ng 50% vs. other carriers with 2 unlimited lines for less than $30 each. call 1-800-t-mobile or go to t-mobile.com/55. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy wednesday. it looks like this is the part of the revolution where they started throwing their political opponents in jail. wow, that was fast. it was just a week ago they were telling us about unity. remember that? what we did and not the time was they meant everyone in power should unite against the rest of the country. unity meant oligarchy. oh. doug mackey learned that the hard way this morning. the 31-year-old conservative journalist from florida. 7:00 a.m., the fbi showed up at his house, threw him in handcuffs, and dragged him to a cell. he now faces ten years in

prison. his crime? he made fun of powerful democrats on social media. as the federal criminal complaint puts it, "mackey made coordinated use of social media to spread this information relevant to the intended 2016 presidential election."to this a disinformation, the biden administration solemnly explained, "often took the form of memes." yes, memes. online mockery. online mockery is illegal when it is aimed at the wrong people. doug matt beaty hurt their feelings so they put him in jail. according to joe biden's justice department, doug mackey violated 18 u.s. code section 241. he did this by tricking people like the dastardly trickster that he is into not voting in the presidential election. what's interesting is that prosecutors showed no evidence whatsoever that doug mackey actually tricked anyone into anything, voting or not, not a single person. n but that doesn't matter, shriek cnn.

doug mackey is a bad person with bad reviews.h and by the way, we have no idea what doug mackey's views are. we don't care. what cnn is telling us is those views are a crime. he is a criminal. lock's him up. give him a longer sentence than we give to rapists, which they are trying to do. as of tonight, that is the official position on the winch mob channel. have you ever read that u.s. section? you probably should, look it up. when you read it, you will learn the joe biden's justice department is lying in a very obvious way, and that should make you very nervous. it turns out that federal law does not ban memes, or for that matter, misinformation, whatever that is.t the law that biden's prosecutors are citing prohibits "conspiring tooh injure, oppress, threaten,r intimidate anyone from exercising the right to vote." according to the law, that would include kidnapping voters, invading their homes, sexually abusing them. doug mackey didn't do any of

that, not even close to any of that. doug mackey made memes.an therefore, he is a domestic terrorist. speech is violence, dissent is a felony. what you may be wondering, does a case like this mean for the first amendment? well, it means it is effectively suspended. youam can now be arrested for saying the wrong things, and at one point this morning, someone was. almost no one seems to be defending him. he had bad thoughts, he deserves it! they think it is okay. that shouldn't surprise you.ou because we are clearly living under somear form of martial law at the moment. how do we know that? here is one indication. there are nearly 10,000 federal troops in our capital city tonight. oh, that is a hint. why are they there? how long will they be staying? no one has been very specific about any of that, so you're left to draw your own conclusions, which people naturally are. by the way, it is not making anyone moree moderate. ifmo you're worried about extremism, you probably would not put 10,000 troops in your capital city, making everyone warm radical and crazy.

but they don't care about that. the point of this whole highly militarized exercise is to remind you what chairman ma once said, political power grows from the barrel of a gun. unfortunately, that is true, in every country, at all times. senator chris murphy is no genius but he does understand that. he as he explain today, as long as his political opponents exist, those soldiers will stay. >> the threat to the country is not over, right? we saw 5,000 national guard members surrounding the capital complex. why? because there are still existing threats, present threats to the capital.of the and so, so long as donald trump is empowered by senate republicans, there is stills the chance that he is going to incite another attempt at the capital. the threat is still very real to american democracy. >> tucker: not okay. so as long as there are people in this country who persist in disagreeing with chris murphy, explains chris murphy, we are going to need to keep thousands

of heavily armed soldiers on thi scene. why specifically? because, and we are quoting now, "the threat of still very real to american democracy." but wait, democracy requires soldiers? we thought it was voluntary. if you are starting to think that maybe someone at some point secretly redefined the term democracy, changing its meaning to roughly 180 the grease from what it was last year, you may be onto something. what we are looking at now is not democracy in the classical athenian sense where everyone gets to vote and the voice of everyone matters equally. no, we are looking at now, democracy in the 1970s, eastern bloc, people's democratic republic sense. this new version of democracy is a democracy where everyone agrees with the people in power or they go immediately to jail.e doug mackey's problem, it turns out, is that he didn't properly understand what democracy is. thankfully, congressman tim ryan of ohio does understand, and he explained it to us today. we are not letting those

