watching this program, may have saved their relationship. thank you. i'm lawrence jones. i will be right back here tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy wednesday. we had one thing for you, now we have another, because things aren't changing enough in this country, or changing fast enough, we begin tonight with a fox news alert. we just learned the democrats in the congress are preparing a bill to pack the supreme court. to add four new justices to our supreme court. that would change the country forever. we are going to be monitoring this and bringing more details as we get them, but as of right now, we know these things: the bill is being led by congressman jerry nadler of new york, that's in the house. and in the senate by senator ed markey of massachusetts. again, packing the

supreme court, remember president biden said he was in paneling some kind of blue ribbon commission to consider this. now, elected democrats in the congress are trying to force it. joining us now to react as judge jeanine pirro, the host of "justice with judge jeanine." thank you for too much for joining us tonight. packing the supreme court, this is something franklin roosevelt tried, had to back off because it was considered too radical in the middle of the most radical legislative. back in american history, the new deal, this was too much? what would this mean if it were to happen? >> what this would mean, tucker, is that we would have another legislative body in the united states. congress has historically -- the supreme court has historically been filled by presidents who, when they are there, if there is a vacancy, they appoint someone in line with their thinking. so sometimes they are more liberal, sometimes they are more conservative. and i think when president trump had the ability to add three

justices, the left went crazy. now, biden wouldn't answer, if you'll recall, the question during the campaign, and neither would kamala harris answer, and now, they just had a committee that was supposed to look at it, now, all of a sudden, they have a bill, support and the house and in the senate. this will change the united states dramatically. the left will have the ability to have a court which is essentially nothing more than a legislative meaning body that will approve of all of issues that they are trying to make across-the-board in the united states. we will no longer have a supreme court that is based on the number of justices depending upon who the president is, and it will all be leaning toward the person who is in office and who has the power. this is madness. it's madness. as if the country isn't lost enough. >> tucker: i wonder if, just

by this happening, the country doesn't change. i mean, so people imagine the supreme court, our third branch of government, is essentially impartial. i mean, these are wise people with lifetime appointments was only job is to assess legislation against the constitution and decide whether it is consistent with that. democrats are now saying no more pretense, it is purely a political body that rubber-stamps our agenda. won't this change how people feel about the court? >> well, it will change what people feel about the court, but that won't make a darn bit of difference to the people who are in power who are determined to make sure that their agenda is past because you've got the president and you've got the congress, and now you've got the supreme court. i mean, look, you can look at amendments to the constitution and decide there are issues that really spin off of that amendment, when you have activists on the supreme court, they can take issues that we never considered constitutionale them the law of the land.

this is lunacy. whether it has to do with unions or criminal justice or whatever their agenda is for the day, there is no longer an objective body that the united states can respect. supreme court of the land. we will lose all respect for that court as nothing more than a political -- political legislative body. for the democrats. >> tucker: i think that is wide, and i think your first observation is every bit as wise, which is they don't care what you think, which is not the way we think of democracy. any democracy, our leaders care what we think, by jeff that mel ott definition. judge jeanine, i appreciate it so much. thank you. amazing, the most radical moment in american history and we are living through it together. and now this. the ironically named civil rights division of the biden justice department announced today there will be no charges brought against the man who shot and killed protester ashli babbitt in the capital back in january. no one who pays attention and was surprised to hear this. in cases like this, the benefit

of the doubt usually does go to law enforcement, as we have often said we are fine with that. it should. but still, in a free society, the rest of us have a right to know roughly what happened. in this case, we have a right to know who shot ashli babbitt and why? no one will tell us. the biden administration says the man who killed babbitt is a capitol hill police officer and he did the right thing, that is all they've said. we know that ashli babbitt was short, she was female, and she was unarmed. there was no evidence the officer who killed her gave any kind of verbal warning before he pulled the trigger. is that now standard procedure? we imagine the rules of engagement for federal agents were limited to the use of deadly force in situations where law enforcement has reason to believe they or the people they are around are in imminent danger of being harmed. you can't just shoot people without warning because they are in the wrong place. that is not allowed. except now apparently it is allowed. so when did these rules change,

