and i would love it. it's because you are doing a great job, rachel. >> rachel: thank you for watching, i am rachel campos-duffy and i will be back tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ good evening. welcome to tucker carlson. tonight, we spend a lot of time in the show night after night trying to explain what's happening to our country. it's depressing a lot of the time because the answer is always the same. america is not rotten. it's a great place. the people that run it are rotten. you have been betrayed by the people that lead you. that's why things are so volatile. you are looking at a crisis of our institutions. they are corrupt, some collapsing. we say that a lot because it is true. we should be more precise. not all of our institutions are the same. some are bad, some are awful. looming above the rest is the worst of all, the news media.

they are the most corrupt. how corrupt is the news media? imagine a drunken teenage border guard at the crossing between togo and ber key na faw sa shaking you down at midnight. "the new york times" is much more corrupt than that. the media are more crooked than jimmy hoffa was. they are more dishonest than your average bribe-taking builder in queens, more treacherous than the mafia. you will get a fairer treatment from an inner city dmv than cnn. words can barely express the truth of it. watching the news on television makes you question the system itself. in what version of mayor tok racy could chuck todd get rich and famous? dumb and conventional now passes as impressive. it is insulting. we have decided to pause and look at it a different way. yes, the news media are

profoundly dishonest. all of us lie from time to time. that's the human condition. imagine if lying was your job. imagine forcing yourself to tell lies all day about everything in ways that were so transparent and so outlandish that there is no way the people listening to you could possibly believe anything you said. then, imagine doing that again and again and again every day of your professional life for your entire life? could you do that? if you could, cnn has an opening on the media analysis desk. if you are a nonsociopath thick, normal person, your answer is you could not do that, never lie like that. you have to respect the people that can. they are like olympians in reverse. they achieve feats so dishonorable that you gast in horror as you watch them. at the same time, you have to respect those skills. take a look at these gold medalists in due policety and ask yourself if you could say something like this with a

completely straight face about kamala harris. >> she is incredibly successful and does everything professionally with the utmost integrity. >> kamala harris is independent, successful, strong, also a devoted wife and she is not ashamed of that. >> i would say her performance as a running mate was flawless. other than barack obama, in my career, i have not seen anybody that came in with that kind of raw material in that she fits the moment in such a powerful way. >> she is what every working woman strives to be. >> of course, she is flawless. kamala harris is everything women want to be, false, hollow, cunning, consumed with political power, really a model for your daughters. make that woman vice-president. so they did. on the night they did, they celebrated. in fact, celebration might be too mild a word. what happened on cable television that night is typically and by law in a lot of places confined to bedrooms and other private spaces.

that night, they did it in public. they were proud of it. it was prime time over on cnn. >> how are you feeling? >> ahh. it's -- i almost can't talk right now, because of the emotion. >> every one is welcome under this tent. we don't care who you are. we don't care if you voted for us or not. you're all part of this american experiment. it was -- i was so overwhelmed to hear that. i don't care what people think, if they think i am biassed or not. i don't care. i'm very emotional. when you ask me how i'm feeling right now, i'm sorry, that's all i can tell you. this is how i feel right now. i am so happy to have this platform to be able to do this. i may not have it after this but i really don't care. i am so happy. >> everyone is welcome under this tent. they are all invited, except the white supremacist and the q-anon people and anyone else that disagrees with anything we say. they are all going to jail. the rest are more than welcome

to stay and obey our command. it was that kind of night, festive, good-hearted, magnanimous. months later, the biden family made its victorious procession, the mood lifted even higher. i have chills, wrote one editor of "the new york times." she was feverish with joy. cnn led their poet to commemorate the moment here is the son et he wrote. >> those lights that are shooting out for the lincoln memorial along the reflecting pool, it is almost like extensions of joe biden's arms embracing america. >> not everyone is as poetic as david chal yun, the man you just saw. that's why he is cnn's political director. an ordinary journalist might not notice that joe biden's arms are like twin beams of light shooting forth from the reflecting pool embracing america as a mother embraces a

