see you tomorrow. >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy monday. some medical news off the top. last month, the cdc issued a press release that goes this way. >> tucker: got that? it's all about the health of americans. that's why every human being

that enters this country by air must first present a negative test for the coronavirus. that includes american citizens. there's no exceptions. coronavirus infection in fact is the one universal reality of the human condition. we're all potential incubators of this virus. but it does end end there. travelers that test nothingive for covid must still wear masks at all times, that includes on board the airplane or through the airport. if you don't have a mask on, you better be actively chewing or prepare for a steep fine and the possibility of never flying again. nor is one mask necessarily enough. tony fauci says we ought to consider wearing three masks at once. that's how serious our government is about fighting this global pandemic. you knew that. you've watched it. you know that the risk is imminent and profound enough that your children likely have been out of school for a year. your business may be shut down

right now. your parents may have died alone unable to hold your hand in the final days. the united states itself bears no resemblance to the place you knew 12 months ago. those are the sacrifices you've been asked to make and you have for good reason. covid is dangerous, they keep telling us. the authorities are more than willing to destroy your family and your country in order to protect you from this virus. that is their public position stated every day. do they mean it when they say it though? those pictures of california governor gavin newsome asking a maskless dinner at the most expensive restaurant in america is one indication that no, they're not entirely sincere about their policies. maybe it's a sham. maybe there's one standard for you, a member of the despised class and the politically

favored for those that do what they want. but not in this country. unfortunately there's growing evidence of that double standard. now there's hard proof. tonight we learned that the joe biden administration is releasing thousands of foreign nationals listing here illegally without bothering to tell them for the coronavirus. sent forth into the american population like covid isn't real. that is happening. it's the official policy of the u.s. government. on friday, the white house was asked about this policy. here's the response. >> the u.s. customs and border patrol said they had to catch and release some migrants without giving them a covid test before entering the community. so what is being done, what could be done? >> are you suggesting they're letting people in across the border without testing them or tell me a little more. >> they're having to -- because

of the executive order that the president signed earlier this week -- >> which one? >> tucker: yeah, which one. covid-infected aliens released into the united states. whatever. it's not like there's a pandemic. the press secretary didn't care enough to answer the question. did i remind you that our treasury secretary is a woman? shut up. you've been empowered. the people that know the details feel differently and they're worried. brandon judd runs the border patrol union. we don't test the illegal aliens that we release. so we're releasing people without knowing which puts the public at risk. yes, it does. leon wilmot is the sheriff in yuma county. he called the biden administration's policy a particularly dangerous approach. he said there's no protocol for testing any of these people for the covid-19 virus. nor is there any support being

offered by the federal government to house, feed, medically treat or transport these immigrants. that's why taxpayers are paying for foreign nationals to list in hotel rooms. unlike you. they're not paying for them. it's a small part of the biden administration's immigration policy, a policy designed to hurt the united states as profoundly as possible. in an internal last week, ice officials announce the administration is suspending something called operation talent. that operation targeted sex offenders but no more. illegal alien sex offenders are a protected class. a day after that, another internal ice memo announced that effective immediately, the biden administration would stop deporting illegal aliens that have been convicted of drug offenses, assault, dui, money laundering, property crimes, fraud, tax evasion or who have

gang tattoos. going forward any illegal alien charged with a crime but not convicted from a crime would be safe from deportation. what does that mean in practice? it means that an ms-13 member arrested for drug dealing with previous convictions for theft, extortion, grand larceny would have to be released into the united states, maybe into your neighborhood even if he had been deporting many times before. that's not some crazy hypothetical, by the way. that will happen, a foreign national charged with rape but flees before trial cannot be reported either. technically he's not been convicted of rape. reporting him would be an act of bigotry and so on. this is real and we will see cases like that guaranteed. the question is motive. why are they doing that? even if you thought the united states needed more low-skilled workers in the middle of an

