♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy friday, what a week. a lot going on in this country right now, but may be the single biggest mystery when you take it's because that's what they wanted. think they'd be celebrating, no. instead they started a purge. some cuts begin crushing even the mildest distance. they shut down the entire social media company called parler not because they did anything wrong, but similar because they couldn't control it.

they couldn't take the chance that somebody on parler might criticize them so they eliminated it. they arrested a man, through him in handcuffs because he made fun of hillary clinton on twitter. that man is facing ten years in prison. democrats then declared war on their rival political party, not a metaphorical war, but an actual one. with soldiers as the world's most dominant powerful intelligence agency. they denounced them as dangerous terrorists, liken them to isis and al qaeda. anyone who complains about this or fought back in anyway was threatened threatened with expulsion from congress. in other words, it doesn't matter what voters decided in november, in the name of democracy, you can no longer serve in congress. that's what they said. nor our distance permitted in the role bureaucracy. democrats have announced can work in the u.s. government. we are not overstating it, that

all actually happened and you saw. nothing like that has ever taken place in this country before. this is the most sweeping an audacious assault on civil liberties in american history. the question is, what accounts for this? why are they doing it? it's worth figuring that out. on a most basic level, it's a power grab. we said that from the first day, and it remains true. at the democratic party doesn't exist to serve some abstract principles of liberty or justice or the bill of rights, no. nor is its primary goal improving the lives of its voters, if you've been to detroit, you know that's true. no, the democratic party exists to accumulate power, all of it. some is never enough, the impulse is to control everything. that's what they're trying to do now admits the chaos and tumbled to be at that's not all that's going on right now. there's more. a look around. watch as democrats erect a permanent steel prison fence around the capital. why is it there? to protect the people inside. to keep the public out of what

we used to call the people's house. that's happening tonight as we speak. notice the thousands of armed soldiers and law enforcement agents stationed outside of that fence. what's their purpose? again, protecting the people inside. then ask yourself, why are house democrats planning to use federal committee funds to pay for more personal security for themselves? why the renewed push to seize firearms from law-abiding americans who have committed no crimes? why does alexandria ocasio-cortez seem on the verge of tears as she describes how she was almost murdered on january 6th at the capital? she's not entirely putting it on, she seems to mean it. if you are sensing a theme here, there is in fact a theme. the theme is panic. fear, and it's real. you're looking at leaders who are genuinely afraid of the people they are supposed to be leading. here's the really interesting thing, they seem much more afraid now that donald trump has left office. with donald trump gone, they sense that a period of actual

populism has begun, real populism, and they may be right. look at what happened this week on wall street. a group of guys on reddit trading stocks in their boxer shorts exposed the entire american finance establishment as a corrupt and fraudulent scam that it often is. that's a pivotal moment in this country. once you see something like that, you can't unsee it. people's attitudes about our economy will change forever because what happened this week. it's a big deal. the biden administration's response, their first impulse was to brag about having the first female treasury secretary. if that's what they said. that's not an adequate response to what happened. even the biden people know that it's not. that's all they had. the truth is, our leaders don't have answers. if they don't even have explanations for what's going on. course not, they'd did

themselves deeply implicated in these systemic problems. they know all of this. they know their guilt, here's the thing, they know that you know it too. that's why they are afraid. they know why populism is rising, and it is. this really is the time to make a decision about how to respond to it. what are leaders due next will define what america looks like going forward. it wouldn't even be hard to begin the process of fixing things and bringing actual unity to a country that badly needs it. it's not a democracy, the first step to unify the country is always the same, leaders enter into a power-sharing agreement with the people they lead. they do the obvious thing, they stop lying to their own citizens. they stop attacking them and they respect their culture. if they don't try to control people's beliefs, that's not their role appear that they treat their own citizens like adults, meaning they treat them fairly. above all, they cut the public in on some of the truths of the

countries success. if all the benefits of our economy seemed to be accruing to a small number of people, that's a problem, and they try hard to fix it. wise leaders know that on equal countries are volatile countries. they know caste systems are not compatible with democracy. leaders don't seem to know any of that. instead they tell us that solar cars and mandatory diversity training are the real solutions. nobody buys that, those aren't real solutions. they are smoke screens, diversion tactics. populism starts when people start to figure that out, and they have created that's why everything suddenly feels so unstable right now. once again, real populism is brewing. in the face of all of that, the people in charge are doing the single stupidest most counterproductive thing that any leader could do in the face of a populist movement. they are refusing to admit their role in the decline. they are refusing to admit their failures, and instead, they are blaming the people they have

