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important is probably trying to distract you from something that is actually important. there are a lot of those things right now more than ever. one of them is our ongoing covid pandemic grid after months of hearing that life could never return to normal until we get a vaccine, we got a vaccine. two vaccines, actually. but life did not return to normal. life got worse. we were instructed to take the new vaccine as soon as possible and to put on more masks. one mask was no longer enough. anybody who complained about that was punished. most people obey the orders. they had no choice. but the whole thing made them nervous. how could it not?y the rules changed all of the sudden, they wondered. is there a good reason for that? when will we finally repeal corona law and how about this vaccine? why are americans being discouraged from asking simple straightforwardgh message questions aboutit. how effective are these drugs? what's the miscarriage rate for pregnant women, for example?

is there a study on that? may we see it? how much are the drug companies make enough of this? they aren't conspiracy theories where they are the most basic questions. in a democracy, every citizen has a right to know the answer. but instead, we got fluff and propaganda. the media rollout for the vaccine came off like a diet pepsi commercial at the super bowl. tons of celebrity endorsements, not a lot of signs. it was totally disingenuous. and naturally it had the opposite of the intended effect. most americans already supported vaccines. they didn't need to be browbeaten in order to be convinced. they were grateful their kids no longer get tetanus, polio, chicken pox. they weren't anti-vaxxers, the is a vaccine was so great, why were all these people lying about it? honest question.

they they were lying. you know that for certain. the most powerful people in america made certain that no one could criticize it. here is bill gates' wife on cnn back in december. >> due to social media companies, facebook, twitter, on and on, have a response believe you to do more, melinda, and getting this misinformation, this disinformation off their platforms? >> they absolutely have a responsibility. the internet and the rise of social media has happened so quickly that really the regulations and the good policymaking have been stayed out in front of it. quite frankly it needs to catch up. >> tucker: "quite frankly,"e she says, we need to censor people's views on the covid vaccine. melinda gates is not a scientist. she did not develop this vaccine. no background in epidemiology or any relative discipline. she worked in the marketing

department at microsoft. but she is the wife of a billionaire. that's why she's on television. it's why she's allowed to control what you are allowed to say about the drug she's demanding you injecting your body. is this really science? not even close. its oligarchy. all the billionaires are participating in it. the tech companies announced they would not allow anyone to criticize its vaccine and anyone who did would be kicked off the platform straight away. and corporate media took it upon themselves to enforce this rule. just yesterday, cnn ran a story with this headline. "facebook vowed to crack down on covid-19 vaccine misinformation, but misleading post remain easy to find. that's not a new story. that's an open call for censorship. and it worked. cnn identified a group on facebook called "covid-19 vaccine injury stories," the group sounds like what it sounds like. last week, the group was in the top 20 group of all of facebook. today after the cnn piece came

out, we searched for that groupn couldn't find it. even when we search specificalls for its name. effectively covid-19 vaccine injury stories no longer exists. cnn shut them down, erased them. instead search for the word "vaccine" on facebook you'll find aon lot of material, especially material, that matches the story line approved by melinda gates and her fellow nonscientist billionaires. the line is clear, you've heard millions of times, the covid vaccine is normally good, period. if your neighbor drops dead, keep it to yourself it facts like that are not allowed on facebook, nor on twitter. they've got the same policy. "multiple reports to adverse reactions to the vaccine reported one twitter user and the vaccines were securely not fully trialed on pregnant women and kids." "twitter band me until i deleted it for false information." is it false information? that's irrelevant. another report, "twitter

suspended me for saying that vaccines has known side effects, which they do." but at the moment, you are not allowed to say it. facebook has long led the way in this kind of censorship. last year the company prohibited uses for buying any advertisement that might discourage people from taking the vaccine or might portray the new vaccine as "unsafe or ineffective." in the months since, tens of millions of americans have been vaccinated and most of them seem fine. on the other hand, scientists are not conceding the record that the vaccine may trigger a fatal blood disorder in a small number of people. "the new york times" wrote about it the other day. it's one of those stories that used save as a period piece when the current darkness finally lifts and we can think in speak clearly again. two of thehe people of "the new york times" interviewed wouldn't even give their names. one said she had been badly injured by the drug but she feared she'd be punished if she criticize the vaccine in public. in the picture "the new york times" ran, she covered her face like she is a

