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because hiking the minimum wage might that is a real argument, but is not relevant to what jus happened. the minimum wage isn't going to $15 because the senate parliamentarian wouldn't allow parliamentarian wouldn't allow raising the minimum wage to tha level would violate the established procedure and of course the white house wanted n part in violating procedure. as the chief of staff put it, we're going to honor the rules of the senate and work within the system. keep that in mind when they try to pack the supreme court or make a dc estate. no living wage for you, that's one campaign brightness prine i that he appears to have forgotten. the promise he was commit was made it was made to defense contractors. do they bring war back to the middle east after a four-year respite. that really agitated people in

dc. when he did that, biden says he wouldn't convey it or even a senate parliamentarianan before did it. he wouldn't pretend to work within the system he just do it. on thursday he did it. biden sent f-15s to kill people in syria. no one in this country benefite from that not even in the smallest forest theoretical way. that in itself was deeply reassuring to the political al class in washington. they consider any attempt to improve this country a terrifying form of nationalism. but the idea of killing people in a faraway place, thrilling. >> i think it was important for the biden administration to sen a message a clear message early on that these attacks on our forces will not be tolerated. >> we're going to take a proportionate respond that we'r going to respond and we hit bac at them. i think it just a sort of resetting expectations that if you hit at us were going to g punch back. nobody likes toch talk about th

fact that we have to protect ourselves, but that's the national security reality and i isthink the biden ministration understands that and is acting accordingly. >> i think he is pursuing a tough but smart approach. >> is it a mistake to target bases in syria right now? >> actually it was pretty smart it's counterterrorism i don't think the biden administration need authorization from the congress. >> didn't need permission, listen carefully america, killing strangers in syria wasn't pointless, but it was pretty smart to do that. that is the official word it comes from experts who believe that they had bio weapons and started a war on the basis of it . thursday strike against syria they just told us was counterterrorism and counter terrorism justifies all. keep that mind going forward. you don't want counterterrorism mbe. in syria, counterterrorism mea at least 22 people died e according to local reports the pentagon says only one person

died, but who were these people in any case. the biden administration says i targeted to militia aligned wit iran to members of those groups allegedly pilot a walk rocket that killed an american contractor. let's go metaphorca as i can. you may be wondering why are there still american contractor in iraq after almost two decade and no obvious return. that is a good question. we will address that some other time. hears and more amazing thing. both of the militia of the bide ministration hit were part of the popular mobilization forces prate that's a kind of umbrella group sponsored by the iraqi i government and the iraqi government in itself is a creation of previous american administration. though, if you're following all this and you have been for 18 years, we are now defending americans in iraq from people w empowered in the first place to fix the disaster that was cause by our invasion.

that's all counterterrorism. now, if all of this seems demented to you, rest easy. you should know it was joe bide who did it. it wasn't donald trumpet was jo biden. therefore it's fine. in fact it's good.ct here's an actual tweet from a former wall street executive. so different having military action under biden. no elmiddle school level to threats very trusted biden and his team's confidence. with joe biden in charge come with buildings collapse into rubble, no, the building simply disappear like distressed companies melted down for a profit on wall street. naturally, because events like this do connect people in a certain way, david french was excited about this. where makes him feel powerful and the live, but only when the

right people wage it. so three years ago, david frenc was distressed by the fact that donald duck might attack syria without permission. if trump strike serious without congressional approval, his cerium policy will be imprudent and unconstitutional. that was april of 2018. we were totally opposed to dragging syria leadtime not because it was unconstitutional. but he looked at dozens of people dying in syria inside with satisfaction. good, he wrote then he went bac to writing essays about what a fine christian he is. navy because she leads she was once opposed to bombing syria without permission. here she was on thursday. to give the president sending a ambiguous message that he's going to act to protect americans and when threats are posed, he has the right to take an action at the time in the manner of his choosing.

