you're taking cocaine -- i'm not out of time! you spoke over time, and i'm going to talk. here's the deal -- [cheers and applause]

the fact of the matter is look at what's happening here. well,pe that's not true. e.you're saying things you do nt know what you're talking about. no one said said that. who said that? i set up my son to work on an oil company. isn't that what you said? get your words straight, jack. tucker: that's not conciliatory grandpa, that's angry grandpa, and democrats are happy with that version. they never had any interest in the conciliatory version. with trump leaving, democrats are going to need a new enemy to hate because hate is what holds their party together. unfortunately for you, they've now decided that enemy is the entire republican party, roughly half the country. if you think we're overstating it, watch congressman patrick maloney of new york two days ago on msnbc suggest that republican lawmakers are so evil and so dangerous that it's possible one of them could smuggle a gun into

joe biden's inauguration and shoot the president-elect dead as he's taking the oath of office. watch. >> it's aifat sad reality that e find ourselves at a place where the enemy is within, and we cannot trust our own colleagues. nbut now we can't be sure a member of congress won't brick a gun to the inauguration, we can't be sure that a member of this m body wouldn't be bringing people around the night before who the next day may have been participating in the murder of a capitol police officer. tucker: it's the reality that the other side is the enemy and may kill people at the inauguration? what the hell are you saying? you know what he's saying, he's saying they're assassins, murderers, and that's why we need tens of thousands of federal troops in washington to protect us, the good people, from the evil people. that's more troops than we currently have in iraq and afghanistan combined. according to patrick maloney, the other side aren't republicans, they're a deadly insurgency within our borders.

it's insane. congressman eric swalwell, though, agrees with this wholeheartedly. swalwell, you remember, is so committed towi unity that he one suggested using nuclear weapons against american gun owners who refused to allow him to confiscate their firearms. he appeared on m, nbc. >> i hope we understand if there was an inside job whether it was members orr staff or anyone working at capitol who helped these attackers better navigate the capitol, that is going to be investigated. tucker: yeah.al so the guy with the painted face and the viking hat and the chewbacca outfit was part of an inside job that was a coup attempt, and that's going to be investigated, says swalwell. investigated. and you know what that means, get ready for the paramilitary s.w.a.t. teams arriving in predawn raids with camera crews in tow. roger stone was just a preview. what other forms of unity can we expect in the joe biden administration? we usually ask john fetterman,

lieutenant governor of pennsylvania. he isn't necessarily against the entire bill of rights, but john fetterman wants to be perfectly clear that going forward the first amendment does not apply to anything that offends him. sorry, it justt doesn't. >> so this idea that saying that pennsylvania was rigged or that we were trying to steal the election, unquote, that's a lie are. and that -- you do not have the right, that ison not protected speech. tucker: you don't have the right, declares john fetterman. in fact, words that annoy john fetterman or that in any way might reduce his power or reflect poorly on his performance in office are, quote, not protected speech. understand? that's unity. and that's why when democrats claimed the 2016 election, the emone that got trump elected, ws rigged by russia, stolen by vladimir putin, that is protected speech because john fetterman believes it's true. so to review, free speech is any speech that low iq thugs are okay with you expressing, but

everything else is banned in the name ofxp groupty. and, by thee way, everything ee is also racist. >> let's be clear, there was a racist attempt to overturn an election. this was more about trying to disenfranchise the voices of the black, brown, indigenous peoples voices. trying to invalidate our votes. so i'm speaking up. you are going to hear that we're not goingou to let this go becae this is a racist attempt. we have to call it what it is. it's white supremacy at its finest. tucker: oh. so what you thought was a protest that became a mob that got out of control and became violent was, in fact, a specifically targeted effort to invalidate the votes of voters of color, indigenous voters. that's corey bush's position. now, if you're wondering why someone like congressman corey bush who continues to live in a country teemingnt with white