fugitive. science cannot live in an environment like this without relentless skepticism, science dies but that's what science is, real. when it leaves, inevitably it replaced with witchcraft and superstition.e are we there yet? you decide. the liberal website "vox" wrote a piece that facebook users were allowed to "make fun of covid vaccinations." mockery is always the gravest threat to false religions. facebook demanded they remove the content immediately. as an example, vo x noted with alarm that had already been shared more than 100,000 times on facebook and it has infuriateded tim. make them stop laughing!wa in a way, it is amusement. even with total blanket censorship, it's pretty hard to crush the average person's sense of humor. you've got to wonder, if they

can force you to stop laughing about vaccines, what can they make you do? glenn greenwald is a truly independent journalists. he joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. i do not think you have to have a position on vaccines, for whatever it's worth. i am for them. to think it's very troubling, news organizations or thes government or get billionaires or anybody trying to censor open conversation about their effects. >> we have obviously talked a lot, tucker, about the practice of censoring for political opinion, declaring things hate speech, or offensive, the dangers of censoring for that. i actually think this, this pretense that they are able mothers concede that they are able to decree right and wrong, truth and falsity, to the point where they can ban things that they declared to be a false, is even more pernicious than opinion based censorship.

the irony -- think about this. if this facebook policy had existed back in march less than a year ago that says that if you dissent from the consensus of the world health organization and scientific experts, you will be banned from their platform, that would've meant that if you are somebody who in march went on to facebook and said "i believe that you should wear a mask, i believe that masks are effective against respiratoryea diseases of a kind that sars and covid-19 represent, you would've been and, because the signs back then -- dr. fauci was saying don't wear masks, not only are masks unnecessary, they could b. everything they do, these liberal guardians, orthodoxy and piety is about to make you think that they have a monopoly on objective truth by calling it science. science is a human study which means it's fallible.

exactly as you said, it's extremely dangerous to say that any kind of human knowledge is so unchallengeable to being discussed thatgege it's off lims to being question. >> tucker: i'm worried that paradoxically, the demand that what they say will result in millions of americans not believing what any american says. this will have an effect on people's noble truth, it will have an effect on their mental health.y that's what is my concern. >> i think that's valid. i have the same worry you do, the vaccine is available where i live, i'm going to take it, my family will as well. the reason i'm convinced, not because it's clearly true, not that it's the best course for me, it's because i informed myself. i use the open and free internet to see what experts are saying, i sought out the dissenting opinion, and i was convinced that the consensus was probably

right, taking the vaccine was the best thing to do. if the internet was a place where no dissent was allowed, i'd have way less confidence in the ability because that would be a profession that is not confident enough to allow dissent and if they are not capable enough to allow dissent i think they earned much less trust and faith in their pronouncements. >> tucker: yes, i think it's a wise observation. so i have to ask you and i'm not sure the answer myself, why are they doing it if it hasas the opposite of the intended effect and it makes sense that it would, worry why are they continuingto do th? >> it's important to recognize that silicon valley companies are not the ones who want to do this. they wouldld rather stay as far away from censoring and arbitrating anat intervening and in kicking people off their platforms. it's not because they are noble and nice but because it's in the business of interest not to do it. they are doing pressure to do it, tucker, that's so amazing, by cnn, msnbc, whenever you

allow information over your platform we think is wrong, we are going to shame you come disgrace you, and they have their partners who are the democrat a party who controlled the entire government now who are right along with them saying that we demand you censor more led by journalist carnality leading activists who destroyed free discourse and free thought in the united states. >> tucker: i think you're exactly right. glenn greenwald, thank you for that assessment. appreciate it. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: last week we told you a reporter on this show that bank of america which used to be a bank has become instead a kind of intelligence agency combing through its customers' private financial records and turningin them over to federal investigators without their knowledge of the customers. we caught them. we've got an update on that story. that's next.

