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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. he was on your telly screen playing for laughs. >> do you think that you are an attractive personnel because you are single and ready to mingle? do you really think that you are some desirable single person? >> in scale, 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've seen you referred to recently, i'm wondering if that's bleeding into your demeanor at all and making you soft on the president? >> i've always been a soft guy. i just say let it go. just go with the flow, baby. you've got you are feeling pretty good an answer for anything. about yourself. aren't you? >> mark: yeah, he's feeling pretty good because what government functionary when it do that in the middle of a pandemic? might blame him? the cool dude in the loose move just going with the flow. at the flow of sycophantic drivel coming from the court

units of the american media. andrew cuomo got an emmy for the best performance by a governor on tv. if you were 93-year-old in a care home being told you had to die alone without your loved ones without to worry, they've got a thing called zoom, you will soon get the hang of it, don't worry about it. cuomo didn't seem that great, but he looked good to the other media suck ups. cnn has now decided chris cuomo will no longer get to cover his blood-soaked brother. meanwhile, andrew cuomo having run out of old people to off is moving on to lush or pastors. here's how he reacted to a new york democrat who had the dash to object to going along with the cuomo covid cover-up? to. >> he said, he can destroy you. what else? >> he said, haven't seen his anger, haven't seen his wrath, and he will tell me.

he will go out, he's biting his tongue, but he will go out tomorrow as destroyed by political create, my 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 we 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. that's our andy, all over. >> 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%.

>> mark: the mayor has no filled the streets of manhattan with interpretive dance are doing an interpretive dance of cuomo enforcers menacing democrat assemblymen. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ congresswoman, nicole represents new york's 11th congressional district. she called for an investigation into andrew cuomo's handling of the nursing home crisis 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. you have to have a federal investigation, that would be the only way we would get a true independent investigation to take a look at what exactly

occurred here. >> mark: it's nicole malliotakis was pressing in, she joins us now to respond to these latest development. a congresswoman, how come you've got it nine months ago, and algae and these dribbling celebrities continued heaping praise on this blood-soaked governor for another nine months all the way to these recent revelations? >> yeah, i may have been alone at that time, but certainly since then we've seen many people come out and to say that cuomo has to go. at this man dominic mishandling of nursing homes is criminal, the misguided executive orders he put in place and kept in place even after they were all turned like the u.s. navy comfort chip is completely unacceptable. close to 15,000 people have been estimated to have died in these

nursing homes. he underreported the figures, the attorney general exposed him. he stonewalled state legislature, refusing to answer questions from us and the media as well, this entire time. 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: aside from all that, he also passed to this liability where a barrier on the policy. what do you think actually underlies it? why didn't he just move them into the javits center? why was it necessary to do a policy that would obviously escalate the death rates in these homes? >> now, that's a question i've been asking for several months, and have not been able to get an answer to. as a matter of fact, that is what the department of justice needs to investigate. what was the communication that

determines this decision? what information was he basing this on? where their lobbyist involved? were they people pressuring him who couldn't influence government? these are the questions that need to be answered, and they need to be answered now. what i can tell you, i don't see a situation where this doesn't end with his resignation or his prosecution, or at the very minimum, him being defeated at the ballot box next year. if i can tell you that thousands of new yorkers have contacted me, they've gone to my website, they've added their names to the growing calls of people want him to. people continue to do that at enoughcuomo.com. because we need to send this message that this is unacceptable. i have to tell you that we are really happy. my constituents are very happy, particularly those who have lost loved ones. we want it to proceed independent 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. if there were a real threat of serious criminal prosecution, and possibly imprisonment, wouldn't 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. the democrats adding certainly

helped. 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. >> mark: absolutely. call those legislators. i think you congresswoman. we are going to stay on top of this. i can play like i sat there on tv and said, who cares? that's his attitude, it's always someone else's fault. what a disgraceful fellow. hundreds of thousands of texans still have no power and our thoughts are with them tonight. their senator, ted cruz is finding himself in trouble for going seriously off the grid. the one and only trace gallagher is following the senator's mexican sojourn. >> 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. 359,000 texans are still without power, and because of frozen pipes and water pressure problems, 14 million texas red residents have little or no water. there asking state lawmakers to investigate what happened to the electric reliability council of texas just days before the storm. it we are ready for the frigid attempts 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. remember, it was kruse who hammered the mayor of austin for telling his residents to stay home for the holidays, then hopping on the flight to cabo. 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. also be [laughs] >> 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. ♪ ♪ 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. and hope that the hosts will say something racist or trans-phobic that will give all the other touchy, twitchy, pajama boys the papers favors. sometimes the host is just so thoughtless and uncaring, he doesn't deliver. that was tucker, last night. these are the just and barrack ono, whose job is to watch tucker for his masters of "the daily beast" created 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." that would be an audit charge for any man who hadn't been sniffing glue or suffered a concussion after calling charles her list off of a dumpster. 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 ocasio 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 bovine flatulence, it's my preferred aftershave sense. if i weren't so cowed by political practice, i would say