failed. they are declaring war on their own population. how is that going to end? if you think we are overstating it, we are not. here's the former cia director describing what the enemy looks like. >> this threat from domestic violence extremists is more challenging, i believe, then it was in terms of going after her murder terrorist. the domestic violence is much more persuasive. in their numbers are much larger, when we are going after al qaeda or other types of terrorists gout south of the united states, their numbers but in the single digits are dozens. it was finding needles in a haystack. here, there are a lot of haystacks with a lot of needles and then. they have the wherewithal, they already have the weapons that if they so choose to use them they can in fact carry out these deadly attacks. >> tucker: so many problems in this country. evident to anyone who's paying attention. john brennan the former cia director has isolated the real

problem, it the real problem is you. anyone who disagrees with susan rice is worse than usama bin laden and more dangerous. these people, meaning you, have the weapons. these terrorists. by terrorists, they mean tens of millions of american citizens who might have a firearm at home and didn't vote for joe biden. they are the threat, and we need to hunt them like we hunted al qaeda. you just saw the clip. that's what he said. it is hard to imagine a leader saying something more destructive and more reckless than that on television in a moment as far as the one we are in. it's terrifying in its stupidity. this isn't crying fire in a crowded theater, this is using a flamethrower in a crowded theater. what are the implications of a former cia director talking like this? it's not going to make anyone a more moderate, that's for certain. just the opposite. john brennan is creating more extremists. it's not just him, all of the news channels other than this

one right now are repeating this official line that the american government is now at war with its own population. here's cnn's version. >> my colleague jim judo is covering international terrorism for 20 years. he says the parallels to the domestic terrorist threat are frightening. he points to radicalization online, demonization of the enemy to justify violence drug to a cause greater than themselves, devotion to a cult leader. that said, are we doing enough to combat this threat? because this is the way law enforcement looks at the domestic terrorist threat comments quote greater or equal to international terrorism. if we compare that to a u.s. politician propagating is almost terrorist thought, materials, lies, et cetera, imagine the election. sadly, they are still a partisan reaction to this. you're denying the threat is

real and the why behind the threat is dangerous. >> tucker: american citizens are more dangerous than foreign terrorists. fox is so extreme, fox news is so extreme -- no show on this channel would ever put that on the air, ever. if anyone did, people would resign and protest because that is completely untrue and completely reckless. for once, we are not even going to mock don lemon for being a mouth breather, it's much bigger than that and it's not funny. he ends that former obama official told their viewers that millions of american citizens are terrorists. that's a lie, for one thing it's just not true. press a little and you'll find the department of homeland security which has been an thing of the domestic that for the past week at great cost to people sanity. dhs has no actual evidence that trump of voters are planning to hurt anyone. there's no evidence of a plot of any kind. they can see that. trust us, they would tell you if they found a plot. the question you have to ask yourself, is what kind of affect

do lies like that, the ones you just heard calculated to terrify you, what kind of effect do they have on the country? especially over time, this is not new. when you tell people they are evil because of how they vote or how they look, and our leaders are definitely telling them that every single day, when you train a population to tally americans by race and ethnicity first and foremost, keep track of people's genetic background every time you see a picture -- really? what effect does that have promote group identity even as you intentionally destroyed national identity? if you do all of those things, what kind of country do you get at the end? you get a scary divided country. the kind of country where you need steel fencing outside of the national legislature. it's very obvious where all of this is going, and it's very, very bad. part of the solution is to stop talking like this immediately. no more aging spies and cable news declaring war on american

citizens. domestic political enemies more dangerous than al qaeda, what? no more powermad members of congress dividing people by race so they can conquer. white fragility, white supremacy, those are racial attacks, stop lying about it. we shouldn't talk that way in public. those attacks are making people crazy. by the way, over time, possibly making people dangerous. for real. too threatened, too nuts. watch this clip and ask yourself what kind of effect this woman is having on the united states right now. >> there are legitimate white supremacists sympathizers that sit at the heart and core of the republican caucus in the house of representatives. there is no consequences for racism, no consequences for insurrection. in no consequences means they

