chris wallace will speak with two republican senators, mitt romney and marco rubio, check your local listings for the show time. thank you for inviting us into your home tonight and all this week and through 2021. that's it for this special report, fair, balanced, and still unafraid. a fox news prime time hosted by brian kilmeade starts right now. >> you can officially start your weekend at this moment, go ahead. if good evening and welcome to fox news prime time. i am brian kilmeade but brett gave that away. he said we have a moral obligation to get people back to work. >> we cannot, will not let people go hungry. we cannot let people be evicted because of nothing they did themselves. we cannot let people lose their jobs and we have to act.

we have to act now. this is an economic imperative, a growing economic consensus that we must act decisively and boldly to grow the economy for all americans, not just for tomorrow but in the future. >> sounds good beer the president claims to be taking decisive action during these dark days of the pandemic which is true, but not the help you need come up for building campaign promises that i can tend to vote at a single job but will raise plenty of jobs. yesterday with the stroke of a pen, he killed the keystone xl pipeline and an estimated 71,000 jobs, good paying union jobs he touted he was all about unions. the move will likely erase energy costs or raise them up and hurt our relationship with canada. more on that later in the show. also halted the southern border wall already paid for, i think a lot more. but that's not all. today, he mandated a federal minimum wage of $15, a move that

nonpartisan congressional budget office says would eliminate 3.7 million jobs. how does this make sense? the increased cost of labor is also guaranteed to hurt small businesses hanging on by a thread during the pandemic. sadly, not the time to give people a raise because all boats rise. what kind of president does this unilaterally on day one and day two without even taking the time to explain his actions? he signs, he mumbles, he closes, and we move. one that's more concerned about pandering to the far left because he has got a base of american workers who are counting on him and his left-wing policies. so for anyone about to lose their job because of these executive orders i do not worry. the biden administration has some advice for you. it's a little different, but let's listen together. >> for those workers, the answer is somebody else will get a job? to make the answer is we are very eager to see those workers continue to be employed in good paying union jobs even if they might be different ones. >> brian: here with reaction, dan crenshaw of texas.

i even just texted you, i'm so disappointed with what's happened over the last two or three days, no conversation, no give-and-take, no kevin mccarthy, let's do something together here. it was a great speech perhaps, but is there any indication that there's going to be any bipartisanship and this will help the economy? >> they're going to keep talking about unity but they don't want to unify behind anything the american working class might actually want. couldn't have said it better than what you just said. you talked about canceling the keystone pipeline, tens of thousands of union jobs that pay a lot better than jobs for say solar and wind. on average, $20,000 better pay for oil and gas jobs than for solar and wind and most of those jobs are in china. so that's what pete buttigieg is talking about when he says other jobs. not talking about good paying american jobs and they need to confront this fact and confront that when you drastically rates the minimum wage to $15 an hour,

you're going to cut out millions of jobs across america. not according to me, that's according to the congressional budget office. i have people begging me to do something about this. we will immediately lose our business and already hanging on by a thread. so if you're going to claim that you are the party of the american working class, you actually have to support working. that's a requirement to be a working-class party and they just won't do that. >> we had a meeting today and said if there was one policy that was intensely put out that it would eliminate jobs, all he cared about was jobs to the detriment may be of other things. when you hear what canada's perspective is, they are enraged. as much as they are happy to have a democratic president and donald trump out, they wanted this pipeline. they know it's clean and passed five separate environmental tests put out by the obama administration and i want you to listen to the alberta premier on

this, what he says is up a bye joe biden. >> it's very frustrating that one of the first acts of a new president was to disrespect america's closest friend and ally canada. >> brian: evidently, he's a liberal in canada. this isn't just me and you talking, there's a lack of logic here. >> it's also bad for the environment and the radical left doesn't really care about the environment. this is about the culture war to them and for them, fossil fuels are just evil. they don't know why. if you are stupid if you ask why but they just want to tell you they are evil. the truth is when you build pipelines, you are doing on a much cleaner and safer way than transporting it by truck or by train. if you're also helping north american energy independence which is what our canadian friends are alluding to because if we are not producing and exporting cleaner produced oil and cleaner produce natural gas to the rest of the world,