boy, that alexandria ocasio-cortez is one crazy broad with the bovine flatulence stuff, but she's kind of cute, high on the bovine 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 the impressively progressive guy like her who looks at a young hispanic lady's beautiful face and instantly assumes she had a googly eyes from the party store auto shopped on to them. what a hater. if, in fact, he vaporized and yet, 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. do you want to rate dominic waste your life making eyes. it's driven you to the center of it racist, sexist remarks of one of our most admired public figures to know dive into the sewer of prophetic contemptible hispanic phobia. why not turn your life around and recognize that in the end, the gotcha game will get you two? 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. but it sees you for what you

are. los angeles new district attorney, georgia gaston has announced that enforcing the law is racist. to to fight systemic racism, george cast on is dropping prosecutions and cutting inmate sentences. >> my office will begin an unprecedented effort to reevaluate every sentence. racism and the death penalty in our country are intertwined. the reality is the death penalty does not make us safer, it is racist, it is morally untenable, it is irreversible, and expensive. beginning today, it's off the table in l.a. county. >> mark: to demonstrate his commitment to "antiracism, they made a big show of the district attorney's association.

according to him, the group is just to whites. it doesn't have enough people of color. but according to the california district attorney's association, vern pearson, gaston 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 sided with us and the deputies in that lawsuit and he supposedly resigns from our very diverse association in protest when he hasn't been a 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 --

i don't think there are enough counties for a failure like this guy to keep moving to. thank you very much for that and great to have the word from you. he is resigning. it's like a variation of the old line, not caring to belong to a group that would have them as a member. in this case, he isn't a member, but resigning on principle anyway. bill gates is not a scientist, great stuff. 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." ♪ ♪ eat exactly?

>> mark: we were talking about bovine flatulence because whenever you talk about bovine flatulence -- it's a ratings bonanza. i talked to tucker a year ago. i said i take it a flatulent

bovine as my emotional support animal. but now the all powerful bill gates is determined to put an end to such simple pleasures. >> there are some tesla equivalents, 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 release. none of the manure. >> mark: there is no manure because there are no cows. if you want to play the time-honored rural game of cow pat bango, given that then girl's of netflix is all i do for most weekend, the manure is going to have to be synthetically made in a factory on the back of the was thrown into the institute of technology. so the new normal is tightening the screws, moving us to the

next stage from fake news to fake moos. bill gates again -- "i do think that all countries should move to 100% synthetic beef." 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. 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. >> greg: well first, i'm grateful that you thought of me when it came to cattle forts.

i know you could've gone to bret baier or bill hemmer or john roberts, you said no, this is got filled story. >> mark: it was you and victor hansen, greg. that's who it came down to. >> greg: he's a glassy dude too. let's follow the science, right? gates is reduction of meat consumption argument is similar to the reduction of horses before cars, right? a half ton of horse would produce 9 tons of manure, which is a measurement called a cuomo. then, when the car is basically like a synthetic horse. it replaced the horse, and that the limited the horse pollution in terms of methane, horses produce 45 pounds of methane gas per year, that's known as a don lemon. that is just a fraction of what cows can do. the whole point is, if you stop eating cattle, then he stopped

breeding cattle, and then you eliminate the methane produced by the cattle. it basically, the fate of the earth is all about flatulence, and it depends on what flies out of the cows -- also known as a scarborough. >> 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. calories are a unit of energy, 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. i >> mark: you just laid out the fate of mankind for probably, well on aoc-type time -- it's probably coming hey greg, when is this new coming on 20203. nightly show of yours, we cannot weeknight 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. you have no choice. 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. the one and only greg gutfeld. 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 is merely a cultural norm, too. he set it on camera, and we've got the video, straight ahead on "tucker."

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>> mark: at the cnn town hall on tuesday, joe biden was 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. gordon chang is a senior fellow of the keith stone institute,

author of the great u.s. china tech wall. gordon, the previous administration said that china was committing. the new administration said against the test to get harvested for their body parts and all other horrible things, but the new administration's position is that this is just a slight variation in u.s. chinese cultural norms. >> oh, clearly. this is horrific. 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 speak of those crimes are committed against racial minori. i'm sure, joe biden who talks about white supremacy, he got dangerously close to expressing white supremacist sentiments. i'm sure he didn't want to do that, but that's what he did.

