♪ ♪ >> good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." i'm mark steyn in for tucker. throughout the western world, governments of all kinds unload the chinese coronavirus. they do what most have tried to do before, quarantine and lockdown millions upon millions of privately-health, destroying their livelihoods and at least for the third of the population suffering from clinical depression, destroying their mental health. meanwhile, at the same time they walled up perfectly healthy

grade schoolers. they utterly failed to protect the truly vulnerable, the population most at risk, the elderly. instead, they locked long-term care facilities. that would be a good place to warehouse all of those covid-positive patients. the man who embodies this catastrophic public policy failure is the blood-soaked butcher of new york. throughout the last year while these elderly sitter's ovens dying alone >> do you think that you are on unattractive personnel because you are single and ready to mingle? do you really think that you are some desirable single person? >> this was the actual swab that was being used to fit up that

double barrel shotgun that you have mounted on the front of your pretty face. >> to do the show was a pleasure for me. i'm a big fan of ellen. she said good things about me, which she didn't say about you but she was just telling the truth. >> i'm wondering if that is bleeding into your demeanor at all and making you a little soft? >> i've always been a soft guy. i just say let it go. just go with the flow, baby. you are feeling pretty good about yourself. aren't you? >> mark: yeah, he's feeling pretty good because one what government functionary when it do that in the middle of a pandemic? the cool dude in a loose mood just going with the flow. coming from the court of the

american media. andrew cuomo got an emmy for the best performance by a governor on tv. if you were a 93-year-old in a care home being told you had to die alone without your loved ones without the worry they've got a thing called zoom, don't worry about it. you will get the hang of it. well, governor cuomo didn't look that great. cnn has now decided chris cuomo will no longer get to cover his blood-soaked -- meanwhile, andrew cuomo having run out of all people to office is moving on to -- here is how he reacted. going along with the cuomo covid cover. >> he said he could destroy you. i mean, he literally said that. and what else? >> he said i haven't seen his anger. i haven't seen his wrath and he will just tell me. he will go out and he is biting

his tongue come but he will go out tomorrow and destroy my political career, you know, everything. he would say how bad of a person i am to everyone in public. my wife, you know, that night was very, very troubling because couldn't sleep and she was telling me what did you do to us? stop what you're doing, please. she feared for my future, for my life. >> mark: really? this guy feared for his life. oh, yeah, says the second second most powerful democrat in the state. >> it's a sad thing to say, but that's classic andrew cuomo. a lot of people in new york state have received those phone calls. the bullying is nothing new. >> so you believe that he was threatened?

>> 100%. we won the mayor has now filled the streets of manhattan. he is doing an interpretive dance. but cuomo enforces menacing democrat assemblyman. ♪ ♪ congresswoman, nicole represents new york's 11th congressional district. she had investigation on our show back in may 2020. >> i believe that we need to have an independent investigation and we cannot trust the state of new york to do an independent investigation. we have to have a federal investigation that will be the only way we get an actual true independent investigation to

take a look at what exactly occurs here. >> mark: nicole malliotakis joins us now to respond to these latest developments. congresswoman, how come you got it 9 months ago and fauci continued heaping praise on this blood-soaked governor for another nine months all the way to these recent revelations? >> yeah, may have been alone at that time, but certainly since then, we have seen many people come out and say that andrew cuomo has to go, that this mishandling of nursing homes is criminal, that the misguided executive orders that he put in place and kept in place even after there were alternative sites the u.s. navy comfort ship, it is completely unacceptable. close to 15,000 people now are estimated to have died in those

nursing homes. and then on top of it, he underreported the figures. the attorney general exposes it. he stonewalled the state legislature. and now we have what is the second department of justice investigation or expanded investigation into his cover-up that his own chief of staff admitted. >> mark: and aside from all that, he also passed this liability waiver on the policy. what do you think actually underlies it? why didn't he just move them into the center? why was it necessary to do a policy that would obviously escalate the death rates in these homes? >> now, that's the question i've been asking for several months and have not been able to get in answer to. as a matter of fact, that is what the department of justice needs to investigate. what was the communication that