>> is, it wasn't long ago she wass telling us it was totally violation of international law to bomb syria without congressional approval. now she's litelling us joe bide is acting to protect america. you're not supposed to notice what was done to protect americans who were still stuck languishing in iraq 18 years after the invasion. if we're going to protect them, why are we making them stay there? what are they doing there. once again because the only question that ever matters, how is this helpingpi anyone in thi country. or in any country? it's not, obviously, into their credit, they stop pretending it is. what this is about, he once it' cleaned abin public is helping kurdish partners. here is joe biden in a 2019 tha donald trump might withdraw american troops from syria. can keep my precipitously redra withdrawing, a smalltime number of american special forces in

syria, trump managed in one fel swoop to betray our kurdish partners who help defeat isis, to create a humanitarian crisis with innocent civilians into ethnic and minority religious tameet communities caught in th crossfire. >> the best part was religious minority community. we are attacking the asad government which is the only government in the entire middle east protected the most ancient of religious minorities, the christian community. they been slaughtered except in territories that asad controls. the person doing all of this fo our kurdish partners. did you know we had kurdish partners? did you want them? what does that leave a partner to do. don't sweat the details for that . the party that runs baltimore, and east st. louis has a handle on this.

they will make they middle east a much better place just like hillary clinton improved libya. they're going to make you much safer in the process, it's called counterterrorism and it can't be bad. the former state department official joins us now.is how insulting is this at a time when the overweening threat to the country is clearly china by every measurement possible.on we are energy independently not don't need to focus on that and where wasting time with the u.s military the attention of our think tank, on the middle east and syria? tummy why this is wisecracks. >> let me give you some perspective. first of all, president trump i in airstrike in syria in april of 2017. he did another one in april in 2018. for all three, they were justified and proportional, i spoke about them, i wrote about them, for it to your credit you are against all of them so we'v

both been consistent, but we have a divide here it's really not about syria policy in the details of syria and what's happening in syria and iraq, it's really about what american role in the world should be. i think we continue to project powero abroad, and that we have to have our diplomatic and soldiers stationed in places abroad in order to do that. when they get attacked, as they did on february 15th in norther iraq by malicious, it's appropriate for us to respond a biden did commit just as trump did in december of. >> leaning aside, i'll even gloss over your claim that it was justified of course the state department lied about the pretext, but leaving that aside china is humiliating the united states globally, i it is colonizing the entire continent of africa in the caribbean righ at our shores prate it's humiliating american diplomats by giving them unnecessary swabs . it's a threat to the entire

globe and we do nothing. when a syrian militia lobbed rockets into iraq,s we pounce. this is a question of focus. you can't fix every problem, wh aren't we focusing on the real problem, why are we wasting tim in the middle east? >> i think we can walk into gum at the same time. we can deal with the middle eas and also deal in china. i think china is our biggest rival especially going forward but right now china is in purporting groups that are directly firing rockets at our personnel. we have to respond to that in syria to protect our personnel, but we all should should be doing things to prepare for the potential battle for china in the future in the places that you mentioned in africa when they want to input their vision of government kleptocracy in place parade we have to fight them t not just in our economy, not just with our usaid, and no just with foreign investment, but also with an ideology of

democracy and freedom which is countering ideology to the one that china wants to put in place . our generals retire and serve china our largest corporations profit from china are political classes which produce so nothin you've said is going to happen is we both know, but let's back up to the middle east because it's the region in question tonight, why do we have troops in iraq. we have an improved iraq and we have and improve the united states. why do we think this would be different from every other middle eastern country we've been engaged in. why do we keep doing this? >> we have far less troops in iraq than we have in the last 1 years. so, i served in iraq, the state department, we had 145,000 troops at the end of 2007. we now have 2500, so a little less than 3 percent of what we had.

>> boat we told people in syria we spend a lot of money biden gets to go brag about it, because in american contractor apparently was killed there apparently by and iran backed volusia. why was that contractor there i the first place? what are we getting out of it? >> there are lots of reasons. we have troops there to fight isis and isis is still in northern iraq and in syria and isis is an existential threat t the u.s.r, to our interest, it can strike at americans and it' also an existential threat to our way of life. iggy slowdown. how is isis, i'm not putting in a good word for isis here, obviously, but existential mean to threaten the existence of something. it threatens to end you. how does isis pose an existential threat to the unite states? >> because isis in 2014 and 201 set up an islamic policy that

has as its stated goal to take over the middle east and europe appeared they had plans at one time to try to attack italy. they killed many americans. >> i'm not liking for isis, i'm saying when you say, let's use words carefully because were talking about human lives and american policy here. only one country that can make my family obey, and that is china. as you well know, so again in n everybody in the foreign policy was world why can't we wake up and face the actual threat. right in our r face rather than re- fighting wars that we have lost.os but you can't possibly be sayin we should only focus on one threat and ignore all of the others. isis is a threat too.

