steve mosher lived in china, going to talk about where this virus came from, and chris wallace will tell us if that is indeed the best speech he ever heard, truly. dave portnoy tomorrow will have part two. thanks for watching, here's tucker. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy inauguration day. it's a big moment for the country. a changing of the guard, a peaceful transfer of power. another reassuring display of the awesome pageantry of constitutional government. they were solemn speeches, oaths, anthems echoing across the backdrop of troops who were guarding their capital. it was quite a display. it was a lot to take, really. like many of you, we flipped on the tube to see what it meant. here's what we learned. >> joe biden respects government. he respects people who disagree

with them. he listens to them. >> joe biden sees the world differently. >> a new leader of hope in the action he's promising. >> we've gone from indecency to decency. >> he filled out and put the void appeared >> there was not one part of that that wasn't just medicine in the wind. >> those lights that are shooting out from the lincoln memorial along the reflecting pool, it's almost like extensions of joe biden's arms embracing america. it was a moment where the new president came to town. >> tucker: so to recap, joe biden respects people's differences come at the same time, he's going to train us to be very different from the way we are. he will bring hope and decency. he will fill the yawning void where empathy should be. he is medicine. joe biden's arms leaning hard from decades of empathetic labor

on our behalf will encircle us like lights from the lincoln memorial. at that point, god knows anything is possible. there is a thin bead of sweat forming in your upper lip as you think about all of this, that's okay. i don't feel shame, shame isn't necessary now. it joe biden this year. not just joe biden, jill bite into, mrs. biden, dr. biden. the two of them will redeem those nations through their love, behold. >> what a great love story between jill and joe biden. it's a different kind of marriage. this is a love match like the obama's word. i think that will be healing for the country, too. we won the bidens marriage is healing for all of us, for the country. their love is america's love. it jill and joe are the mother and father of this nation. from their loins we are born and yet reborn. it may their names emerge from our lips in praise forever.

and so on, that was cable news today. the funny thing is, and there's many funny things going on right now, every person with a microphone and every tv studio in america today knew the fuller truth when they said things you just heard. you knew for certain joe biden isn't well. everyone in washington knows that. no one said it out loud, not a worry. they withheld that news from you as they have for months. so much for speaking truth to power. on the other hand, what did you expect? we watch the line for years now, you know what it is, you figured out how it works. it dawned on us, maybe we ought to stop playing all of these stupid media clips every night. it's like watching the town drunk throw up on himself over and over again. it's repulsive, shocking, hard to turn her way, can you really be surprised by it? throwing up on themselves is what town drunks do. if you keep watching them as they do it, may be may be after i while you are part of the problem. maybe so. we flipped on cnn and it decided

to check out his speech for himself. it was interesting both for what it said and what it didn't say. one particular part of the speech struck out especially. we didn't support joe biden for president, but if were being totally honest here, we have to say it was very hard to disagree with this specific part of the address. watch. >> on this january day, my whole soul is in this period of bringing america together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. i ask every american to join me in this cause. with unity, we can do great things. important things. >> tucker: bringing america together, biden said, uniting our people. uniting our nation. we meant it when we did, amen. unity. if that is precisely what this country needs more than it needs anything. we are all in this together. every single american. we have no choice but to hang together. let's finally accept that we are

one country and act like we are, and make this a better place for everyone. no decent person opposes that. if joe biden can bring unity to this country, he will be a legitimately great president. there's a catch, there's always a catch. we are going to bring america together, joe biden told us today, but not everybody is going to be included. it unity doesn't mean every single american because not everybody who was born within our borders really is american. some of us are beyond the pale of citizenship morally. we may have american passports and birth certificates, but we are the emanating. here's who joe biden says those people are. >> the rise of political extremism, whites pharmacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat. >> tucker: we will to heat. politically extremist, domestic

