south carolina senator tim scott. a lot of great folks on board for analysis to tee it up and to review what the president said and senator scott says tonight. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for the "special report." fair, balanced, not afraid. "fox news primetime" hosted by tammy bruce this week starts right now. >> tammy: thank you, bret. i'm going to put on my seat belt now. good evening, everyone, and welcome to "fox news primetime." ♪ ♪ i'm tammy bruce. now, in just a little under two hours, president joe biden will deliver his first address to a joint session of congress in a speech that will likely be filled with the usual political platitudes, more phony calls for unity, and faint please to work across the aisle, along with round after ground of a democratic applause in the gallery, but there is also a lot that joe biden is not going to tell you tonight, a lots that biden is going to avoid, and a

lot of failures he is going to pretend don't exist. but we are here to do the job at biden and the democrats and the media won't do, which is to be actually completely honest about the joe biden presidency and honest about this agenda that is failing to deliver for the american people. and we start at the southern border, where joe biden and his first hundred days has presided over unprecedented security and humanitarian crisis and its worsening by the day. for example, the month of march saw the largest number of migrant children ever encountered at the border. and it's only expected to get worse. all while minors are crammed into overcrowded facilities, at risk of covid, but with resources strained and our brave border control overwhelmed. what is biden and the democrats response? we can i see, paralyze our border officials come and hamper american communities in these border towns. and the saddest part, it did not have to be this way. remember, trump's remain in

mexico policy was the most successful in decades, kept asylum-seekers in mexico until their cases were resolved, and reduced the chaos at border crossings around the country. but despite its successes, the biden administration got rid of it anyway. and where are the solutions? loko, there still aren't any because that would mean reinstituting donald trump's policies. the ultimate sin in the eyes of the far left. but it might surf the democrats well to consider for one second what the american peoplee thinking. according to pew research, more americans now consider illegal immigration a more important issue than covid. this is likely because the american people aren't in a coma, and see covid being thwarted, while the chaos at the border continues to burn out of control, affecting all aspects of american lives. and also during tonight's speech, don't expect biden to admit to his campaign lies about being a moderate and his phony commitment to unity and bipartisanship, because what

we've seen over the last 100 days is biden surrendering his agenda to the most extreme elements in his party and breathing life into some of the democrats most radical and reckless plans. like court packing and politicizing the supreme court, louder and louder calls to abolish the filibuster, d.c. statehood, and relentless attacks on our police as being "systemically racist." so let's be clear, there is nothing moderate about any of this, and nothing unifying about trillions and trillions of heavy spending to try and turn various far left fantasies into reality. remember, democrats snuck in a litany of partisan pet projects into the covid relief bill that had little to do with direct covid relief and everything to do with expanding the welfare state. like bailing out the failed blue states, dishing out hundreds of billions for schools, whether they reopen or not, along with other progressive priorities,

like obamacare expansion. and the massive infrastructure proposal seems to prioritize everything except traditional infrastructure spending, like roads and bridges, and instead is nothing more than a trojan horse to achieve their new green new deal goals. now what about biden continued to spew vicious racial rhetoric and lies to needlessly divide all of us? will the president of the united states demean our country and our people as racist? as his u.n. ambassador has done? will he repeat a libel against our family members who are law enforcement? and don't forget about the democrats hr 1 and sr 1 voting overhaul bills, backed by biden, which would federalize our elections, lead to more ballot harvesting, turn the fec into a partisan speech czar, and eliminate state voter i.d. laws. could their priorities be anymore divorced from the priorities of the american people? it's impossible, because when biden should have been focused

on things like getting all of our schools open and securing the border, he has been more interested in letting the left-wing radicals in his face set the agenda by endorsing and funding the scourge of critical race theory in schools and workplaces and bolstering the failed and rejected democratic party packs masquerading as unions in this country, all while they get a blank check to spend taxpayer money, but again, there is a method to their madness. could it be that biden and the democrats are starting to see the writing on the wall and see that with such a slim house majority, they are hell-bent on getting as much past and driving through as much of the far spending as possible, ahead of a shellacking that we expect in 2022? because in just 100 days, we have seen a coordinated effort to upend our constitutional order, overhaul the separation of powers, and inflict an unprecedented amount of coercion and control into the day-to-day

