♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." happy friday. so what would happen if you gave a group of angry, ignorant ideologues, the same people who tell you that all lives don't matter, what would happen if you gave them the keys to the u.s. economy? we don't need to guess about that, we are finding out now, because all around us, there are signs that under this white house, things are getting dangerously flaky in our economy. here is one example. the official government jobs numbers came out today.

unemployment is up far higher-than-expected. close to 14 million americans say they want to work but cannot find a job. that is an old story. here is the new twist. at the very moment that unemployment is rising, fewer people are working, american businesses say they can't find employees. and it's obvious they can't. go to the nearest strip mall and count the "help wanted" signs on the doors, they are everywhere. restaurants are closing because they can't find anyone to hire, so are manufacturing plants. that means america now has far too many workers, but simultaneously, far too few workers. how can that be? another question.t what happened to all of the consumer products? many of the things that you buy and need to buy are more expensive than they have ever been. inflation is real. at the same time, a lot of products seem to have gone missing completely. the united states is currently experiencing shortages of chicken, generators, ketchup, bicycles, diapers, and munition,

automobiles, plastics, appliances, chlorine, pork, propane tanks, among many other things. keep in mind, this is peace time we haven't mobilized for foreign war. yet we are now getting reports that we should brace for a gas shortage this summer. why is this all happening? well, because things are so great in the economy. that is what they are telling us on television. >> this week, there were more signs that the u.s. economy is roaring back to life, and they come as president biden is proposing trillions of dollars government spending. >> really good news, this week we found out in the first quarter of this year, the economy expanded at a 6.4% annualized rate. that is huge. >> could we see a great economy and a lousy return for the stock market? >> i think the good news for everybody as we are probably going to see both, that we are going to continue to see a strong economy and we are also set up actually for some great market returns here.nks

>> tucker: there is an awful lot of lying and financial journalism. no one ever says that, but it is self-evident. but they are telling us things are great. and why are they telling us that? because the stock market is way, way up. could it be overvalued? i don't know. take a look at the price to earnings ratios. can they continue? is that reality-based? should we be worried? oh, just relax, but best sure to stock up on gasoline and diapers if you can. you could be looking at soviet grocery shelf soon. and whatever you do, keep ignoring the inflation right in front of you. oil prices, for example, have risen 12% in a single month.h. sale prices have tripled since last year, chicken breasts have doubled since joe biden became president, price of eggs 5%,%, major appliances up almost 15%, ground beef and fresh fruits up almost 6% per year the median sales price of existing homes has shot up by 16%, and then there is a lumber, have you noticed lumber? since last year, the price of dimensional lumber has gone up by almost 300%. want a 1,000 board feet?

that will cost you $1,359. the price has never been higher. according to the national association of homebuilders, the cost of building materials as more than $35,000 to the price of an average new home. why is this happening? well, there is too much cash in the system. that is a big reason for it. when you print too much fake money, the value of that money odeclines. people start to figure out that it is not real, and you getit inflation. thats is always true. no oneho disputes it. the white house just doesn't care. here is the new treasury secretary telling you not to worry about inflation because it is not a concern.re >> and i think the economy is going to get back on track. i don't anticipate that inflation is going to be a problem, but it is something that we are watching very

carefully. i don't think there is going to be an inflationary problem. you know, president biden has also proposed further substantial spending packages we would look to see enacted into law. >> tucker: oh. soso just keep spending trillios of made up dollars to pay off your constituents because they will not be a inflationary problem.m. right. thanks, genius. how did you get that job anyway? they are hoping will not a notie you can't afford anything anymore. you will be distracted by the fact you do not have electricity. "the sacramento bee" reported a few days ago that california energy officials "can't promise they will be able to keep the lights on in the summer." oh, no lights in your home, no big deal. just use candles. texas, which is supposed to beig sane, the dallas morning news is telling us that "inefficient homes are to blame for the state's massive power outages this winter." so it was your fault the power went out.