and once again, who exactly shot ashli babbitt? journalist exist to ask these questions, but they are not asking them. "the washington post" wrote a long story today about the doj's announcement and never raised a single one of these questions. the post did not name the shooter or even acknowledge that the government is withholding the name of the shooter. "authorities determines that there was insufficient evidence to prove babbitt's civil rights were violated," the post declared, and that was it. the rest of the piece was a personal attack on ashli babbitt and on her political views. she deserved to die. that was the point of "the washington post" story. how amazing, to read something like this, especially now. 1100 miles from washington, in brooklyn center, minnesota, a police officer accidentally reached for her gun instead of a taser and killed a man called daunte wright. it was a tragedy. all shootings are a tragedy. but we know that officer's name because every news organization in the country printed it

immediately. she has now resigned, she is now facing charges. her mug shot is everywhere. it is all over the internet. that is why two nights ago, a mob showed up at her house and forced she and her husband to flee. she is not the only one. last august, a police officer in kenosha, wisconsin, shot a man called jacob blake. do you remember that? riots erupted immediately. well, yesterday, that officer was cleared of all charges. in that story broke, npr, national public radio, put that police officer's name and photograph on the front of their website. so that is the standard. except in this case, where they are still hiding the identity of the officer who shot ashli babbitt. are you sensing a theme here? the standard that big news organizations used to cover shootings depend entirely on the political views of the people who get shot. when "the washington post" does not like the candidates you vote for, they suppress the details of the case. in the case of ashli babbitt, we know next to nothing about how she died, and we wouldn't know anything if her shooting hadn't

been captured on video by people who don't work at "the washington post." one of those people is a video editor from texas called samuel montoya. montoya was in the u.s. capitol that day. montoya does not look much like a white supremacist. he has no criminal history that we are aware of. on january 6, samuel montoya took what may be the clearest video of ashli babbitt's death. >> okay, they are trying to break in. [indistinct shouting] the police are evacuating. [bleep]. >> tucker: so there are a lot of things to notice about that tape. it is a very sad tape. but here's what jumps out. ashli babbitt had no weapon. she was not attacking anyone. she could not attack anyone because she was climbing through a window at the moment she was

shot. but what is most striking and never discussed is that several capitol hill police officers in paramilitary gear, the guys with the helmets and cameras, were standing directly behind ashli babbitt when she was killed. they were carrying what joe biden refers to as weapons of war, loaded ar-15. so explain to us slowly how ashli babbitt posed an imminent physical threat to anyone when she was killed. well, she didn't. samuel montoya's footage proves it, and we are grateful we have that tape. we did not have the tape, "the new york times" or be telling us that ashli babbitt was beating people to death with a fire accident was her when she was killed, but thanks to samuel montoya, "the new york times" cannot claim that. we would love to have samuel montoya tonight on the show to describe what he saw that day, but we can't do that because he is in jail. yesterday, a large group of armed federal agents showed up at montoya's home in austin, texas. they smashed his front door, they confiscated his electronic devices, and they threw him in jail.

he is still there. he is behind bars right now. so what was his crime? well, to find out, we read the biden administration's arrest warrant application. the fbi says it began investigating samuel montoya after one of his family members provided "proof that montoya was physically inside the u.s. capital during the shooting of a woman on january 6, 2021." to be clear, montoya did not shoot the woman, ashli babbitt, he just happened to be nearby. but wait a second. weren't there plenty of journalist inside the capitol on january 6th? according to cnn, yes, there were. cnn ran a piece telling us that "congressional reporters became the country's eyes and ears as rioters stormed the capital." so the question is, why hasn't the fbi arrested the people that cnn identified in its story? the photographers from getty, for example, the political reporters from nbc news, the congressional correspondence from cnn, itself, and from the