lives of ordinary americans. so, as you stay tuned to fox news tonight, and watch president biden speech, pay attention to everything he is not telling you. joining me now for reaction, victor davis hanson, senior fellow at the hoover institution. victor, we love seeing you. always a great perspective. i have laid this out. i think the best way i can. what is your take on what joe biden's intentions are, and if he really believes this is what people voted for? >> yeah, i think all of what you said was accurate, tammy, but he is counting on a 50% plurality because he is running as the man who killed covid. he has taken the trump vaccination operation warp speed and remanded it biden vaccination. he has taken the covid economy that trump had, and we are going to come out of a recession

quarantine, the biden boom, and he is going to say he is the uniter. that is not true and has a shelf life because as you pointed out, the border, energy, new regulations promised, new taxes, identity politics, reparation, they do not poll 50%, so he is going to have a waterloo, a reckoning, but i think his attitude is he's going to be the most left wing, progressive president in the next two years, visa of executive orders, and he does not care much about the midterm election. he does not care about a second term and feels liberated. but i am most liberated have a natural demand as people are being unleashed, but $4 trillion of funny money that has been printed with more 5.7 promise, people have less incentive to get out and work, there is a lot of stimulus money.

we have enormous increases in gas, cars, houses, appliance, food, already 7% -- >> tammy: tonight -- >> could be telling producers, meet the demand. here is more cheap gas, cheap oil, taxes are going to stay low under the trump reform, but we are doing the opposite. >> tammy: the message tonight -- >> more corporate -- he had -- >> tammy: the message tonight is creating a welfare state. >> consumption in. >> tammy: if people are looking for encouragement of how to behave and what to expect, there is going to be a litany of things he will be giving out free, which of course are going to cost a lot, but it is about free community college and child care and the expansion of obamacare, and this is a message to the american people, and this is a psychological message it, if you would agree with me, this

is a thing, you've got to be taken care of, there is not enough optimism, the future is one -- even though you saw it in the years of donald trump, i guess they are going to pretend that never happened, for those of us who grew up and remember jimmy carter and the desperation of that era, it sounds like we could be going the same direction. >> we have a building boom, and what are we telling them? more regulation, higher taxes, you made too much money, and you go to home depot or lowe's, and a four by eight sheet of plywood is $120 -- >> tammy: oh, man. >> people can't get lumber. gas in california is $4.03 a gallon, gone up a dollar, so what is happening, you are exactly right, we are discouraging the productive capacity to meet this natural and artificially stimulated demand, and we have been there. this generation that is young has not gone through the

jimmy carter stagflation years, and boy, it is not pretty, and we are going to see inflation plus a very slow growth, and if we don't -- if we go down the biden route. we've got about a year, and then we are going to have a reckoning. >> tammy: on paper, they say it is paid for, but the analysts are saying that in fact, maybe half is. they don't know where the other half is coming from, and it's a secret. it's not listed, it's not detailed on what the president's office released, and we are all supposed to pretend that we know how this is going to work out, and yet they seem to not know themselves, and this amount of money is inexplicable. it is an extraordinary amount of money, and the american people are hearing, well, only the rich -- this is where this class division happens. it's about class warfare and a welfare state. it's as though, you know, again,

trump never happened, that we didn't experience the economic and personal freedom we have the last four years, but we are slipping right back into that. for me, it is surprising that biden is so willing to issue this kind of attitude, when it does seem to be the opposite of what he has been doing for 50 years. do you think this is the real him, or is it just that he has been pushed along? >> i don't think he has ever -- there was ever a real biden anything. he was always a 51% opportunist. now i think he is tired of being the understudy of barack obama. he's going to go down in history as the next fdr, full foot on the pedal, he's not going to worry about it because of his age. he doesn't care. he does not want to fight the left at 78. he wants to say to the left "i did more for you" -- aoc said that -- "than anyone else has done." he is going to be famous in the annals of left-wing heroism. all these blue states and zip