employment crisis, even if you believe that, your right to cheap housekeeping is more important than the right of the american middle class to exist, how would you explain the hunt for sex offenders? how is that a good idea for anyone? how is it a good idea to release illegal aliens in the middle of a pandemic without a test? it doesn't help you. but helping you is not the point. nobody is pretending the point of this is to help you. it's the opposite. the point is to punish you. when we release people that break our laws without bothering to test them for the virus, the same virus that wrecks your life, what we're saying in the clearest possible terms, we don't like you. this isn't a policy. it's an act of aggression. it's designed to humiliate you

and demoralize you. it's almost too dark to believe that's their motive. too dark to believe it's real but it is. over on msnbc they're saying it out loud. >> underscoring all of this is xenophobia is racism, white supremacy. when you separate brown children especially from their mothers, we have to ask ourselves how was that allowed to happen and what role did white supremacy play in that. >> absolutely, this is the root of all of these conversations. >> it's a smoke screen. none of these conversations have anything to do with race whatsoever. it's about protecting the american population, period. joining us now is a.j. louderback. the jackson county sheriff. great to have you with us, sheriff. >> thank you. >> tucker: is it true in the state of texas that people who have been detained because they're not here legally,

foreign nash name -- nationals are being released without a coronavirus test? >> it's true. it's absolutely true. if i could continue, tucker. the memo that i received this last week it's a defund the ice by memo, by memorandum set out january 20, 2021, this is a devastating document for texans and americans in the united states. when i read the message and looked at it, it's a message to the world that you can come here illegally, commit crimes here and remain illegally. >> of all things, the coronavirus. since americans are now being told in the near future, we may not be allowed to fly on

airplanes without being proven free of the virus without a certificate that says we're negative. how in a country like that can we forget to test illegal aliens for the virus before releasing them? how did that happen? do you know? >> i'm sure it was president a forgot item. you know, i don't know, but in the haste to open the border for everyone in this country, this is something that i expected to some degree. we walked this path from 2008 to 2016. this program that was released by memorandum is very similar to the priority of the program in 2014, 2015. where people were able to commit crimes against americans. the covid issue overlooked during that time. so you know, i struggle for a

thought process like many americans and texans on how anyone in the administration can conduct themselves in this matter and promote themselves lawlessly. somebody will get hurt and killed and people allowed to stay here, which is unbelievable. yet here we sit with this situation. >> tucker: yeah. in a country where we're not allowed to go to church or funerals because of the coronavirus. are you worried about the effects of this? what do you think the effects will be? >> irreparable harm, tucker. yes, we're worried. every peace officer in the united states should be extremely concerned about the attitude, the lawlessness, the complete abject removal of law. we have full -- nullification of the law going on here.

we're going to allow our ice officers, uscif, all affected by this memo, which guts the ina and handcuffs them where they're unable to respond. so in law enforcement here, those of us that don't have the jurisdiction to enforce the federal laws here, we're -- we created a situation that is unthinkable for the public. the public has no idea the strength of a memorandum that's been filed here in the united states by this administration. so it's -- i think it's our job and i appreciate, you know, your program and inviting me on here to get the word out and spread what is happening before our very eyes, what the administration is doing. >> tucker: we appreciate you telling us the truth, sheriff. great to see you. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: one place where the

ruling party does believe in law enforcement is washington where they live and work. the nation's capitol under military operation. the pentagon telling us how much it's going to cost taxpayers. listen carefully. >> the estimate through march 15 is that the total cost of national guard support will come to $483 million. 284 million of that is for personnel and $199 million of that is for operations. that gets us through march 15. >> tucker: razor wire, soldiers in your nation's capitol. no explanation why they're there, no explanation of the mission. we know how much it will cost. this story is playing out in front of us and almost completely ignored by the media. we thought we could take a look what is actually happening in washington.