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: los angeles is the second largest city in the united states. what happens there matters. right now the city of los angeles is teetering on the edge of collapse and many are dying. why? bad decision by its leaders. south los angeles saw 59

shooting victims in the first two weeks of this year. last year the same time before the city defunded the police, there were seven murders. that's a massive. increase. dead people. because of bad decisions. meanwhile the newad district attorney has refused to enforce laws including against violent crime peer that may shock you. itle doesn't shock george soros who paid for his campaign, that's what he wanted. tonight, a judge has stepped into all this. fox l.a. has.a more on that stoy with us. >> good ending to you. exactly right. our new progressive district attorney george guest on suffered a major setback, a jude ruled that some of his progressive reforms are not only illegal but i unethical. i'll explain, starting with his policy on three strikes law was voted in overwhelmingly by california voters back in the

1990s and the three strikes law allows prosecutors to seek harsher sentences for repeat criminal defenders. day one, george gascon issued a directive said that we are not going to enforce the three strikes law because it's my opinion it's racist and unconstitutional. he started forcing his prosecutors to read a statement in court agreeing with his legal opinion and the prosecutor union had a big problem with that so they sued him come essentially suit their own boss and yesterday a judge ruled against george gascon and sided with the union, the district attorney's disregard of the three strikes law is unlawful. as is requiring a deputy dh a pending sentencing enhancements a lawful basis. statement that prosecutors are required to read in court is legally inaccurate and incomplete. reading the statement in court without correction is unethical.

a big loss for gascon on that. the judge went on to issue a record of restricting george gascon for not following the three strikes law, and just because it your opinion you don't want to enforce and doesn't mean you can't enforce it. so now gascon will start enforcing it. talk to the vice president of the d.a. union out here, they said they were relieved by this ruling from the judge. they feel vindicated and they say that george gascon's directive was causing a big prproblem for them. take a listen. >> they tried to put us in this impossible position, do we follow his directives or do we follow the law. and the court clearly said, well, you need to follow the law. >> george gascon release a statement saying he knew he'd have a tough job trying to change what he said is an outdated, racist system here in los angeles of mass incarceration. he said he plans to appeal m ths decision to a higher court.

tucker? >> thanks for that report. one of great reporters in the states battling this. last week we told you one of the largest and oldest banks in the country, bank of america, is noi longer really a bank. it's now kind of an intelligence agency spying on its customers without telling them, turning information over to the fed. we obtainro proof that bank of america scans through its customers financial records back in january and turns the o information over to federal investigators, once again without telling its customers. the bank was looking for people who did among other things rented hotel rooms in washington in january. people who made purchases in january. in washington, d.c. people who bought plane tickets. what's the point of this? bank of america when we asked them said they wouldn't comment on two medications with law enforcement. that was not reassuring for her and the bank "has response

abilities under federal law to reply doll may comply withhn police inquiries." that's not technically true but what they did might be illegal. here's the interesting part. since our story aired last week, bank of america has not provided any further explanation for the spying we know they did on their own customers for political reasons. and as far as we know, despite the fact that this is a big storyig among no politician and neither party has bothered to ask bank of america. so it's okay that one of america's financial institutions is now spying on people. by the way, bank of america maye not be the only one. they are the only one they've caught so far. should you be concerned about any of this? victor davis hanson is a fellow at the hoover institute andis joins us tonight. professor, thank you so much for comingn. on. should we be worried about this with bank of america spying on its customers? >> yeah, because it suggests that there are other people doing it more than we are aware

of and it's disturbing because we always thought that the corporations of the financial institution was wary of the left, at wanted to be bipartisan in its consumer base. but when it starts to help an investigation of particularon o ideological or perceived ideology, it's kind of scary.er tim cook at apple during the 2015 san bernardino shooting, the deceased shooter who killed 14 americans, radical islamist terrorist, the fbi went to court to ask apple to unlock his data on his iphone for the investigations and they refused. they said we can't do that because we have to reassure our consumer base that they are iphone data is sacrosanct. it's not consistent. that's what's also worrisome. do they pick some groups to spy on or surveilled or turn over their private data? we need to know that. i think people... it's kind of scary, tucker.

in this huge octopus we are facing now a a silicon valley, traditional media, social media, professionalme sports entertainment,e we always thougt the corporation of the financial institution was wary of surveillance or the left because it wasur afraid of the implement of free-market capitalism but when you start to have the corporate boardroom or financial institution giving the it might have an ideological basis for some of its investigations, it's pretty scary and shows you the woke-any woke-wokness is the term is avan society. >> tucker: they didn't conduct anything like this when antifa burned a dozen cities. if apple were participating in this kind of surveillance, you would have no privacy at all. that would be truly horrifying