soldiers go home, tim ryan said, until they do what our special operations forces did in iraq and afghanistan. watch this. >> who, in our government, in our military, have had experience around crowd control? may be special operations forces in iraq and afghanistan. how cance we learn everything we need to do to reset the posture onea capitol hill? and we are not going to let the national guard go home, we are not going to create an unsafefe environment for the country's business until we have that figured out. >> tucker: oh! they are specialists in controlling unruly populations. we get it. rather than answer our questions or improve our lives, you are bringing in people with guns to remind us that you are in charge and dissent is illegal. that's a big change.at you may have thought you were a decent american in good standing. ten years ago, nobody in this

country would have called your views extreme. they weren't extreme then. you don't think they are extreme now. you have always considered yourself a pretty moderate person, live your life and get along with others. that is not possible now because the rules have changed. you are now a dangerous insurgent. you are no different from a bloodthirsty home on province or an isis terrorist beer a part of a guerrilla insurgency, or maybe it is a gorilla insurgency. have you seen some of those pictures from january 6th? they seem suspiciously furry. the jihadi known by his nickname as "chewbacca guy." >>ch hey! [bleep] hey, man. good to see you guys. look at this guy. god bless you. >> do you need medical attention? >> i got shot in the face with

some kind of plastic bullets. >> any chance i can get you guys to leave this way? >> we ain't disrespecting the place. >> to see you guys know, this the sacreddest place. >> tucker: sad news tonight. chewbacca guy is no longer available for your kid's seventh birthday party. he's in prison tonight. we will tell you when they move him to get more some undisclosed site. when they do, sandy cortez will breathe easier. back during the great terrorist siege of january, she found herself in the same city as chewbacca guy. literally in the same city trapped and abandoned just like those lonely valiant troops so many years ago. she really thought she was going to die. >> i had a pretty traumatizing event happen to me. i can tell you that i had a very close encounter where i thought i was going to die. >> tucker: so thankfully they have arrested chewbacca guy and

the rest of his band terroristsg many over 65 years old. so there is still a little justice in this country.ri but hairy stoners in viking hats are not the only threat that he faces tonight. far from it. they are the other members of congress. some of them are republicans and you know what that means. at any moment, these people are likely to open fire indiscriminately on the house. floor, purely out of racism andm of course she's worried about that. listen. >> we still don't feel safe around other members of congress. >> how many are we? >> i think a very considerable amount. f the moment you bring a gun onto the house floor in violation of rules, you put everyone around you in danger. i don't care if you accidentally set it off. i don't care if you intentionally set it off. i don't care if you don't set it off at all, you are endangering the lives of members of congress and it is absolutely outrageous that we even have to have this conversation.es >> tucker: it's outrageous. absolutely outrageous said the

leader of america's narcissism party, the fastest growing party in the country. even on the house floor surrounded by other elected members of congress, democratically elected, sandy cortez does not feel safe. and that, my friends, is why we need tens of thousands of troops outside her office tonight so that she can finally for once take a breath and get back to the business of making perky instagram videos about herself. the business of the people, it must go on. of course it must.f we all support that.st talking about the people, you got to wonder what they think about all of this, the actual people. t none of this is about the people who are actually suffering in our country, the millions of them. no. we are watching one of those rare revolutions, rare in world history that is being waged not on behalf of the population, but waged against it. all of this is being done expressly for the oligarchs. none of it is being done for you. of course, if you live in