determined this decision? what information was he basing this on? were there lobbyists involved? were people pressuring him who can influence government? these are the questions that need to be answered and the need to be answered now. what i can tell you is i don't see a situation where this ends with his resignation or his prosecution, or at the very minimum him being at the ballot box next year. i can tell you that thousands of new yorkers have contacted me. they have gone to my website. they have added their names to the growing this to people who wanted to go. they can do that at enoughcuomo.com. we are really happy and my constituents are really happy, particularly those who have lost loved ones. we want it to proceed independently without interference from the biden administration. >> mark: you say that the doj

is taking it seriously but we have all gotten very cynical after the last 5-6 years. but democrats somehow managed to escape. you have called for him to resign immediately. it's been a real threat of serious criminal prosecution and possibly imprisonment. when it that be the best thing for him to do? >> absolutely, but this is a governor that is stubborn. i think he is dictating with his ego and i think that's very unfortunate because there are people that do want him gone and it is the right thing to do to resign. nobody wants to see anybody forcibly removed. but again, we are dealing with someone who is in denial. he refuses to issue apologist to the public. he refuses to accept any responsibility or apologize to these families who have lost loved ones. and so, we are not dealing with someone who is being rational about this. but the growing calls continue.

originally, when i was the first one on the show a month ago, was being accused of political posturing by the governor. and now we know that this is something that is very serious and the growing call by the democrats -- new yorkers need to be aware and call those legislators who are still silent on this issue. there are too many out there who are still not commenting. >> absolutely. i can't believe that guy actually said who cares. it's always someone else's fault. hundreds of thousands of texans still have no power and our thoughts are with them tonight. our senator, ted cruz is finding himself in trouble. the one and only trace gallagher is following the senator's -- trace. >> in texas, we should know that

things are getting better and worse after several days without electricity the power has been turned on for more than 2.7 million homes. texans are still without power. and because of frozen pipes and water pressure, 14 million residents have little or no water. they investigate what happened to the reliability council of texas just days before the storm, he said we are ready for the frigid temperatures to come our way. governor abbott is also asking president biden for an emergency declaration and texas senator ted cruz asked him to fast-track that declaration. right before he fast-track his way to cancun where it is 80 degrees. cruz said he was just being a good dad by taking his daughter and friends on vacation. but traditionally in times of crisis, they act as conduits to the federal government relaying the immediate needs of constituents.

though cruz claims he was always at the helm. quoting again "my team and i will continue using all of our resources to keep texans informed and safe, apparently doing that from the cancun office. republicans are baffled by the trip. democrats are furious calling for him to resign. he told his residents to stay home from the holidays and then hopping on a flight to kabul. later today, he moved back to texas and on arrival he said it was obviously a mistake. in hindsight, i wouldn't have done it. i was trying to be a dad. now he says he wants to help get the power and the water back on right after he finishes a margarita. >> mark: waterpower. okay. thank you for that. that is politics 101. you never want to be on the beach when your constituents are freezing in the dark. but on the other hand, that guy is working on his own tan while

andrew cuomo is dripping blood red. and i wonder what the mainstream media will give more coverage to in the coming days. thank you, trace. always good to see you. yesterday, this show broadcast a genuine picture of congresswoman, sandy cortes' face. a writer for "the daily beast" who gets paid to watch our show accused us of googly eyes on miss cortez's face. we will respond to this disturbing sexist attack by "the daily beast" straight ahead plus, get ready to tucker carlson originals coming this april. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> mark: it's been a terrible destructive year for the economy. the restaurant industry as kaput and many minimum-wage busboys are now forced to do degrading humiliating soul crushing jobs in which they are paid to watch tv shows they don't even like. sometimes the host is just so thoughtless and uncaring that he doesn't deliver. last night, it's his job to watch tucker for "the daily beast." it would have been the work of moments to throw a white supremacist bones. the likes of tucker couldn't be

bothered so eventually justin was forced to fall back on this. "so, it appears that tucker's producers added googly eyes to aoc." suffered a concussion after falling trouser list on the back of a dumpster in the early hours. as he was eventually forced to concede, it wasn't true. that is a completely undoctored image of alexandria ocasio-cortez. i have never commented on a woman's looks, so you can't say why miss a casio cortez, you are beautiful without your glasses, because guys would say that you are not respecting her for having an incredibly brainy plan to rid the world of bovine flatulence. i happen to like it, but if i weren't so -- by political correctness, i