supremacists, you're not allowed to talk, and that's another vital principle of unity. we canto all live here togethern perfect harmony just as long as one side stays perfectly quiet andny obeys. if they don't obey, we're going to have problems. with them. well, thankfully, joe biden's brain trust is so committed to unity, they're been thinking about what to do next, about how to bring unity permanently and for all time. here's their plan. >> southern states are not red states, they are suppressed states. n which means r the only way that atour country's going to heal is true the actual -- through the actual liberation of southern states. tucker: oh, okay. in case you didn't hear it, we're going to repeat it very slowly. the only way our country is going toth heal -- and we're quoting -- is the actual liberation of southern states. that's a quote. now, you might get in trouble if you suggested what the democrats really have in mind is a new version of reconstruction.

look up reconstruction if you're not familiar with that story. the details are worth knowing about. but you don't need to suggest that's their plan because sandy cortez of new york just said it outt loud. that's unity. mark steyn join joins us tonight to assess this plan. mark steyn p the, i've got to sy in seriousness there are probably a t lot of good-hearted voters who objected to the chaos of the last four years. it was foo loud for them -- too loud for them, and they looked at biden and said at least the drama will subside, and maybe we can all come together again. they seem tobe be doubling downn division and craziness, to me. >> yes, i think that's intentional. this is unity and healing in the soviet sense where unity meant the absence of opposition. it's interesting to me that in the summer when we had this frenzy of cancel culture, what was being canceled was gone with the wind and the washington

redskins and kate smith, and canceling was being done on the basis of changes in social mores on race and transgender issues and whatever else it was. erwe've moved on a stage from there now where cancel culturehe in a two-party system is canceling the people who voted for the other party. that guy from pennsylvania, for example, in his state two teachers are being investigated by their school boards just for having attended the trump rally in washington. they weren't at the capitol, they didn't go near the capitol, they didn't storm the capitol,en but they're being investigated anyway. and soo in a two-party system what the democrats are trying -- are doing quite successfully at the moment, is saying, okay, we've driven a stake in trump, but that's not the point. theta point is to drive a staken the 70 million people who voted for trump to say you should be

ashamed of yourselves, this is never to happen again. so we'veve actually, we're actually now canceling political opposition in a two-party system where you basically ruin the reputations of the losing party, and there's only two parties. it's a lousy, stupid, frozen party system that's been the same for 150 years now, and i regret that, and it's not like anywhere else in the western world. but if it's a two-party system and you demonize the voters of the other party, you're basically announcing this is a one-party state, suck it up, losers. tucker: i rook at them and i think -- i look at them and i think if they had any confidence at all in the program they planned to impose, they wouldn't be imposing it, they'd be selling it. if you really believe you've got a good idea, you tell people about it, and they come to it voluntarily. they're not even bothering to tell you what the idea is, it's just shut up and obey.

what does thatha tell you about them? >> well, i think that's the lodging call conclusion of where they've -- logical conclusion of where they've been and, actually, mostt of their base hs been. whether you're talking about sexual identity or racial politics or any kind of identity politics, their position is we don't want to win the debate, we want to cancel the debate. there's no need for a debate. these are settled issues. and that's why it's on this lunatic overdrive. have you ever seen anybody less supremacist than the people who were driven to vote for trump in 2016? >> their lives are hopeless. the mills, the factuallies have closed -- factories are closed, their communities are awash in drugs. they're the least supremacist people in the united states. tucker: the one group whose life expectancy is in decline, and we're crushing them. tells you everything -- >> absolutely. tucker: -- about the people in charge.