codes with high income people voted for this, and they are going to be shocked when they see these regulations and higher taxes. it's targeted at them, actually. >> tammy: it is. look, thank you so much. you are absolutely right. he wants to overcome obama. that's got to be it. it's fascinating, because you've got everyone is saying they were surprised, but i guess this actually could have been and is predictable. victor, thank you so much for joining me tonight. i appreciate it. so next, how g.o.p. senator tim scott is suddenly becoming a media target, surprise. including "the washington post" telling the senator how he should respond to president biden speech tonight. congressman byron donalds has a lot to say on this one straight ahead. ♪ ♪ get to tell everybody how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? i mean it... uh-oh, sorry... oh... what? i'm an emu! no, buddy! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪

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>> tammy: ever since senator tim scott was picked by the g.o.p. to deliver its response to joe biden, the "the washington post" has done all he can to trash the senator and his history. the outlet first tried to fact-check whether scott truly went from cotton to congress but came up empty. now they are trying -- go but much to "the post"'s dismay, scott is expected to praise president trump with his operation warp speed in his rebuttal. let's bring in congressman byron donalds. congressman, thank you so much for joining me. i appreciate it. >> good to be with you, tammy. >> tammy: what amazes me is the left is always talking about how they are the champions of the minorities and everyone who is marginalized, and this is where black americans are going to get the right representation, and the soft bigotry that just pours out of them about black americans, gays and lesbians,

women, it is a remarkable dynamic. you here you have tim scott who is going to go deliver the rebuttal, and you have soft bigotry, patronizing him every p of the way. what are your thoughts of the impact of what the senator can have tonight, and what the media has done to him in this process? >> let me take the media first. "the washington post" are trash, trash personified, because only they would try to minimize senator tim scott and his ability to deliver this response, even stooping so low as to tell him what to say. i think the senator is going to have a tremendous response tonight because he is aware, just like all americans are aware, of these issues with massive covid lockdowns, radical policies coming from this president, the fact this president will continue to ignore what is happening on the southern border which is happening on his watch, and by his hand. and the fact republicans and conservatives have actually a strong vision for america that works for all americans. like i said,

"the washington post"'s trash were trying to tell him what to say and trying to demonize the heritage of his family and the hard work of his family in particular over the last hundred years of america. >> tammy: that was just the extraordinary insult of that, was that was what they were going to disprove. they were going to make that black american, that black man, a liar, make him step up, that in a way, also, served by erasing his history, is erasing him, trying to erase you, because you are someone who is not conforming to what they want you to conform to. that is that soft bigotry. it is the punishment of people who actually do embrace this great american independence, represented especially by people that the democrats have insisted that they are responsible for. i think when it comes to all americans, certainly all american children, seeing the variety of who we are is important. what do you think is going to be the biggest impact of the senator and what he says

tonight, and why that is valuable for all of us? >> it's going to be the true dichotomy between what the left tells us america is and what america truly is. we are a nation where it doesn't really matter who you are, how you grew up, what your race is, you can grow up and really change your stars in life. you can become a u.s. senator. become a businessman. you could become a professional athlete, an entertainer, an actor. you could be a good family man or family woman, really do the things to make your family grow and be better. this is what america is all about. unfortunately, what the left tells us as we are systematically racist, how it is impossible for you to get ahead because of the state of our legacy and heritage in america. we all know the country's history, i know it better than most, but we are a far better nation today than we were 100 years ago, 50 years ago, and it is because of the greatness of our country, the fact that you can go earn a living and keep the fruits of your labor, that is what keeps america going forward. that is what the senator is going to tell people tonight. these big spending problems and