we are not good at fixing stuff so actually, we don't have the bandwidth to fix the world. by the way, can you name one city in the united states i'm not being partisan, this is a war cheered on by democrats. name one city in the united states go ahead, i'll wait. >> my hometown of cincinnati is run by democrats. >> that's a pretty nice town, i've got to say. all give you cincinnati. i can't think of any others. >> thank you. >> that's right commit your it' a nice city. but we have dozens of other cities that are actually crumbling. we have a country that's on the verge of some kind of economic event that probably won't be welcomed by most people. we have a country getting poorer , and get this is like the thing that biden does on his 36 dayton office, but we don't hav to give up foreign policy in order to improve our domestic policy we can do both at the

same time. we are america. we have the talent to do that. is any country in the entire region better for our region better for our in the preexisted interventions. it didn't always improve or mak things better. we should all be moving toward improving the middle east,. >> i can only take one at a tim so he'll ende with this one. you say it affects our energy policy.

we were told we were only enmeshed in the middle east because we were dependent upon right. we needed their energy. no we don't. and again, make us dependent on other nations whether it's chin for clean energy technology or the middle east for petro energy . i'm a little confused by that, why should we take a victory la and say we can eat our heat our own homes, we can fill our colors color to what we don't need you. that is something that's going to improve our security in it something the middle east is taking notice of. they realized were not going to depend on their oil forever. but their oil does impact the economic market and it as still importantt. that oil still is important in

the economic markets that depen on it. they went up so much that it increased prices and made it harder for them to buy. the middle east oil as part of that. thank you for coming on. >> thank you, tucker. >> you notice people that decid what's important didn't seem to bothered when policies of the new york governor andrew cuomo killed those most vulnerable in nursing homes. janice dean has reason to follo the story and she has been for the better part of the year. she joins us after the break.

>> huge waves of refugees are fleeing the state of new york and yet somehow it's governor manages week after week to remain in the news. we have another development in the ongoing sordid saga of andrew cuomo. s the second woman accusing the governor of his former advisor charlotte bennett who claims local asked her about her life as if she was open to having accused the governor up unwantes kissing, touching and asking he to play strip poker. the governor he says women should be believe so cease you are lying, but he's now pivoted and will allow new york attorne general which he should james t hire a private law firm to investigate the claims. you maintains he was only being

playful in joking i acknowledge some of the things i have said have been misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation. is later accuser isn't buying i saying qthese are not the acti of someone who simply feels misunderstood, they are the actions of an individual who wields power to avoid justice. the allegations are putting a new focus on the 2016 video we won't show you at the new york state fair where cuomo, dining with a young female reporter uncomfortably tells her i want to see you eat the whole sausage . the video was immediately slammed as creepy in cringing. york mayor bill de blasio is, but for the sexual-harassment sexual harassment and nursing home scandals. watch. >> the allegations about the nursing homes, what was covered up in what was done as well. what happened, why were these lives lostt and do you have any connection to campaign contributions to the governor from the nursing home industry? >> he needs a two plus million

dollars in campaign donations cuomo got from the hospital and nursing home industry last apri hein granted immunity to hospit in nursing homes for coronaviru cases. he's also hired a criminal midefense attorney to handle th nursing h home scandal not yet the sexual harassment claims, but breaking moments ago the ne york times now reporting anothe woman claims cuomo made unwante advances towards her at a 2019 wedding reception putting his hand on her lower back and in interface and asking to kiss her . she said she was confused, shocked, and embarrassed. >> thank you for that update. guess he is not confused or shocked, anybody who knows an andrew cuomo could have seen this story coming along way out too. whatsoever interesting is that' there is a much bigger scandal, one that killed thousands of people swirling around andrew cuomo for the better part of th year. his order sent thousands of