ap? well, that is a good question. the fbi explains why in the warrant affidavit. "at times during the video, montoya describes himself to others inside the capitol building as a reporter or a journalist as he attempts to get through the crowd. and yet, the fbi concludes, the director of the national press e press office did a name check on samuel christopher montoya and confirmed that no one by that name has congressional press credentials as an individual or via any other or news organization." oh, so that is a standard. if the u.s. congress is credentialing offices said you are not a journalist, then you are not a journalist. did samuel montoya have strong personal political views? apparently he did. you may have noticed that is not so unusual in journalism right now. so why is journalist samuel montoya behind bars tonight? well come he committed a crime. "interfering with government business." in other words, trespassing. okay. if this happened in ukraine,

what are the chances that nbc news would describe samuel montoya as a dissident journalist? and then describe ashli babbitt as an unarmed pro-democracy demonstrator? the chances are roughly 100%. but this is america, and they are not saying that. instead, they are telling us that ashli babbitt deserved to die. >> she embrace conspiracy theories. name is ashli babbitt, 35 years old. she tweeted about pizza gate, tweeted thousands of tweets to fox news hosts, she engaged in social media with the conspiracy news internet site info wars, in 2020, she began to tweet with qanon accounts, qanon hashtag. >> tucker: c, not a pro-democracy demonstrator, not an unarmed military veteran. no, she sent tweets to fox news hosts, so no problem, ashli babbitt got what she deserved. what is amazing is not simply the grotesque cruelty of assessments like that, a young woman is shot to death and the media plot her death, no, what is more amazing is the contrast

between this and the coverage of other violence that is now in progress. last night, biden voters burned a police building in portland, oregon. did you know that? probably not. didn't get much coverage. in the wake of daunte wright's death the other day, riots broke out all over the country, in new york, philadelphia, chicago, minneapolis. here's what brooklyn center, minnesota, looked like on sunday night. [indistinct shouting] >> tucker: they are stealing stuff off the shelves. but don't call it looting. no, that is a peaceful demonstration. we know that because the mayor of brooklyn center, mike elliott, told us so. two nights ago, mayor elliott

tweeted a picture of himself on the scene, "earlier this evening, i have the opportunity to go talk to these peaceful protesters," he wrote. "our city's call now." here's the funny thing, the mayor was wearing a kevlar helmet in the picture he tweeted out. that is not in syria, that is in his own town. that is how peaceful it was. he was wearing a kevlar helmet. whatever else he is, mike elliott is not a very effective liar. others, by contrast, have decided to drop the pretense entirely. blm leader bree newsom no longer talks about peaceful protest. she doesn't want those anymore. "i'm definitely in the camp of defending looting and rioting as a legitimate politically informed response to state violence." she wrote that any tweet that the twitter sensors have pointedly left up. in case you are guessing, of course, bree newsome is a child of privilege. only privileged people could be that decadent. what's really striking is that

bree newsome once committed a more aggressive version of the offense that samuel montoya is charged with. a few years ago, bree newsome trespassed at the capital and south carolina and ripped down the flag. she also trespassed in the state lawmakers office and refused to leave. is she rotting in jail? [laughs] no. she was arrested briefly, and then she drew praise from no less than hillary clinton herself. either a clinton endorsed at that particular insurrection. but not everyone gets the same treatment, you may have noticed, and that should worry you, no matter who you voted for, no matter how fervently you may support joe biden. this is a huge, society-ending problem. laws have no meaning if they are not applied equally. when they are not applied equally, they are not even laws. they are purely tools of persecution. and you don't want to live in a country like that. even if people you don't like are the ones being persecuted.

but rashida tlaib does want to live in a country like that. tlaib is a member of congress so her security is never in question, never in doubt. she is surrounded by bodyguards carrying weapons of war, and now by thousands of federal troops that you are paying for, so she is fine. but in your neighborhood, rashida tlaib would like to see the police eliminated. "no more policing, incarceration and militarization," b26 wrote this week. "it can't be reformed." again, militarization is fine if the military is protecting her, she has federal troops. no, not for you. you get mob rule. we are not making this up. we are not misquoting her. she is demanding this in public as a member of congress, and many are. watch this character on msnbc tell you that we must abolish your police department immediately. >> i have been saying we need to abolish american policing as it currently exists. it doesn't work. you know the average homicides that are actually solved by