richard mcginnis is there. give us a sense what the city is like tonight. >> tucker, it's truly a shocking scene down here in front of the capitol. i've been in d.c. for 12 years. i've never seen anything like this before. you can see, we have the concertina or razor wire atop of the fence. i have not seen razor wire atop a fence like this. to see it around the halls of our democracy is shocking. >> tucker: so you came close to gun fire in wisconsin this summer. we interviewed you at the time. a couple of times you went to different riots and demonstrations. from my understanding, there was a light law enforcement presence. contrast that with what you see in washington. >> yeah, tucker. the last time that we spoke was after the riot at the capitol. if there ever was an example of being light on law enforcement,

that was the case on january 6. as well as in kenosha where we saw protesters in great numbers and law enforcement having a difficult time keeping law and order there. so we've seen this happen before. obviously that is not the case tonight with the national guards american and capitol policemaning the check points of this fencing. >> tucker: have you gotten a clear explanation as to why these soldiers are in the city? >> no, i have not, tucker. i have not gotten any explanation. i do understand that mayor bowser does not want the fence to remain permanent. but that remains to be seen whether or not this fence will stay up. >> tucker: really an amazing moment. thanks, richard. i appreciate it. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: how crazy are things getting? not just in washington but in tv

land more broadly? how about zone strikes against citizens with the wrong politics. we'll talk to someone who thought a lot about how this country got here and how we can get out of it straight ahead.

. >> tucker: used to be, there was a tame they say, that most sane people believed that bombing american citizens with military drone strikes because you don't like their politics, a little over the top. maybe a little too far. maybe not the unity that we were looking for. but things have changed. supporters of donald trump turns out were so dangerous that maybe they do deserve hellfire missiles raining down on their homes. watch. >> we had a policy carried out under the bush years and the obama years of attacking terrorism at its roots. going after and killing and in the case of some terrorists with a drone strike for inciting violence. mitch mcconnell was in the senate then. he's in the senate after 9-11

too. how does mitch mcconnell understand the way you root out terrorism is to take on islamic terrorism, kill those that incite it, how does he not vote to convict someone on the floor of the senate that incited an insurrection? >> tucker: we play a lot of over the top video on that news channel and that news anchor. save that tape that will lever forever as one of the craziest things said on cable television. it's the sign of the moment we're in. the question is how do we get out of that moment. going to bring you in next a man that throughout this through. he's the president for the center of american restoration, which is what we need. thanks, russ, for coming up. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: we don't need to make the case that we're in an unprecedented same on television. how do we get out of it? >> what is important, we need to

stay on offense on these particular issues in which they're pushing us at the front. these are the cultural issues, the america-first issues, the theme that you've talked for many years, tucker. that's where the american people, the forgotten men and women, this is where they want their people in washington to fight for them and not the business as usual four or five years ago. that's what this center is about. we want to restore political consensus that we're for god, for country and community. only way out of this is to keep building that country and restore consensus in this country. >> tucker: do you have leaders that believe that? >> we have some. we need to build their ranks and arm them and provide a network of activists to work with them. we need people that are willing to stand in difficult tough

fights in this town. it's easy to be for tax reform. it's easy to be for education policy reform. it's hard to be for big tech reform. it's hard to get us out of endless wars. that's where we need to keep fighting on the cultural america first issues. >> tucker: i get so discussed looking at leaders in the republican party. not all of them. one that has the most power in the senate tweeted the real problem is vladimir putin, some internal thing he was doing of zero interest to most people including me. can people like that be brought around to the obvious, which is you have to protect and serve your voters to justified your salary? >> time will tell, tucker what is important is that we insist these issues we've talked about the last four or five years are the agenda. there's no going back. so when we have leadership in the house and the senate talking ant trying to keep us in these wars, go back to passing amnesty bills, that's where we have to say no, we're not doing that. to look forward and figure out