people to their deaths in nursing homes. and then the media said nothing about it they covered it up for .bout it they covered it up for why? and why the change now. the fox news senior meteorologist for her in-laws died in a nursing home in new york she's the author of a grea new book called make your own sunshine inspiring stories for people who find plate in dark times. it is out tomorrow. we are grateful to have janice on the show tonight. congratulations on the book. you are no about making sunshin so i'm i am glad that you wrote this and i'm excited to read it pretty watch the story and you've been frustrated when it the few kg. he's been talking a it. what do you make of the fact that all of a sudden andrew cuomo after being protected for all these months us at the bottom of the media dog piled. >> i think it's easier to get onto the meat to train then to actually admit that these lawmakers have been complicit for ten months.

now that we are into a potentia criminal investigation of this governor, his mandate and the killing of 15,000 seniors and a you said, the cover-up. if we go back to al capone, the got him on tax evasion, they will probably get thisut govern on me to end sexual harassment. >> i'm confused by it.an politicians do all kinds of things that i personally disagree with, but this was a clear line from his order to th desk desks of thousands of people. i'm shocked that the media was complicit in this. today not need him is that may be why? >> may be.. may be it has to do with the fact that we we're into bite in the ministration a ministration and they finally feel like they can shine the light on this governor and the fact that yes, he probably is criminally responsible for making that

order, signing it, and putting e it into effect for 46 days and the media was complicit, the daily caller broke the story that the governor was covering up the numbers and he wasn't counting those who died in the hospital like my mother-in-law. and you have been on the story from the very beginning in may when i decided to come on your program and talk about the fact that we lost my husband's parents and i believe it was because of this governor's ma reckless mandate and now we are starting to see the fact that there might be of money trail with some of his top lobbyist a the hospitals. >> i think his press secretary attacked you, but by name, so, know this is not the story you want to be vindicated on, but you certainly have been. a appreciate you coming on tonight. you were right all along. we should tell you janice is going to be hosting of show on fox nation called make your own

sunshine. it turns out indra cuomo is a lot nicer to young people than he is p to old people. up next, c-pac open over the weekend. president trump mentioned something that's going to affec every woman in the country. candace owens has been talking about this for a long time, we will talk about that after the break.

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>> donald trump spoke it's feedback in florida yesterday. all of the coverage particularl on social media was about the politics of it. will he run again? ignored were some of the detail in his speech. it's not hard to cyp rate at on point, he did what almost no conservatives were willing to dn in public he pointed out that democrats are pushing at terrifying it terrifying agenda that illuminates window. women.nd

watch. >> joe biden and the democrats are pushing policies that would destroy women's sports. young girls and women are incensed thatei they're now bei forced to compete against those who are biological males. it's not good for women, it's not good for women's sports tha worked so long and so hard to get to where they are. if this is not changed from a women sports as we know it will die. it'll endth. >> that's true. as a group can they be set to exist in any meaning biological weight? after this, that's a real question. on sports, he signed an executive order that forces women to compete in sports against biological men in the house has passed the equality act that redefines gender all over the federal government. it makes it disappear. candace owen is the author of

blackout. she joined just tonight freight it was great to have you on tonight. so what effect will this have? you are a woman. you're married, just had baby. in the wake of this, can anyone really say, i'm a woman, i'm man? do those terms have meaning? >> you will be called a bigot as i have been called a bigot, a transphobe. the left likes to use all of these words when you are speaking common sense. i find it to be unbelievably offensive that the idea there are no differences between men and women. me being someone who just gave birth six weeks ago. the idea that there is nothing that makes me special or different from a man that stands up and says i now identify as a woman. it's quite frankly insulting. think about this. what they are saying is lebron james, when he was in high school and drafted in the high school, lebron james should have been allowed to say, i identify as a woman and should have been

allowed to compete with every woman in any other competition and that would have been deemed equal? that would have been deemed an exercise in achieving equality? we know that is anything but. this is the problem with the left, tucker. it's so, so serious. they do not understand what equality is. they don't know what equality means. they think it's sameness. we just need to make everybody a carbon copy of the other person. nobody can have any difference. they hate the idea of male female, girl, boy. that means there are differences between all of us. there is. what conservatives fight for, we want to make sure people have equal opportunity but we acknowledge there are real biological realities that cannot be ignored. >> tucker: once you pretend they don't exist, i mean, it kind of changes how people feel about men and women, right? one of the reasons men reveer women is they perpetuate the species. they breast-feed, they give birth.

