without you guys. you know who will be here next week? trey gowdy. i'm lawrence jones and tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, welcome to tucker carlson. happy friday. the greatest threat we space, q anon, but you may be wondering, just how dangerous is q-anon? >> the district columbia national guard announced today that all troops who took part in the mission to protect our democracy from internet conspiracy theorists will now receive medals in recognition of their heroic sacrifice. the primary medal is called the presidential inauguration support ribbon. that's for people who were there for president biden's

inauguration. but that medal will be supplemented in cases in which our heroes have earned it by the emergency service ribbon. if you've been on guard in the city protecting american trump voters you can add another medal to your chest. according to air force lieutenant colonel carver, and we're not making this up, he made the announcement, "other federal declarations are also being considered." wow that seems like a big deal. more than 60,000 american soldiers and marines fought in the south pacific in world war ii. about 15,000 of them died or were wounded there but not one of those, not one, got an official canal medal for the experience because the pentagon didn't offer them. it may have been horrible and bloody, but it just didn't justify its own ribbon. the canal wasn't north capitol street. the imperial japanese weren't as

fanatical as trump voters and not half as dangerous. no medal. so yesterday, they told us, the war likely to escalate intensely. march 4 would be the tet offensive in the fight against right wing insurrectionism. it was called q-anon inauguration day. we we never heard of that, but the fbi has been monitoring signals intelligence for the neophytes. that means tweets, facebook posts, tik tokes, james bond stuff. according to what our guys were hearing in the field q-anon was preparing an invasion of washington and that means thousands of bearded groovy shamans and fighting hats marching across the key bridge to pillage georgetown cupcakes and end our democracy. it's a gruesome site. nancy pelosi stopped work so members of congress could flee the city for their lives and many did. a congressman from new jersey,

he wrote this, poignant. this all seems absurd if it wasn't frightening. he prepared to flee the capitol and wrote his in effect diary on twitter. now our legislative plan tomorrow has been canceled as we're rushing tonight to finish the work we planned to do. thousands of national guard and capitol police will be on edge tomorrow as they stand watch over the capitol. worried about possible attacks by american citizens. he was panicked. he sounds like a man preparing for the worst. another wave of sadness comes from the fact this is not getting better. the fbi director said this threat is met tass sizing, so andy kim became a refugee in his own country but not everyone ran from the sound of the q-anon shamans. a few ran toward the sound. that's what they do. chris bed for the of the federalist is a man like that. while elected representatives were clinging to the struts of the last chopper out of the city

chris was at the capitol itself, center of the battle. here was the scene there. >> i was told that all the conservatives were causing insurrection. am i at the wrong place? >> tucker: no, there was simply no one there. it took the "washington post" five crack reporters to determine. this they rushed to the scene. their conclusion, on capitol hill, wrote the five "washington post" reporters, "the streets are quiet. people walk their dogs in the morning sun. students sat on steps drinking coffee. construction crews continued with their projects." that was their dispatch. jeff bezos spared no expense. one reporter assigned to monitor the construction cruz. another on the dog walking beat. no one there. so why wasn't there anyone there? where was the q-anon battle? what q-anon battle? no one thought there was going

to be a q-anon battle. >> have we learned more about any specifics of this threat or are you starting to think this is under the umbrella of maybe we're being a little more pre-cautious since we underreacted on january 6? >> definitely the latter, chuck. no question about it. the intelligence that was gathered by law enforcement, i'm told, was of a specific group, talking about the idea of doing an attack on the capitol today on march 4. in other words, aspirational. i don't think anybody expected anything to happen today, but nonetheless, you know, an abundance of caution seems to be the watch grace here. >> being pre-cautious, totally unfamiliar with his native language, pre-cautious not being an actual word in english but the key line from that clip and the one you need to remember is, i don't think anybody expected

anything to happen on march 4 at the capitol, but wait a second. you stickle for precision might be asking. didn't the fbi arab bulletin warning the country that a military force was planning to seize control of the capitol building? and didn't they put up razor wire around the whole place and sent in thousands of soldiers with rifles? and didn't congressman kim and his friends run away in sadness and terror and then tweet about it? yes. that all happened but it wasn't a big deal. it was just a drill. a drill. you can relax now, as you were. now, that's one explanation for the empty capitol yesterday. but by the time night fell, and the city remains quiet except, of course, in the poor neighborhoods where people are still shooting one another in ever growing numbers, and no one noticing, bit time night fell msnbc had decided that, in fact, they had saved the day. it turns out q-anon didn't invade washington because neo-liberal cable news anchors successfully defended our country.