why is it so that these issues and these ideas have taken so long to get on the agenda for washington d.c. >> tucker: you're looking at as far as i can tell a situation with every one with power has a self-serving view in my opinion and the majority of the country on the issues is on the other side. like what is the point of being in afghanistan? should we open the borders? doesn't seem like those people have any power at all. >> that's why we have to do voter integrity reform, big tech reform. if we lose our voice and right now we're in danger of losing our voice. your last segment got at it where they're calling us terrorists. if we lose our voice, we have no power. we're trying to get a voice in washington d.c. >> tucker: russ, i appreciate

your hopeful position on this and your clarity. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: it won't surprise the party that hates nature is not the party of science. more evidence that the biden administration disavowed their cdc director in favor of the teacher's union. details ahead. veteran spouses e we salute you. we salute how you balanced work, family and home life. we salute your courage. and your service. by offering you our service. newday usa specializes in helping you make the most of your va benefits. from home purchase to refinance.

>> tucker: well, the centers for disease control has come out with a new study showing what every other study has shown since the beginning of this pandemic. schools are low transmission zones for the coronavirus. the cdc director said it is safe for teachers to return to schools even before they had been vaccinated. but her party is not convinced. last night joe biden explained the democrat's donors, the biggest donors has always been the teacher's union are more important than the kids that they teach. >> i think it's time for schools to reopen safely, safely. you have to have fewer people in

classroom, you have to have ventilation systems reworked. our cdc commissioner will be coming out with science-based judgment within i think as early as wednesday as to lay out what the minimum requirements are. >> tucker: yep. we have to shake you down before we open the schools. dr. marc siegel is here to assess the science behind this. good to see you. >> good to see you, tucker. follow the science said president biden. but that may not apply to teacher's unions. what is the the science? it's clearer every day. there's this huge study out of north carolina of 90,000 kids and teachers that showed only 32 cases of covid and even 770 in the community itself. clearly covid is not spreading in schools the way it is in the

community. so follow the science, open the schools and sure enough. cdc director rachelle walinski said it as much. yes, teachers should be a priority to be vaccinated but that's not the step. i looked. i saw jen psaki saying that she was talking in her personal capacity. wait a minute. personal capacity? you mean as the head of infectious diseases? that's her personal capacity? anyway, moving on from that, they should be opening the schools, tucker. right here in the front lines in new york city, a teacher went on a zoom call today, tucker, to his middle school children. he announced our middle schools are opening finally on february 25. he said there were kids that came out that he didn't know were there. he hadn't heard from them in

months. they were rejoicing, cheering. one child say two words, tucker, "let's go." tucker? >> tucker: great to see you, dr. marc siegel, thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: and virginia heiferman compared people that voted to trump to terrorists and nazi. what did they do? they plowed the snow from her driveway. you may see it as an act of generosity. but she went to harvard. she said this. >> tucker: virginia in charge of

justice and truth. there's something deep about this, very revealing about the state of the country. greg gutfeld from "the five" thought about what this column means. it means something and joins us now to explain. greg, good to see you. >> good to see you, tucker. if i ever, tucker -- you have to make this promise. if i become a cartoon of myself, take me out and sheet me. i cannot tell if this person wrote this is for real or a cartoon of herself. an elitist writer for harpers that has a pandemic get away and a podcast of a david corn writes this piece in which she slams her good natured neighbors, comparison to hezbollah and nazis because they cleared her driveway. that's -- i love this story

almost to an obsessive degree because i can't figure out if it's real. wouldn't she consider that they -- this might get back to her next door neighbor? to her scary right-wing neighbors might find out that she called the nazis? wouldn't that like strike a little concern? she did it anyway. i want to know how the neighbors feel. i volunteer myself to go and interview them. i might know them. who knows. they might plow my driveway. she might be my neighbor. it might be me. i don't know. i don't know. i think that they deserve, the neighbors deserve a response. the editors of the l.a. times probably should have done a better job in finding out some details because there's no details in that story whatsoever about who they are. but i go back to this. if it's make, then she's an idiot. but if it's real, then she's