would say she is one crazy broad but she is kind of cute says crazy dane. let the flatulence goal. you can't do that because you will get cancel as a sexist dinosaur. if i was foolish enough to say anything like that on air, i'd be dead. yet, it seems, does it not, that the only person actually disparaging a woman on the basis of her looks here is justin barrett, looks at an hispanic woman's face and instantly assumes that she had googly eyes photoshopped from a party store. googly eyes from the german, goog haugen as in she is making

eyes at me. this is posterity making eyes at you daily beast boy. racist sexist remarks to nosedive into the sewer of prophetic contemptible phobia. why not turn your life around and recognize that in the end, the game will get you too? in a big messy diverse society, what we need is not hypersensitivity and walking around on eggshells, but in sensitivity training. letting it go. letting it slide. just all rub it, oh what am i on about? even now talking about bovine flatulence is a well-known white supremacist dog whistle. the i may be googly justin .it's easy what you are.

the new district attorney, george has announced that enforcing the law is racist. to fight systemic racism, george is dropping and cutting inmate's sentences. >> my office will begin an unprecedented effort to reevaluate every sentence. racism and the death penalty in our country are constructively intertwined.it is racist. it is irreversible and expensive. and beginning today, it's off the table. >> mark: to demonstrate his commitment to "antiracism, they made a big show of the district

attorney's association. the group is just too white. it doesn't have enough people of color. but according to the california district attorney's association, he hasn't been a member for a terribly long time. vern pearson joins us now. is this a devastating blow for your organization to have missed it abandoning it? >> well, no it's not end the reason is that he is no more able to resign from our association they had i am able to resign from the starting lineup of the giants. he is not a member of the association nor has he been a member since october of 2019 when he quit his job as district attorney of san francisco. it is important to note the hypocrisy here. he is raising this issue in the

context of a publicity stunt really. a few weeks ago, we filed in l.a. county in support of a lawsuit that alleged that he was violating the law. he, the chief prosecutor in l.a. county was alleged to be violating the law. lastly, the judge cited with us and the deputies in that lawsuit and he supposedly resigns from our very diverse association ina member for years. >> mark: now, just to be clear on that, then, why isn't he a laughing stock in california? as you say, it's an obvious stunt. it's like you resigning from the giants. it's like me resigning from the united nations security council. why isn't everybody just making him a completely ridiculous figure in californian public life? >> well, i think that's happening very quickly.

let's take a quick step back. he was appointed district attorney in san francisco in 2011. by 2019, he resigned. property crimes were up by 50%. violent crimes were up significantly. he was so unpopular when he resigned from san francisco, it was impossible for him to be reelected. in fact, when he was moved to l.a. and ran for district attorney backed by a handful of billionaires including george, who funded his campaign, the african-american mayor of san francisco supported his opponent. so now, what we are seeing is that it took 7-years for the people of san francisco to really turn on him and in just a very short period of time in l.a., the people are turning on him and there is a recall effort that is already forming to recall him. >> yeah, let's hope that works. i don't think even in

california -- thank you very much for that and great to have the word from you. he is resigning. it's like a variation. not caring to belong to a group that would have him as a member. he isn't a member but resigning on principle anyway. great stuff. bill gates is not a scientist, but he has a ton of money and that's close enough. now bill gates wants to control your diet. so, what will microsoft permit you to eat exactly? that's straight ahead "tucker carlson tonight." ♪ ♪

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>> mark: we were talking about bovine flatulence because whenever you talk about bovine flatulence -- i talked to tucker a year ago. i find it to be my emotional

support animal. you've got the first class cabin all to yourself. but now the all powerful bill gates is determined to put an end to such simple pleasures. >> there are some tesla equipment here. people like beyond meat and impossible that are creating a category where instead of using a cow, they use proteins made in a factory. and so, there is no animal cruelty. there is none of this greenhouse gas relief. no manure. >> mark: there is no manure because there are no cows. if you want to play the time-honored rural game of cow bingo, netflix is all i do most weekends, manure is going to have to have to be synthetically made in a factory on the back of the wuhan institute. so the new normal is tightening the screws, moving us to the next stage from fake news to