plans from the biden administration, this does not help our country move forward. it really sends us back. >> tammy: this whole tax and spend dynamic, a welfare state, so many of us -- i grew up somewhat poor, lower middle-class, latchkey kid, and here you are -- the greatest country on earth, man, here we are on television, trying to have an impact on making sure other people's lives get better, but the fact of the matter is, he's going to be laying out a welfare state, taking everybody's money, for the government to build it back out to you, creating a surf dynamic for americans, that we will be , which is what so many of us don't want to come up he answerable to this faceless monolith, when many of our histories have been fighting, te establishment of the country was fighting that. certainly your family has an experience of riding against people trying to control you.

>> listen, i am a young black kid from brooklyn, new york, grew up in the inner-city. we we were super poor. but my mother knew education was the way out for me, so that is my success story. that is how i have been able to achieve things in my life, not only in my business career but now in the halls of congress. our country, frankly, is littered with so many stories like this, where people who had nothing, put their hands to the till, worked incredibly hard, and made something of their lives. that is the true story of america. so when you have people like joe biden who try to tell us that he is the only one who can fix something, when frankly, he has been in government for 50 years and never fix anything. why would we put our trust in him? i put my trust in the american people. >> tammy: excellent. congressmen, thank you so much. brilliant analysis and it is a pleasure to be on if you tonight. thank you so much, sir. >> good to be with you. >> tammy: coming up, we had live to washington for a look at president biden sales pitch tonight. you already know what i think. in an address to congress, how he is to set everything, his

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all, great to be with you tonight. we have been looking forward to this address for some time. generally, we see these in february, and i think in keeping with sort of the tone of the biden campaign and the biden presidency, it's going to be sort of a quiet affair. there's only going to be about 200 people in the audience. you want to have that bully bully of handshakes and all of that, at least not to the extent we are use to on the way in. and i expect, you know, listening to your comments are the beginning, and i think it is right on the mark. i do expect we are going to see eight measured, tempered joe biden, as he speaks about where we are as a nation. if it was president trump tonight, i think you would hear a message come open for business, cutting taxes, we want businesses to be on fire, all that kind of stuff. i think you are going to hear, we are going to protect you, we are going to take care of you, we are going to hold your hand from cradle to grave,

essentially, because it is about pre-k and eldercare, so literally, a government sort of embrace from childhood into eldercare is what we are going to hear a lot about tonight, and that has gotten president biden a lot attraction from his side of the aisle, to be sure. >> tammy: what is interesting, you are right, the delivery will be modulated. it will be a moderate sounding delivery. it is important, though, that people really listen to what he is saying, not just the nature of how he is saying it. that is how president trump was attacked often, was his manner, perhaps, his delivery. was somewhat surprising. but what really does matter, clearly, is their intentions, and the actual outcomes of policy, right? and we are going to hear some of that, and it's going to be -- paid for, they say, it's already paid for, but in fact, it's not been paid for, maybe half. analysts are saying they can't figure out where at least half

of it and how it will be paid for. obviously, not going to hang on that. then there's the other issues, the border, will he even addressed the border? what could he say about the border, since it is such a mess? do you think you will avoid certain things? >> in terms of paying, tammy, we all -- it's pretty scary, but we've almost gotten past the whole notion that anything should be paid for. all of these spending programs go out 15 years, far beyond anyone person's presidency. we are not worried about how it will get paid for at this point. the other thing i would point out, they have really been emphasizing from the white house that it's only going to be the 1% to pay for this. if you make less than $400,000, you are not going to have to pay any additional taxes in this pan. however, when you tax on corporate taxes, when you add in those kind of measures, what you see is companies tightening their belts, not expanding, not hiring to employees. you see them recoiling from