child. an ordinary journalist might have described his arms as toned and tawny and not everyone is david chalion. the thing about journalism, it is not an individual achievement. it is about the group. in journalism, it is the collective spirit that matters, like synchronized squimers or certain species of insects. journalists move together in concert as a herd, if you will. when joe biden writes a talking point, they repeat it, not just a few of them but all of them in precisely the same way. think of reporters as the north korean gymnastic team celebrating kim june sung day in a songer stadium. they move as one. members of the press corps enform you that this new group of politicians in washington is very different from any other group of politicians in all of human history. unlike the rest of them, these people are committed to something called the truth. >> president joe biden making it clear to his administration that

they will be nothing like his predecessor with a focus on truth, science and transparency. >> a commitment to clarity, transparency and science and truth. >> the biden vows truth and transparency. >> the biden white house vows transparency and truth when sharing information about the american people. what does that mean? we are going to talk about it. >> the white house promises to bring truth and science back to the white house. >> it is getting back to the truth and valuing the truth. >> getting back to the truth, valuing the truth, now there is a refreshing concept. who does that remind you of, by the way? we don't need patriarchal here. that sounds a lot like dad, a little blunt but honest, a straight-shooter, solid, reliable, steady. that's joe biden. above all, joe biden is a family man, took the train back to wilmington every night for the 10,000 square feet estate a

campaign donor bought for him for lobbying. joe biden's family is normal, there aren't any protracted sex scandals or ongoing criminal issues you have to worry about. a recent headline will tell you, joe biden wins in mario race against granddaughter at camp david, not secretly lobbying for china or impregnating strippers in arkansas. they are playing mario like you. one man, one woman, the fires of passion that changed the course of our history. not since anthony dined with cleopatra has a country witnessed a love story as moving and poignant as jill and joe's. jill biden is not joe's caretaker. she isn't his nurse. she is his fully equal romantic partner. together, they are like teens

and the wise head of the nation. historians and relationship experts agree, the first couple's romantic gestures aren't just genuine, they are restorative. it is official, the bidens affection is totally real. it is in no way part of a slick pr campaign devised by cynical consultants determined to hide the president's senility by misdirection. the political story begins this way, on a mission to rebuild institutional norms and help heal a hurting nation, joe and jill biden are trying something novel after four years of the trumps, a little tenderness. that's right, america, a little tenderness. the biden's love is like medicine, more powerful than the covid vaccine and you only need one injection. watch dr. joy reid prescribe a whole lot more of it. >> what a great love story between jill biden and joe biden. >> it is a different kind of marriage.

this is a love match like the obamas were. i think that will be healing for the country too. >> yeah, it will be. the biden's love will be healing for this country. it will make us whole again and it might stop looming hyper inflation and keep the chinese navy to closing the south china sea to international shipping. when you have a love like that, it emits a magnetic tug, people can feel it. they seek you out like pilgrims to bask in your healing rays. here is the scene on the white house lawn just this weekend as reporters from across the region threw down their crutches and approached america's reigning apostle of love hoping to graze the hem of his garment and be healed. >> how do you extend that love story to the american people that are feeling so down, so discouraged? >> tell them there is hope, there is hope. you just have to stay strong. >> he lifts your spirits. >> it is so dam cold. >> next time, bring us coffee too. >> i wasn't sure you would all

be here. >> we'll be here. >> love your dogs. >> i'll bring the doughnuts next friday if you come back. >> okay. i'll tell you what, i apologize, i didn't even have one. i promise you. >> i'm going to get in trouble. >> i give you my word. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> i'll bring doughnuts. i love your dog. above all, how can your love heal this nation? we don't know the answer to that question. we are not brit hume. brit has been in journalism for many years. he joins us now to assess this steamy relationship between our news media and their hot new boyfriend, joe biden. brit, i watched you, literally, as a kid, cover our federal government from the congress, white house lawn. i never heard you once ask any politician how that person's love story was going to heal a nation. how do you assess questions like that? >> well, it's gushing coverage. it is something that when i was