terrorists, white supremacist. if those are america's enemy, we must wage war against them. we must defeat those people. it seems like a highly significant part of his speech. a part of the governing agenda going forward. we are not imagining this, we weren't the only ones who noticed a pier to people voted for joe biden did it too, watch. >> i herded declaration of war against white supremacy, a broader democracy to the brink. >> item will inherit a once unprecedented domestic security. >> tucker: against whites pharmacy. you may not have noticed that because someone level it's not very remarkable. not many americans support white supremacy, most people find it disgusting, and they should. the question is, what is it exactly? that we are waging war on white

supremacist, can someone tell us what a white supremacist is? that's not a semantic question, joe biden isn't a high school debate coach, he is the new president of the united states. he controls the largest military and largest law enforcement agency in the world. he has declared war, we should note specifically and precisely who exactly he has declared war on. we have a right to know that. innocent people could be hurt in this war, they usually are. there could be collateral damage in this war. the casualty will be americans. again, what is a white supremacist? you might be surprised to learn just how brought that definition has become. they described the wall in her southern border as a monument to white's primacy. don't support that. colin kaepernick who has the unequivocal support of orbit america because the fourth of july an example of white supremacy. to put away the fireworks and the hot dog. united states army, a trusted

institution if there ever was one, has used an entire manual and what is and what isn't white supremacy. you should know this, among the telltale signs are celebrating columbus day, using the term american exceptionalism, any support for federal border security or english only measures, or education funding from property taxes. using the phrase, there's only one human race is white supremacy, too. of course, voting for donald trump, all white supremacy. here's the problem. let's say you don't buy those definitions. it lets say you are white but poor, and you have trouble accepting the idea that you are benefiting from some kind of structural advantage. you better shut up about it if you know what's good for you because according to the united states army, denial of white privilege is a classic sign of white supremacy. no complaining. you can see the problem with this. we definitely can see the problem with this. at this show was not on the air for six months before it whips

organized a highly aggressive campaign to denounce us as whites premises. the first time it happens, people who worked on this show were shocked and horrified by that. white supremacist? what's worse than that. images of burning crosses and lynchings is awful. in our case, it was totally undeserved. in this show is completely opposed to the practice of judging people on the basis of their skin color. we had said that repeatedly every week for four years. no show and all media has set it more or meant it more sincerely. why we said that? why are we opposed to judging people on the basis of their race? not specifically because we are taught to opposed doing that, but because it's immoral. it's immoral because we believe in god. that's the real answer. believing in god doesn't make you a good person, unfortunately. believing in god answers the question of where we came from, god made us. that's what believers believe.

once you understand that, it's impossible to think that anyone race is inherently better or worse than any other race because god made every person. god assigned identical moral values to every individual. god cares about all of us equally. we are judged by what we do, not by how we were born. we really believe that. most americans really believe that. it's not an accident that martin luther king was a christian manager dominic ministry. secular leaders are the ones most likely to count their populations by race and to embrace collective judgment. through history, they often have. we set all of that before on the show, many times. at the question is, why have they kept denouncing us as, of all things, white supremacist? we thought a lot about that. you should think a lot about it too now that the biden administration has declared war on people they claim have whites from assist ideas. in our case, it all started with

me began criticizing the people in charge. other channels fill their air the proud boys, whoever they are, qanon enthusiasts, or gun owners who fix air-conditioners for a living. if they go after those people. or you can see why. attacking those people isn't hard, none of them have real power. if they don't, let's be honest. the private equity does have power, a lot of power. so does google appear to so does citibank, so does the government of china, so does alexandria ocasio-cortez cortez. those are the people who run our country. if they don't like to be criticized. on the other hand, they don't care to defend themselves directly with reason and fact, in fact, they can't do that. instead they denounce you, their critics, as white supremacists. then they just ignore what you say. fine. we've dealt with this for years. we are use to it. we understand what's going on. as a new regime in power