what joshua chamberlin was to little round top, chris hayes was to q-anon inauguration day. watch. >> this was the scene in washington, d.c. where two months after the attempted insurrection the area around the capitol is still on lockdown because of worries of postings about another plot for another violent attack today. thankfully nothing happened. >> 6-4 is a weird one. hang on with me, and i will say that media coverage of how silly this all is made it seemingly less palatable for q-anon people over the last week. it always is with these people. luckily they stayed behind a computer. >> tucker: it totally makes sense. it turns out q-anon's battalions looked to msnbc for their news coverage. it's on in the q-anon break room and after watching chris hayes and brandy flex their intellectual muscles they realized they were totally outgunned. these msnbc people are just too

clever. so q-anon decided to stay home and fight another day. "newsweek" for one was not buying that explanation. a reporter came up with this. q-anon theorists switched the date to march 20 after no trump inauguration, they call the march 4 date a false flag. how did "newsweek" know what q-anon was up to? well, because a man called ken had "told reporter david weekle that donald trump will be inaugurated again on march 20." a dave weigel. ken told dave the real invasion will be march 20. so be afraid. at some point, listening to these various explanations, the hysteria never ending, you've got to wonder how the democratic party and its mignons in the news media are different from any other doomsday cult.

they are always telling us the world is going to end, whether it's from global warming or a white nationalist insurrection, and when the world doesn't end, they don't even pause and they don't seem ashamed. they just change the date of the world ending. it's all pretty embarrassing but they never seem embarrass. jean dixon used to do this. remember her? she was a professional psychic? she wrote a column in hundreds of papers for decade. she once predicted the world would end on february 4, 1962. did it end? no, it didn't. spoiler alert. the world didn't end in 1962 and when it didn't jean dixon just extended the timeline and then predicted armageddon in 2020. she was long dead by 2020 and didn't have to explain why the world still existed. not that anyone would have asked. so it looks like nancy pelosi is our jane dixon. a batty old soothe sayer who just happens to run the

congress. how long until that ken guy who talked to dave winds up in an fbi bulletin justifying another extensive occupation of the capitol with more razor wire. really? i don't think these guns are powerful enough. we're not even joking. remember, the fbi send concerned with what's actually going to happen. they are concerned with what one or two random people write on line or put on tik tok and as long as what those people put on tik tok justifies more power for the people in charge, the fbi, their slave or servants, will put it all in a terror alert and scare the crap out of the country to give even more power to their bosses. how do we know? they do it a lot. they did it in january, and the media repeated it without any hesitation. >> armed protests are being planned for washington, d.c. and all 50 state capitols in the days leading up to joe biden's inauguration next week. >> capitols all across the america, all 50 state capitols under threat of armed protests

in the run up to inauguration. >> the worry now is that the targets could expand along with the planning. from the u.s. capitol to all 50 state companies. to so-called soft targets. mirroring those attacked by jihadi terrorists. >> an internal fbi bulletin obtained by cnn now says the bureau has received information indicating planning is now under way for armed, repeat, armed protests at all 50 state capitols and the u.s. capitol leading up to president-elect biden's inauguration. >> tucker: armed. repeat. armed. the dummies were terrified. they had a news alerts for you. q-anon was coming to "all 50 state capitols and the u.s. capitol," that's 51, okay? according to the fbi q-anon was about to go national if not international. the sleeper cells were going to activate and it wasn't simply cnn that obtained the memo. don had it but he wasn't the only one who had it. nbc had it, too, and nbc assured

us that our capitol is under threat. >> a new fbi warning, warning about -- >> perhaps on or around january 17 there is going to be the potential for armed protests at state capitols. >> tucker: oh, man. armed. armed. all 50 state capitols and the u.s. capitol. according to the fbi bulletin. whatever happened in those 51 armed protests? they came down actually to just one guy. a dude called mark -- you'll see him here peacefully waving a flag at the state capitol in baseball any, new york. here he is. >> i come out, wanting to be part of the patriot party and join supporters of trump, and i find myself kind of by myself out here, but i came out here with nothing but peaceful intentions and to be peaceful, i

wanted everything to be peaceful. >> tucker: have you ever noticed how the like scary internet conspiracy theorists, radical q-anon people, you actually see them on camera or in jail cells as a lot of them now are, maybe they are kind of confused or have the wrong ideas, they are all gentle people, waving american flags. they like the country. they are not torching wendy's. they are not looting retail stores. they are not shooting cops. no, that's not them. the other people are doing that. that guy, with the beard, good thing he wasn't shot to death by the police, like ashley babbitt. he might be if he tried that today. what's amazing that even as they lie to us, again and again and again, about the threat of q-anon and the insurrection and the white supremacist militia hiding in the closet, hyping it all beyond recognition, doing it for their own psychological reasons obviously but also for political reasons, if they do all of that, they ignore actual violence in this country.