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

allowed to get away with that. it the treatment of the uighurs, the powerful muslim nature and are silent on this because presumably they like their chinese money and they prioritize beijing's interest over muslim solidarity. so when america actually checked out of objecting to what is going on there, who speaks up for the uighurs? who is there to actually argue that 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 was important. 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. with all of the grace of a junkie trying to convince you that he has quaked, even while he is holding a bag of primo narcotics from tijuana, 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 people's house will

remained for at least the fall. they are necessary because some people on the internet are saying weird stuff. according to congressman smith, some of these qanon people now had figured out that 75 years ago the president used to be inaugurated on march the 4th. now, they are thinking maybe we should gather again and storm the capital on march the 4th. 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 leader's power, they don't give it up. if they want our seat of government to resemble venezuelans, and they will not stop until we make them stop. thank you for that. we have kristen clarke coming up now. we are learning much more about

her. that is the woman joe biden selected to lead the justice department civil rights division. it turns out, her creepy college comments about black supremacy were just the beginning of her creepy comments. that is coming up, straight ahead. ♪ ♪

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>> mark: kristen clarke is joe biden's nominee to lead the justice department civil rights department. it is a nonselection because kristen clarke has repeatedly made it clear she does not believe in the idea of racial equality or any kind of friend demarco quality. when she was a student, she suggested black people might be genetically superior to other races. we broadcast them last month but as early as 2018 she appeared on the program to defend the idea that skin color is incredibly important. in fact, she believes it's more

important than merit. >> do you think airline should apply the same rules that they shouldn't take people who score the law highest on the pilot test but also on appearance thee way people look. look. >> every workplace -- they should place a premium on diversity. >> the way that you look are what you're capable of doing. when you're flying a plane, how important is that you look like? >> incredibly important. it's also important and we plact a premium on diversity. the fact that -- >> diversity means what you look like. you're talking about the shallowest possible criteria. >> mark: it gets worse than that. the reporting that kristen clarke's views are even more disturbing than we thought. according to a piece in "the washington free beacon," kristen clarke has a history of opposing civil rights prosecutions of black

defendants. if you have white skin, kristen clarke doesn't think your civil rights to serve legal protection. kevin daly is a reporter from "the washington free beacon" and he broke the story. it kevin, this is a significant redefinition of human rights as opposed to being something universal. it's now something that applies to approved identity groups only. >> yeah, mark, "the washington free beacon" found as you say that she has a history of opposing justice department civil rights lawsuits against black defendants. one case similar to your viewers less than 2008 when members of the new black panther party were filmed outside of a polling precinct harassing and intimidating voters. whether she back channeled the web from elements of the justice department to kill the case, they brought a civil complaint against the individuals involved and the black panther party

itself p which the obama justice department dropped in large part. another case the beacon found involved mr. ike. a federal court credited overwhelming evidence that mr. brown had run countywide primaries in the way that favored black voters over white voters. >> mark: that's pretty amazing and pretty explicit. do you think that will actually impute her progress through this new administration? >> actually i helped us a lot about the equity-based approach to policy. it's been understood as meaning a certain minority group get special attention and resources, but here it means touchstone civil rights laws are applied finding the rights of the defendant.f >> mark: that ought to be very disgraceful and disqualifying, but it appears it's not under

the substitution of equity for equality. >> it will be interesting to explore how this plays into her confirmation hearing and why she believes this. of course, there is the view that this e is the legitimate question that a the justice department limited resources and has to allocate those resources consistent with the history of racial decision to make discrimination of minorities in the country. but the view as you know on the left that holds that minority simply cannot be racist, racism is a combination of power and privilegee and that because minorities are not privileged and therefore cannot be racist, finding where the spark falls on the vibe will be a priority for republican lawmakers. >> mark: that's quite interesting, kevin, it's one thing when it's a college campus and another thing when it's the heart of the federal department of justice. that's about it for us tonight. tucker is back tomorrow. don't forget to tune in 8:00 p.m. eastern to the show

that's the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. don't forget to dvr the show if you haven't set it up already. if you're a fan of rush on the radio, you're in for a treat because the one and only mr. smartly is right here on tonight "hannity." >> he will be here, mark, thank you. our good friend will be here, mark. thank you. good to see you. welcome to "hannity." and tonight, we continue to honor the amazing life, legacy of radioan legend, rush limbaug. yep, you've got it, his longtime producer, call screener. he did his own show behind the show. he will be here tonight. also tonight we will bring you the very latest from the andrew cuomo t nursing home scandal. the governor is now reportedly facing a federal and state investigatione into criminal activity in what might appear to be a massive cover-up.