police departments? only about 35%. the number of rates of sexual assaults that are solved by police departments, less than 60%. do you know the percentage, likelihood of being shot unarmed is a black person is like five times as likely than a white person? policing does not work the way we are doing it right now. >> tucker: [laughs] privilege people telling you to abolish the police come over there not saying, actually come abolish the police, we often came they are but listen very carefully. they are saying they want to abolish american policing as it currently exists. and that raises the question, "how does policing currently exist?" here is how. local communities get to control it. so the cops walking down your street, you hired them. they work for your town. you pay their salaries. and that is what rashida tlaib doesn't like. that is what offends msnbc. the thing they hate about community policing is they don't control it. and that means they can't use

your local police department to punish you for your political views. for that, they have to go to the fbi, and it drives them crazy. so abolishing the police doesn't mean getting rid of people with guns. it merely and specifically means stripping you of any control over your local law enforcement. so it is a form of gun control what is meant to disempower the citizenry, not protect them. when your police department answers to them, things will be very different. to get a sense of how different, take a look at what the biden administration is doing in the state of oregon. in the past few days, federal prosecutors have essentially dropped half a dozen federal felony cases that arose from those famous riots in portland over the summer. the feds reached nonprosecution agreements. those agreements ensure that people who committed felonies will walk away with no criminal record of any kind. oh, samuel montoya is not getting bad. so, one of the defendants in oregon accused of doing?

well, much more than trespassing. one, charged with beating a portland police officer in the head with a wooden shield as he was trying to make an arrest. another was charged with trying to bring down a police aircraft with a laser pointer. now that is bad, obviously, but it is not quite as bad as, say, voting for donald trump, or walking around the u.s. capitol building with a camera. they will not have a criminal record by the end of this. samuel montoya, by contrast, could spend the next seven years in jail. you see what is going on. you hate even to say it out loud but it is too obvious to ignore. systems of justice. one for the allies of the people in charge, and a very different one for their enemies. the people doing this are not traditional liberals. they are not calling for a peaceful utopia where no one uses violence. this is not the famous tradition of mahatma gandhi and martin luther king. that was the old liberals. we used to make fun of it when

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foxnation.com right now -- and here is part that conversation. >> so probably the most memorable crime in the last decade took place, i believe in 2012, in miami. i think it was under a bridge. where a homeless guy grabbed a man and ate him, ate part of his face. he was accountable. he was famously -- everyone reading this, how this b24 does that happen, that is so horrifying it we want to know the details. we learned this homeless man has been smoking something that most of us had never heard of, sold in convenience stores, a series of stories about this. you tweeted something the other day that kind of shocked me. not the first time you shot me with your tweets. here's what you wrote: "fun fact: the 2005 miami bath salts attack was a cannabis only case." if you say i'm wrong on this, and just want to block you, the facts are unequivocal and i do not have patience for those who will not accept reality anymore." this was a couple days ago. what?

>> they checked his blood. he did not have any -- you can look for all these designer hallucinogens. he did not have those, he had cannabis. high strength, high potency thc is plenty psycho mimetic for most people, okay? it is a dissociative drug, and it can cause paranoia, and it can lead you almost to a full-blown trip if you are using a lot of it regularly. cannabis can cause a fair number of people, especially when you use heavily, to have a short-term psychotic reaction, a bad trip. >> tucker: but they are peaceful, because marijuana makes you peaceful, it is the mahatma gandhi drug. >> that's right. that is why violence has gone down so much in the united states in five years. >> tucker: i grew up in southern california and smoked marijuana as a child come everyone i knew believed that it mellowed you out. so we are saying there is evidence of the opposite? >> oh, yeah. again, there is something called