growing -- all of these peripheral things have an impact on everybody's pocket. >> tammy: if we can even believe them. because it was the same confidence with which they said we could keep our doctor. that it relies on a class war, we are going to tax those people, but those are the people creating the businesses and the jobs that we then rely on to be consumers and to live our lives and everything else. there's only going to be 200 people in the audience. do you think that's going to be a factor and what the response is going to be, and do you think that is something he will feed off on? and how long do you think this will go? do you think it will be past 30 minutes, maybe an hour? >> you know, we thought the first press conference might be short based on what we have seen over the course of the campaign. i think when he is in this environment, i think you will handle it completely fine. he will stand up there and talk for about an hour like most presidents do. but in terms of the audience, you know, i think back to covering this campaign. i remember when we were in

delaware and there were cars lined up and they were honking, you know, he has had all kinds of strange covid era environments to function in, and he has done just fine. i think -- if the room were full, i think there would be some panic, in some corners of this administration. that is one other thing i would make a point on, tammy, in terms of covid and optimism, you know, it would be great to hear a message of, you know, real optimism about the future, enthusiasm about how far we've come, excitement about what's around the corner for the country. we've seen, you know, such a measured, measured -- i think when the president came out the other day, guess what, you can take your mask on and be in a small gathering outdoors with your family, if you are all vaccinated, i think a lot of people across the country just said, well, we were doing that quite a while -- exactly. >> tammy: but you are right, because we listen to presidents for optimism, and this will be the test to see if he can actually deliver that in some regard.

martha, great seeing you. have fun tonight. >> thank you so much. good to see you. >> tammy: coming up, the biden administration is going after rudy giuliani tonight. the latest after they raided his home today. plus, president biden now painting a rosy picture of the new irs. how it comes after democrats just reversed a bill protecting people from being targeted because of their political preferences. great. jason chaffetz joins me straight ahead. ♪ ♪ (burke) phone it in to 1-800-farmers to get policy perks,

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investigators rate the new york city home and office of rudy giuliani, president trump's personal attorney. giuliani has been under investigation for several years over his dealings in ukraine. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher here now with the latest. >> tammy, good evening to you. we are told seven fbi agents arrived at rudy giuliani's madison avenue apartment this morning at around 6:00 a.m. and stayed for about two hours while they seized laptops, cell phones, and other electronics. the warrant is reportedly based on allegations that giuliani broke the law by apparently lobbying the trump administration on behalf of ukraine. remember, giuliani was a big part of pushing president trump to get ukraine to investigate ben-candidate joe biden and his son, hunter, for their involvement in the energy giant burisma. of course, hunter biden with zero experience or expertise in the energy sector, made hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, serving on the board of burisma. fox news has told the giuliani investigation has been in the work for months but not

surprisingly picked up steam on the afternoon joe biden was inaugurated. former attorney general bill barr knew about the investigation but did not sign off on a warrant. current attorney general merrick garland and fbi director chris wray also reportedly did not sign off on the search warrant, but were given a heads up that it was being executed. neither the doj nor fbi will comment on the warrant, but rudy giuliani's son, andrew, said this. >> this is disgusting. this is absolutely absurd, and is the continued politicization of the justice department that we have seen. and it has to stop. if this can happen to the former president's lawyer, this can happen to any american. >> giuliani's attorney robert costello says the raid was all about optics, trying to make rudy giuliani look like a criminal. tammy. >> tammy: trace, thank you very much for that. now joe biden is weaponizing the irs to advance his war on

wealthy americans. president ames to give the agency and $80 billion cash infusion to help audit the rich. officials believe the move will generate an extra $700 billion over the next decade, using the irs to punish people you don't like, why does that sound familiar? joining me now, jason chaffetz, former house oversight committee chairman and a fox news contributor. he chaired the house oversight committee hearing into president obama's abuse of the irs in 2013. jason, and a lot of the news tonight, it sounds like "groundhog day," like the past is coming back in. what is your take on this new focus, but it really is kind of the same old focus, of using a law enforcement agency to go after enemies, or two, i guess, harass people you might not agree with? >> well, generally, we are in favor of enforcement, and i am typically okay with this fear of the problem is last time barack obama and joe biden were in charge of the show, they