washington, d.c., you already live very well. federal troops are not protecting your home tonight.of sandy cortez doesn't care if you get robbed or carjacked as more and more people are as prime skyrocketed. sandy cortez and her friends want to abolish your police, not their police. here is a scene from the rest of the city of washington. >> duncan was 15 months old when he was fatally shot wednesday night in southeast. his father was driving the vehicle, and the toddler was strapped into his car seat when he was struck with bullets. a preliminary investigation pointed out at least two people open fire on the car as he drove by. hitting the car at least ten times.s. >> tucker: the toddler was struck with bullets in his car seat right next to his father. this happened in washington, d.c., within walking distance of the capital. but no one inside that dome building, the ones you are so afraid of chewbacca man, noticed or cared. so whatever else you conclude

from this, this tale of two cities, to dip into a cliche,e, here is one thing you can be certain of. it's not actually violence that sandy cortez and her fellow democrats are worried about. no, it's something else. so why are those other federal troops of the capital? mark steyn joins us in a moment to assess that. t but first, congressman thomas matthews, a member of congress joins us.. congressman, i really appreciate you coming on tonight. so, clearly it's not about violence. you go to washington. you work in washington where the city is consumed. crime rate has gone up ever since the george floyd riots started and police are nowhere to be found. where are these riots really about? >> that's a good question and before i touch that, i want to remind people that what i'm about to say is not meant to be critical of the troops or of the capitol hill police. p but, you know, what people might be mistakenly thinking is going on here is that congress is

doing the two things that they do well, which is to do nothing and then to overreact, to basically not provide forot protection and then to show up with 26,000 troops. but that is not what is going on here. it's much more insidious than that. they are using these soldiers as a pretext for three things in washington, d.c., right now. number one, a promise that these soldiers will be there during the impeachment trial.sh you see, the impeachment trial in the senate is unconstitutional. unless they give you the impression that donald trump created something that is still going on, then there is no y reason to have an impeachment trial. so they want the soldiers there for that.re the other thing that is going on is several of my democratic colleagues want to expel republican members in the house and the senate for nearly objecting to things on the house floor. they are saying they are seditionists. so by projecting this image of the capitol under siege by "domestic terrorists," they are keeping that agenda alive. but the most insidious thing,

reason that they have these soldiers here, tucker, is that they want to pass new laws that will invade your privacy, confiscate your guns in the name of domestic terrorism. they are trying to project this image. and my colleagues aren't stupid. they know that images are more powerful than any words they could say on the senate floor or the house floor. they are trying to project an image that we are under siege, that the country is under siege from an ever-present danger of domestic terrorism. but here is what is ridiculous. their definition of domestic terrorism is so broad now that it includes the actual guardsmen who are there to protect them. my colleagues whipped themselves in a state of fear and paranoia. >> tucker: very quickly, ian know a lot of your colleagues in the republican conference, they are all for the troops, but they want to send them to invade iran or whatever. why has no body stood up and

made the obvious point: this is not about political power. please make them leave immediately. why aren't republicans saying that?, >> well, this may be the next forever war.r. look, 9/11 was the pretext to grab civil liberties and to deploy troops around the globe. they are still not back and they do need to come back.op but now we've got more troops deployed in our nation's capitam than we do those two countries. so... >> tucker: yep. this is grotesque, and i appreciate, finding a member of: congress to say this as clearlyy as you did is not easy. so i'm grateful you came to say what you said. congressman, thank you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: mark steyn is a best-selling author joining us now with the reaction.>> mark, you spent your entire life as a journalist mocking people, people you disagree with politically.y. here you have doug mackey, who i have never heard of before today. he is a journalist. he mocks people. he's going to jail for it.

how do you feel about that? >> well, disgusted. i mean, it's extraordinary to me, the fbi, which are the guys who interfered in the 2016 election now are terrorizing some guy who posted a picture of taylor swift wearing a maga hat that he photoshopped on her head. so all of the dirty rotten stinking corrupt officials of the department of justice and the fbi, both of which i think are actually irredeemable now and should probably be disbanded and rebuilt from scratch, the guys who actually interfered in the 2016 election and got their buddies in mi-6, australia to assist them sending off -- they are finding someone to make an example of and they are going to stick in there for ten years.