you know who has? russia, venezuela, iran, saudi arabia so because of joe biden's policies, you will see an increase in global emissions. you will see an increase in manufacturing over in china. the chinese love this stuff because they love selling us there solar panels and they are wind turbines back here so that we clear our land, build a bunch of transmission lines and screw up our energy independence. they love seeing the paris climate accord going forward because they can keep alluding while our economy gets hurt even though we are the ones that reduce carbon emissions more than any other country in the world, so it's actually bad for the environment, bad for the economy, doesn't make any sense but it's good for the radical left culture wars which is what they are after. >> brian: we still get more fossil fuels from canada than anybody else and if you want to reestablish relations with our neighbor, joe biden's first call is to justin trudeau when i ask you logically if canada means

that much to joe biden where your first international call is to justin trudeau, why does this make sense? can you clue me in who was joe biden answering to? >> i think we did just answer that. it's the culture warriors, the postmodernist progressives. they want you to believe certain things about america. they want you to believe it's evil, that you should sacrifice but the chinese don't have to. they want you to believe your job should be sacrificed for other jobs that they prefer even though they pay less and are good jobs. they want you to believe that the 1776 commission should be abolished because it teaches you that america is too good and they would rather replace that with the 1619 project. this is who he is listening to. when maggie was asked about the highways and what he will do because the former mayor of south bend who was average in every way said this about our highways, so get a pen ready, i did not know this. >> i also recognize that at

their worst, misguided policies and missed opportunities in transportation can reinforce racial and economic inequality by dividing or isolating neighborhoods and undermining governments basic role of empowering americans to thrive. >> brian: okay, we have racist highways now. >> i live next to a highway. i didn't realize it was a racist highway. this is what happens when the progressive left takes over the culture and takes over the democrat party. no more ideals of neutral application of law or neutral justice are universal principles. all of these old liberal principles that we use to agree on are no longer agreed upon, so they see everything through a social justice lens and through critical race theory where everything, every problem that you see in the only way to solve said problem is to view it through a racial lens and that's

exactly what pete buttigieg is doing right now, completely unqualified for this job. >> brian: certainly bright and served our country but it's an interesting time in america, that used to be a rarity. congressman dan crenshaw, you can start your weekend now but knowing you, it will be a working weekend. >> as always, great to be with you. >> brian: i appreciate you scrambling for us. let's put in dave rubin, axios pointed out that moderate joe was turning into liberal joe through these executive orders. but i find most aggravating his they didn't take the time to explain it. he doesn't sit up there and take the questions. maybe he's got great answers, we don't know. should we get used to the bubble wrap president? >> this thing is going to be bubble wrapped and put in a very soft box with pillows and a lot of peanut things.

he is not going to be touched. it's very obvious that the media will play total softball with him. you saw the press conferences of the last couple of days. will he change the color of the drapes on air force one, nonsense like that. ironically, we saw this a lot during the primary process when biden does get challenged, he actually gets quite hostile and several times offered to fight people, not only journalists, but you may remember jerry wayne who was an auto worker in michigan who biden wanted to take outback. so he is not used to getting tough questions and when he does, he reverts to this very defensive posture but unfortunately, we don't have a great media that will hold his feet to the fire too often. >> brian: that's when he was a candidate but now it's us in our country, so it's not okay. jen psaki gave a couple of press conferences, she was asked about the antifa violence you've been talking about in portland,