weaponized the irs. they targeted conservatives. there were some 300 organizations out there that were targeted by the irs, and even though barack obama went on national television and said there wasn't even a smidgen of corruption, it ends up that he was fundamentally and totally wrong, and we had a whole series of hearings, and ends up the department of justice had to pay, i don't know how much money to these organizations as a settlement to this. but they weaponized this before. the concern is with $80 billion, an increase of 70% to the irs structure, that they are going to do that again, and they couple it with passing a bill, hr 1, which actually gives them the power to target people based on their political affiliation. >> tammy: now i want people to see you in action from 2013 on this issue. let's take a look at that. >> now, with no warning, the irs

appears to have selectively targeted certain taxpayers who are engaged in political speech. and he goes on. how is it that he, the chairman of ways and means, says you, the head of the irs, a letter like this, and you say you know nothing about it? >> tammy: well, there you go. you must have a painting in your attic, because you have not aged one minute from that video to now. it's like, everyone will remember lois lerner, and the sending of private data, entire files to the political opposition of particular groups trying to become nonprofit groups. the stopping of tea party groups and weaponized. this is why we expect the same situation to happen again. >> well, that's the concern. i was questioning douglas shulman, who was the head of the irs under obama and biden. he visited the white house more than 150 times. that was more than double we can find any other cabinet officer, yet he denies they ever even

talked about this type of thing. you know, congressman dave camp and darrell ison and others leading into this charge. then you have john cost and income of the head of the irs after shulman, who comes and lies to congress, and this is the problem with empowering the irs. literally come in 2016, congressman brady passed a bill that said you can't target anymore, and literally, one of the first things nancy pelosi does is insert this into hr 1 that says oh, yes, we can target you based on your political -- >> tammy: it confirms the intention, it is not an accident or mistake or a car wreck that happens when you are doing this. this is what they mean to do. and besides not passing, not allowing hr 1 to get through the senate, what can republicans do to keep a repeat from happening of all of this being used

against the american people? >> i think they have to look very closely at all of these nonlaw enforcement agencies that are spying on americans. devin nunes has questioned why certain intelligence agencies are listening to americans. when i was in congress, we looked closely -- why is it that the irs purchased two what are called stingrays, to follow people's geolocation, the gps location? why is the social security administration have these? target people based on political affiliation. >> tammy: social media. everywhere, it is turning inward. we have many enemies come externally, when we need to be coming together. i guess for biden, means we are going to spy on you these days. jason, thank you. we have a lot on our plate obviously for the next several years, and is great, with your background and experience, appreciate you giving us the information we need to understand this better tonight. thank you, sir.

>> thank you, tammy. >> tammy: already. high-security ahead of president biden's address at the capital, but will the nearly 3,000 national guard troops who remain in d.c. be able to go home after the speech? like democrats promised? katie pavlich and lisa boothe way in next. ♪ ♪ i really hope that this vaccine can get me one step closer to him. to a huge wedding. to give high fives to our patients. to hug my students. with every vaccine, cvs is working to bring you one step closer to a better tomorrow. still lots of room. just more to view. still the big move. just more moving. still singing. just more in tune.

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♪ ♪ speak of the nation's capital is on high alert tonight. 25,000 national guard troops were deployed in january to defend the capital from qanon shamans. and today, nearly 3,000 still remain. why were they there and when will the occupation of the people's house and back? this is acting police chief, pittman in early march. >> members of the militia groups that were present on january 6th

have stated their desires that they want to blow up the capital and kill as many members as possible with the direct nexus to the state of the union. we know that date has not been identified. so, based on that information, we think that it is prudent that capitol police maintain its enhanced and robust security posture. >> all right, well, so are the troops coming home, that is a reasonable concern, or are they there for a different reason? joining me not to react are both fox news contributor's. ladies, welcome aboard. thanks for being here. >> hi, tammy. >> katy, let me start with you because this is a fascinating dynamic. these are national guard troops. they have a life. they are part-timers. they have been away from their families. we really don't know why the