coming along as a reporter, no matter how you personally felt about a politician, favorably or unfavorably, you just didn't introduce that or show that. you certainly never gushed. when a politician was promising all kinds of wonderful things, you never announced they were going to achieve them. what you said was that they said they were going to achieve them. you kept your distance. you didn't make their opinions and statements your own. you kept a distance. it was -- this was a set of customs, not so much of objectivity. nobody is capable of that but of neutrality, in which you approached everything. you disciplined yourself as a journalist, not to allow your personal feelings to infect your coverage. you kept your distance. what i think has happened, tucker, over the past several decades is that journalists have collectively, the press collectively, always had power. we discovered during watergate

how much power individual reporters could have, two reporters from "the washington post" did very good reporting, by the way, that ultimately led to the down fall of a president, a hated president, a president particularly, republican. basically, a conservative hated by the media. they found they had this power. they have been itching to exercise it in any way they could ever since. along came donald trump and the president has really accelerated, because journalists took the view, con stan nant with their own personal views that his presence in the white house was a national emergency. the old restraints were completely abandoned. we had this head-long pursuit of a story that ended up having nothing to do about russia inclusion. it looked so much like the kind of story that could bring a president down. in the meantime, something else, tucker, has happened, i think. that is that the country has grown so big na, you know, advertisers turn to newspapers because they wanted the biggest possible audience.

nowadays, if you only have a niche audience in a country this big, it can be big enough you have something advertisers want. on top of that, there is this, "the new york times" is the best example of it. "the new york times" is increasingly turning to revenue from subscriptions. people buy these online subscriptions. it has worked very well. the times is doing very well with it. now, instead of being beholden to advertisers, which was never really much of a problem, these journalists are beholden to their subscribers and the subscribers on "the new york times," they are on the left. those readers get a steady diet of just what they want. >> i just think, though, and i understand all of that and i think that's a really smart analysis of what undergirds a lot of these trends. you have to think at the level of the individual reporter. if you find yourself on a sunday at your computer starting out a story that begins joe and jill biden's love will heal this nation, your self-respect will

be offended. i'm not anybody funky. i'm not going to rewrite a press release for some politician. people don't feel that way anymore. they are happy to. >> i think one of the things that the watergate era, and i repeat, watergate was good reporting. the story was real. i think what that era ushered in to journalism was a lot of people who wanted to exercise power. they came and they had a side and took the side. so you get this, you get this really harsh coverage of donald trump. it was really no effort in mainstream media to treat him fairly, to report on the things that he did that illustrated his faults, which were legion but to acknowledge the things that he had accomplished and to report what the results were. that didn't happen. i think it's just because reporters now are activists using journalism to advance their own political agendas.

>> that's for sure. and degrading themselves. >> you end up gushing over jill and joe biden, which you would think would be embarrassing but apparently not. >> you would think it would be. it's just amazing. brit hume, i appreciate your coming on tonight. thank you. >> you bet. thank you. unbeknownst to most people, the green new deal came to texas and the power grid came reliant on wind mills and then it got cold and the wind mills broke. millions are still without power tonight. several have died. now, the same energy policies that have wrecked texas this week are going nation-wide. they are coming to your state. we'll tell you what that means just ahead.

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texas, big, durable, well-run place, generally, is still kind of a disaster tonight. a lot of people without power. the texas public utility commission says the state had very little margin of error in its energy grid. it turns out to be absolutely right. they described the situation as very scary. we know why that margin for error was so tight, green energy, because politicians benefited from it. wind turbines wound up

generating about a quarter of texas' power. it got cold and the wind mills froze and as a result millions of texans are freezing, several have died. mike taylor knows a lot about energy, the owner of combined energy services in new york. he joins us tonight for some perspective. mike, thanks so much for coming on. were you surprised by what you saw happen in texas yesterday? >> boy, tucker, i was really surprised. i never would have expected to see icing like that in the state of texas. we are used to that in upstate new york. you can see the weather. once you saw the destruction in texas, the ice have of the solar panels and wind turbines, i look at it in our world and can't imagine how it is going to work. >> if the whole point is to put it out there to think the weather is volatile, you would have factored it into a decision. from a civilian standpoint, it seems reckless to set aside 20% of your power grid for wind