denver, seattle, sometimes new york. we never hear anything about that and sadly i guess they were rushed for time, it didn't make the inaugural address. listen to how she handled it. >> does the president have any comments on the ongoing violence in oregon and washington state? be mike i haven't spoken with him specifically but it's something our national security team are closely monitoring of course. >> brian: going to talk about this a little bit later in the show but they wrote they don't like biden, they don't like the democrats. they smash the windows of the democratic party. that gives them the perfect out to say all terror and violence is wrong, i don't care where it is, it's got to stop in portland and seattle. if what is it about the makeup of antifa that has democrats? >> they played footsie with it for far too long and now the chickens are coming home to roost, that's basically what's happening here. for the last two years, we watched portland and seattle in

new york city and parts of los angeles and san francisco, every progressive city we have in america has been attacked and in some cases actually burn down, burning down targets and pep boys and residential neighborhoods by antifa, the left and the democrats kind of work into it because there was this idea that this is just happening because of trump, some amorphous reason that in trump's america, everything is racist and these people are letting off steam from this was promoted by people like maxine waters and aoc and people on cnn like chris cuomo who said where does it say that protests have to be peaceful. it does say it actually that they have to be peaceful. they played footsie with it for so long because they were using it to harm trump and now they don't want to get too close to it. the idea that she hasn't spoke to biden about it may be true, he's been busy, but isn't that an insurrection when you have

people marching through streets destroying public property and they've been doing it for two years now and we know it is somewhere between one and $2 billion worth of damage but they don't want to talk about that and there was a reason for it. >> brian: it would be one way to subtly bring people together gradually. we see your point, let me included in my concerns, doesn't happen yet, still hopeful something will change. thank you so much for joining us today, have a great friday. >> good to see you. >> brian: straight-ahead, pete hegseth on the democrats proposal, is on the same side of the squad. reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. here's your a1c. oh! my a1c is under 7!

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>> brian: some democrats have suggested it might be time to rewrite the laws that define domestic terrorism. in other words, expand the federal government's power to track down and prosecute people who live here. we were all for catching terrorists but if that's what this is really about, okay, but why are so many democrats fighting with republicans who think this is a terrible idea? the number is staggering. pete hegseth getting set to do eight hours of television this weekend, you will need an extra jar of gel for that but first, this, 135 civil rights groups are concerned about this, targeting terror groups at home, why? >> when you use an incident or a moment to expand federal powers especially understanding our constitution and the rights endowed with by a creator and not by government, you should always be skeptical of using a moment to encroach on those freedoms. it's one thing when you are

attacked by an international islamist foe with millions of adherents who seek your existential destruction. it's another thing when something goes sideways the way it did on capitol hill and no one is apologizing for that but ultimately then using that to not just surveilled groups that are extreme but then move into the eccentric circles of you want to stop the steal, did you want to fight for trump, what were you saying online, and you saw what happened with the national guard, this idea that if you voted for trump, are you a suspect and who is a suspect and how much influence and power do you want to give to effectively be a domestic cia? one of the institutions they want to create as a domestic terrorism executive committee. if that's not orwellian, i don't know what is in slippery slope is overused but this is a good instance for it. >> brian: here is what they are saying collectively, we are concerned a new statute or list would adversely impact civil rights which you were just saying, it could be used to expand racial profiling or to be

wielded to surveilling investigate communities of color and political opponents in the name of national security and i won't bother you with it now but ilhan omar tweeted something mother, they are concerned because she felt her community was being surveilled unnecessarily. so is this time to put on the brakes when you have these type of numbers and democrats and republicans concerned? >> i think so. the same kind of law could be used to effectively recognize the fact that antifa is running around in our streets trying to kill cops and burn down buildings and we could have an entire portion of government committed to determining what kind of domestic terrorism they want to conduct and the evidence is actually far more stark on that side than it is on the right side of the spectrum. so when you step back and take a breath, you realize our law enforcement already has for the most part all the resources they need to find people who are plotting attacks, who are hoarding explosives, doing surveillance, seek to do harm,