fake moos. "i do think that all countries should move to 100% synthetic meat. you get used to the difference in their want to make it taste even better over time. eventually that premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the behavior of people or use regulation to totally shift the demand. bill gates. you can get used to the taste difference. that is the slogan of this new world pure you will get used to the difference. everything from your cheeseburger to your freedom of movement and freedom of association. greg gutfeld's fox news chief bovine manure correspondent and he joins us now. greg, what do you make of bill gates' plans. donna? >> greg: well first, i'm

grateful that you thought of me when it came to cattle cattle forts. you said no, this is got feld's turf. >> mark: that's what it came down to. >> greg: he's a glassy dude too. let's follow the science, right? the argument is similar to the reduction of horses before cars, right? they would produce 9 tons of manure, which is a measurement called the cuomo. then the car is basically like a synthetic course. it replaces the horse and it eliminated the horse position, pollution, right? that is known as a don lemon. but that is just a fraction of what they can do. right? so the whole point is if you stop eating cattle, then you

stop breeding cattle and you eliminate the methane produced by the cattle. so, basically it is all about flatulence and it depends on what flies out of a cow's -- >> mark: i was not as familiar as you are with the international unit of flatulence measurement. do you think that we actually need flatulence offsets? >> greg: yes, i do. i actually practice it almost every morning. but i think, you know what, i can tell by your tone, marked, that you are guilty of carnivore privilege. because you can choose what you want to eat. you will devour anything you see. i find it as a fellow earthling offensive. when the robots take over, i'm pushing you to the front of the line. >> mark: okay. so, you don't think the robots are going to be interested in synthetic humans?

they all want to tear the real deal apart? >> greg: see, i led you to my trap, mark. it's all about fuel. we are batteries. you are a battery. i am a battery appeared ai reaching super intelligence and it is reaching 1,000 and we are nothing more than their, we become their batteries for fuel. >> mark: you just laid out the fate of mankind for probably, well on aoc-type time -- hey greg, when is this new nightly show of yours, we cannot show? >> greg: i'm hoping as soon as possible. but i would say it's probably going to happen in march. i can't wait. you are going to be on it constantly. i have pictures of you and i am going to blackmail you. >> mark: okay.

[laughs] yeah, yeah. you can't keep doing that, greg. thank you very much. our official flatulence correspondent. when you think of cultural norms, you might think of things like handshakes or cuisine, but not joe biden. according to joe biden, is merely a cultural norm too. he said it on camera and we caught the video straight-ahead on "tucker."

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is a musical >> mark: at the cnn town hall on tuesday, joe bs asked about the ongoing in china and according to joe biden, is just a cultural norm over there. no big deal. >> no american president can be sustained as a president if he doesn't reflect the values of the united states. and so, the idea, i'm not going to speak out against what he is doing in hong kong, what he's doing in the western mountains of china and taiwan, the one china policy. he gets it. culturally, there are different norms of each country that leaders are expected to follow. >> mark: cultural norms for each country.

author of the great u.s. china tech wall. gordon, the previous administration said that china was committing. the new administration says genocide against -- they get harvested for their body parts. but the new administration's position is that this is just a slight variation in u.s. chinese cultural norms. >> oh, clearly. by suggesting that those crimes against humanity flow from different cultural norms, what joe biden was saying is that china's culture is brutal. also he was saying that it was racist. i'm sure joe biden who talks about white supremacy, he actually got very dangerously close to expressing white supremacist's sentiment.

a lot of americans are just >> it's offensive to chinese people, but this is not -- what they do is not the act of a repressive communist regime, but just something that apparently chinese people in general are partial to. why is there no objection from chinese-americans? >> well, many of them actually are really upset about this and you can understand why. it's a cultural generalization. now, that generalization was wrong, but it's all sorts of things. as you point out, what we are seeing in, crimes against humanity, organ harvesting, it's a result of a communist system. it is not a result of chinese for generations and generations being genocidal maniacs.