mark steyn, thank you. >> thanks a lot, tucker. tucker: well, if there's one thing that almost every journalist and democratic party official and wesleyan university graduate in this country can agree upon is that the police are racist. at least the cops who were on capitol hill. for the most part,n' cops are so racist that they go around shooting unarmed black men for no reason whatsoever apart from the fact that they just enjoy it. remember jacob blake. we were told that jacob blake was shot in the back unarmed. he was just trying to break up a fight, and now they shot him and paralyzed him. which, by the way, for the record, is sad as hell. but the key point is there was no reason for it because he wasn't armed, and the city he lived in had to be burned to the ground as a result to teach those cops a lesson. now an update. in his first television interview since he was shot by athe cops last august in wisconsin, jacobin blake has admitted what we told you then.

he was armed. he had a knife in his possession athe the time of the shooting bt osalso dropped it before picking it up again. blake made that admission to "good morning america" yesterday during his first television interview since the shooting took place in august. as we said, he's now paralyzed. >> you walk away from the officers after they try to grab you. >> i'm rattled, you know? i realize i had dropped my knife, my little pocket knife. so i picked it up after i got off of him because they tased me, and i fell on top of him. i shouldn't have picked it up. only because of what was going on. w at that time i wasn't thinking clearly. >> you were thinking once you get the knife into the car, you were going to -- >> throw myself to the ground. tucker: so if you remember, and a lot of this is cloudy because they burned the city down right after i it, and we were very focused on that. a lot of people died.ha

people died. but at the time, the family, the attorneys, everybody in particular the media told us a very different story. they told us it for months, he was unarmed. on augustey 24th, for example, n reported the police shooting of an unarmed black man, jacob blake, and we're quoting there. two days later a cmn political analyst, april ryan, tweeted in households across this nation black families are having a talk with their kids about why yet another unarmed black man was shot by police, exclamation point. so for months, they terrified the country. april ryan and people like that in our news media terrified american families, particularly american black families. he was shot for no reason unarmed. on january 5th, not that long ago, "the washington post" ran this headline: police officers won't be charged in shooting of jacob blake, an unarmed black man, who was shot seven times in the back in kenosha, wisconsin. we just want to pause and remind

you yet again, we reported on this show what the police said at the time, he was armed. we had this information. it was public information. "the washington post" lied about it, so did cnn, virtually every news organization in this country. after it was announced the officersrs wouldn't face charge, msnbc kept repeating the lie. watch. >> noke charges will be brought against the police officer or any of the police officers involved in the shooting of jacob blake who was an unarmed black man who was shot. >> viewers may recall an officer shotck blake in the back seven times while he was unarmed. >> another example of african-americans not receiving equal protectionca of law. mr. blake was unarmed at the time that he was shot. tucker: oh, it's all such a lie, and they knew it was a lie x they told it anyway. to divide the country to make themselves more powerful. all kinds of other context too.

blake had an outstanding warrant on charges like trespassing, third-degree sexual assault. we told you that, they didn't. they didn't care that kenosha burned for weeks because of the lies they told. the whole point of this was to provide cover for politicians like kamala harris, politicians whose whole careers are predicated on the lie that america is aho deeply racist country. people say they're proud of people like jacob blake. that was the goal. by theud way, it worked. unfortunately. well, the president's second impeachment didn't take very long this time around, it was all over in a day, but the hearings still produced some remarkable footage. some of it is kind of disturning from a hygienic perspective. we've got that video straight ahead. ♪

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lockdowns are actually not necessary. we are learning that from pretty major figures in the democratic party, like lori lightfoot, even the so called scientific community, do you still trust them chris mack a new study has found that mandatory lockdown orders may not provide the signt benefits to slowing the spread of the disease than other voluntary measures. that sounds familiar, it's because you heard it on this show about 50,000 tons from this man. his name is alex branson, the author of unreported truths about covid-19. he joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on, how does it feel to have the scientific community catch up with you alone much despised blogger, seriously? >> i mean, tucker, all i did was look at the evidence. by the way, this is happened with schools, too, as we know eight months ago we opened