damage federal buildings peered all of that is already illegal and you don't need to create another layer that gets into the intentions of people. where is your allegiance gets into a very dangerous zone. >> brian: you fought in it, worried about that laptop, could have predicted and told us 9/11 was about to happen, but the fbi is not the one complaining. of the last thing i want to bring up to you is you are there on january 6th. i have never seen a violent trump crowd. i've probably been to two dozen trump events, rallies so it is a concern knew the rise of groups like proud boys and others and did it take you by surprise, did you know they were out there? >> i didn't, and there is no doubt a huge difference and it was the biggest trump crowd i'd ever seen, right there interviewing people for fox and friends and a lot of them move toward capitol hill but once you start to dissect the timeline including pipe bombs at the dnc

and rnc, this was a concerted attempt from a small group of individuals seeking to agitate and get into the capital, very different from the 99% of people that i saw there we were to support the president, defend the republic, they are patriots. they get lumped in when you talk about domestic surveillance of why were you there, at the capital, very different group than the thugs that storm the capital. it's apples and oranges and it's our investigatory agencies that should've been more aware of what was about to happen and they were flat-footed unfortunately. >> brian: have to stop lumping those people in with those slugs that broke into the capital. any time you see a cop being hit by someone who says they were trump supporter, they're not. donald trump has never said anything negative or do anything but support law enforcement. thank you so much, we'll watch you all morning on saturday and sunday 6:00 to 10:00. meanwhile, we are not done yet.

former congresswoman tulsi gabbard from hawaii, democrat joins us now. great to see you, i know -- are you surprised that pushing forward with this extra surveillance on would be domestic terror? >> it so dangerous as you guys have been talking about, this is an issue that all democrats, republicans, should be extremely concerned about especially because we don't have to guess about where this goes or how this ends when you have people like former cia director john brennan openly talking about how he has spoken with or heard from appointees and nominees in the biden administration who are already starting to look across our country for these types of movements similar to the insurgencies they've seen overseas that in his words he said make up this unholy alliance of religious extremists, racists, bigots, he lists a few others and at the

end, even libertarians. so when you look at their process and they start looking at what characteristics are we looking for as we are building this profile of a potential extremist, what are we talking about? religious extremists, are we talking about christians, evangelical christians, what is a religious extremist? where do you take this? you start looking at obviously, have to be a white person, obviously likely mail, libertarians, anyone who's loves freedom, liberty, has an american flag outside their house for people who attended a trump rally, once you start walking this down the path, you see where it leads to a very dangerous undermining of our civil liberties, our freedoms and our constitution and the targeting of almost half of the country. >> brian: ilhan omar says this. "we already have laws on the

books. you are just going to have to learn to apply them." the other thing that i thought it was interesting, i don't see any fbi demanding more tools. they feel like they've got the tools. these are congressional leaders or members who feel as though they are so freaked out by trump supporter's they still can't understand why anyone would support him, they want to get to the bottom of it and do you think the whole deprogramming of trump supporter's, this new buzzword among the democrats has anything to do with this? >> i think it does vary directly. just on the fbi friends, i read a great op-ed this morning from a former fbi agent who made a very strong case for why this new domestic terror law introduced by adam schiff is wrong and is directly going to undermine our constitutional rights and freedoms. this whole effort whether you were talking about the bill for

people saying we have to deprogram these trump cultists and people who voted for trump because they've been radicalized, all of this just goes to further tear our country apart, and it moves towards what joe biden said in his inauguration speech that it shouldn't happen which is a dehumanization of your opponent and that's where his voice is so necessary right now. he is the president of this country, he delivered this speech, his voice, himself became to the american people and he needs to denounce people like john brennan and their statements, bills like the one adam schiff put forward and truly speak to the american people about how we must them together around the constitution and around our bill of rights, around these rights that have been endowed to us by our creator. >> brian: if he had your leadership ability, maybe he would do it. thank you so much. coming up straight ahead, the biden team working out a new nuclear deal with iran before close doors before they took