you have the wrong kind of house. i definitely was not the fault of stupid and corrupt renewable energy schemes, the ones that were forced to the entire state to rely on windmills which froze when i got cold. no, it wasn't their fault, it was your fault. that your house did it. get a better house. to bed lumber is so expensive. question, even if you can afford lumber, who is going to do the construction? as we said, in the middle of rising on employment, somehow we don't have enough workers. they keep telling us in washington, a labor shortage, and that is presumably why we need to open the borders and letting million of new foreign workers, immediately! so, what is going on here? probably a lot of things. it's a huge country and a pretty complicated country, but here's one reason behind what we are seeing. the government is paying people to stay home. thanks to joe biden's $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill, everything, by the way,

and done under the justification of the pandemic, some peoplede n this country are getting checks for up to $700 a month not to work. this is true across the country, even louisiana, and that is the state with the lowest weekly on employment benefits. you can still make a most $500 a week for not working. for a 40 hour work week, that works out to about $12 an hour. a little more, actually, that is above the minimum wage. in the states with the highest on employment assistance, youha can be making close to $20 an hour for not working. and we are not attacking anyone or calling anyone lazy.ng it's pretty easy to see why people aren't working. they are not nuts, they are rational. so no wonder the economy is sputtering in bizarre ways. america created just 266,000 jobs last month. that is in a nation of 350 million people. economists, the people who predict these things, very often incorrectly, were expecting four times that number. the result, the unemployment

numbers were so shockingly bad that even cnbc didn't believe them at first. they had to double check those numbers on the air. >> it looks like 266,000. it looks like it was a big disappointment, at 266, but maybe i have that wrong. let me double check the bureau website here one second. yes, 266 is correct. unemployment, 6.1%. >> tucker: so, there is not, to restate, and actual shortage of american workers, citizens who could fill jobs. they are just telling you that so they can justify opening the borders and changing the electorate so they never lose another election and no one ever takes their power away. but that is not true. what is true, once again, is that the government is paying people more not to work than to work.eiha and so, why would they work? would you?e the question is, what do you do if you're an employer?an at some point, when we devalued the currency so completely that

printing more dollars will not help, we are going to meet actual employers in thisou and what do they do? well, a reporter at the "pittsburgh business times"e looked into this question. we talked to businesses around pittsburgh that had managed to hire people. how did they do it? what was their secret? they just had to double the wages. and ice cream parlor that has been around since 1923 hiked its starting wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour, more than doubled7. it. the nearby sports bar now guarantees waiters and bartenders $20 an hour.r. that is happening in a ton of places around the country. and big companies, needless to say, can compete more effectively because they have more money. a burger king in pennsylvania is offering a $1500 bonus to new workers. a mcdonald's in florida is giving people $50 just for showing up to a job interview. an energy company in texas is offering new truck dollars $14,000 a week. walmart, the largest private employer in the united states, has raised wages for nearly half a million employees in february. the company's average wages are now . $15 an hour.

in some ways, that is good news. you want to see people make more. of course, you want dollars to be worth more, and now they aree worth less. but there are effects of this we could be living with for a long time. there are millions of small businesses that cannot afford to compete. they are not walmart. and many of them will go under because of the pressure applied by the u.s. government on the labor market. and when those small businesses do go under, what will be left? amazon. andrew gruel has thought a lot about this. he is a chef, the owner of slapfish restaurant, several locations in southern california. he is now paying dishwashers $21 an hour to start. he joins just now. thanks so much for coming on tonight. i think all good people look at rising wages and applaud for the people making those wages. but there are also some very strange incentives being forced on our economy by policymakers.p