lockdown remains so severe. this event will be over tonight and it is understandable there is security. we want nothing to happen to anyone. what do you think will be happening at the end of this? is this going to be a perpetual occupation or is this going to change? >> well, first i think it's important to go back in history a little bit to june of 2021 the house leader nancy pelosi argued that the national guard being called by president trump to protect the rioting of churches, the militarization was inappropriate the national guard was there. fast forward now to aid you have nancy pelosi, who is perfectly fine with having national guard troops in washington, d.c., by the thousands for months on end. you will remember, tammy, that in march of this year, the head of the national guard, a general, wrote a letter to the pentagon saying we are overworked. we don't have enough volunteers.

are national guard troops cannot fulfill their mission in washington, d.c., not to mention across the country in their homes as we have faced other crisis is and they need to go home. we don't have a plan b. that was also rejected. let's not forget they should be sent home because they are now being framed as extremists. >> tammy: right. >> there were calls from members of congress who said they needed to be investigated for extremist ties and white supremacy, giving no evidence of what that exactly means and how they are going to go about that. they have been here for a political purpose and certainly far past time to go home. >> yeah, this has been theater, and speaking of theater, lisa, you were a new yorker, you moved to florida. you know the difference between free and not free. we've got more theater with these masks. we are going to see it tonight. he is going to walk in, take off his mask to speak, violating one

of nancy pelosi's rules. when it comes to covid, what do you think when we are dealing with these regulations? is that on the way out or is this going to be the perpetual pandemic that will never end? >> well, it will be a perpetual pandemic because it's not about keeping americans safe. it's about controlling them, which is why they still don't want americans to be free, even after receiving the vaccine. but i also want to make a point if i can about the national guard being in d.c. the point is its political optics for the left because what have we seen them do? they have been using the events of january 6th to try to indict over 74 million people being extreme and saying white supremacists. and they have used that to try to extract political revenge. we saw that with president trump while they tried to ask him from society, banning socially media accounts. we recently found out that the postal service has been conducting covert operations spying on american's

social media accounts and they have been spying on americans with those who they think are right wing extremists. all this happened with the nation of islam guy. maxine waters out in minneapolis calling for violence. get none of those things have been called attention to by the media or the left. >> tammy: the problem with this is not just calling 75 million americans terrorists, but also treating us like infants. here is a montage of one of biden's experts on covid. been consistently wrong and what their productions have been. let's listen to this. >> we are just at the beginning of this. we haven't even really begun to see it yet. i believe we are and i believe that in some ways we are almost in a new pandemic. we are going to see a lot more transmission. we are going to have many more people who are hospitalized.

the search that is likely to occur is going to happen within the next 4-6 weeks. >> are you optimistic question >> not at all. i think the very worst of the pandemic is yet before us. we want katie, none of it happened. it was a bunch of fear. it was everywhere. and that is what his advisor has been doing and saying, is making us afraid. it seems like that is their plan for the next four years. >> yeah, well if you make people afraid, you can justify controlling their lives. if you take this forward and outside of the pandemic, why do you think they are calling "gun violence" a public health crisis? because if you have a public health crisis, you can justify taking away everybody's freedom for the sake of public safety and you will hear that language. it is a public health crisis. well, the reason they are doing this is that they can really justify any kind of government forced to take away her constitutional rights. >> tammy: lovely, ladies.

thank you so much but that is all the time we have. good night here. thank you very much for watching "fox news prime time." i'm tammy bruce and i will be back here tomorrow night. tucker carlson is coming up next. thanks, everyone. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: that evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." about an hour from right now, joe biden will deliver his first address before congress. he will be making his way to the white house in the capital shortly. now the early experts amount to a casserole of cliche. they are designed to calm your suspicions that anything weird or scary might be going on in the country and to reassure you that everything is going to be fine. just fine. in fact, better than i was. in that way, it has the