starting today, and today seem to be planning to accelerate things dramatically. if they are getting the fbi and the pentagon involved in this hunt for people they may criticize. at the very big change. you should understand what it's really about. jason whitlock, thank you so much for coming on tonight. no one ever says this, but i think it's true, that the work against whites primacy, supremacy of any kind is faith. people of faith are far less likely and are commanded not to judge people on the basis of how they were born. why does nobody say that? >> i'm glad you said that, you're speaking the truth. at this and secular values and coming into power. the left and this power elite, i can't blame just the left spirit of political elites are

demonizing the people they are supposed to represent. this is an attack on the american people. a black people, as i said on monday are being fooled into thinking it's a defense of us. it's not. when you start talking about a war on white supremacy, or a war on people that you disagree with politically, because that's what all this is. whoever the left disagrees with gets painted as a white supremacist. it's happened to me, i'm black! i'm proudly black with two black parents, black siblings. i'm in no denial. because i expressed conservative values, conservative, nonpolitical values, i'm seen as a friend of white supremacists, i'm a white supremacist. anybody that disagrees with the

left, and now with this warm whites primacy, just like the war on drugs was an attack on the working class and poor we are about to see it all over again. i just want to reach out to black people and let's quit being used as a pond by a political organization, the left, democrats, -- they are punching down. but they are attacking 75 million people that voted for trump. in that attack, they are also attacking you, trust me. at some point, they are coming for you as well. this is not a defense of u. this whole thing, i've lived long enough to know that the racial progress america has made. today, in his speech about white supremacy and nicole wallace talking about truth and the lies that have been told and justified this violence at the

capital, what about the lies we listen to all summer about the police killing black people randomly? they've got everybody wound up, riots and violence all across the country. citizens assassinated, no one gets blamed for that. people walk into the capital unarmed and this is -- this is pearl harbor. that this is 9/11 all over again, and we have to have a war on white supremacy like we had a war on terror. if they have to cut it out, tucker. >> tucker: i agree. i'm worried, it is about power. otherwise they would use the faith-based case against racism which is the one we grew up with in this country. it don't judge other people, because what happens dominic matters is inside. the blm movement was funded by our most powerful corporations over the summer, that's a political movement. put it in context for us, what

would you compare that to? >> i compare black lives matter to the kkk. i really do. to some people don't understand it, but if you go back to the 1860s after the emancipation proclamation the kkk was started, and it was the enforcement arm of the democratic party. what's the enforcement arm of the democratic party right now? black lives matter and antifa. that they will come to your home and violate your home, try to intimidate the people if they disagree with you politically. black lives matter, a marxist organization, marxism is hostile toward religion. if that's why i'm glad you went there today. these are atheist values being expressed from our leaders, demonizing individual citizens here in america, branding them as white supremacists because

they decided -- because we disagree with their opinion about something. this is lunacy, and it's dangerous. >> tucker: what i love about your analysis and the reason why you can see it so clearly when others don't, you understand these struggles about power. as one group trying to impose its will on the other. that's the essential dynamic in politics is power. it's not primarily race, its power. i don't know why that's not obvious to more people. >> they've come up with a strategy, tucker. you have to tip your hat to them, it's evil but it's working. they have convinced the public and that if you want to not be considered racist, support democrats. to support the left. that's the way to inoculate yourself from ever being accused of racism or being a sellout to your black race. at that is their political strategy, that's what they are offering the people. we can protect you from being

smeared as a racist. joe biden offered no policies today. there were platitudes and generalizations and attacks on president trump. if there was no vision express for america and how we move this country forward. if there was no offer of unity. as we set a week or two ago, you have to reach out to the 75 million people and say, i know you are struggling, i know you are frustrated with this country, let's have a conversation, and let's quit smearing each other. it let me hear your concerns and try to address some of them. we are not doing that, i don't see any unity being promoted. his >> tucker: and all of us would be so grateful for that. jason whitlock, we appreciate you coming on tonight. joe biden doesn't seem like an extremist, probably isn't an extremist. if you listen carefully to what he said and what his allies have been saying for the past couple of weeks, we are now in a new