and the fbi agent is always going on about all the good people in the fbi. i'm sorry, sean, but the fbi agent who investigated this guy for a noncrime should be ashamed of herself and actually shouldn't have taken that. >> tucker: i totally agree. now, they are telling us about the threat of domestic extremism and i'm trying to be as honest as i can be. i'm starting to agree with him. i think a crackdown like thisst will create extremism. i think they know that and if they don't know it, they are deeply unwise. but arresting people for memes,t banning all social media sites, a crackdown like this cannot help but create domestic extremism. do they not see that? >> well, they think they can handle that. if you think of george orwell, in "1984," they invented a forever war. in this case, they are actually being more ambitious.

i've lived in countries with domestic terrorism movements. that's not what is going on here. here we've got theater.ng i don't know why you need real troops to do with these guys are doing in washington. everyone on broadway is currently unemployed at the moment. see you can easily get the chorus from "hello dolly" to dress up as soldiers and doing what they are doing here. they are inventing a domestic insurgency that does not exist.s >> tucker: so, my producers are watching other channels as our show happens because there is just so much going on now. apparently, alexandria ocasio-cortez, sandy cortez, and on another channel right now, saying, i think we are quoting, "there are white nationalist, white supremacists sympathizers at the heart of the g.o.p. caucus, and that kevin mccarthy takes his marching orders from qanon, whatever that is." >> right.

>> tucker: where is this going? i mean, a sitting member of congress accusing other members of congress of being terrorists? what is the plan here? >> they reverse engineer the republican party to make the guy in the viking hat the guy controlling it all. and you know, he could be a afghan goatherd, could be a taliban guy who secretly has taken over the republican party. we are in a blizzard of lies, the audacity and absurdity of which is unprecedented. >> tucker: this is starting to worry me. mark steyn, great to seeh you. thank you. >> thanks a lot, talker. >> tucker: well, you remember the first time you heard the phrase "defund the police." and you thought that is so far out, so obviously unwise and destructive. that will so clearly lead to the deaths ofar americans. it could never become mainstream. thanks to promotion on social media of people like alexandria ocasio-cortez, it did become mainstream. how did that happen so fast? we will tell you straight ahead.

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: all of a sudden, some rich people in the country have come out in support of positions that will destroy the country, obviously. things like defunding the police or opening the borders, things you would never do. we know for a fact that these policies will have no effect on those who support them. instead, they will hurt thect people they are supposedly intended to help. we have seen this happen so many times. so why are the greatest beneficiaries of our system still pushing policies that will destroy the system?? our next guest has thought a lot about this. he calls it the luxury police. author and former air force veteran joins us tonight. rob, thanks so much for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. great to be here. >> tucker: there is something going on here. most people feel it. you can put a finer point on it than i have seen before. what is a luxury belief?

>> luxury beliefs are a new way of understanding the american status system. in the past, upper-class people would display their social positions with expensive clothes or jewelry or material displayed here for opinions that inflict cost on the lower classes. >> tucker: right. that is an inversion of what we saw during the last gilded age 100-odd years ago where the affluent made a great show of helping the poor, and in some cases, actually did help them. you know, your rich guy's wife stars and orphans home. now, the rich guy's wife tries to destroy the country. what is that about? >> one thing that is driving this is the desire for social status. so, there are some interesting reasons, for example showing that the people who occupy the highest positions in society with the most wealth andho education, they tend to care the most about social status, which is, perhaps, a little counterintuitive.

you might think people without much in the way of means we care about wealth and status but it's also the people at the top who have status and want even more of it.an and today, luxury beliefs are the way to do that. expressing these unusual or unconventional beliefs that sort of raise their positions among their peers in society. they are trying to impress thosg around them more so than trying to help the americans who need it the most.re >> tucker: so the richest people care the most about their status, and the sort of silly markers for status. that is so interesting and unexpected. i never would have thought that. i appreciate you coming on tonight, rob. smart and clear. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: anyone who really cares about silly status symbols like science and vaccine so if you thought all the science and vaccine development meant for your kids could go back to school, and not remain

ignorant or be destroyed by the isolation, things they have endured the last year, no, the teachers unions are in charge. and they are showing that through interpretive dance. that straight ahead. ♪ ♪ hey, guys! they have customized solutions to help our family's special needs... graduation selfie! well done! and voya stays by our side, keeping us on track for retirement... giving us confidence in our future ...and in kevin's. you ready for your first day on the job? i was born ready. go get'em, kev. well planned. well invested. well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement.