violence that's rapidly accelerating in every city in the nation and killing a lot of people. this has been going on for months. watching a.p. reporter, john le mere, deny this week that there were violence blm riots this summer. this clip is real. >> in june these were nonviolence protestors, racially mixed. a lot of young people fueled by the black lives matter, outraged by the death of george floyd, a black man killed under the knee of a white police officer in minnesota. there was no violence there. the biden was has made it clear that they think the threat posed by domestic terrorism is -- like isis, which is such a sobering thought that fellow americans could be perceived as such a dangerous threat to their countrymen and women. >> tucker: there was no violence in minneapolis? have you been been there? we were there two weeks ago. go to where george floyd died. outside the market where he died

on the sidewalk. the whole area is trashed. the police station down the roads is still boarded up because the lunatics burned it. there was no violence. no, it was more like a pepsi commercial. it was multiracial. they were holding arms. no. it was q-anon who did it. it was q-anon who burned hundreds of buildings. killed more than 20 people. shot more than a dozen cops during the george floyd riots. it must have been q-anon. everyone knows that because q-anon, repeat after us now 15,000 times, q-anon is the real threat. who better to speak to about this, chris bedford of the federalist? he was the first correspondent on the scene of yesterday's q-anon insurrection and he joins us tonight fighting his way through the ptsd to tell us what you saw. you're a brave man. tell us what you saw there. >> i am very brave and thank you for acknowledging that. it was risky down there. i saw joggers.

i heard birds. the it was mild weather and i'm light-skinned, i had to wear suntan. i tell you what, they looked a little bit more bored. i think they were less on edge than the congressmen and women scurrying beneath tunnels as opposed to walking through hallways a hundred meters to where any american could get to within range of them. i do have to wonder, here in washington, d.c. it does feel like the world did end in 2020 and i'm starting to wonder if he did sober up when he said he thought half the country were deck terrorists but here in d.c. where it's occupied, and because of a police force, capitol police force, which largely has been trained to check tickets and badges, was unable to hold back a mop when they were unprepared by the their leadership, a month, by the way, as opposed to a normal army, had three people die of heart

failure. it wasn't a big healthy army coming at them. they were unable to hold that back and now their acting chief pittman is trying to blame the american people, trying to politicize this for nancy pelosi, her boss, and trying to say this city should remain occupied for the next two months at least. >> tucker: i think we're going to blow this up into a much bigger segment next week but i'm hearing tonight from sources at the police department, metropolitan police in washington, that the capitol hill police, new chief is requesting a budget multiple that of the city's police force just to protect members of congress. 535 people. where as the rest of the city's police force is abandoning the city, hundreds of cops have already quit. the police academy apparently is virtually empty, and the city is getting way more violent. you live there. is that what it feels like to you? >> it does feel like that. our neighbors talk about it. i don't live in a very conservative neighborhood here in washington, d.c. the neighbors are concerned when

they are looking out the windows and want to make sure this rising crime, mothers with children getting carjacked not too far from here, the kind of crime we haven't seen in d.c. in a number of years, wasn't happening. the capitol police is not a traditional police force despite their elite name. a lot of those officers aren't given the training they would need, for example to even transfer to a local police department or to mpd. they won't accept that training because it's not up to their standards. the same thing with the physical fitness. the capitol police officers know this. they don't like their leader. they had a vote of no confidence in the leaders, including the current acting chief just last month and if you talk to them when you're walking in and out, few americans who can, they will shake their head and say, our leaders are not watching out for us. they are just using us as pawns to help out the democrats. >> tucker: we've seen this before and their leaders are going along with it. and so is chris wray who should be ashamed of himself. i appreciate your bravery.

hope to see you soon. >> see you soon. >> tucker: mckenzie and company is a global company that has a huge effect on how business is done around the world and if you ask them what they do, what are they? one of them is, of course, covering up for mass murder gi communist party of china. now we're learning according to a report, that mckenzie may have helped andrew cuomo try to avoid responsibility for killing thousands of nursing home patients. that's straight ahead.