war on terror, a domestic war. what does that mean for the rest of us? glenn greenwald will assess with us, after the break. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> tucker: not a lot of actual policies at the inauguration today. at the new did declare a brand-new or undomestic terrorism which does seem like the headline. we've been waiting for this for a while. the countries intelligence seems to be salivating at the thought of treating americans like isis. >> looking forward that the members of the biden team who have been nominated or appointed are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements we seen overseas. they germinate in different parts of the country, and state gain strength, and it brings together an unholy alliance of

religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians. unfortunately, there's been this momentum that has been generated as a result of the demagogic rhetoric of people. also those who continue in the halls of congress. >> tucker: an unholy alliance if you will. because i'm spooked down to stupid i was still able to run the cia. it tells you a lot about our system. the headline is insurgent spirit what you're hearing, people who disagree with me or criticize me are insurgents. politicians love the idea of the spirit of brad sander, he's introduced something called the domestic terrorism prevention act to make it harder for dominic to spy on americans. >> would you like to see more monitoring of more movements question marks because the short answer is yes, that's the

purpose of this bill. >> tucker: the short answer is yes. glenn greenwald is the most independent of independent journalists. he joins us tonight. this is starting to make me a little bit nervous. to do the rest of us have cause to be concerned about this trend? >> absolutely. a lot of times if you've warned of a danger you have to piece things together in order to demonstrate that it's actually coming. in this case, you don't have to. if they are explicitly saying it precisely what they want to do. what struck me so much about that john brennan video is it would be one thing if they were saying, there was a band of people, 20 here, 50 over there that where it swats to swastika armbands. but that's not what you think, the exact opposite. every group, even libertarians, he's defining the insurgency is anyone who has an ideology other

than neoliberalism. other than the ruling class of you that's going to congeal and merge with the power of this state, and what they are talking bout, explicitly, is using the tools they use to take isis off the internet, the tools they use to -- they're talking about it as a second war on terror. at that first one, no matter what your views were originally at the beginning of 9/11 ended up eroding. not civil liberties, elsewhere, but here at home as well. one that is borne by name of being a domestic war on terror, designed to criminalize any ideology to the ruling class. but there's nothing that could be more dangerous, and it's not fearmongering or alarmism to say it. there are bills pending by adam schiff's well that would simply take the existing war on terror legislation always aimed at foreign governments and foreign

actors, and simply amend it to say we can do that within the united states. the one who is going to stand up in opposition to this? i don't see any of the republican caucus noticing. i see a lot of people who i thought were liberal not liberal at all but more authoritarian. how do we prevent this from happening? any idea? >> one of the things i'm really hoping for is that we can finally get out enough people believing that the way to understand washington is democrat versus republican. do you side with one team and believe they are on your side in defending your interests, and the other team is your enemy. it's not true! there is a ruling class elite that it's extremely comfortable with the wings of both parties. if they pelosi and chuck schumer as much as they love mitch mcconnell and submit romney and marco rubio and paul ryan. to those of the people who they fund equally because those of the people who serve their agenda. then there's a whole other group

of people at whose expense they roll in. to some them consider them on the left, some on the right. it's time to break down those barriers. i was super enthused to see for left-wing politicians say, we will not allow a new war on terror because we know how dangerous it can be. it let them stand with right-wing members to break down this artificial false fraudulent prison that the way to understand washington is thinking that one of the two parties is on your side. and neither of them is. >> tucker: i feel like a lot of people will be saving that permanently on their dvrs. i hope they do, you are right. glenn greenwald, thank you very much. the censorship campaign we are living under now, and asked appears to be accelerating, just took an entire social media platform of the internet and disappeared it. it began in earnest when big tech united as one to censor