tell us what the effect has been on your business. >> well, yeah, thank you very much for having me and i wish we were talking more about ketchup and not necessarily labor, but in any case, there are multiple factors leading w toward this, d this is what i see with boots on the ground, right, i am not throwing out economic platitudes here. what i see is, first and foremost, it states like california, where schools are a still closed, it is forcing people not to work because they stay home and watch their children, oror they have to hire somebody to watch their kids, right? i would watch my own kid. so there's nothing wrong with that. you know, and laziness is not the factor here. that is the most important thing. number two is that people are weary about coming back to work if they are only going to be shut downy again. in california, as i mentioned again, people came back to workn fired, came back, fired, came back from a fired, and the last time in december, they could not get on employment benefits because of the misappropriation of so many dollars in i california. the whole system was on

gridlock. that is when we started a fund, raised over $400,000 to give struggling out of work restaurant workers money because the state could not do it. and nowor those same people are telling me, look, oregon and washington just shut down again, how do i know i'm not going to come back to work, and bam, i am shut down? the third reason is a lot of people in the restaurant industry specifically, they don't want to come back and wors in an environment where perhaps it has been vilified as this kind of epicenter of spread and they've got to wear triple masks and worknd behind all this plexiglass, and it is just not the environment in which they want to work, so they are either going to sit on the sidelines and see this thing through, or they are going to enter another area of retail. >> tucker: and the fourth factor would be, if you make more by not working, why would you work? and i agree with your assessment. that is not laziness. that seems like a rational decision. these are not people making policies, they are people responding to the policies in place. my concern is, what happens when you kill these businesses? what are you left with, at the end? >> well, look at what we saw through the pandemic.

right, corporate america merged with the government i got all this corporate welfare and all of us small business owners, paying an average 22-23% taxes when advancera on his paying 1-% taxes, we are the villains and bad guys and lose her business and it gets swallowed up by walmart. >> tucker: right. i mean, are you seeing that? the businesses that are still open, particularly in a state like california, have weathered a lot. they have done a lot to persist to this point. how much more can they take before theyave just give up? >> yeah, well, it is already happening. people are giving up left and right. one of the situations here is we are now not just competing with, you know, a government institution, but a lot of these large, multiunit corporations that have a ton of cash in the balance sheet, offering excessive amounts of money to draw people in and most likely c not even treat their employees well like a small business owner would. >> tucker: it does seem like the system is stacked against people who run small businesses. i don't see any other

conclusion. >> and look at how many jobsbs small businesses in america actually create and aree independent and innovative and are working, boots on the ground. that is where there is a huge disconnect. >> tucker: that's for sure. andrew gruel, i appreciate i appreciate you coming on. well, it's almost mother's day. we have to change the name because mother has been banned. too sexist. fortunately, some members of congress have a new name for mothers.. wait to see if it applies to you. we will be right back. ♪ ♪ cal: our confident forever plan is possible with a cfp® professional. a cfp® professional

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>> tucker: what will they destroy next? if you've been asking yourself that, here is the formula: the more wholesome it is, the more people like it, the more likely they are to wreck it. and that means mother's day is in the crosshairs, that is hecoming up soon. some members of congress -- in fact, sunday -- i've decided the very idea of mother is sexistt and dehumanizing so they have a solution. respect the dignity of mothers everywhere. democrats are now calling mothers "birthing people." >> i sit before you today as a single mom, as a nurse, as an activist, and as a congresswoman, and i am

committed to doing the absolute most to protect black mothers, to protect black babies, to protect black birthing people, and to save lives. >> tucker: imagine if that was your nerves. whoa. get someone else to administer the iv drip. that was cori bush, a member of congress from missouri somehow. referring, as you just heard, to black birthing people, in other words, mothers. that happened in a house committee hearinggin and tighten birthing while black: examining america's black maternal health crisis. because everything is about race now. someno people thought this language of birthing people was in fact kind of dehumanizing, reducing people to their biological function, though that, of course, would be par for the course for cori bush and friends, but a prominent abortion providing group, the abortion lobby, jumped to cori bush's defense. tweeted, when we talk about birthing people, we are just