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>> brian: this week we watch several so-called journalists grove week at the knees as their hero dr. anthony fauci got up on a stool and stepped back into the limelight. >> you've jumped a couple of times today already about the difference that you feel and being the spokesperson for this issue in this administration versus the previous one. >> i was very serious about it. i wasn't joking. let the science speak. it is somewhat of a liberating feeling. >> basically banished for a few months for a while, do you feel like you're back now? >> i think so. if >> brian: having a good

time, didn't duck any of the political questions you would think a doctor would. and here is scott atlas. he went out of his way to subtly needle president trump, kind of indicate how much smarter and better off we are with president biden them if get that sense? >> i didn't watch it. i try not to watch stuff like that, but the reality is if i had a dollar for every time somebody said it's all about the science but then they either didn't speak to the science, didn't know the science, or spoke the science, i'd be a rich guy. i never had a problem saying the truth and the science because that's all i was there for. i had no intend for interest in saying anything about the facts in the science on the right health care policy and that's what i did, so i don't think there should ever be a change in that and if somebody is not really that, i think that's a problem. i don't know what happened

before i got there. i walked in in august and they already had seven or eight months of doing whatever they were doing and saying. and frankly, the last thing i'll say is i don't think it's a big positive to be up front they although i didn't have 30 years of washington speak under my belt. in fact, i was naive to the fact that the science on the facts actually mattered and that's what i did and then i answered questions very directly because that's how i am, but i'm not interested in the politics and i didn't catch my words as i think everybody knows. >> brian: here is dr. fauci this morning basically blaming trump for lost lives. >> the lack of candor, the lack of facts in some cases over the last year because lives? we make it very likely did. when you're in the situation of almost being in a crisis with a number of cases and hospitalizations and deaths that we have about when you start talking about things that make

no sense medically and no sense scientifically, that clearly is not helpful. >> brian: what's your reaction to that? >> a lot of things were said before i walked in in august, but the team that was representing the president was there the entire time, that's point number one, and point number two is that the policies that were implemented across the country were the very policies that people are talking about. they were the policies of the lockdowns, restrictions, school closers, mask mandates, that's what was done. so if people are unhappy with that, with the results of those policies, they ought to look in the mirror if they advocated for those policies and not talking about how something wasn't done that they wanted. they advocated for things that were actually done which were done by the governors, not a

single on the ground policy that was done by anybody who commented. it was done by the governors in those policies were the strict lockdowns, the mandates, the social distancing. i used to say we are beyond that, we are sort of an "alice in wonderland" levels here. >> brian: not responsible for the therapeutics, not responsible for the vaccines, not responsible for stopping the disease for the testing the likes giving interviews. i want to hear about what he witnessed at the start of this pandemic and how dr. fauci is tending to point fingers but not one where should really point. >> where was dr. fauci january 1st to march 11th? never once sounded the alarm, missed the entire pandemic, a bunch of us were out there on the airwaves and other places saying start contingency plans, get ready to expand hospitals.

we didn't know what was going to hit us and dr. anthony fauci was out there telling people don't worry, don't wear a mask and he is a politician within md behind his name. >> is that how you feel? >> outlet him to speak. i won't comment on something like that. i'm done commenting on the people in washington. i have no interest in it. i was never there for the politics and the people that are there for the politics hot to be ashamed of themselves, i will say that. >> brian: it is life-and-death and when we see television appearances and laudable coverage. dr. scott atlas, thank you for what you did, always appreciate you coming on. >> thank you for having me. >> brian: the former president. team biden working behind the scenes with the iranians on a new nuclear deal for the past three weeks. he only had the job for the last two days.