condone it. we are now away from acting out of fealty to their president that they had in the oval office. and now we are talking about fealty to white supremacist organizations as a political tool. >> tucker: let's just be honest for a second, that woman is a tool of corporate power posing as a truth teller. look at her campaign contributions. who is supporting her campaign? people who want to change the subject away from economics to identity politics. that whole pose is fraudulent in her case. listen specifically to what she says, and think about the effect on the people listening, people standing in airports will hear her say that. fealty to white assist supremacist organization as a political tool. what does that even mean? we are not sure who she's talking about. apparently the republican party that's not true, but it's worse and it's grand clinical kevin mccarthy of california. that's not true, but it's worse

than that. this is a fantasy, a dark fantasy designed to terrify people and make them easier to command. over time, probably not long now, it will have other more insidious effects. talk like that from our leaders, from our elected officials is going to turn some of our citizens very, very radical. you don't want to live in a country with a very, very radical people. to be clear, whatever you hear about fox news being radical, we want to live in a country that looks like -- i don't know, 2005. where race is not the most important thing about you, where you have a chance to get ahead by playing by the rules -- that's called moderate. that's called democracy, that's a republic that we want. talk like this, which is everywhere all of a sudden is the enemy of the country we once lived in. jason whitlock is a journalist and a truth teller, we are happy to have them on today. i appreciate you coming on. here's my worry, you have this weird confluence of events where

populism is clearly rising as people decide the system is corrupt and it disenfranchises me, and they are mad. at the same time you have the people benefiting from the system refusing to acknowledge that and instead attacking the people who are mad. i'm not sure where that goes, but it really worries me. >> tucker, great monologue. my reaction, perhaps a little different than what you expect, but i believe they're using race and identity politics as a distraction from the real agenda. aoc and others don't believe in the founding principles of this country. they don't believe in the declaration of independence. they don't believe in the constitution. they don't believe in the emancipation proclamation. they don't leave and what we accomplished in the civil rights movement in the leadership of martin luther king. they are the insurrectionist, they are the ones trying to take this country a very dangerous direction.

they are distracting everybody with claims of race and racism while they try to usher in socialism, marxism, and to make this country very secular. that is what's going on. those of us who are believers, those of us who believe in the principles that we were founded upon, i'm sorry if it upsets people, this country was founded in christianity. that christianity led to a lot of progress. it ended slavery, it ended jim crow, it brought freedom to all people and protected all of our freedoms. they are trying to undo all of that. they are distracting us with talks of race. anybody that is a believer and believes in our founding principles and beliefs -- america was pretty good when it was a christian society, they are trying to silence us. they're calling white people racist and calling black people that believe in those things in

uncle tom and violence them and make all of us that believe in our founding principles -- we are the bad guys. don't listen to them, they are racist, they are sellouts, they don't believe in this new america that we are bringing in, this global society that we are bringing in that's going to make everything better. it's not going to make things better. we are already seeing the evidence, it makes us worse. it has us at the brink of destabilization. >> tucker: i think that's right. the difference in vision is really simple. most religious people, certainly christians are universalists. they think every person is equal before god because we are all created by god. we all have equal value. they are selling very different in my view, and much darker than that. >> there selling some thing very secular. they are creating a godless country. i know joe biden is a practicing catholic, but based on the actions, based on the people

that are being in power, based on the way they are trying to demonize to 75 million trump supporter send voters the way we are trying to demonize them is just unfair. it's inaccurate. those people have a voice in this country. a well-earned voice in this country. they can't all be reduced to, oh, my god, i have impure thoughts. everybody that has walked this planet, except for one person in my opinion, jesus christ has had impure thought. has been a center. thomas jefferson will the declaration independent, a sinner. martin luther king, an idol to me, certainly a sinner. impure thoughts. i'm sorry that this little fantasy world where liberals and democrats are the perfect people and everybody else is evil and racist and a sellout, this is a fantasy land. they are not jesus christ. i'm sorry.