kenaf annoyed hyper nss. with what that basically means is uncontrolled vomiting as a result of thc. now, cannabis is supposed to settle you, settle your stomach. if you are nauseated, smoke, one of the famous uses -- >> tucker: of course -- >> for chemotherapy. >> tucker: for chemo patients. >> but it looks like there is a paradoxical effect if you use too much of it, the receptors in the brain, for some people, and they have this terrible uncontrolled vomiting. and in some places can actually kill. but i'm not exaggerating, becaue you become so dehydrated, it can kill you if you are not careful and can't get to an emergency room. so, paradoxically, in the short term, marijuana can reduce anxiety, certainly, and it can getting high. but it, like most antianxiety drugs, you can have bad rebound anxiety if you try to quit. that is true of benzodiazepine. further, cannabis has this effect on people where it makes

them paranoid. some people, some of the time, okay? and if you have this predisposition or if you are sliding into mental illness, and you start smoking a lot, you may sort of temporarily muffle that anxiety at the cost of your paranoid symptoms getting worse. and, you know, there's been a fair amount of research done into what causes people with severe mental illness to become violent, because this is something, again, this is why i am an annoyance to the mental illness community and mental health professionals, they hate talking about this even though they know it is true. psychosis is a very severe risk for violence. possibly the most sort of severe single risk, okay? people who are psychotic commit serious violent crime at rates, depending on the crime, anywhere from 2-20 times the average person, okay? and the more violent -- the more severe the violence, the higher the differential, okay? so when you look at what drives that risk, it is paranoia, more than anything else, and that

makes intuitive sense, right? if you feel someone is a threat to you, they are controlling your mind, or, you know, they are the devil, or whatever it is, you will feel justified in lashing out at them. >> tucker: yes. >> and so, a drug that induces paranoia, while at the same time sort of muffling your symptoms visibly for a while, can make you very dangerous. >> tucker: that conversation went on and went to very interesting places. just came out today. how do you get it? pretty easy. very easy, actually. even i can do it. go to foxnation.com, new episodes monday, wednesday, and friday. so we have asked the question a number of times on this show and it is a completely sincere question: does tony fauci believe the coronavirus vaccine works? we assume that it works. he does not seem to think it does. well, he responded to that this morning. we will show you what he said straight ahead.

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>> tucker: so you if you believe in science, and if you're grateful for vaccines, and we do and we are, then you should expect very straightforward answers to very simple questions about how they work. and for months now, we have been asking a very straightforward question about the coronavirus vaccine. why do people who take it -- and by the way, why do people who have been previously infected and show high levels of antibodies -- have to live under the restrictions that the vaccines were supposed to eliminate? why, for example, does tony fauci say you have to wear a mask after you get the vaccine? if we are following the science, and we sincerely hope to, as we are wondering, is fauci telling americans who have been vaccinated or who have been recovered from the coronavirus itself, that they aren't protected against future infections? is that why he is saying they can't eat in restaurants or go

to bars? these are not trick questions. they are the most basic of all questions. we would love to have dr. fauci on this show to explain them. but we have asked him enough that he finally took notice and this morning he went on cnn, but he didn't answer them. instead, he dismissed those questions as a conspiracy theory, and as he talks, you will notice the graphic on the screen -- here is what happened. >> what do you have to say to tucker carlson? >> that's just a typical crazy conspiracy theory. why would we not tell people if it doesn't work? look at the data. the data are overwhelming. in the three vaccines that have been approved for use in an emergency use authorization, the j&j, the pfizer, andy moderna, you had 30,000, 40,000, and 40,000 people in the clinical trial, with an overwhelming signal of efficacy, so i don't have any idea what he is talking about.

>> how dangerous is it for a tv personality who has an audience of millions to speculate about something like that? >> well, it is certainly not helpful to the public health of this nation, or even globally. >> tucker: wait a second. who is doubting that vaccines work? we never for a minute doubted it. we bought all of that stuff completely at face value. we believe in science. actually kind of trust the pharmaceutical companies a little bit to, so when they said the stuff works, we never questioned it. we assumed they had detailed studies showing that it does work. we still think that. the only reason we are asking the question is because the people in charge are acting like it doesn't work. you see the president of the united states wearing a mask outside. you see his vice president doing the same thing. you see the guy in charge of coronavirus response, the one you just saw, telling us, again, after you have had the vaccine, you must remain under the