worse than an idiot. she's a spiteful mean person to look at people with a political lens like that and dehumanize them. and under this phony guise of unification, she calls them nazis. it's like a trojan horse. she decided to ladle abuse on 74 million people because she's crazy or a liar. by the way, tucker, i don't want to impugn her and said she made this up. i don't know. i don't know. all i know is as an editor, it raises more questions than it answers. how is that? >> tucker: but what she reveals is what she and a lot of people in her world think, which is that ideology is much more important than human kindness. relationships means nothing compared to ideas. that's where they were aable to hold up teddy kennedy who killed a woman who championed women

because she was for abortion. that's all they care about, ideology. >> yeah, it's interesting when there's a hurricane or whatnot, you always see the pickup trucks going in helping anybody. she's the type of person that probably wouldn't. she is like -- you need to have -- i'm sorry to say, you need to have trump supporters in this world. that is scary to liberals. they're useful. they know how the fix things. a truck in idaho is more useful than an art studies degree in brooklyn. see if you can keep the power grid going for a week, virginia. >> yeah, a smart point. have you noticed the angriest people in america are the ones with absolutely no useful skills? people like virginia. doesn't do anything. >> by the way, tucker i can't point that finger than anybody

other than me. i have no useful skills whatsoever. i'm pathetic with any kind of electrical devices. i -- it's amazing that i'm even allowed outside my house. i'm a klutz. i just fell and landed on my tail bone. it's excruciating. >> tucker: that is the measure of love. >> mark: i would plow your driveway any day, tucker. i would do it. that's no euphemism. that's the real deal. >> tucker: i'll take that as a compliment. thanks, greg. >> thank you. >> tucker: so ice cube is bringing a class action lawsuit against robinhood after they prevented users from buying

shares. we'll talk to his business partner about this suit. why did they bring it? that's next.

>> tucker: last month in really a pivotal moment in the history of our markets, the trading app robinhood, which is designed for retail investors to get in markets, normal people, stepped in and prevented its own users from buying dozens of stocks. robinhood wanted them to sell the shares. why? in order to bail out hedge funds. now ice cube is bringing a class action suit against robin hood for doing that. we have the co-founder of big three, a business partner of ice cube. thanks for coming on, jeff. why are you doing it? what is this suit about? >> ice cube supports the little guy. this is using my harvard law degree with two class action

lawyers from florida. i'm purely as a lawyer here. take a step back is very important. it's important to question a system that gives abuse of the 99% of the rich powerful elite. that's what happened here. in 1987, 2001, 2008, we see the abuse happen. at the end of the day, people get bailed out. nobody goes to jail. the little guy gets caught holding the bag. that's what happened here. we have a problem in america. people don't trust institutions. if you're a robinhood user or somebody else that sees what happened, you distrust institutions. here it is happening again. so in this environment, along comes robin hood. they say we're going to support the little guy. we're going to demarketize finance. the truth is, they're not

another wall street wolf in sheep's clothes. they designed the perfect mousetrap. so they design something to capture people by giving -- using the word free, which turns out is not to be. giving out free stock, more free stock if they bring in other people. gamifying it and pushing them to high risk trades like options or encouraging it. as it turns out, those are the exact types of users and trades that are worth a lot of money to people in wall street. so-called market makers that do the tried. they're not dumb. they design software to go after taking a penny of every sale a penny out of every buy. they knew what they were creating what they've done, they have taken the customer, what

you normally think of a customer and turn them into a product. you're chum for the bigger whales. the whales are the same wall street people that invest in them, benefit by their ipo and their counter parts. here's where it gets interesting. they created this monster to do this, but the monster got really big and started to eat some of their own people. take advantage of it. thursday, january 7, we hear -- we know that shorts, people betting against the stock, people driving people out of business especially in the middle of a pandemic, pretty cold, these traders, they're turns out not as inexperienced and stupid as wall street thinks. they come up with a mechanism to

ban together and start buying and by january 17, hedge funds, other people have lost between $18 billion and 20 billion. melvin lost about $23 billion. so on that day, the most important day, they come along and they say you can only sell. you can't buy. which for any momentum stock or an attempt to to a short squeeze, that ends the momentum. >> tucker: of course. >> you can only trade one way. >> tucker: but the only thing as you pointed out and i don't think i heard people say this, it was a scam from the first day. we'll be following this, jeff. tell us how this turns out. ovenly rooting for you and thanks for coming on. >> i appreciate that. enough is enough. we have to stand up to people taking advantage of the 99%. >> tucker: i completely agree.