and truly invasive. why are no politicians demanding that tim cook explain whether or not apple is cooperating with the department of justice to spy ooeon americans? >> i don't know the answer. i think politicians of both parties, these five or six companies, they have about $6 trillion of market capitalization. we've never seen such money aggregated in a 50-mile radius and they use it quite promiscuously. mark zuckerberg, there was a 50 million. it just not like they are going to give the one candidate, they have the means to alter an election by getting out the vote or giving money to government officials in a particular precinct. i think people are having an ad campaign or helping the spend $100 million, i think people are frightened of them and they also may be to give tim cook the benefit of theoo doubt, he's on record that apple would never do that because he resisted the

demands of his own government that was investigating a mass murder and a radical islamist ideology. would he be tough on the fbi that was investigating mass murder and not so toughte on people who, you know, went into the capital, although there were people killed. i don't know the answer. but i'm very worried because i think the average citizen looks a lot at this pen opticon, use facebook, do twitter, turn on the nba, look at your investments, look at your bank, and it's all now coalition. remember "time" magazine's recent issue, the secret history of the shadow campaign where they boasted about the power of this collusion every effort. i think people ought to wake up. it's dangerous. >> it is dangerous. victor davis hanson, i appreciate it.uc thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: the one who might

be pressing the big tech and banks is josh hawley, no one has been attacked more aggressively than josh hawley. is it possible that they take josh hawley off line because the one guy who asked those questions? i don't know. this is the moment to ask no questions to add on the list of no questions. the world health organization demandingst you stop ask questis about china. we are going to keep doing it. questions like, why does joe biden's pick to lead the cia have calmness ties to china? that's next. or lies about you, but jesus knows all about that pain, your pain. he was betrayed by all of his friends and yet he forgave them and he will forgive you and heal you when you receive him. when you come to jesus and place your whole trust in him? - [announcer] visit findingtruepeace.com to find out more.

>> tucker: a man called william burns is joe biden's nominee to lead the cia. we are now learning, just like the biden family itself, that burns has ties to china. trace gallagher has details tonight. >> hey, tucker.

in 2014, he left governmentus to leadt the carnegie endowment for international peace, a very influential u.s. think tank that has close ties to china's. one of carnegie's global centers is based in beijing. during his time as president, carnegie william burns brought in jan each end to join the board of trustees. a wealthyhy chinese investor and member of twove organizations linked to the chinese communist party. according to "the daily caller" news foundation, between july 2017 and the end of 2020, donated between to $1.5 million to carnegie. the think tank says the donations do not represents research projects in the u.s. but some say it's not the money, it's the influence. because while burns was at carnegie, received donationse from the china-united states exchange foundation, which is a hong kong based think tank. but a global really search firm

led by a former officials in the u.s., said that the lobbying activities in the u.s. allow it to play a viable role in beijing's efforts to sway public opinion and build influence in america. and all of this is why republicans have repeatedly questioned whether joe biden will confront china for its human rights abuses and unfair trade practices, or allow china to keep cheating. tucker? >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks so much. again, we are talking about the nominee to run the interior, it's the cia director. not the only insane thing going on, the weld organization for au long time has been useful for repeating what the government of china would like it to say. when this pandemic began last year, you'll remember that china told us that the virus couldn't spread from person to person. doctors in wuhan

the world health organization wants you to know that the coronavirus had absolutely nothing, not one thing to do with that government virology lab in wuhan, so shut up. >> the findings suggest that the laboratory incident is extremely unlikely to explain the introduction of the human virus in the population. >> tucker: extreme the unlikely so we are going to shut that investigation down. but the w.h.o. like china itself saying that really the virus could come from frozen food shipments from other countries. many seemed fine with this. last night tom friedman, the most famous comments at "the new york times" suggested that china is a much better country than this and we should learn from them. >> what are they doing in china today? did you know it takes four hours

and 18 minutes to take the bullet train from beijing to shanghai? it takes 21 hours to take the train from new york to chicago and they both are about the same distance. i'll tell you something that they were thinking about in china this week, they weren't thinking about some knucklehead, they, were spending the week thinking about a knucklehead claiming 9/11 didn't happen, they weren't thinking about some guy whoen is a q anon , they were thinking about the uighurs, but they weren't wasting their time on this nonsense trip month m after mon, we think we are a serious country? we are so deeply unserious the country right now. >> tucker: he's right. there are some deeply unserious people in this country, particularly on the op-ed page of "new york times." some people worried about the bad stuff like the uighurs, genocide -- whatever, they have fast trains. a much more serious person joins