. >> tucker: mckenzie and company is one of the biggest consulting firms in the world but more than that it's an employment agency for the children of our ruling class. bill clinton's daughter worked at mckenzie. our transportation -- worked there after he came back. mckenzie has made a ton of money and on a simple one, make as much dough from your clients by telling them whatever they want to hear in. april of last year we saw this on stark display. we talked to a mckenzie executive, walker. he had no problem explicitly

defending the communist party of china and its response, totalitarian response to the coronavirus. >> to look at the results, okay? i know there is always going to be questions about exactly what the numbers are, but i think the harsh action that they took, given the scale of china and the number of big cities in it was exactly what they needed to do to be able to prevent the outbreak from going any further, and the reality is, the outbreak hasn't gone must have beyond wuhan. >> tucker: that was in april, by the way. the outbreak hasn't gone much beyond wuhan. right. it's not transmissible person-to-person. so now we're learning that mckency also helped to cover up deaths in nursing homes in new york. according to a report from foxnews.com, mckinsey played a

key role in the july 6 report, that he deliberately died about nursing home deaths. you shouldn't focus on it because it doesn't matter but the fact that cuomo said naughty things to women. that's a much bigger deal than killing a lot of elderly people with the help of mckinsey. yesterday one of those women spoke to cbs news. >> do you believe he was propositioning you? >> yes. >> for what? >> sex. >> so you think all this national attention may have emboldened him? >> absolutely. i think he felt like he was untouchable in a lot of ways. >> did you watch governor cuomo's apology? >> i did. it's not an apology. it's not an issue of my feelings. it's an issue of his actions. >> tucker: do you believe he was soliciting you for sex?

who cares, compared to killing thousands of elderly people in nursing homes and wrecking the state. do you believe? the fake solemnity is repulsive. talk about missing the story every single time. tell us, do you understand what's going on with andrew cuomo? i think there are all kinds of very good reasons to believe that cuomo is one of the worst governors, along with whitmer in the united states. i have never done anything like that at work, come on, now. however is that really bigger than killing people in nursing homes? what is this? >> it's meant as a distraction but i have to say really quick, mckinsey has crept up again. settling for $6 million their role in the opioid crisis.

let's show this shiny object over here to distract from this absolute embarrassment of cuomo and his policies decimating and killing over 15,000 elderly in the state of new york, and it's embarrassing for the media on the left because this is a guy they were lauding. they were holding him up. they gave him an enemy and now as the scandal starts to unfold he becomes an embarrassment to them but they won't admit because if they address it, it becomes an embarrassment to them. and at the same time, distract from our lack of coverage that we knew was unfolding back in may of last year. the other thing they get is this. you get this embarrassment out of the way and take him out of the presidential run in 2024 and help clear deck for kamala because we all know biden is a one termer, if that. >> tucker: if that. they don't want to talk about it because their kids work there. appreciate you coming on tonight.

>> thanks, tucker. too two might have thought open sesame was an innocuous phrase, but there is idea for a better fundraise, one that involves joe biden. former congressman patrick kennedy is here to tell us why in an amazing story that big marijuana is trying to shut him down. that's straight ahead. 4

. >> tucker: the speaker, joe biden and pelosi appeared at a conference. it was mostly an unremarkable event but one moment stuck out. toward the beginning pelosi declared her grandchildren no longer used the phrase open sesame. >> we do not say open sesame. we say open biden. that's our magic word. >> open biden.

i love it. >> tucker: we say open biden. what does that mean? we have no idea. waiting for a response from the speaker's office. we'll bring it to you when we get it. patrick kennedy is a former member of congress. like so many people you know he struggled for years with substance abuse, but unlike a lot of people you know, he beat it. and he turned his life around completely and he's devoted the rest of his life to helping other people who struggle with drugs and alcohol. if there is one thing this country needs, it's more people like that. it's not about politics. it about saving people from their demons. so patrick kennedy might be a perfect person to serve as drug czar in this administration but bloomberg news is reporting that corporate marijuana interest, big weed, is doing everything it can to keep him from getting that job and we thought we would ask him what this is about. patrick kennedy joins us tonight. congressman, thank you so much

for coming on. >> thanks for having me, tucker. >> tucker: what is that it corporate interests don't want you to say about marijuana? >> well, as we know, we love our addictions in america, and, you know, i think it's a big profitable business, and, of course, real profit comes when people do not drink responsibly. i don't think alcohol makes its money off of people who drink responsibly. they make their money off of people like me, who drink more than they should, and we know that they also make money off of, you know, kids, and we have seen it in the past, both big tobacco, and big alcohol, really market to children. you see hard lemonades and hard liquor that's now advertised, of course, on cable television, and we all remember joe camel, and we know the flavored tobacco,