mills. do you think that it is? >> well, you know, tucker, i don't know enough about wind mills. they are not that prevalent in this area. in new york state where 70% of our lec trek is produced from fossil fuels and 5% comes from solar panels or wind, with new york state's new green initiatives they have on the table phasing in over the next 30 years, very hard within nine, i don't see how we will increase that number to ever make it work. the disaster we saw in texas is nothing compared to what is going to happen here if we try to rely on the alternative energies. i think we need a common sense mix and things have been improving drastically over the years but we can't flip the switch as fast as people would like to. >> it seems to me, from an outsiders perspective that we have allowed lunatic eye delogs to have a lot of control over our power grid. shouldn't we let engineers make decisions about how our power grid runs or no?

>> i would definitely agree with you on that one. this is proven. our winters up in the northeast and all across the northern united states are much more severe than they have in texas. i can't imagine how it is going work in the long-run. we see in new york state looming in the next nine years. we are not going to be able to install any fossil fuel appliances, such as natural gas or propane gas or home heating oil furnace or boiler. nine years from now, we are going to be forced to tell our customers they have to use electricity. on top of that, a lot of homes are not set up to have the amperage to convert to electric. new york state, we have some of the highest electric rates in the country. how will we switch from fossil fuels to a more expensive product? i can't imagine. in new york state, they are proposing on the floor on our state assembly and the senate, carbon taxes. they want to carbon tax all our fossil fuels so that gasoline, diesel, natural gas, propane and home heating oil, everything. a carbon tax on top of what the pandemic with the new york

state's $15 billion budget deficit, i can't imagine how we are going to be able to do it. how can anybody afford to get to work or even heat their home? >> outside of new york city, westchester and the hamptons, new york is a poor state, drive around it. you will find it out very quickly. it is going to hurt the people there. do you think andrew cuomo, it seems like he is doing a good fellows imitation but i guess he is not. is he an expert in hvac? why is he weighing in on how people heat their homes? >> i can't tell you. i'm sure his home is warm in westchester or albany, wherever he is. the people in new york state are struggling. if we are going to tell them you have to remove your natural gas or propane or heating and go to electricity and with it, that electricity has to come from clean energy, tucker, it doesn't exist. only 5% now comes from alternative energy. we have hydroelectric. we are not building anymore in new york state. where they think within nine

years, we are going to start phasing out rapidly fossil fuels, it is unbelievable. where these policies are coming from, our elected officials in albany are out of touch. >> they are very intouch with their campaign donors who will now have a monopoly under state law for your home heating. it is perfect. i love it. mike, i appreciate your perspective on that. good luck. >> tucker, thank you for having me. >> thank you. the press corps has been so busy asking the bidens about their famous love affair, no one has asked why the nation's capitol remains under military occupation. why are the troops there? why can't they go home? why won't speaker pelosi tear down this wall? we'll tell you after the break.

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>> tucker: donald trump is retired from office. last week, he got impeached anyway. he became the first non-president to be impeached by congress in american history. on saturday, he was acquitted.

had he been convicted at trial, donald trump would have been barred from running from office forever. so the point of impeachment was to make it illegal for voters to elect donald trump ever again, whether they wanted to or not. this we were told was necessary to defend democracy. you can vote for anyone you want as long as permanent washington approves of the person you are voting for. no one who challenges the political class is allowed to wield power. that's the new definition of democracy. no wonder you are hearing so much about democracy. no wonder so many in washington supported the impeachment trial. it protected their power. they have set a precedent. expect more impeachments and not just of former presidents. over the weekend, congresswoman, sarah jacobs, of california, announced she plans to impeach the entire country. i think there are a lot of us who know this impeachment trial was just start of holding donald trump accountable she explained to cnn. what we need next is a national