very specific story, it ran in "the new york post." that story was about the biotin family influence peddling operation. big tech companies told us that was disinformation, it wasn't. it was all true. in fact, there still an active federal investigation into joe biden's family, his son about his overseas business deal. it just before the election, we spoke to a man called tony bob linsky who is a business partner of the bidens, and told us the details. >> hunter and his father and security came to the bar. i stood up out of respect to shake his hand. hunter introduced me as -- this is the individual i told you about that's helping us with the business we are going to be working on. >> it was clear to you that joe biden son has told him about this business? >> crystal clear. >> tucker: it now, the

white house aligned with silicon valley has to make a decision. will the media -- will they allowed the media effectively to cover the story anymore? it's hard to imagine asking this question in this country, but we have to. we've been on this story since the first day it came out. thank you so much for coming on. this raises the really interesting question i had not heard asked before, which is what you do about a story about the president and his family now that the president is actually the president. >> hi tucker. i don't really hold out much hope at that very incurious media is going to change their tune. you could say joe biden won the election because of the censorship and the favorable reporting that he received. and now, you saw just from first press conference a little over an hour ago that the media is

really eating out of the biotin administration's hand. only one reporter, peter doocy from fox news, asked a question that was difficult. that was one about unity. how could you possibly be preaching unity when you're trying to impeach your predecessor? i don't think that anything will change, and all we saw before the election was that the media was quite happy to accept some complete nonsense from people like john brannen and his former colleagues. they told us that hunter biden laptop was russian disinformation. it wasn't. and now, they have a new bogeyman. as you rightly said, joe biden put it out there and is supposedly unifying inauguration speech today. it's domestic terrorists, it's a white supremacist. the definition of that depends on whether you are with us or against us.

>> tucker: that's exactly right. i can't imagine a less unifying way to run your administration. thank you for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: think for a moment a moment about john brennan. we can't say this enough, he ran the cia. the most powerful intel gathering agency in the world, and yet now that john brennan is a regular on tv, you know his secret. he's not very smart, he's a dumb partisan. he's not even a good talking head. how did our country promote over decades someone who is completely mediocre to a position of authority like that? we need to figure out what we're doing wrong here. when people like john brannen ascend to the top of the cia, it's a broken system. up next, in the name of unity joe biden has just hired someone who believes that disciplining children in school is, of course, another two of white supremacy and racist. if that's not just a dumb

opinion, it's opinion that's going to have actual effects on school and your kids. i will tell you what those might be, after the break. ♪ ♪

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>> tucker: if you've been flipping around the dial, you may have noticed that all other news channels have connected their cameras directly to the pool feed. there carrying unaltered footage from the joe biden celebration. we don't mean any disrespect to the presidency, or even the person who occupies it when we say there's a lot going on. we're going to bring you news for this hour instead. we will dip in briefly has joe biden speaks for the first time in prime time. in the meantime, we will tell you what's going on because it matters. democrats and the media are welcoming military occupation. more than there in 1864 than the civil war. just last year a class is a very different view of the national guard and the whole

topic of law and order. other mcdonald knows more about bond order and the effective use of police more than anyone in america. we are happy to have her tonight. what do you make of what we're seeing in washington right now? >> it's hilarious, tucker. this summer, it "the new york times" produced an op-ed merely approaching the idea of calling out the national guard to quell the murderous anarchic riots that were tearing apart american cities. this is so injurious to "the new york times"'s employees that the op-ed editor had to resign. now those same employees are cheering on the military station not just of the nation's capital, but of all 50 state capitals. why might this be, tucker? is there a newfound respect for law and order and for the police officers of this country? of course not. the biotin administration has already declared it's going to reinvigorate the war on cops

that the obama administration prosecuted. the reason they are loving on the tanks, the barbed wire, the guys in military riot gear, is because they serve as a visual symbol for what it's going to be the dominant theme of the biotin administration, which is the greatest set of america today is the so-called rising tide of systemic racism and white supremacy. that's a lie, but it's a lie that allows them to get to an even bigger agenda, something you've been covering relentlessly, tucker, which is the biggest worry to our constitutional liberties which is the attempt to destroy first amendment protection for conservative speech on the idea that it is given rise to the threat of domestic terrorism. >> tucker: share, they can tell you what you can say, they can control what you think. once they can do that they can do anything to you. it's not just hypocrisy, they were against it now they are for it -- it's the real feeling of