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>> tucker: not many of our leaders have remained consistent during the scope of this coronavirus pandemic, but there is one exception to that. teachers unions. no matter what else may change,u their position remains unchanging. we don't want to work at all. keep paying us. we are not working. the president of the a fairfax county teachers union, that's one of the largest teachers union in the world, is so committed to not workingni tt she has called for teachers to t stay home, even after they have been vaccinated for the coronavirus, which by the way they are almost certainly not going to get from the children they teach. last night in virginia, one parent said what every parent in this country has thought. this is insane. it's killing our children.

>> you are a bunch of cowards hiding behind our children as an excuse for keeping schools closed. you think you are some sort of martyrs because of the decisions you are making when the statistics do not lie that the vast majority of the population is not at risk from this virus. the garbage workers who pick up my freaking trash risk their g lives every day more than anyone in this school system. figure it out or get off the podium! because you know what? line of other people out there who will gladly take your seat and figure it out! it's not a high bar. raise the freaking bar! >> tucker: you can feel the emotion, and you know where it comes from. that man and so many other parents have been home with their own kids for the better part of a year. watching their kids learnom nothing, becoming even more addicted to screens, becoming

totally isolated from other kids. watching them degrade and suffer.is why? so their teachers can avoid a virus that has virtually no effect on children, they are not going to get from the kids they teach? it's criminal. it's totally wrong. in clark county, nevada, for example, a warning system that monitors students' mental health positioned over 3,000 alerts from district officials about students' suicidal thoughts, possible self harm, cries for care. clinical language for kids who are being crushed by this. a total of 18 students just in clark county have killed themselves since the lockdown began. but we are told that teachers unions need to stay home. it's just too dangerous for them. l what cowards they are. what is more important? their health or the health of the children they teach? our children, our country's children. by the way, everyone else is going to work.

delivery men, grocery store workers, the people who bring you your sushi. how many teachers are going to grocery stores, by the way? how many people are going on vacation? all of them. t sarah chambers, remember that name, was vacationing in the caribbean last month and bragging about it on social media. how many teachers are doing that? that seems like a good question but instead of answering that question, the chicago teachers t union has decided to produce an interpretive dance video. this is totally real. it seems like right wing propaganda but is totally real. this is the same union that voted to stay home and defiance of these plans. >> make it make sense. ♪ ♪ safety is essential. ♪ ♪ keep our students and our teachers safe. ♪ ♪ safe.

♪ ♪ it's our livelihood. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: joe biden could fix this with a phone call. he could save kids in this country. who goes to chicago public schools? rich kids? no. it's poor kids. joe biden could save them. and we would praise him for that, because we are not partisan, actually. but no, they are doing it. the biden administration is praising them. they are not even good dancers but they are huge donors to the democratic party. joe biden is not going to criticize them. in the last election cycle, the teachers union donated more than $4 million to the democratic party. they gave fewer than $50,000 to republicans. of course, i'll tell you this isn't about money. it's about science. but science, unlike the teachers union, has changed quite a bit during this pandemic.

now scientists are telling us we need to wear two masks instead of just one. in fact, experts on other networks suggest we might need to wear three masks just to be safe. think of it like triple bagging your face. it's the only way. >> so if you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be more effective, and that's the reason that you seen people either double masking or doing a version of an n-95. >> tucker: so, double masking is now just common sense. it's just common sense. how long are people going to put up with this? follow the logic.as wouldn't it just be safer at this point for people to stop breathing entirely? you want to get covid. it's kind of where tony fauci may be a few months from now. back in march, before he was allowed to appear on msnbc, he wasn't just opposed to double masking. he was a opposed to any masking. >> right now in the united states, people should not be walking around with masks.