impeachment, a so-called truth commission to punish the 74 million disobedient voters. because we haven't really done the reckoning with the racial injustice and white supremacy of our past that we need to do. you probably won't be totally shocked to learn that sarah jenkins is the child of billionaires, challenged the ruling class and sarah jacobs will lead to her own defense announcing you as a dangerous white supremacist that must be punished. if you are starting to realize that donald trump's impeachment wasn't really about donald trump, you might be on to something. because it's never about what they say it is about. that's the main lesson of this moment. in may, the media commanded us to be outraged by the death of a man called george floyd in minneapolis. the tape they showed us was horrifying, a police officer kneeling on george floyd's neck and george floyd dying in the street. that officer was promptly arrested, awaiting trial and murder charges right now. his arrest was hardly the end of it. the fury did not subside.

it accelerated. his death became a referendum, not just on one cop or one police department but on all cops and all police departments and then on the united states itself. eight months later, america has changed completely and forever. you imagine the george floyd protests were about george floyd and police brutality. in fact, they were about you. sensing a theme here? it is never about what they say it is about. back in march, we were told the coronavirus lockdowns were an attempt to curb the coronavirus. they would last just a short time. almost a year later, we are starting to understand they will never end. form i british prime minister, tony blair, endorsed the policy of issuing internal passports to the residents of western countries, only people that followed government vaccination orders will be allowed to travel freel. not so long ago, his idea would be dismissed as soviet control. today, few question it. everyone seems to understand

author tear yum disguised as health policy is the rule, inevitable. those temporary measures are permanent. surprised? you shouldn't be. it is never about what they say it is about. just other day, to name yet another example, we learned that the arrival of the coronavirus vaccine does not, in fact, mean that our schools can reopen. indeed, explains the new head of the cdc, rochelle wolinsky, we will need a lot more resources to get the school safe. those resources must include complex retrofitted ventilation systems in every american school. why is that? to protect children with asthma for exposure to mold. wait a second, you may ask, what do asthma and exposure to mold have to do with covid 19? well, nothing, obviously. once again, covid restrictions aren't just about covid anymore than donald trump's impeachment was just about donald trump or blm's ongoing campaign to end the nuclear family was ever

about george floyd. only simpleton's like mitt romney and mitch mcconnell took it literally. it is not about that. it is all about changing this country pore ever. it is all about you. with that in mind, you might have questions about the thousands of federal troops who are occupying our capitol city. why are they still there? the explanations from authorities keep changing. at first, we were told that armed troops were absolutely necessary, because there was an inauguration coming up. that was almost a month ago. the ceremony came and it went and there was no violence, no evidence of any right wing insurrectionist conspiracy afoot. yet, the troops stayed. next, we were told they were there to protect lawmakers during impeachment. the threat from donald trump's voters was that profound. we need the army. impeachment is now over. the soldiers remain. now, we are learning the troops may stay in washington until fall. when will they go home? you know the answer. the troops will never leave, just as the troops have never

left afghanistan or korea or europe. federal troops in washington are permanent now, the guard of our ruling class. they send the one message our leaders demand we understand, which is, we are in charge now. we should have seen this coming. it wasn't about what they said it was about. it was about power and once you hand them that, you never get it back. the new d.a. in los angeles has decided not to enforce the law against violent criminals. one inmate found a way to take advantage of those new rules. we'll tell you the story straight ahead.

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>> tucker: george smith is the district attorney in los angeles. his job is to enforce the law. he has decided not to, including against violent criminals. one inmate in california decided to take advantage of this new policy with a phone call. an amazing story. our trace gallagher has it for us tonight. >> daniel avila is currently serving 140-year sentence, a career violent criminal.

he is serving a life sentence after being convicted of three violent crimes, including attempted first-degree murder of a police officer, using a deadly weapon and a laundry list of convictions for weapons and threatening to kill a judge. daniel avila is also doing his homework. he knows that new los angeles county district attorney, george gascone, has said as part of his far left criminal reform plan, he will refuse to prosecute people based on enhancements, including three strikes. he is plan tog resentence 20,000 inmates. so daniel avila is currently in prison in northern california outside of gascon's jurisdiction. he is about to transfer to a state prison in lawns county and he has now devised a plan to get back into the l.a. county court system. recently, he shared his plan in this voice mail to the downtown los angeles da's office. he begins by saying, i need you to listen to this message. that appears to be good advice.