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>> brian: it's no secret that president biden and his team want to get back into the iran nuclear deal. they've been holding secret meetings with the iranians for the past three weeks. it is in that nice? joining us now, general jack keane. we'll talk about the appropriateness of this at a different time but clearly, they want to get back in this deal. the word is they are willing to relieve the sanctions while they talk about coming down when it comes to the weaponization of the uranium. is that a good move? >> first of all, congratulations on hosting all week. you've done a fantastic job. when it comes to this nuclear deal, the thing that i worry about the most is simply this, the vita national security team that we have are the same people who negotiated the original deal

in 2014 and 2015. wendy sherman, the chief negotiator for that deal will be the deputy secretary of state. if so my concern is that the iranians will come back to the table, they want sanction relief and they are going to play hardball over any change in the conditions. i believe that once antony blinken said in his testimony that they do want to change the conditions and want to strengthen the deal is a good thing but are they going to be tough enough to deal with the iranians when they are wanting to walk away? they were at the last time and that was wisely i think because obama was so desperate for the deal. they've got to recognize now that it's the iranians who are desperate for the deal because of the trump sanctions and how it's crippled their economy and they have the accords wind at their backs, a broad coalition organized against the iranians. that didn't exist in 2014 and

2015. we should get a better deal out of this if they are tough-minded enough. >> it's amazing what has happened. so if you look at the foreign policy, got me in courage there is not going to be much of a change. the list of things that they agree with with each other, he is for the new administration, leaving jerusalem, recognizing jerusalem at the capital of israel, love the fact that nato allies are paying more, keep russian nuclear arms deal a little controversial but stop the pipeline to russia which gives natural gas right through europe which gives them leverage over their fuel and heating of their homes, that's kind of encouraging, isn't it? >> very encouraging. what happened is the trump team in 2017 accurately redefine the strategic framework when you look at the global security challenges faced in the united states. they recognize we are in a big power competition with an emerging china and a revisionist

russia both seeking a domination expansion. also, two regional powers, north korea and iran both belligerent and maligned, and radical islam, a generational threat to mankind. they agree with all of what i just said. they will add to that global climate change is a major national security issue as well. they agree with trump being tough on china when our allies certainly in the region agree with that. they also agree with pompeo's characterization that they are committing by having a forced and forced abortion trying to eliminate them and they agree with the support for taiwan and it remains to be seen when the issues, how they are going to handle that, but that is promising and encouraging. >> brian: and they do have a bolstered up military unlike the one they were left with and have a strong diplomatic team, so we will hope and keep our fingers

crossed that america stays strong abroad while we try to fight it out at home. thank you for making my friday, appreciate it. >> glad to be here. >> brian: don't go away or to carley shimkus is standing by her claims to have been standing by putting her weekend on hold because she has a story she claims you have missed. we will see if she's telling the truth. joint pain, swelling, tenderness...much better. my psoriasis, clearer... cosentyx works on all of this. four years and counting. so watch out. i got this! watch me. real people with active psoriatic arthritis look and feel better with cosentyx. cosentyx works fast for results that can last. it treats the multiple symptoms of psoriatic arthritis, like joint pain and tenderness, back pain, and helps stop further joint damage. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx.

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something wonderful awaits. >> brian: president biden wasting no time dismantling the trump legacy taking over the white house as the twitter account for the white house is now up again. one of the dozen follows, chrissy taken. carley shimkus is here, she knows everything. we have the stories we miss during the week. is this true from fox news 24/7? >> at your popcorn out for this one after being sworn into office, president biden received a new twitter handle. he is now using the official account only following 13 people including chrissy teagan, this after she reached out on twitter writing i have been blocked by the president for four years, can i get a follow please? chrissy teagan of course is a big trump critic.

>> brian: john legend her husband and the answer of course is yes so the president will now follow her which i find fascinating, can you imagine if president trump had one attractive hollywood star following him, what that have been a three day story on another network? >> maybe his wife. every time i think of chrissy teagan, i have to laugh because i once did a story about her on foxnews.com, totally nonpolitical and she retweeted it and said never signed my name again. >> brian: it obviously really hurt your feelings because you had the biggest smile on your face when you were telling the story. your next story is also intriguing. >> "the new york times" fired a senior editor after she tweeted that she had chills watching joe biden land at joint base andrews a day before the inauguration. also deleted a tweet criticizing the trump administration for failing to send a military plane to bring biden to washington, d.c.