they've appointed themselves that, and it's driving a lot of people crazy, including me. i've got to be honest with you, i'm so concerned about this country, and i'm so concerned about the people that are being silence. those of us that are believers and believe in the east founding principles, if we don't put our differences aside and come together and stand together and stand on the truth that we know, the country's going to fall. >> tucker: i believe that completely. jason whitlock, thank you. we are trying to keep track, give you some outline of the scope of the crackdown on civil liberties now underway. we are trying to bring you individuals who suffered under it. here's one, a literary agent in new york recently fired not because of what she set online, but because she maintained accounts on parler and gap, free speech alternatives to corporate social media. the employee's name is colleen

o'loughlin, and she joins us. i really wanted to talk to you just to make sure i got this right. he worked prior to not because he said something outrageous or immoral online, but because he used specific social media platforms? >> thank you so much for having me tonight, and thank you for all of your hard work. i think you hit the nail on the head with your monologue. you are correct, that's what i got fired for. i created a profile on parler and on gab. i posted the same exact content on twitter as a posted on those social media platforms, and that's what i got fired for. >> tucker: i'm so struck by here is you worked for a literary agency, and the basis of the literature is freethinking. you would think that the literacy agency would be the last line of defense against this kind of stalinism.

what did your bosses say to you? >> actually, it was an email. they think that i had created a profile on parler and gab, and because of what they called my political activities, they had to take swift action and part ways. >> tucker: since he worked in the literary world, what do you think the future of literature and art is in a country where people can be fired for using the wrong social media platform? >> it's chilling, really chilling. it used to be that being silent was safe on twitter and in american publishing. i feel like this signaled to those in american publishing that it's okay to get rid of people who aren't moderate. or who are moderate, who aren't publicly left of center.

they want people left of center. being silent used to mean you are safe from those actions. now if you have to be publicly on the left. otherwise, you are out. >> tucker: it's really a shocking story. i'm going to save this tape as a period piece. inc. you for joining us. if you're wondering why art has died in this country, the whole span of visual arts all the way to comedy, nothing beautiful is being created right now, that's why. nothing gross in an environment like that. throughout the pandemic, the rich got very, very rich, which would be fine except no one else

got rich, everyone else got poor. at that trend seemed to hit a pause just for a moment this week, and it infuriated some people. that's straight ahead. plus, enormous foreign state stomach snakes are invading the everglades. a person who hunts pythons are here to explain how many of pythons are explain the everglades. where bringing that to you, just ahead.

>> tucker: crazies have a week to accelerate trends already in progress. a new analysis shows billionaires increase their wealth by nearly 40% since the coronavirus pandemic came here. that trend was upended very briefly this week when an army of amateur day traders on reddit drove up the stock of gamestop, a video game retailer that a bunch of hedge funds hedge those hedge funds lost billions. when they did, many brokerage houses jumped to their rescue by shutting down purchases of gamestop shares. everyone saw it happen, and many were appalled by it. >> i think this is a much larger issue and the threat of our country, and its fragility and what's happening in inequality. frankly, the hypocrisy of the political leaders who say, you

can't open your business and run your business and make a living during the pandemic. we won't pass a stimulus bill in time, and by the way, you can't trade. what's the next thing they are going to control and to say, you can't do. >> tucker: one of the winklevoss, one of the twins who came up with the idea of facebook. what can you do in the face of this? you can leave negative reviews for the brokerages that stopped and changed the rules. you can't, because google is on their side. google removed more than 100,000 negative reviews for the app robinhood. so you're not allowed to complain? that's not all, if you're 22-year-old best buy employee who has made ten grand by trading stock, you are a bad person. >> i look at the evolution of this paradigm starting with gamesmanship, people going

online into using social media to make money almost as a game. then it became very greedy filled. there's a jealousy, there's an anger, there's a frustration at the system. i think the size of the crowd now encompasses that aspect. don't get me wrong, there's always a strident peak to the market, but this has anger behind it. the behavior of the mob reminds me of what we saw at the capital. >> tucker: [laughs] the people on reddit are greedy! they are insurrectionist's. a biotech entrepreneur and author of the forthcoming book "woke inc." thank you so much for coming on. i'm sincerely worried about the way our leaders are handling the the rest of us learned that wall street is corrupt, they are not acknowledging that, and they are attacking the people who benefited for like three days

from wall street for the first time. what's the take away from this moment? >> this is the spotlight on the woke industrial complex as we know it. a couple weeks ago we saw was silicon valley, twitter and facebook taking their uses for defendants google and apple taking entire applications like parler. what are they going to do next? i was waiting them to come after email. i'm sure were heading on a collision course to censoring hateful or racist emails. that's coming soon. it turned out i didn't pick what they are going to do next. now it's stock trades, wall street is getting on the same as silicon valley. the worst part is a lot of people lost a lot of money this week, but then they whitewash this whole thing with this woke white washing claiming it was hate speech, facebook claiming it was adult exploitation. this is getting farcical that we ought to see through what it is. it's institutional lying at its worst. >> tucker: you can't keep cracking down like this forever before people go crazy and the