their actual agenda. they don't have problem with force or fascism, obviously. >> obviously, yes. for them, they want to. if anybody else in the suburbs or in the intercity says, we need the cops, you can't say that. that entails more systemic racism in the lie that governs the left. as soon as they don't have any need ideologically for the cops, they will be right back in the dog trash heap which is where they've been for the last ten years under democratic ideology. >> tucker: totally true. the great heather macdonald, thank you. as we reported the other day, democrats in congress have been working to ban the civilian ownership of body armor, a completely defensive measure that people take to prevent getting killed from bullets. if they don't want you to be able to have that in your possession, a felony to have it

in your house. democratic members of congress announced they were wearing body armor at the inauguration. meditate on that for a minute. catherine lindeman is the pick to be part of the domestic call to policy council for equity, which is not equality. as you might expect, she is not for equality or against racism, she prefers overt racial discrimination for the benefit of group she believes voted for the democratic party. more african-american students were getting suspended than white students, therefore she concluded by definition those schools must be racist. she couldn't think of another explanation. in april of 2018, she came on this show to defend race-based admission policies. i've got to give her credit for saying it out loud, she did. just like kristen clarke,

joe biden's pick to head the civil rights division, catherine lehman believes someone's appearance matters more than what they do. because there are groups in america, particularly african-americans who are discriminated against and historically. this is a way to make good on that. how does it make you feel when you see the numbers that foreign-born lack students displace african-american students, especially prestigious schools at a high rate, and the school gets to say they are diverse when their leading indicator of the nigerian ambassador. it doesn't that seem like a perversion of the purpose? >> it might be a perversion of the purpose. i haven't seen those numbers, that's not my experience from investigating schools. i need to resist your reduction of the applicant to a particular characteristic. >> they are completely race conscious in the way they do admissions. >> that is not clue stomach true. >> tucker: you can't reduce people to their race, you have

to look at the whole person. if that's the point we are making, and to make night. he's a member of the u.s. commission for civil rights, he works with the moment you saw on that tape. what do you think of this choice and what will its effects be? >> the effects will be the perpetuation of racial and identity the atomic politics. even more than this last year. with respect to rates, especially with respect to education, we've had here with the civil rights commission her positions entry opinions that she's written after we had hearings, they make it very clear that what we are about to engage in is racial politics on steroids. the presumption is, the false and inane presumption, that there is a disparity of race as a result of systemic racism and outright whites supremacy.

upset civil rights with her education, presumed that disparities and suspensions and discipline in schools were a result of racism. schools, in order to abide by this guidance given to quotas. you had kids who are violent and acting out remaining in class. as a result of that, predictably, what happened was that the amount of violence in schools skyrocketed. we had a hearing in which teachers testified that they were being beaten. one suffered brain damage. hundreds of thousands of students per year pulled, they missed at least one day at school because of fear of going to school. this is what happens when you come by race. at this is what happens when you don't take in consideration known reasons or where there are disparities that have nothing to do with racism. in 2021, the good news is, it is

rarely -- and vanishingly rare, that racism promotes or is the cause for disparities on the basis of race. we are going to see more and more stress on identity politics, more and more stress on structural causes of racism that permits for the kind of social engineering of the guy who's trying to remedy racial disparities. >> tucker: they are going to hurt the country. it i appreciate it. it's sad. thank you. they've already established some pretty firm ground rules for the biden administration. for example, you cannot talk about -- or is it, it's hard to know. in any way that's not phoning the positive. that's deep sexist. when they run segments on