watch. >> my case is subject to the new special directive under gascon for 90% enhancements. i am going to beat the -- out of a cop when i get there when it's l.a. county's jurisdiction, i'm reluctant to do that but i'm gonna do what i need to do to get back into the la county court system. >> an l.a. deputy district attorney did respond today on "fox & friends." >> these policies are not progressive. they are not. they are actually dangerous and radical. they endanger law enforcement and they endanger the community. >> remember, gascon's own prosecutor sued him for trying to do away with sentencing enhancements, claiming he was ignoring the law and a judge sided with the prosecutors at

least temporarily, tucker. >> amazing. chris, thanks so much for that. >> tucker: in 2019, we interviewed the secretary of homeland security on this show, kristin neilson. we asked, does the government have any idea how many illegal aliens live in this country? politicians have claimed there are 11 million of them. do we really know? >> does the u.s. government know exactly how many people are living in this country illegally? i have seen academic study that is put that between 11 million, 22 million and maybe more. what is the real number? >> we debated. i think that's accurate. >> we do not know? >> we do not know. >> that must be a grave concern that we potentially have more than 10 million people here whose identities we don't know, could be over 20, whose identities we don't know. they could be anybody. >> yes. >> why is that not the single most pressing problem the country has? >> in my opinion, right now, this is one of, if not the

biggest crisis, this country has faced in a decade. >> so the best estimate we have, the firmest, puts the number at about 22 million people living here illegally. there are informed estimates that put the number above 30 million. anyone who repeats the 11 million number is either ignorant or lying. today, no matter what the number is, the biden administration committed to making every one of these foreign nationals living here illegally into a voting citizen. we have no idea how many there are but the biden administration wants to introduce tens of millions of people into the labor force to compete for jobs with americans as quickly as possible. >> certainly, as part of the proposal that the president outlined and proposed on day one is an earned path to citizenship for 11 million immigrants who are undocumented immigrants living in the country. >> again, the 11 million number is a lie. do not let it pass without

questioning it. no matter what the number is, more than 10 million new voters is going to change the political balance of this country dramatically. it will disempower some people quite a bit, no the all of them republicans, possibly african-american voters if you think it through a little bit. if you ask congresswoman evette clark of new york, amnesty is great news for african-american voters. >> this controversial bill a path to citizenship. never forget that immigration is a blackish shoe. unrestricted immigration hurts all american but especially people at the bottom of the income scale. according to a 2006 study, immigration dram mattically lowered the employment of african-american men and

increased their incarceration rate. those are not small things. that's not touching on the question of political power, a real question. congressman, burgess owens, joins us to assess all of this. congressman, i appreciate your coming on tonight. i find it absolutely amazing that labor unions and leaders of the congressional black caucus could endorse something that so obviously hurts their own members. why do you think they are doing this? >> what we have to understand is what the real threat to the hard left is and going up in a remarkably successful segregated but middle class family in the '60s and went across the country in terms of the black community. the greatest threat to the left is the middle class black americans, those who have faith, a family, educated, and they believe in god. they believe in the free market. what has happened to my community, by the way, the left has never been our friends. they are the ones that are

anti-choice, open borders that they know is going to end up hurting those that are trying to get their first ladder up to the middle class. they are against anything, any policy that helps us to become independent. that's what the left is trying to do to our country. i want to be the greatest warning buoy to let you know from a community that was remarkably competitive, the most competitive in our country during the '60s, that is now not competitive because of what the left has done, what they have done to us is a preview of what they are trying to do to our country. we need to wake up, americans, doesn't matter, democrat, independent, republican, it doesn't matter what party. those ha love our nation need to know there is a leftist ideology that hates everything we stand for. they are coming at us, big-time. we need to pull ourselves together, start communicating and realize the policies that biden is putting together right now is to defeat the dream of the americans to live the american dream and get to the middle class. >> i have to ask you,