and now we have the jaroule and making going on. it's not surprising that the owner of natural barrow and those cigarette brands invested in julule, at the same time they invested heavily into the cannabis industry and they are making a strategic bet that we're going to legalize and commercialize in this country. they eat it through something called edibles, where it's thc-infused foods and they drink it through something called elixers. tucker, i've got five kids and i know they are going to be primed to suffer from addiction. part of addiction runs in your

genes, and -- but the other part is when it happens because young people's brains aren't fully formed. and kids today are panicked, anxious, depressed. of course, why wouldn't they be given the unsettled economy and the covid and impact of it. so it's natural that people want to self-medicate. we're seeing a much higher consumption of alcohol and antidepressants, and the thought is that we almost have a perfect storm for people wanting to consume marijuana. let's be honest. it's a very anxious time. but as a nation we ought to be thinking about the long term impact of this, and, you know, your previous speaker was talking about mckinsey pumping up purdue pharma. we all remember it was marketing so much more oxycontin than was really necessary for people with cancer, and the reason they did

that is because the profits were real. the greed paid off for purdue, until the settlements came, and many people scratch their heads and say, how could we ever have let purdue pharma and the other big pharma manufacturers just flood the marketplace, and all i would say to them is, if you think that's awful, why are you about to let it happen all again? i mean, you know, some people might say marijuana isn't as addictive as oxycontin or isn't as addictive as alcohol but it's all about degrees. the fact of the matter is we know if a young adolescent, who is suffering from stress and anxiety uses marijuana it's going to make them feel better and if they are anything like me and if there is just a percentage of them that are prone to be addicted, have the disease of addiction, then we're going to see that many more people ultimately suffer the disease of addiction in their

lives, and i know it is a plague. i know addiction is a plague. i've seen it up close in my family. i've suffered in my own life. i have seen it with my friends, and i don't think our country is really up for this trade-off in order to have a commercialized product that's so addictive, and being able to pay the price for that down the road with all the people that will suffer from this disease. i just don't think people care. i'm really concerned that we're not as sensitive about the disease of addiction. >> tucker: nobody is saying what you're saying. the social pressure, not to say what you're saying is intense. we have no debate about this in public right now and that's why i'm so grateful you came on tonight and i hope your voice remains in public, challenging people to answer the questions you just raised because no one is being forced to. patrick kennedy, thanks for coming on tonight. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: so does google have more power than the u.s. constitution? i don't know.

how about this story? one high school principal was suspended earlier this year for criticizing silicon valley and de fending the principle of free speech. that principal fought and battled to get his job back and he joins us to tell us exactly what happened next. ♪ ♪ learning is hard work. hard work requires character. 8

. >> tucker: -- is a high school principal in tennessee. after the riot at the capitol on january 6 he started noticing some of the country's most powerful companies had begun a campaign of mass censorship. twitter and youtube deleted accounts they didn't like including the president's accounts. amazon, google and apple forced parlor off the internet entirely. that's when barton thorn decided to deliver this video message to his students. >> twitter, facebook, google and apple are so powerful, and they have unilaterally made a decision of what you can and cannot see on their platforms, that's a major issue and i want you to understand that. i want you to understand the problem that's going to face you and your generation if there is no longer a marketplace of free

exchange of ideas. >> tucker: every word of that is true. no one can credibly claim otherwise. it's factually correct but for the crime of criticizing silicon valley, the publicly traded monopolies that control our intellectual life, for doing that, he was suspended by shoal by county school district. he filed a lawsuit and was immediately reinstated. he's a brave man and joins us now with his attorney. thank you both for coming on. mr. thornton, first to you, what was the justification? i thought we were allowed to criticize whatever we want but criticizing billion dollar monopolies that control speech, that's now a crime in shelby county? what did they say to you? >> thank you, tucker for having me, and first i want to say, i'm here as just a private concerned citizen, not in any official

capacity as a principal, but, you know, when we -- when all this came out, i gave a monday message to all my students, i try to encourage them, motivate them, challenge them to think and some people made some anonymous complaints and when i was asked about it, i specifically asked what was it that i said, what's the issue? let's talk about it and what was told to me it wasn't what i said, it was when i said it and the timing so i never got that answer, but, you know, we were just really concerned about where this is going and where it's heading, that just a regular ole person like me, can espouse american values and what's been core to our country for hundreds of years, and somehow now that's taboo and off limits, so we're just really concerned about that and not really willing to lay down about