>> you are sure of this? because people are listening really closely to this. >> there is no reason to be walking around with masks. when you are in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it's not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. >> tucker: this guy is a malignant buffoon. he is, and the teachers unions are actively hurting children. they are. why are we listening to any of these people? a columnist with "the new york post" joins us tonight. why are we listening to these people? how much authority would you say they have, miranda? >> well, i'm sorry, but with tony fauci, i am not going to listen to a man who admitted that he lied to us about the efficacy of masks in the early time of the pandemic when it might have made a difference, might have saved some lives. i'm not listening to someone who

told us to go off and catch a cruise in march during the pandemic or, in fact, who argued with the president, then trump, about stopping flights from wuhan, china, on january 31st. so, he doesn't have any authority, moral or scientific, as far as i'm concerned. so i'm not going to listen to him about double or triple masking. what he should be doing is he should be saying loud and clear to joe biden and the teacher's s unions that the number one psychological risk we have at the moment is to a generation of children, millions of children who are in misery at the moment. as you said, they are committing suicide. they are in all sorts of trouble. and tony fauci should be telling us what the science is. because we know what the science is.ts it is that children do not pass on the virus to their teachers.

in fact, they get less infected than their parents. they are not a risk. and these teachers are the only, it is the only line of work where you can sit at home and not go to work and still get paid. it is pathological.ho that video you showed of those people prancing around,gi it's sociopathic, to be doing that when children are committing suicide because they can't go to school.s they are trapped. and we are just betraying their futures, throwing them away, and joe biden has this unique ability to connect with the teacher unions because he is the teacher union guy, he is the union guy, and he has the political capital at the moment because he's not donald trump. he just won the election. he could actually go to those unions who will listen to him because he does have that moral authority from his unionll background, and tell them that

they should stop scaremongering, listen to the signs he tells us is so important, understand that they are not going to get sick from their students, and that they need to go back to work. and frankly, you know, to be pretending that you are not going to go back to work until all of the children are vaccinated, as well as all the teachers, is just a fraud. because we know the vaccine is not approved yet for children and children are not at risk.ne so, go back to school now, and look after the children that you are entrusted to look after. or otherwise, just quit and let somebody else get in and do those jobs. >> tucker: yeah. >> i'm sure you could get any person on the street to walk in and teach those kids better. >> tucker: i honestly think if trump had run on this, he would have won. just my view. people care about their kids and their kids are being really hurt.e i appreciate you coming on.

thanks. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: well, there is a war going onoi between hedge funds,un some of the most powerl institutions in the world come at a group of anonymous people on twitter, or rather on the internet. and for now, those anonymous people on the internet seem to be winning. it's a huge story with massive implications for our economy. charles payne's joins us after thes break to explain what is going on and what it means. ♪ ♪

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better late than never. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: hedge funds do a lot of things to make money but one of those things is trading in the options market, shorting companies. in other words, making money when the stock price of other companies goes down. they lose money, hedge funds make money. that's part of the business model, shorting stock.mo borrowing shares on the expectation that those shares will decline in value. well, for the past several months, they have shorted the stock of a retailer called game stop. avis happens all the time. by the way, sometimes hedge fund managers go on television to

attack sectors of the economy hoping the value will go down and they can profit. that's pretty ugly. very ugly. very wrong. it's apparently legal, though. so people watched all of this and ultimately they decided to act. a group of people on reddit decided to buy up options. as of today, shares of gamestop are up 1700% since the beginning of the month. that means people on reddit profited. people in hedge funds orbiting the price would go down lost money. msa crime! only people who work for hedge funds are allowed to manipulate the market. normal people are not allowed to do that. already the people in charge of our system are outraged that anyone without an official position at a hedge fund would dare manipulate the market to their benefit.ia the communications platform discord is taking action against