kamala harris' shoes, it's not offensive, it's empowering. >> when you walked in, i checked out, is she wearing them? you are not wearing your chucks today, what is the story? >> it became a story, i always wore chucks. it's my go-to. i grew up with the chucks, i just love them, they are comfortable. >> i can attest. she has several closets full of them. >> tucker: can you imagine? you're interviewing one of the most powerful people in the world, may be the most powerful person in the world. you are a journalist, your job is to inform your viewers and readers about what they can expect from their government. instead, you degrade yourself by asking about her shoes. quick, go over camel's shoes. they were not the highlight, they were focused on more important matters like how michelle obama was just today. >> can i remark on how flawless

michelle obama is today? i'm sorry, i don't mean to be -- she really understands how to dress for the moment, and how to look stylish but also powerful. is she really is just masterful it. >> tucker: she's just masterful. wouldn't it be hilarious if someone on-site said, i don't think she looks like good. honestly, it's not really flattering. you would lose a job if you did that. love to see it. speaking of losing the job, you might not have read it, he's no longer going to be cheap white house correspondent. jim acosta celebrated that he got a book deal out of criticizing him. those horrors are behind us now, thank god. jim acosta is celebrating that the dictator is gone. >> it's looking like a president or foreign head of state leaving washington. in a way, because the president is defying these traditions of not being a part of the

inauguration of president joe biden, he's almost leaving town like a autocrat also from power, heading out to exile. the one someone wearing black mask on camera is calling someone a fascist. you're not going to get covid outside with a live shot. its performance art, and how long will it go on? steve, one of my hopes is to be able to watch television again without gritting my teeth. it just basic news coverage, are we ever going to get that? >> i don't know. it feels like the pendulum is starting to swing a whole different direction. i think if there is one positive that came from the trump era, journalists rediscovered the idea that the press should serve the public and to be a check on power. it should have an adversarial relationship with power. and now, the press and the trump arrow went overboard and became

this evil dictatorship we are covered. maybe you could take those lessons and bring it to the biden era. i'm not sure we are going to see that. olivia newsies one of the few reporters who i actually trust. she was on my podcast, she described a lot of dc-based journalist remote motivated by the reluctance to make one socialite uncomfortable. you can be mean to kelly to kayleigh mcenany, you can interrupt her all day, you will get more twitter followers. if you do that to john saki, you will be a misogynist or a mansplain her. you will not be invited to the same parties she's going to. i'm very concerned about the way this is going to go. if it's any indication of where things were in the obama years, or even the bush years, i think we need to have a press that is

motivated to be adversarial. i'm not traversing that. particularly, what i'm seeing from these tweets that they're so tired and exhausted from the last four years, it's not a good sign for where things are about to go next. >> tucker: agree with you. i don't know her politics, but she smart. a lot of dumb people in the media. all the smart ones went into finance or something. be slow second son goes to msnbc. great to see you tonight. thank you. joe biden as we told you, we have plotted it as he did, called for unity today which is something we needed more than anything. if you really meant it, why wouldn't he, and will he, call on his allies to stop censoring people? we thought a lot about that question. he's a tech entrepreneur, author of "woke inc."

thanks for coming on. if you want to unify the country, people get to speak freely. i may disagree, i can handle it because i'm american. do you think you'll do that? >> as an american, i hope he does. at the single most powerful thing he could do tonight is get on the phone with jack dorsey, call on big tech to give donald trump's twitter account back and do the same thing for thousands of conservatives who were removed. we engage them, we debate them. for the president of united states to do that would be a small step for joe biden. i think it would be a big step forward for this country. >> tucker: i think that really would -- i would unequivocally praise him, i think all people of principle would do that. it do you think that he will? >> i have a big doubt whether he will. he is the president of the united states today. he's no longer a candidate. i'd like to give them a chance. the real question is on the