it's the greatest thing. if we're claiming men can breast-feed and give birth what's special about women exactly? seriously? >> nothing. they're saying nothing is serious about women. you just said breast-feeding. i don't know if you received the update, but that's now offensive. you have to say chest feeding. breast-feeding is not exclusive enough. here's what i find to be funny. they go on about calling us transphobic. think about rachel donagel. they were so angry about her because she is transracial. she is a biological white female who woke up and said she wanted to be black. imagine if she started taking opportunities away from black people for black academic success, black scholarships. wouldn't the left implode if she was given a scholarship because she thought she was black. woke up one day and decided to be black? why can't they have the same standards for women? why are they allowing them to

erase women? they told us to fear donald trump. women, it was going to be so dangerous if trump got into office. look at what joe biden did. that is where the real concern lies. >> tucker: this is so obviously late empire insanity that future generations will mock. they won't even believe it happened. only exists because the rest of us tolerate it. you don't. i'm grateful to you for being as honest as you are. congratulations on your son. >> thank you so much. >> tucker: candace owens, great to see you. your kids may not be in school. there's only one reason. science suggests it's okay. it's the teachers union. your kids can't go to school because it's too dangerous? the president of one of the teachers unions has been caught on video making a mockery of his own policy and mandate. tucker carlson original long

forum documentary is coming soon on fox nation. last week we shared part of an episode on a great american city collapsing. tonight we have a brand new trailer, footage our team uncovered in chicago. here it is. here it is.

>> tucker: do you know what you never see and it's kind of weird? investigative reporting about teachers union. some of the most corrupt institutions in the country. teachers unions at the single present that millions of children's art art going to school and some of them are dying. that's not an overstatement. teachers unions say they can't teach because it's unsafe. science doesn't back that up but nobody calls them on it. unless a teachers union executive literally posts instagram photos from the

caribbean, that happened in one case, no one covers it. no one bothers to report on whether the unions are lying or not. lot of journalists don't have kids, so they don't care. people who do have kids care quite a bit. in berkeley california one group of parents is doing what the media refused to do. they call themselves the guerrilla moms. just like many politicians they fear retribution from the teachers union. since march of last year they have heard from matt myer that school absolutely cannot reopen. sorry, can't teach your kids. they're gonna langish at home online. the guerrilla moms decided to find out what matt myer was up to. they posted a video of him walking his own child to a private preschool. myer was caught. hard to imagine anything more offensive. he didn't apologize. he said his own kid had no options. quote, they're not public schools for kids their age.

that's true. but it's true because of people like matt myer and because of journalists who aren't anywhere near as useful as a few anonymous moms with a camera in california. who ever you are, god bless you. this may be the biggest health crisis. falling testosterone levels and falling sperm counts which may make it impossible to continue the human race. why is this happening? probably because of chemicals in our environment. according to one scientist sperm count in the western world have dropped 59% between 1973 and 2011. at this pace, sperm counts will reach zero by 2045. no one talks about this. everybody should be. we're beginning with a fox news medical contributor. doctor, thank you very much for coming on. why is this not the biggest story there is? >> tucker, this is a very big story.