congressman, what percentage of actual black voters are in favor of giving amnesty to foreign nationals illegally giving them voting rights an benefits? is that super popular? >> no. only the black elitists, the black caucus that lived the american dream and tell the rest of us we can't do it. they are all about doing anything they can to keep those trying to get to the middle class dependant so that the elitist class gets more power. it doesn't matter what color they are, tucker. the elitists are the worst threat to our nation, no matter what color. the worst are those that look like me and tell black americans we can't do what other americans do because of our skin color or whatever their excuse might be. the dream for america is to overcome all obstacles. we need to spread that news big-time. >> such a betrayal. congressman owens, great to see

you tonight. thank you. >> tucker: you thought the lincoln project was vicious and creepy. it is so much worse than that. we are learning details tonight. the lincoln project covered up sexual harassment of minors for a long time. we have details after the break.

>> tucker: the lincoln project, funded heavily by tech oligarchs was one of the nastiest, most destructive political enterprises this country has ever seen. it is collapsing in shame. so far, it has escaped any real accountability for what it did. some of the things it did may have been criminal. one of the founders of the lincoln project, steve schmidt, appeared on television last week. he didn't apologize for working for an organization that covered up the sexual harassment of minors, harassment that he knew was going on. instead, he called for shooting people, specifically the

chewbacca guy >> i think the most amazing thing about the whole thing is watching the video and on the senate floor, there is a cop who is armed and a guy bursts in dress like a viking and he basically talks to him. shoot him! shoot him! [applause] if he was dressed like bin laden, would he have shot him? >> tucker: shoot him? for standing in the united states capital? if you watch the tape of the guy with the viking horns and the first thing you say is shoot him, kill him, take his life, you are sick. there is really something wrong with you. shoot him? and people applauded? what the -- is this? there is something going on. julie kelly thought about it and she joins us tonight. tell us what she has discovered. julie, thank you so much. bleeding inside the tape we just

played, which is really disturbing, thing, it's very clear that the lincoln project people knew that john weaver was soliciting -- from children and others and they hid that fact. how are they getting away with that? >> well, because they, like all never trumper organizations are useful idiots for the left. it's important to know that the lincoln project, even though they portray themselves as conservatives, are far from it. the $90 million that they have raked in over a one-year period period all comes from the left. in fact, their top donor is a senate majority pack. $2 million went from the senate democratic into the lincoln project. and so, tucker, you know this because you've dealt with these people. you have been targeted by them. the lincoln project is everything that is wrong with american politics right now. you just saw that from schmidt. not only have they burned every campaign that they have ever worked on from john mccain's

to mitt romney, to john kasich's, they are just toxic people, who has nothing, offer nothing of value, no new policy ideas. they just spew venom constantly and so their demise is overdue and welcome. >> tucker: i mean, i know steve schmidt. shoot him? if you start calling for shooting people, i mean, that's kind of a different level. that's not political rhetoric. that is something really ugly, don't you think? or is it pretty obvious question wants to go no, i mean, he's a very unhinged individual and you saw kind of this disclosure that he made about the trauma he suffered as a teenager and thist over what he found out about john weaver. what john weaver is one of the worst-kept secrets in washington, d.c. karl rove just said a few weeks ago. but look, they have lawyered up and now they are turning on each other. and so, this is one of the upsides of 2021, because these people should be routed from

american politics forever. and humiliated, which they now are. >> tucker: anyone who has fantasized about violence like that should take some time off. julie, thank you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: we'll be back tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. we can't wait. in the meantime, sean hannity takes over from new york. it's the one thank you. welcome to "hannity." people are still without power after this massive storm continues to pelt the state of texas. according to reports, frozen vines and you got it, green new energy are likely playing a significant role in the widespread blackouts. and coming up, texas governor, greg abbott will join us. he will have the the very latest as he has ordered the ongoing investigation into the shortage of power there. huge and sustained support for president donald trump within the republican party. we are going to explain what that means for the