thank you. so it's dawned on you at some point the thread that connects a lot of actions on the people in charge is oh, wait, they're mimicking china because they're aligned with china. if you imagined that, you should not because it's true. we'll speak to somebody that connected the dots after the break.

>> tucker: last night joe biden promised to reverse the trump administration's foreign policy on the question of china. according the biden, the u.s. will follow something called the international rules of the road. what does that mean exactly? you can guess what it means. more subservience to china. we have an author here.

the piece is called "the 30 pieces of tyrants." it's a true book. we thank you for coming in on and for the mental energy required to connect all the dots. i hope our readers read it for themselves. but you summarize your position. >> basically what i wanted to explain is why so many things look crazy, many things that you cover on your show all the time. why people are coming across the border in such profound numbers. it all looks crazy until you realize there's a reason it's going on. the reason is because the oligarchy that runs this country now is not primarily loyal to the united states. they do not care about the amount of damage that they do to america, they don't care about the damage that they do to americans. that's part of the system. the primary loyalty is to their relationship to the communist chinese party that is their

center of gravity, the sort of their wealth, privilege and prestige. >> tucker: so keep connecting, if you will. i hope that, again, people will read this because print is the only medium that can fully explain the thesis as complex as yours. what else would connect to that point? >> the big thing is starting -- one of the key dates -- it starts with henry kissingers and nick son's opening of china. in 1994, bill clinton decided to delink human rights and trade. he said we were hopeful that china would adopt more democratic policies. it was nonsense. the premier of china at the time, this is the man that catapulted to power after sending tanks into tiananmen square. the american elite knew what they were getting into. they looked at an enormous

cheap, labor pool and they said we're going to get rich. that's what happened. we are more than a quarter of a century along and that's what has happened. one of the interesting things that happened during the donald trump presidency because donald trump started calling these people out. i think that donald trump didn't even have that clear sense of how tied in, how extensive this network was. one of the examples that i mentioned, whoever would have put apple ceo tim cook and lebron james in the same family album? there they are. their wealth relies on the two same things. cheap chinese labor and a growing chinese consumer market. if you look across, this is not just entertainment. it's not just tech. it goes in to the corporate world, goes into finance. unfortunately it affects our government throughout. one of the most astonishing revelations that john ratcliffe

wrote regarding the cia. cia management was bullying analysts saying they didn't like their analysis of china because they were worried about the policies it might encourage, meaning trump's policies on china. he was hard on china. cia management was protecting china from solid analysis. it's astonishing. but take it a step further. remember who owns the cloud on which all of the cia's information is collected. that is jeff bezos who is china's number 1 distributor in the united states. >> tucker: in 10 seconds, does it shock you the new defense secretary has basically said the greatest threat is not china but white supremacy? >> no, not at all. look at the biden administration and the first family, you can see there's deep and extensive ties to the chinese party.

doesn't surprise me at all. >> tucker: amazing piece. thanks, lee. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: we'll be back tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. sean hannity takes over from new york now. >> sean: thanks, tucker. great show. welcome to "hannity." tonight in less than 24 hours, democrats will put the work of you, the american of people on hold to carry out one last smear of former president trump or jim acosta said, president trump in exile. instead of getting aid to workers or creating a plan to save small businesses trouble, well, congressional democrats will be busy the foreseeable future conducting so many unconstitutional impeachment charade show with a