this scientist, dr. swan, has been following this for a long time. she put out a big paper in 2017. she blames something called everywhere chemicals. these are found everywhere, in plastic, all around. she believes they've contributed to falling sperm counts. there's a lot of evidence to support her. i'm actually more concerned about something right now that also involves falling sperm counts. that's lockdownly libido. lockdown libido happens when people are locked down. they gain weight. do you know what obesity does? drives down testosterone. you bring down sperm counts. smoking cigarettes which everyone is doing more and more. smoking cigarettes drives down sperm counts. vaping and probably the biggest culprit of all according to reproductive specialists i have

spoke to tonight smoking marijuana drives down sperm count. you're at home, you're not even looking at your loved one because you're despair depression has replaced romance. there will be no baby bump coming out of this pandemic. tonight i do have a message for shawna swan. dr. swan, again, a very prominent researcher, epidemiologist at mount sinai. she said my grandfather had three times the amount of sperm count than i do. i say, more power to my grandfather. she says, hunters and gatherers from the distant pass had sperm counts through the cave ceiling. she's probably right. i have a message for shawna tonight. there's something i'm dealing with that my grandfather didn't deal with, that hunter gatherers don't deal with. it's not chemicals. it's lockdown. lockdown is driving down sperm count.

tucker? >> dr. marc sigel, i appreciate you coming on tonight. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: amazon began primarily as a book seller. became the largest seller of information in the world. then maybe inevitably it has begun to ban books. amazon is erasing books and films that it disagrees with. it calls them hate speech. we'll show you precisely what they think you don't have a right to see. that's straight ahead. ly what

just-in-time for black history month, amazon has purged a documentary about clarence thomas, clarence thomas in his own words. they also erased several other films and books including the book "when harry became sally." it is a lot to unpack your but basically the world's largest bookseller is banning books. where are we going with this? douglas murray is one of the smartest people watching our current moment, he of course the best selling author, joins us tonight to assess. thanks so much for coming on. the world's largest bookseller banning books.

what's next after this, do you think? where is this heading? >> this is exactly a big tech fear worst nightmare. many of us worried for years about big tech, the way large companies would end up taking over everything. they would not face monopolies like they would have done decades ago, they just took over everything at some of us always worried what will they do once they're in that position? and we are starting to see what they'll do. you know, because increasingly you can't go to your local independent bookseller because amazon made them go out of business years ago. during the pandemic, the remaining bookshops that exist weren't allowed to open so amazon had another great advantage and here they are at this moment of almost complete dominance in their trade deciding how to flex their ideological muscles. >> tucker: i mean for amazon to say that during black history month you're not allowed to hear from one of the most famous

black americans on earth because his views aren't exactly the views we think he should have, i mean, that's -- that's very ominous to me. >> the whole thing is ominous. amazon recently quietly rewrote some of its codes of practice that of course talked about the usual things always here, we've got to prevent hate speech and offense and such similar things. so it's offensive for ryan anderson to write a book which questions the prevailing gender ideology. it's offensive to suggest, for instance, as he does, it conservative catholic commentator that it's not great to give children life altering drugs and medication that will make lots of them infertile. so, you know, this is all exactly what we expected. amazon turns out to be yet another big corporation, big tech basically enforcing the prevailing ideology of the time and the worry some of us has is what happens next.

i read the book when it came out, it's a good book, it's on an important subject. which books are they going to hideaway next? book next, will it be yours, will it be mine? once they decide that they know what hate is and they know what good is, they will just be another big company enforcing the same tedious but wrong ideology on the whole of america and we will be expected to suck it up, and we shouldn't. >> tucker: and with these conversations banned, the conversation will become much more radical. they are a betting radicalism you think the country's radical now? keep this up and find out what happens. you're always welcome on the show. thank you for joining us tonight, i appreciate >> thank you. >> tucker: we are out of time sadly. hard to believe how fast that once, thank you for watching. we'll be back tomorrow night and every night, 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink.

have a great night, and now, from new york, the great sean hannity about 12 seconds early. >> sean: it's 8, but who's counting because i'm looking -- i'm kidding. i appreciate the extra time great show as always, thank you. welcome to "hannity." buckle up, we've got a lot of breaking news tonight, it was a big week and for the president at cpac. 97% approval of his policies just 24 hours ago he delivered a powerful speech in orlando florida. meanwhile, president biden was in houston, texas, where my yeah, once again he provided yeah, once again he forgot what he was doing and who he was with during a very rare public appearance away from the white house. we have the highlights, the low lights, coming up but first another day, another scandal for new york governor andrew cuomo and only moments ago it got exponentially even worse. not only was cuomo forced to hire a criminal defense attorney to represent him in the probe surrounding the covid nursing home cover