system explodes. it don't they understand that? you have to at some point admit that you are wrong, i'm corrupt or whatever. you can just turn it back on the people who expose your corruption forever? >> it's not sustainable. let's go back to the early 2000s, that's great, that's the vanilla version. this 2.0 version is much more tricky. this is dressing up with regressive values, these do good woke smoke screens. what they do, you trick liberals into adulation. liberals should be -- but you trick them into adulation because their love of woke causes. meanwhile he go to the conservatives and you trick them into submission because they were taught the free market can do no wrong. it's inherently divisive. divide and conquer, that's what corporate america is doing. >> tucker: you're so right. you wind up having a heritage foundation defending corporations that hate them. it's just so amazing.

the libertarians meet the professional world people we are in big trouble. it was great to see you, that was really smart analysis. the world health organization is finally getting to the question of, where does this coronavirus come from? their conclusion? they can't really confirm it's from china. they just don't really know. details, straight ahead. ♪ ♪

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>> tucker: almost immediately after being inaugurated president, joe biden did the most important thing he could do, he rejoined the world health organization, because they've done a fantastic job with covid. the w.h.o. for its part is still pretending china had nothing at all to do with the virus from wuhan. >> all hypotheses are on the table. it is definitely too early to come to a conclusion exactly where this virus came either within or without china. >> tucker: that's right. more than a year later, it still

too early. too early to stop shilling for communist china which funds the w.h.o. now they are looking for another country with an earlier outbreak was in a city that has experimental virus labs next to a market where people eat bats. remarkably, researchers are not affiliated with the w.h.o. determined that the spanish flu i killed 50 million people 100 years ago actually did originate not in spain, but in china. fox news medical contributor marc siegel joins us to assess. good to see you, doctor. >> tucker, it's our anniversary. about a year ago when we were warning the world about an emerging virus, the world health organization was calling it in the regional problem only and was saying it was okay to travel. they are being given a second chance a year later, they are on the ground in china with a place where horseshoe bats had emitted a coronavirus 96% similar to this. the markets they have to look at the the end of the wuhan institute of virology where

people were -- according to the state department -- got sick in the fall of 20 covid like symptoms. with all of that to examine, the markets, they are talking about outside of china. this reminds me of history. the person doing it is a physician, dr. mike ryan, who is actually a public health expert and in charge of the covid response. it reminds me of history. about a hundred years ago, as he said, there is a virus emerging that killed over 50 million people worldwide. no country wanted to take blame for wire it came from. we said it's not from our army barracks, france said, it's not from us. spain got blamed for it, of course, but spain could in protest. they didn't have enough power. it turns out in 2013, canadian researchers found out that chinese laborers brought this virus -- they were the first to have it, they brought it across the border. tucker, i'm no sherlock holmes,

but could history be repeating itself? >> tucker: it does seem that way. that's a provocative point. dr. marc siegel joining us tonight. great to see you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: may be the lesson is, it's not healthy to have a really, really crowded country. maybe we should keep that in mind before we crowded ours. it's been three months since election day in november. here's something amazing. the race for congress and new york's 22nd congressional district has not been decided. why is new york's election system worse than the election system in honduras? great question. we will get the latest there, next. and python seems to be taking over parts of south florida. a python hunter is standing by. that is straight ahead. ♪ ♪

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someone called nicholas mcquaid to run the doj's criminal division, the all-important criminal division. that's the same criminal division that's investigating biden's son hunter. who is this nicholas mcquade exactly? the show can tell you he is a former business partner of hunter biden's new criminal defense attorney. a man called christopher clark. hunter biden apparently hired clark in december to help them with the federal investigation into his business. the criminal investigation the doj's conducting. both mcquade and clerk were law partners together. they worked on the same cases right up until mcquade took the job at the department of justice. on january 21st of this year, the same day nicholas mcquade was featured in the justice department press release, they filed a motion in court to withdraw mcquade as an attorney he was working on with christopher clark. that means joe biden put at the head of the criminal division

the partner of the guy his son had hired to defend him against the criminal division. wow. we reached out to the justice department on a comment on this, they refused to say whether mcquade would recuse himself for matters involving hunter biden and his former partner, who is representing hunter biden. it's all pretty amazing. another reminder, there's a lot going on within the body and family. we got another reminder today from politico. they reported this, joe biden apparently told his younger brother frank last year during the campaign, and we are quoting, for sake, watch yourself. don't get sucked into something that would first of all hurt you -- but by implication would hurt me too. too late now. it's been three months since election day. believe it or not, the race in the 22nd district of new york is still undecided. mail-in voting rules led to massive delays.