restrictions. so we are asking a question that is rooted in science, which is why? if this stuff works, why can't you live like it works? what are you really telling us here? and by the way, this, again, is not a trick question, we are not playing word games here, what is the answer? if the coronavirus vaccine prevents you from catching the coronavirus, why are you wearing a mask? why can't you eat in a restaurant? and if it doesn't prevent you from catching the coronavirus, why are we taking it in the first place? both can't be true. so that is the question. it is not a conspiracy theory. as an american, you should ask it, too, if they are telling you you can't fly on a plane until you take a vaccination, which, by the way, won't allow e as you did in 2019, what are they saying? let's hope they explain it really soon, before people lose

faith, not just in them, but in science itself, and that really would be a tragedy. so, three weeks ago, the president put his vice president, joe biden put kamala harris in charge of the border. [laughs] how is that going? it's actually not funny. they are completely changing the population of the country when no one is noticing. kamala harris does not seem to be paying much attention to her new portfolio, either. she still hasn't been to the border, but according to "the washington post," which is on the case -- and by "on the case" we mean "lacking full-time for the new and administration,s has been very busy. this week, jeff bezos reported -- kamala harris has been making her mark on the washington area crochet scene. crochet, as any kind of knitting. she is our new crochet czar. she was recently spotted an old town alexandria across the river from d.c. >> i was raised by a mother who said "i'm not going to let you sit in front of that television doing nothing." and so, i have crocheted more --

[laughter] >> tucker: okay. mark steyn does not sit in front of the television doing nothing, either. he has written best-selling books and informed the country on what the news means. heat is also our crochet correspondent, and so he joins us tonight to assess what we jut saw. mark steyn, it is great to see you, and i get confused come over some of these handicrafts, but why are they covering this? >> well, i think she just made a rather remarkable confession there when she said "i have crocheted more afghans than i can tell you," i believe that as a war crime under the geneva conventions, and probably the real reason why we are pulling out of afghanistan in such a precipitous hurry. so these are not small admissions. you know, mark twain, who is a hate crime these days, but back before he was a hate crime, he

wrote a novel called "a connecticut yankee at the court of king arthur," in which the time traveling connecticut yankee is very bored by the local newspaper, "the court circular," at king arthur's court, which just reports on monday, the king wrote in the park come on tuesday, the king wrote in the park come on wednesday, the king road in the park. that is what "the washington post" does under democrat regimes. today, her royal highness, the princess, law, wrote in the park to her crochet shop, and it is presented with the usual glass ceiling rubbish. the first sentence in the story is "when vice president harris visited a woman-owned a yarn shop," a woman owning a yarn shop, tucker, that is shattering the glass ceiling. everyone knows the yarn shop is

owned by halliburton. a quote probably made by dick cheney over the weekend, and so even this, a woman-owned yarn shop, kamala harris, she is going to a woman-owned yarn shop by a woman who probably declares her pronouns as kamala declares her pronouns. why use to come as you mentioned at the top of the show, we live in activist, radical times, under an urgent, busy governmen, whether it is from packing the supreme court, or from its plan to federalize the voting system on the country, and yet, incredibly, the president and the vice president, who are the only elected members of the executive branch, seem to have virtually nothing to do with any of this hectic 24/7 governing. so what she is mainly crocheting is a huge, great subterfuge over who is really running this racket.

>> tucker: that is such a smart point, and "the washington post" is abetting the lie, obviously, obama, susan rice, others are running everything. but really quick, when the richest man in the world running the biggest monopoly in the world, amazon, buys the hometown newspaper of the government, maybe there is a reason, maybe should have paid attention to jeff bezos' purchase of "the washington post," and its intended outcome? >> yeah. actually, there used to be a lot of fuss and bother about this, as you will recall when mr. murdoch, who owns this network, they used to be all kinds of rules about how you can't own a newspaper and a television network in the same town, but basically, amazon, which is the company town for the planet under this lockdown, is allowed also to run the media. that should never have -- it's all a racket. and this idea, you know, the republicans will do the same thing when they win an election,

don't make me laugh, because they never do. >> tucker: yeah. the guy who owns china's largest retailer also owns "the washington post," should make you nervous. crochet correspondent mark steyn. thank you. >> yeah. happy tapping, tucker, as a martian once said to me. >> tucker: [laughs] i don't even know what that says, but i appreciate it. you've seen the numbers, a figment of your imagination, meanwhile, the things you buy are much more expensive than they used to be three months ago. inflation is making every american porter. we will give you the outline of what is actually happening, they are not telling you about, after the break. ♪ ♪