schools kids were going to drop like flies, that turned out to be alive. what's amazing is that, yes, there are people -- lori lightfoot is saying that bars should be reopened and restaurants should be reopened, but california is under a massive lockdown. all you need to do is realize that cases there have been -- they grew exponentially in november and december, the state went into lockdown in early december and it didn't make any difference. ireland was in lockdown october through december, they tried for a few days to lighten up, and they had to go back into lockdown, very hard lockdown, that has made no difference. it's has more cases -- and i mean positive tests, as you know. lockdowns don't really work, they appeared to be counterproductive, especially now that there is this new strain of the virus that seems to be spreading more quickly, at least a little bit more quickly. what happens is in a place like ireland or california, he

lockdown, you have all of this dry kindling. when the virus does take off, it takes off like crazy. there's a large pool of uninfected people who get infected very rapidly. if you want to be china, and right now this is gone mostly unreported, yet another truth that has gone unreported, there are several chinese cities that have gone into massive lockdown in the last couple of weeks. if you want to be an authoritarian government that locks down entire cities and regions after a single case or a handful of cases, imposes compulsory testing on millions of people, maybe you have a chance at stopping the virus that 999 people out of a thousand survived, otherwise you have to live with the spirit of lockdowns don't work. >> tucker: that's right. why are you not the most highly regarded journalist in america? >> i'm the most disliked journalist in america. to be when i'm very aware of that. i appreciate you coming on tonight, thank you.

you're watching the impeachment hearings closely earlier this week, and not many people were, you were awarded with some pretty amazing footage that most people missed. it came courtesy of a congressman from the tiny but robust state of rhode island. we want to warn you, if you take the cdc guidelines seriously, or if you are a just a clean person, this will turn your stomach. >> let us be very clear, what took place on january 62021 was an act of domestic terrorism by right wing single tactic white supremacists. >> tucker: that may have pulled your attention away, but look at him, he sneezed all over his hands. remember, this guy is a member in good standing of the party of science, so he knows what he's doing because he's a scientist. in fact, they understand science more than anyone else in congress. last year, he put on a clinic on

proper mask usage, watch. >> he founded amazon in 19 -- excuse me, i'm going to remind members of this committee, and less you are speaking, our rules require you to wear a mask according to the attending physician -- i'm speaking about another member of this committee. >> tucker: all remind you -- he wipes and sneezes and there appeared a doctor dr. marc siegel doesn't do anything like that, he's a fox news medical contributor, joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on. what do you make of the sneeze? >> unbelievable. it hypocrisy you just saw there, first ball. when you say one thing and you do another, that's the politics of fear. nobody wants to follow u.s. a leader, that's the first thing. secondly, i believe masks i've usage if they are used properly with the distancing. if you are actually to wear them properly the way physicians do, but the fact of the matter is

congressman sicily money has to learn something for me tonight. let me tell you about a sneeze. we are always talking about asymptomatic spread, but this like other respiratory viruses, it spreads by sneezes. did you know, congressman, that sneezes travel 3200 feet per second. it did you know that is sneeze has been studied and could actually transmit a fire is not 3 feet, not 6 feet, but over 20 feet? over 20 feet! you know what? i'm going to give you some medical advice tonight, congressman. you're not my patient, but your fellow brown graduate. here's my advice, if you sneeze, watch this, tucker. if you sneeze into your mask, this is a surgical mask, i'm wearing it properly. if you sneeze you leave the mask on while you are sneezing. you don't take it off and sneeze onto the side, you leave the mask on. now, congressman, you're going to say to me, but the mask is

wet, what do i do? the mask is wet from the sneeze. here's what you do, congressman. you take the mask off for a second, you don't yell at jim jordan, you take it off, you have a spare mask ready, look. i've got a spare! you take your spare, you take your spare and you put your spare on, you get rid of the old mask, and then you wash your hands, and you are done. you wash your hands. >> tucker: you are approaching this as a physician with the mind of a clinician, but what if the point of the mask was to train you to wear a uniform and give him unwarranted moral authority. think about that. great to see you, thanks for coming on. here's the real problem if you care about free speech and living in every country, the largest online gown form on the internet, certainly one of them,