republican claudia tenney currently leads that raised by 122 votes. she's checked in with us a couple times since election day, she joins us again tonight for an update. great to see you. what's going on in the 22nd district of new york? >> we have a combination of many things, but one thing is for sure. we are really happy to have more commanding lead then we did before. we went from 29 votes to 122, which is a virtual landslide. the real problem, and we talked about this before, is that so much of what governor cuomo did with executive orders is adopting the horrible legislation that you discussed on your show. hr one, the democrat signature legislation. they call it the for the people act, but i think it's for the democratic takeover that the united states forever. my race highlights exactly why this is so bad and so dangerous to the integrity of our election process.

i've lived it for the last almost 90 days. we will probably have a decision more definitively by monday, which would be the 90 day mark. this is a disaster. mail-in voting, same-day registration, registrations at the department of motor vehicles, and now registrations at colleges and universities. as if those places are the place where we have to underscore the ability to ensure integrity and our voting system. the blurred lines with these government agencies and making multiple tasks is a huge part of it, but i think a lot of the intent here is the democrats are interested in vote trafficking. they are not interested in integrity, they are interested in getting votes and the win. my race is a perfect example of how bad this is in practice. >> tucker: it's unbelievable. i hope you win for a lot of reasons, but mainly so you can take what you've just learned living under these insane rules to congress and save the rest of us from them.

i hope you do. thank you. have you ever eaten python? some have. the python cowboy joins us next to explain. ♪ ♪

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speak to the state of florida is teeming with refugees from the northeast, but they are not the only ones in florida. florida's filled with pythons. big snakes, slitting their way through the everglades. how does the state of florida plan to restore balance. one man thought about this and a great idea. his name is mike and he's a trapper, known as the python cowboy and glad to have him on tonight. thank you so much for coming t . what's your plan to deal with the overabundance of pythons in florida? >> well, it's really not just my

plan. a lot of people are involved with it. we need to hunt and we need to remove them. the state right now has different programs to do that. but we need more help. we need the general public involved, and you know, we're doing everything we can to try to incentivize that. >> tucker: one of the core ethical presets of hunting is that you kill. do you eat python? >> yes, sir, absolutely. if i don't eat it i make use of it. you can only eat so much snakes out, anything i don't eat myself i feed to my different wildlife rescues. the livestock that i have. >> tucker: i mean, it goes without saying i'm not even going to ask you about how hard is it to hunt the pythons and how dangerous? >> it's definitely not easy. it's a labor of love and something you got to be passionate about, and have motivation for. i generally go out there for

three to five days at a time and i'm sleeping in the swamp. i'm hunting these invasive snakes either by boat or in my customized truck or i'm driving the buggies that stretch out into the swamp. i'm looking for the snakes while their hunting for the native wildlife. >> tucker: i'm watching a video of you with blood all over your arm, you got bit? what was it like? >> sometimes a job gets a little messy and dangerous. it's just a part of it. recently captured a big almost 18-foot python, 135 pounds. it struck at me, i was able to dodge it strike, but he gave me another quick half strike. i wasn't expecting. these older snakes are smart, it got me a couple times, missed a main vein and to mr. and artery, but i had a bit of a gusher coming on my arm. >> tucker: where is the stake

now? >> here is the that got me. >> tucker: that's amazing, what firearm do you use for pythons? >> generally i'm using myhu han. i capture them alive, for me that's the safest way in the most humane way to do it. it's a lot harder to shoot a snake directly in the brain than you thinkdi it is and generally, the snakes aren't scared of edanything. they think they're camouflaged, they're the top predator and i'm able to sneak up on them, grab them, and once i grabbed them, they're not going anywhere. it becomes a wrestling match, but thankfully i get the better of them. uc>> tucker: it's morning anywhere, nobody deer hunts like that's, so i would recommend that. i'm impressed. mike, great to see you tonight and good luck. >> thank you so much. >> tucker: thank you.

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