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well, one way to measure that, probably the way that matters most come as what does it cost to buy things, the things that you need? is inflation real? are you paying more for gas, for example, or groceries anywhere a year ago? how about a month ago? well, we can measure that any real way. according to the bureau of labor statistics, consumer prices rose in march at the fastest pace in nine years. "new york times" told us to not be misled, it is not real, inflation is not real, but here are the numbers. gasoline prices rose over 9% in a single month. depending on where you live, gas may have risen even more. in washington, d.c., for example, the average price of gas last year was $2.16 a gallon. right now, it is over $3 a gallon. that is 40% in one year. and it is not just gas, oil markets are obviously very complex. everything has gotten more expensive, pretty much. the price of eggs increased by almost 5%. major appliances by almost 15%. fresh fruit, 5.6%. ground beef, 5.5%.

propane, kerosene, firewood, 16%. to heat your house. also up 16% is the median sales price of existing homes. in some places, it is up hundreds of percent. there has also been a massive increase in the selling prices from domestic production of goods. things like softwood lumber, that increased by 83.2% compared to this time last year. 83% for dimensional lumber. softwood, two by fours. what? oh, are we out of trees? we might be. plywood increased by 53%. so, the question is what does this mean for you? did your income goal of 83% last year? [laughs] probably not. it means you have a lot less money. your costs increase, your income doesn't, it becomes much more expensive to live, but again, according to "the new york times," don't worry about it. one of the headlines recently warned readers to "not get fooled" by the new inflation numbers because that is "looking

backward." it is inflation nonsense. it will disappear after the pandemic. again, we hope that is true. other news outlets are bold enough to admit yes, there is inflation, but not because of joe biden or his spending trillions of dollars per bill, no, you know what it is? it is climate change. [laughs] its climate change's doing. so, either inflation isn't real and you are a right-wing kook for thinking it is, $9.42 by four, it's always been $9. or, it tells you you do not believe in climate change, just shut up and obey, and that tells you everything, their response. again, nothing to see here, we hope they are right. well, we have heard a lot, endlessly, really come about hate crimes committed against asian-americans. you don't hear a lot about what exactly those crimes look like. one reporter has looked into that patient in some detail. he is with us next. ♪ ♪

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>> tucker: attacks against asian-americans are on the rise, we hear that a lot. we almost never hear details of the crimes. it's become a political cudgel. our friend jason rantz looked at the crimes and joins us tonight to explain what he has found. jason, thanks for coming on. >> a day after the atlanta shooting, chris hamner posted on facebook that we've "all had bad days but it never justifies hate crimes." the day before he allegedly committed a crime against an asian-american woman in seattle. screaming vulgarities at her. punching his fist into his palm like he was ready to attack them. luckily she was able to escape. this wasn't the only time he allegedly did this. online he's a model blm supporter, he slams cops and supports joe biden and hates donald trump. he speaks out against hate crimes and now he finds himself accused of anti-asian

hate crimes. he is behind bars right now at a time when we are told by activists and politicians that white supremacy and/or trump rhetoric has caused this increase in hate crimes against asian-americans. i took a look at the numbers. it's not there. being committed overwhelmingly by black men. >> tucker: the age of irony. jason rantz, thank you. sean hannity from new york. >> sean: thank you and welcome to "hannity." we begin tonight with this fox news alert. tomorrow house democrats will now introduce the bill we warned you about this, sponsored by jerry nadler to pack the u.s. supreme court. reportedly democrats want to expand the number of justices from nine to 13. this is nothing but an unbridled, unconstitutional authoritarian state power grab. it must not pass. the future of our republic between this and h.r. 1 is at stake. we have a lot more coming up