conservative movement to ask ourselves, what is the real enemy today? it's not 1980 anymore, it's not big government. you talk about a joke about an unholy marriage early on the show, it's the unholy marriage of big government, big tech, and big business. >> tucker: has totally right. it way scarier than anything we faced before. i appreciate you coming on, we will see you again. as we told you, joe biden, newly president, speaking for the first time in prime time. we want to dip in quickly to his remarks, because it's news. >> dignity and respect. it unite against common foes. to hate, violence, disease, hopelessness. america's story depends not on any one of us. and not on some of us, but on all of us. on we the people. that's a task before us. the only way we will get through the darkness around us -- there are moments in our history when morris asked of us as

americans. we saw that in the civil war. we saw that with dr. king dreaming from these steps across the mall. we are in one of those moments now the pandemic, economic crisis, racial injustice, climate crisis, and threats to a very democracy. the question is, are we up to it? will we meet the moment like our forebears have? i believe we must, and i believe we will. you, the american people, are the reason why i've never been more optimistic about america than i am this very day. there isn't anything we can't do if we do it together. that's what you will see tonight. stories of ordinary americans who do extraordinary things, that's how we will celebrate america. that's how we will respect and represent america in our time in

office. america is built of decency and dignity, of love and healing, of greatness and goodness, of possibilities. these are the stories that inspire us and unite us today and always. thank you for this honor. i will give my all to you. may god bless america, and may god protect our troops. >> tucker: god bless america, god bless our troops. we want to end the note tonight on a happy note. the museum of national history in your, greatest president we've ever had, one of the greatest people who ever lived here it is since may, what you've heard calls to tear the statute down. it's now planned to be torn down. the mayor of new york says he will tear down. it still standing tonight.

that's the point we want to make. as long as it does chance, the country has not gone completely crazy. it mark steyn joins us to celebrate and tell us what this means. great to see you, mark. >> if you listen to what we've heard today, talking about how trump is the first guy in 152 years not to attend the inauguration of his successor, there is a tradition going back to 1837. people have a need for history. you can't tear down history. if you tear down history, you leave a void where something false fills and instead bared it that's the story of totalitarian societies. it's great to see that this thing is still standing in defiance of the mobs we saw over the summer. >> tucker: it's may be my favorite line of the summer. and when you tear down history you leave a void of where something false can go.

it's not accidental, it's a manipulation of our shared history, of our culture, of who we are. >> every society needs a history. that's what all these shallow references to traditions meant today. every society needs to be part of a great historical. you can't remove that, you can't add up. it that's what it is. is. >> tucker: so smart. i don't know why this strikes me in the way that it does, probably because i love teddy roosevelt, also because not everything was destroyed during that spasm of mob vandalism we saw four months that our leaders did nothing to stop. >> absolutely. it that's despite john brennan demonizing all kinds of people. it nativists, libertarians, excitable centrists, moderates who had a third cup of coffee. with all the domestic enemies,

the statute still stands. >> tucker: this is off-topic but i can't resist but you brought up tom brennan. are you ever surprised once you hear the people making these grand decisions speak of how unimpressive, mediocre eat, and overall but now they are? >> absolutely. they are furious at any talk of pardoning because we have bozos running the most lavishly funded intelligence community in the world and they couldn't keep their secrets. it tom brennan shouldn't be holding that job. >> tucker: none of these people shed. it would be funny to have -- i don't know, an hour-long unedited taped conversation with kamala harris about -- what do you think about it? what are the principles you believe in? that would be the most devastating hour of television ever made, which is why they will do whatever they can to prevent it from being made. >> knock it off, tucker.

ask a question about her footwear like a respectable member of the media. >> tucker: so good. it mark steyn, it's great to see you. thank you so much. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: we are out of time. we will be back tomorrow night and every night, 8:00 southern, "the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink.," hannity right now. >> sean: breaking news with the following tonight, violence erupting again in portland and seattle. it today, after a historic and groundbreaking for years in the white house, president trump departed washington, d.c., a huge crowd awaited him. in his final remarks the president reiterated that his america first movement is only just begun. make no mistake. at least 75 million americans who voted for president trump, they are not going away. i'm one of them, i'm not going away either, although many on the left would probably love