this one. >> tucker: i want to ask your attorney a legal question. is criticizing google a fireable offense now in the united states? >> of course not, tucker. this is one of the most blatant examples of cancel culture that we've seen in our country to date. and the irony here is that principal thorne was telling his students about the dangers of cancel culture, about the speech police that come after regular everyday people, and he's the one who ends up getting canceled. >> tucker: i hope you sue these people into oblivion. you don't have to comment on that but that's my fervent hope. i'm grateful you came on. it's one of the most shocking stories that i think we've ever put on this show. thank you both. >> thanks for having us. if it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. >> tucker: got speed. everyone should fight back. no one is talking about it because everyone ignores the big things. we've been in afghanistan for

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>> tucker: the american invasion of began way back in october 2001 in response to 9/11. afghans were sheltering saudi who is committed the terror attacks. they were trained there. the question is why do we still have troops there almost 20 years later? the answer is not for national security reasons but because our leaders sees it as a handy place to conduct social science experiments, like george soros my fund. they believe they need to be bond into submission. maybe we should bond them until they accept gender neutral pronounce. that may be one of the objectives over at the pentagon. the latest evidence comes from

vox.com. in a recent meeting the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff got emotional during a meeting about withdrawing from afghanistan. we can't do this, he said. if we leave afghanistan, women's rights will "go back to the stone age." so even if the biden white house people asked what does that have to do with our national security objectives? one official called millie's little speech called "a lot more emotion than substance." it wasn't "super logical." but there is a logic to u.s. and the u.s. government and the pentagon and state department who have been hopelessly captured by the left when we weren't paying attention they have been implementing these plans around the world and particularly in afghanistan. a report last month from the inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction outlines our government's efforts to achieve "gender equality in afghanistan." i bet you didn't think that was part of the mission, did you? you thought it was defeating terror. no, it was changing the

traditional afghan family structure. why is that our business? why is that our job? isn't that cultural imperiallism? shut up, we're doing it anyway. they have dispersed more than $874 million to support afghan women and girls. that doesn't sound bad. has it improved their lives has bringing third wave feminism to afghanistan be good for the people of afghanistan? there is no evidence that it has. it's caused a lot of disruption. the inspector general's report notes among other things, that there is no word for gender or gender equality in any of the languages used in afghanistan. it's just not their culture. we don't care. the inspector general also found that our quota system for female politicians in afghanistan, bet you didn't think we had one of those but we do it hasn't worked. in fact, it's backfired. many of these politicians have never even visited the provinces

that they "represent." what the hell are we doing and why are we using the military to do it? colonel doug mcgregcer a combat veteran, a former senior adviser to the secretary of defense. he's been around this world his entire life and he joins us now to explain. doug, thanks for coming on tonight. why are we using the military to change the afghan family structure? >> i know the justifications sound lofty and moral, but in reality, they fall flat. afghanistan over the last 20 years has become the leading supplier of illegal heroin in the world. the heroin production industry in afghanistan employs at least 400,000 afghans, more people than are in the afghan military and security police. so it's hard to take that seriously. i think the real point is as follows. we have a globalist ruling elite in washington, d.c. it now includes the senior leadership in the pentagon as well as the state department, intelligence community.

people on the hill. and they decided that whenever we can, we need to intervene. privately, i think everyone knows the moment that you withdraw or disengage a couple of things happen. number one, everything you claim to have achieved falls apart instantly and secondly, it puts the four structure, whether it's in the marines, army, or special operations commander or anything else, at risk. so you have incentives in a perverse sort of way to do the wrong thing in perpetuity. >> tucker: but, i mean, it's our military. we can't allow this. i know that you have fought against this kind of thing for decades, and i really appreciate it and i'm glad to see you back on this show. doug mac gregor, thank you very much. >> we'll be back. it's the weaning starting tomorrow and we hope you spend with it the ones you love.

that's the most important thing of all. this show will be back monday night and every week night at 8:00 p.m. have the best weekend. ** . . >> sean: welcome to hannity. cuomo is refusing to resign or admit to any misconduct whatsoever. this as we're now learning that top cuomo aides purposefully covered up and rewrote a nursing home report to hide from the new york legislature the true covid-19 death toll number in nursing homes, plus one of cuomo's three sexual misconduct accusers has now come forward in a brand-new interview with very