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>> tucker: ar-15.com is one of the most popular gun forms online. godaddy took the remarkable step of yanking ar-15.com off-line. we ask godaddy today, why? they told us this. we received a complaint regarding certain contents on the ar-15.com. we investigated the content and confirmed it violated our terms

of service because it incited violence. they are now back online with a new hosting provider. he's the chairman of the second adventure group, the owner of ar-15.com, thank you so much for joining us. in what world does godaddy have the right to end your ability to produce content? i didn't know they could do that, or did. >> it was a surprise to us that that was the provider that we you that pulled us off the website. that's really the phone book for when you type that into your browser, it directs you to our servers. if they are the ones who said, we know longer want you because you apparently violated one of their policies, which is patently false. >> tucker: it goes without saying it's alive. they didn't explain the standard -- you don't even take this seriously. the reason this is a chilling moment, and we want to hear directly from you, is it's clearly a vision of the future

where you are not allowed to express your views on the second amendment, even, and much less exercise it. are you worried? >> we are worried about this, specifically with this administration who has the worst policy coming in on being very restrictive on firearm ownership, a much drastic and different view of how individual ownership should be regulated in the united states. if our voices silenced or half of the argument isn't considered or being allowed to speak in america today, that should be troubling for everybody, not just a pro second second amendment and individuals. everyone should stand up and say, this is not what the foundation of our country was built on. when it comes to civil liberties, the right to own firearms, you should all stand up and take note, specifically with not having a voice to talk to each other and raise awareness for some of the issues that are coming at us right now.

>> tucker: did you ever -- did you ever imagine that big companies could eliminate the first and second amendment, and there's nothing you can do about it? >> it's very orwellian in its approach, it's one of the things you read about in the 1950s and 60s with the books as you read in high school. it becomes one of the things in america that you grew up in. regardless of where you stand politically, we should all take pause and make sure we truly consider what kind of rhetoric is going around, and what kind of control we are giving to a few when we started talking about being able to communicate to each other. >> tucker: i just read a news story that said podcasts are problematic because they are a loophole in social controls, it's hard to censor a broadcast. how long until private conversations are considered a loophole? >> winded free speech becomes something that the government

needs to put a commission on on what you can and cannot say? >> tucker: great to see you tonight, thank you. last time we played you tape from jack dorsey admitting his campaign for censorship against donald trump really applies to you, and it's just the beginning. he made that clear in this video from -- >> we are focused on one account right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it's going to go on for much longer than just the state, this week. i don't believe this is going away anytime soon, and the moves we are making today around he went on, for instance, one such example of a much broader approach that we should be looking at and going deeper on. >> tucker: this is going to be much bigger than just one account. that made it be of concern to

the dominant jimmy door. his views are still hated by a lot of people in charge. it's jimmy dora, how does this make you feel? >> it makes me feel really uncomfortable that this new censorship bushes coming from the left, just like i warned the left when they were pushing conspiracy theories, and despairing their political enemies. when you do mccarthy smearing, you are propping up the surveillance tape, you are propping up the establishment, and they are going to come back and bite you. that's exactly what happened with bernie sanders. he got caught up with rush's gate, and then they rush a gated him. this scares me because it seems like on the left, can i just tell you, the capital riot did not have been we didn't have enough censorship. that is a ridiculous idea. silicon valley has turned into an extension of the democratic party, greenwald just experienced that. what is going on right now is

crazy. freedom of speech is the first and the bill of rights because it's important, because popular speech doesn't need protecting. it's unpopular speech that needs protecting. that's why it's first. at the war on terror was already used to take away our free speech rights, our right of protection from invasive searches from the government, we live in a surveillance state. how they're going to use it even more -- joe biden says he's going to use it, they're using it as a domestic terrorism threat. we know who gets censored, people who are pro-war never get censored, people who tell the truth about war never gets censored. that's why i get censored, that's why my channel gets throttled. i just lost 4,000 twitter followers for no reason. i don't understand how the left has to keep turning this over and over and over. the first person to beat the platforms with wikileaks, this would be a great way for