us tonight to connect the dots in the sets will be are watching. we appreciate you coming on tonight. so the w.h.o. asks stop asking questions where the virus came from, probably came from burroughs in frozenha food in india. why does no one pause and ask that? >> thanks, tucker. it's this kafkaesque situation where we know that the world health organization is in bed with china. it's already made its pandemic much worse than c it needed to e because it was lying for china, as you said, back in january about human to human transition. it's now orchestrated these completely fraudulent investigationsau in wuhan, in te source of the virus, with a handpicked team of investigators, and the american representatives on that team is a man called peter gaza who is so deeply conflicted, there

wouldn't be anybody in america as conflicted unless you talk about anthony file tree funded a lot of the research. peter was actually working with the institute of virology on that very dangerous day on coronavirus. he also cobought the paper with him. to have someone like him who's been so vociferously denying the idea ity could possibly have leapt from the lab is just putting the fox in charge of the henhouse. of course it's so predictable that they've come out, they've been here a month, they spend three hours in the lab and they have declared that the lab is not the culprit. why are we surprised? the reason for all of this is to whitewash china's role and that suitable for everybody. that just makes us in america able to become friends with china again, which is of course

what tom friedman and, you know, all of joe biden'snd appointees, national security roles, they all want that. they just want to normalize what china has been doing and forget about the uighurs, that's a pesky detail. if you have a concentration camp where you are organizing gang rape of your own citizens, who cares? >> i think you make a smart point. china is acting att its own interests in whatever diabolical way, it's people in the west abetting it is who we should be offended by. appreciated. thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: just the other day, joe biden invalidated federal immigration laws inti this country. we got the memos that provee that. former director of immigration and customs enforcement i.c.e. walks us through those documents next.

>> tucker: joe biden tried to and make all deportations of illegal aliens from this

country. that has been blocked by a federal judge, until the end of this month. despite the judge's orders, biden's administration has managed to end all enforcement of federal immigration law. we showed youu the details, internal memos from i.c.e., documents say authorities should not attempt to arrest most criminals. the only exceptions are terrorists, and illegal aliens who have been convicted of i felonies like murder. the white house has made it clear that most other felonies, serious felonies are not a problem. for example the white house has "postponed a planned i.c.e. operation to target sex offenders. they are telling us that drunk driving is not really a problem either. >> this new reporting the i.c.e. getting its new guidance to no longer focus on deporting illegal immigrants who have been convicted of dui, simple assault, among other things and how much of that is in the

interest of public safety? >> the priority for the enforcement of immigration laws will be those on national security threats, a public safety threat and on recent arrivals. nobody is saying that duis or assaults are should be sentenced appropriate law enforcement. but we are talking about the prioritization of who is going to be deported from the country. spew when you dui was a big deal, if you believed madd when they told you that, you are a full. now confirming that i.c.e. officers are to we are told most of the request had been denied.d. that's the point. jonathan fahey is the former director of i.c.e. joining us to tell us exactly what's going on peer thanks so much for coming on. what do you make of this? it must be shocking to you. >> thank you for having me, tucker. first of all, it's alarming, but

it's not shocking or surprising. if anybody watch the campaign or watch the democrats sanctuary cities over the last few years, there shouldn't be the least surprising, but it still alarming and putting our public safety at risk because essentially i.c.e. is being told not to depart criminals anymore. we've gone to another level in this immigration debate that if people were here working hard, not committing crimes, they should be allowed to stay via the argument has evolved into "even if they are here committing crimes and are committed felonies, they should be allowed to stay and enjoy every right, privilege, benefit that american citizens enjoy. it's truly remarkable. one of the things it's most amazing about this is they do not even want to deport gang members without proof of gang membership, but they consider gang tattoos not to be sufficient proof of gang membership. this idea that somebody would get an ms-13 tattoo and not be

affiliated with the gang is what they are thinking. but this is the thinking behind these memosf and policies which are going to lead to higher crime rates and it's unquestionably true in an era where crimes are skyrocketing thanks to the antipolice policies and other things for this is just going to add to that. it's going to reduce deterrence pluralists committing crimes for illegal aliens in this country because they k know they can commit crimes and still stay. there used to be this determine factor that they will be deported. this will harm public safety, undermine respect for the law, lead to further flooding of our borders. we are going down the road of open borders and amnesty and that's what this is allbo about. >> tucker: none of them have a right to be here in the first place, okay! that's sort of the more basic crime. really quick, why would you suspend an operation designed to keep sex offenders?