it. they shut down the day traders claiming that they are committing "hate speech." [laughs] in other words, if you are doing what hedge funds are doing but you don't work at a hedge fund, you are a racist. obviously. [laughs] it's just the beginning. today, the ceo of nasdaq jumped to the hedge rescue. suggesting that day trading would have to be halted.cu >> a significant rise in the chatter of social media chatter and we also match that up against unusual trading activity. we will potentially halt that stock to allow ourselves to t investigate the situation and tc give investors a chance to recalibrate their positions. >> tucker: seems like a really big and significant story. this is not a financial show. we are not really fluent in this stuff. charles payne is.payn host of "making money with g charles payne" on fox business. we are glad to have him into explain what is going on and what it means. thanks for coming on. >> hey, tucker. you hit a lot of it but let me just fill you in a little bitt more because not only areot thee

folks, these hedge funds selling this stock.nl they don't own the stock. so they borrow it. imagine you borrow a stock at $10 and then you drive the share price down. you buy it back for a dollar and make the difference nine bucks. and to your point, they are allowed to short so much stock the amount of stock that is out on game stocks, and let's just say 100% of the shares that are out, they shorted 140% of the stocks. so they borrowed the same stock over and over and over.te the same shares from the market. their job, their mission was to drive gamestop to zero. zero. no one said a word on any financial network, particularly cnbc, which always lets them come on. companies, almost voiceless companies. so what happens? some people get wind of this.

these folks, these individual investors, they decide to buy the stock up. they start to pressure the shorts. it's called a short squeeze. and it's working. and wall street is losing itsan mind and wall street now wants to change the rules of the gamee because a bunch of people with accounts ranging from $500 to $2500 are taking down the billionaires. >> tucker: amazing. so, the options, i mean, it's a much longer conversation about whether the options market will help the economy, but unless i'm missing what you are saying, when individual investors try to do what hedge funds do every day, but to the benefit of gamestop, they are now racist for doing that. and they need to be purged. >> [laughs] well, you know, any war, the first thing you want to do is cut off the line of communication. so, hence, they are going to be cutting off this discord. they are not going to allow the communication. once you do that, then you start to change other rules of the

game. >> tucker: clearly. charles payne, i really appreciate you coming on tonight. thank you. >> you got it, tucker. >> tucker: speaking of cuttingng off medications, twitter has now censored another white house official. from the last administration. we will talk on the one bastion of free speech left in america, fox news. we will be right back. ♪ ♪

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>> tucker: want to keep track of all of the crackdowns on civil liberties in the country. we want to tell you that twitter has just suspended the account of peter navarro. peter, why did they do this do you think? >> they made history today, tucker. a bad history. it's because of who i am and what i might say. and basically, the great fire wall of silicon valley grew another few feet today. this is totally unacceptable. if jack dorsey came up to me in the public square, ripped out a

sign from my hand in peaceful protest, stomped on it, and then muzzled me, he would get arrested. but he can do that now in the digital public square, and i think he did violence to the first amendment, he did violence to me, and he does violence to the 74 million people who voted for donald j. trump, who he is trying to muzzle. this is unacceptable and it has reached too far. >> tucker: did you even get, we have 15 more seconds, an explanation for why they did this? >> yeah, it's something about unusual traffic. i hadn't tweeted since january 14th. the point here is it's because of who i am and what i might say, not because of anything i did. it's google, dorsey at twitter, zuckerberg at facebook, and bezos at amazon. they somehow believe that it's their responsibility to shut up half of america. they are doing violence to the first amendment. they are doing violence to this country. and this will not stand, tucker.

this cannot stand. >> tucker: protecting the oligarchy. that's their job. peter navarro, thank you for coming on tonight. >> thanks for the time, tucker. >> tucker: thanks for watching us tonight. the free speech channel, we are proud to be. sean hannity takes over now. >> sean: all right, tucker. thank you and welcome to "hannity." tonight, we were right all along.n: the impeachment show trial in the senate is dead in the water. the schiff show, that will go oo with a predetermined outcome, completely pointless.e there will be no conviction. the votes are not there. the outcome predetermined. now they are panicking. they have been exposed. why? they are petty. they are vindictive. they are self-serving. after four years of the charadeb has been laid bare for all to see. now some senators, they are looking for a way out. we'll explain all of this tonight but now we turn our l attention to what we are calling what is the big liberal