donald trump to stick the thumb in the eye of these people is to pardon him. if he knows what's good for freedom speech, he should take this moment to pardon him. >> tucker: i didn't used to think that, and i totally agree with that, partly because you convince me through the force of your argument. i think that's absolutely right. >> can i just say, tucker, this all started with the failure of neoliberalism, why did donald trump get elected? they couldn't come to terms with that, so they had to go to corporate lefty journalists to censor people who weren't adhering to the official narrative. that that's what's going on, here. neoliberalism is a failed ideology, and to that's why they are now using censorship to control the narrative because they can't back it up. the one you made a really evocative point, i hope you come back and explained some why people who are against pointless wars -- no one will ever since

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visit right now or call during business hours. >> tucker: federal statistics show that millions of your fellow americans have given up trying to find a job. i think about that, they've given up. is there anything sadder? not to the democrats, they think the real problems are that evicted criminals are oppressed, and we need to get on that right away. they are suing the nypd for its brutal handling of blm rioters. the combo from virginia, the governor there, the guy with the clan outfit is advocating for felons rights. >> virginia is one of just a few remaining states where if you

have a felony conviction, someone has to act to restore your civil rights to vote or run for office. it's not automatic, but it should be. i've made it a priority, restoring civil rights for more than 40,000 people. >> tucker: so says governor blackface. if you get a convicted felon is, you should be allowed to vote, but you should not be allowed to have a gun. we trust you to choose our next president, but not to go deer hunting. no one ever explains, but it's happening all over the country. we know where it leads, it's going to make your neighborhood more dangerous. we have the data. in hawaii, for example, more than half of inmates were released because of covid went on to commit new crimes. more than half, really? in seattle, a judge released a 19-year-old man even though he was facing an assault charge. within hours, guess what he did? he committed a horrifying attack you are now seeing on the screen. he's also a suspect in shooting

in the autonomous zone. contributing editor at city journal and a man who actually does reporting on topics that matter, we are happy to have him on tonight. if the idea is, even if the country becomes more dangerous, we need to make it even more dangerous by letting convicted felons out of prison early. what's the idea here? >> the idea is we are moving from a system of justice that treats people equally under the law to a system of social justice which uses the criminal justice system, courts, prisons, prosecutors, to try to reorganize and redeem society. what that means and practicality, if you are a member of a protected class, if you're homeless, if you're a protester, you're treated one way. if you are a member of an unprotected class, a homeowner, a conservative antilock town protester, they throw the book at you. what we are seeing the system of social justice ends up being a system of separate and unequal

justice depending on what you look like and what your beliefs are. >> tucker: i think we might be underselling the story. we opened by saying this is going to make your neighborhood more dangerous, which obviously it is, but it also raises the question how can you have a society that as an official matter of policy doesn't deliver equal justice? >> that's exactly right. i think for a long time conservatives, we know there's been a double standard, but this is really institutionally the first time you are seeing a kind of separate system. i think it's really unfortunate, because what it's done, it's enabled the low level quality of life crimes that create ideal conditions for what we are seeing now, which is the highest single year increase in murder rate in american history, which was 2020. yet, the media white washes and blankets over what's happening on the streets because they want to subordinate that to the dominant black lives matter narrative, the dominant idea that they were mostly peaceful

protest, and the dominant idea that crime is sometimes permissible depending on who's committing it. >> tucker: if you politicize the justice system, things actually fall apart, for real. we are doing that, intentionally. chris russo, you have really been indispensable on this subject, i appreciate you coming on tonight, i hope you come back. lots of news today, a lot more news, just five days until the inauguration, and we are back in a moment.

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