>> if you read, the second memo is the only people under this public safety prong are the people that were in custody at the time the memo was written. s so these people who are fugitives and sex offenders don't fall with his public safety exception so they cannot go out and the rest them if my understanding of the memo is correct. so why would they do that? i have no idea. it defies any logic or reason.un it puts our communities at risk. but again, it's all about open borders amnesty, keeping as many people in the country as possible, i think this is just the tip of the iceberg, tucker. we are going to see more of this and we are going to have some crime victims that are going to be -- we know it could've beenn prevented now and they are going to be crime victims. what is next nation going to to them? >> i appreciate you coming on.

thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: planned parenthood makes a ton of money from abortion peer they have a new plan. they are getting involved in transitioning people's genders. abigail schreier is here to explain the rules straight ahead.

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>> tucker: planned parenthood is america's number one provider of abortions but pregnancy rates are declining dramatically so planned parenthood has another revenue stream, kids who identify as transgender. kept on the hook in terms of follow-up appointments, blood work, meeting, et cetera, abortionsnd are a one-and-donene situation. thought yound might want to know about this. abigail schreiter knows a lot about it, thanks for coming on. planned parenthood is involved.

outline this for us if you would. >> in the last decade, as you said the rates of abortion have plummeted in america. it's the lowest they have been since 1973 when roe v. wade was decided. planned parenthood has found a second record new revenue screen, theseyoung girle patients, once you transition you become a lifetime patient for the drugs are extremely offensive. >> tucker: planned parenthood takes a huge amount of federal money. does it become part of this revenue stream? >> i don't know. i can tell you that this is something that has gone from 26 clinics providing testosterone, only five years ago, it's now 210 planned parenthood clinics provide testosterone so it's very clearly big business for them peer they claim on their website to be the second largest

provider of hormone treatments for trans-identified people. >> tucker: so we spend a lot of timeuc talking about the trans-question. we are lectured a lot about it. i think most people have little idea what it means medically. you said that this is a long-term commitment between the patient and a health care provider. what do you mean by that? >> to the maintain the effects of testosterone, you have to stay onhi it. for a woman to maintain the affects commission needs to stay on massive, massive doses bear thatat doesn't mean that some of the effects aren't permanent. many of them are, but she still has to maintain that appearance and she ought the keep coming into check on her blood levels. that said, these teenagers who commit at 18 and far below 18 depending on the state to a planned parenthood clinic, very often and never see a a doctor. >> tucker: i think we know there are long term health

effects of flooding your body thwith hormones you don't naturally produce. wewe know what the long-term effects of this might be? >> some of them include infertility, risk of cardiac events, and the great unknown which is that we've never done this to biological women for decades and that's what we are doing now. we really don't know all the long-term effects? >> tucker: this is a conversation i think the country needs to have and i'm grateful that you are forcing it in some way at great expense to yourself. thank you for coming on tonight. >> thank you. >> tucker: it's been a pretty heavy show. sorry about that. we tried to line it up at some point. it was relentless. we are going to end with this. rob pond to county attorney, he had a difficulty during a virtual hearing before texas district court judge. this is what happened. >> i believe you have a filter turned on in the video settings.

you might want to... >> can you hear me, judge? >> i can hear you. >> it is and i do not know how to remove it. my system here is trying to. but i am prepared go forward with it. i'm here alive. i'm not a cat. >> tucker: "i'm not a cat!" probably the best line from a lawyer in american history. he took it well in the end for the lawyer told reporters, "if i can make the country chuckle for a moment in these difficulthr times, i'm happy to do that at expense. the american spirit is not dead, it's just slightly more feline than normal. thanks for joining us tonight. we'll be back tomorrow and every night at 8:00 p.m., the show that's a sworn enemy of lying,mu pomposity, smugness, and groupthink.

buck up, it's going to get better. in the meantime, sean hannity takes over 9:00 p.m. right now. >> sean: the cat is a star. all there is 28. >> tucker: it's good! >> sean: tucker, thank you. welcome to "hannity." the second time in as many years, two februarys in a row, democrats conducting a show trial in the u.s. senate to convict andal impeach donald j. trump, who is president in exile according to jimco acosta. the first unthankful charade is pretty terrible, the sequel is even or a spirit will get reaction, donald trump jr. is here, senator ted cruz is here. the president's attorney david had a great day in my opinion. he'll join us for an exclusive interview. i'd likeke to start and lay out the arguments i think i would make if i were there. the u.s. senate kicked off what could be a