confirming she had been let go by re-tweeting opposed calling the decision to fire her stupid. i reached out and have not yet heard back. >> how do you get fired for being a nice to joe biden? i thought you got fired for not being nice to joe biden because it was "the new york times," one of the first scandal that revolved, it was "the new york times" one of the first to publish the emails. he was to be somewhat critical of democrats. is this the beginning of a new approach? >> i don't think so. this is very bizarre, unclear why she got fired, the times has not confirmed them, but it is sort of like a parent punishing a child for emulating their behavior, very weird. >> brian: very good analogy. next, bernie sanders. >> stealing the show for his very comfortable inauguration day look, the democratic socialist explaining his fashion choice to seth myers. watch this.

>> i was just sitting there trying to keep warm, trying to pay attention to what was going on. the woman who made the mittens lives in essex junction vermont mushy as a schoolteacher, is a very, very nice person and she has been somewhat overwhelmed by the kind of attention that is being shown to her. >> that mitten maker now saying she is no longer selling it because the federal government forced her to pay too much in taxes. so a bernie sanders supporter complaining about taxes. >> brian: the closest i ever sought to getting an actual smile on his face. i would tell you to go out and party but in new york, we are already shut down, so you can't. exactly, this is the peak of your weekend, carley shimkus, thank you so much. back in a moment to wrap it all up. if you have high blood pressure,

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♪ ♪ >> before we go, some final thoughts. for the last four years with her that donald trump is an autocrat who absolute authority, he wants to tear up the constitution and ignore congress. do whatever he wants but in reality he didn't do any of those things he's been accused of. what proof do i have? let's look at it. he wanted to build the wall with congress, they would not. he called for "law & order" and he threatened to bring in troops to quell the unrest but for the most part he didn't. when he came to the pandemic, president power mongers the states with ppe and he backed them up with ventilators, commissioned a vaccine and let governors to strip it the way they waited. of those and that the actions of an absolute monarch or democratic president bent on decentralized authority? incomes joe biden and he is the captain now. he's in the captains chair now and he's about to give us a taste of pure centralized washington rule.

just look at the executive orders we've been dish with glassy days. a federal decree to wear masks, we were already wearing them. did trump want businesses and schools? he did not pretend to know what the mayor wanted. i guess the biden administration now it in widespread use of the defense production act which means your business could be there business next. where are you not already doing everything you could to help out with this pandemic? the answer is yes. if you were the mayor that i'm the governor. some democrats and republicans like larry hogan, you are the best of both worlds. you have the power to be a hero but if you fell short you could always blame president trump. those days are over. the president who empowered you is no golfing but the good news for you is the blame now belongs to joe. president biden has the game you have started and you now have

the game ball, choosing to take the first and last shot and centralizing testing, ppe, vaccines and reopening schools and businesses on your guidelines. because you sidelined us without our input, these governors and mayors are no spectators, and we have seen the bureaucratic play drawn up before on a whiteboard and it rarely ends with victory. those are my thoughts. finally, a big tank you to johnny's. johnny's was art choice for lunch today, struggling like so many across countries. johnny's is now receiving help from john portnoy's barstool fund. we hope you continue to support small business in biggins because this pandemic is not ending anytime soon. thank you for joining me all week on "prime time." this has been a thrill. great staff a great show, marie will do great next week. i've gotten a preview of

tucker carlson so and it's flat out phenomenal. his hair looked great, his guests will be phenomenal and you will end friday on a high. tucker carlson never lets me down and to never tell mike tonight will be no different. have a great night everyone and to keep watching fox news. tucker, the ball is yours. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: a good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we don't know about you but we are thankful that on his very first day in office joe biden address one of the nation's most pressing problems. the crisis in girl sports. the main problem with girls sports obviously is that they lack diversity and only girls get to play girl sports. that's wrong. joe biden plans to fix it. biden is breaking this country's turf ceiling. for the first time in history men will be allowed to compete in for example girls field hockey and then change in the girls locker room afterward. even barack obama didn't do