the treatment of the uighurs, completely silent on this, presumably because they like their chinese money and they prioritize beijing's interest of muslim solidarity. so when america actually checks out of objecting to what is going on, who speaks up for the uighurs? who is there to actually argue what china is doing if it is is a subject of international concern? >> well, the people who speak out, mark, you and others, and because we have a government right now that is not willing to do that. secretary of state, mike pompeo made that determination. and crimes against humanity. that really inspired people around the world. what we are hearing from the

biden administration is really uninspiring. it is one of the most disappointing thing is, perhaps the most disappointing thing that i have heard from an american president. i just couldn't believe it. >> mark: that is really quite an extraordinary statement, gordon. thank you very much for joining us tonight. we always appreciate it and do a stay on top of this. thousands of national guard troops remain in washington, d.c., tonight. our leaders are now justifying the military presence. trying to convince you that he has quit even while he is holding a bag of narc products from tijuana and sweat pouring down his face. first they told us that the troops were necessary to protect inauguration. then they told us that the troops were necessary because of that second impeachment trial. today, the associated press reports surrounding the people's so-called house will remain until at least the fall.

now they have another excuse. according to congressman adam smith, they are necessary because some people on the internet are saying weird stuff. according to congressman congressman smith, some of thesn people now they are thinking maybe we should gather again and stormed the capital on march th. yeah, sure. so, as long as there are wackos on the internet, we should locked on the capital. in other words, the capital will remain on lock down from now until the end of time or at least the end of the internet. the lesson is a familiar one, when we give our leaders power, they don't give it up. they want our seat of government to resemble that of venezuela and they will not stop until we make them stop. thank you for that. we have kristin coming up.

we are learning much more about her. that is the woman that joe biden selected to lead the justice department. it turns out that her creepy college comments about supremacy were just the beginning. that is coming up, straight ahead. ♪ ♪

>> mark: kristen clarke is joe biden's nominee to lead the justice department for civil rights. that is an odd selection because kristen clarke has repeatedly made it clear that she does not believe in the idea of racial equality or any kind of equality. when she was a student at harvard, for example, see she adjusted that black people mighe genetically superior to other races. as recently as 2018, kristen clarke appeared on this program to defend the idea that skin color is incredibly important.

in fact, she believes it's more important than merit. >> do think that airlines should apply the same rules, that they shouldn't take the people who score the highest on the pilot test but also on appearance customer >> every workplace whether you're talking about federal agencies should hire the best but should place a premium on diversity. >> the way that you look or what you are capable of doing? when you are flying a plane, how important is it what you look like customer >> incredibly important. it's also important that we place a premium on diversity. >> it means what you look like. you are talking about the shallowest possible criteria. >> mark: but it gets worse than that. there is a new reporting now that kristen clarke's views are even more disturbing than we thought. according to a piece, she has a history of opposing civil rights prosecutions of black

defendants. in other words, if you have white skin, kristen clarke doesn't think those civil rights deserve any legal protection. kevin daly is a reporter for the washington. he broke the story. kevin, this is actually quite a significant definition of human rights as opposed to being something universal. it is now something that applies to approved identity groups. >> yeah mark, the washington free deacon found that as you say, a history of opposing justice department civil rights cases. it arose in 2008 when members of the black panther party were filmed outside of polling precincts harassing and intimidating voters. there was actually an investigation from the federal oversight panel that explored whether she back channeled friendly elements of the justice department. the bush justice department had brought a civil complaint

against the black panther party itself which the obama duster's department. another case involved mr. brown who was the chairman of the democratic party in mississippi. a federal court credited overwhelming evidence that it had run primaries in a way that favored black voters over white voters. >> mark: yeah, that's pretty amazing and pretty explicit. do you think that will actually impede her progress through this new administration? >> well actually, i think it has told a lot about the administration's commitment to an equity-based policy. certain minorities get special attention in the policy process. but here it means that touchdown civil rights laws are applied depending on the race of the defendant. the one that ought to be pretty disgraceful and disqualifying, but it appears it is not under

the substitution of equity for equality. >> and it will be interesting to explore how this plays for the confirmation hearing. getting out why exactly she believes this. you could look at it as a logistical reason that the just a justice department has limited resources. but there is also a view, mark, as you know that holds that minorities simply cannot be racist. their racism is a combination of power and privilege and because minorities are not privileged, they they therefore cannot be racist. it is going to be a priority for republican lawmakers. >> mark: yeah, that's quite interesting, kevin. it is one thing when it is a college campus. it's quite another thing when it is the department of justice. that is about it for us tonight. tucker is back tomorrow. don't forget to tune in at eight

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