being inclusive, l not stalinis, not fascist and crazy, but inclusive. it is that simple. we use gender-neutral language when talking about pregnancy -- [laughs] because it is not just cisgender women, whatever that means, that can get pregnant and give birth. reproductive freedom is for everybody. okay, so it is not just women who can give birth, says a lobby that came to be protecting health care. right. sandy cortez, of course, jumped in. she came to the defense of men giving birth. she isis a biology major, too. in the process, she got so confused that she seemed to take the pro-life position. atch this. >> if we want to talk about planned parenthood, let's talk about how many lives planned parenthood has saved. and how many babies have been born because of the prenatalk care provided by planned parenthood. and if you don't -- if you don't believe it and if you've never met a planned parenthood baby, i'm happy to let you know that i

am one. >> tucker: uh-huh. so america's biggest abortion providers actually all about child birth. but what is amazing is planned parenthood of course is a huge supporter of sandy cortez's, and there she is, cutting an ad for them. it's almost like a radio show host reading an endorsement on the air. "i wear ray-ban sunglasses because they protect my eyes." there is sandy cortez telling us how great planned parenthood is. shamelessness. well, a new bill working its way through the legislature and the state of texas would ban castration, chemical and otherwise, gender reassignment surgery, for children. for kids. but the bill is being held up, why? because some republicans aren't holding it up, they are caving to pressure from corporate interests, seen that in a lot of other states. one republican who is upset with this, thank you for coming on. let's get right to it. not a lot of republican voters are in favor of this. not a lot of sane people are for

mutilating children, but some republicans are holding up the ban on it. why? >> [laughs] i can't believe this. in texas, really? we are going to let our children be mutilated? tucker, we do not let our miners and smoke cigarettes, we don't let them drink alcohol, we do not let them engage in sexual activity, you cannot even get a driver's license until your 16, but we will let them be mutilated, mastectomies, castration, gene hormone therapy, this gender modification has got to stop. it is just cowboy logic. we shouldn't be doing it. who has a problem with this?? i don't know, they are nuts, but it is, it is stuck in the legislative process. it needs to move.no i wish our governor greg abbott would use some of his political powers and political capital to get this thing moving and get it passed. we've only got six days, six days, this bill doesn't pass, it's dead for two years before the legislature can come back,

and i'm fed up with it. it's embarrassing for our state. some of these children have thif done to them as young as two years old, can you believe that? it's disgusting. >> tucker: it's beyond belief. it is not only something that shows up with children, these are not adults, their children, but it is also a metaphor for something bigger. i mean, if a republican governor can't even weigh in on this, to what extent is he representing his voters, honestly? >> well, you know, he is just silent on it. we need him to weigh in. i am a statewide elected official, you know, i am ag commissioner, but i am weighing in, i think is that important. >> tucker: are you worried that under the leadership of your governor, nothing personal, and people like him, that texas will become a democratic state soon? >> well, i think we very well will be if we don't stand up for what people really believe in. i'd get rid of this woke business, i don't even like that word, it wasn't even a word a

year ago.. >> tucker: i agree. >> we need to act like texans. we need to act like americans. we need to act like responsible adults, responsible parents, and responsible legislators and politicians. we need to take action. this is an easy one. i can't believe it got hung up. we need to move, and we need to move now. >> tucker: a small group of crazed ideologues came into the state of virginia, took it over politically, one election, and change the state completely and forever. do people in texas ever look over to virginia and say "that could happen to us, we better take steps, we better get real about what could happen to us?"t >> well, you know, texas used to be the shining light for the whole nation. other states used to look at us for leadership and what we are doing with job creation, taxes, regulation, and now, not so much fear you know, they look at texas and see something like this and they laugh at us.

i can't believe texans are allowing that to happen. wake up, people. we've got to get a hold of our state or we are going to lose it. >> tucker: amen. when i saw the power go out because your windmills froze, i began to ask your question about your governor and others. i appreciate you standing up. sid miller, thank you very much. >> god bless, thanks. >> tucker: so, disney used to be an entertainment company. now it is the entertainment arm of the chinese government, or it appears that way. they used to be a company that represented what americans liked. we have some exclusive reporting from inside disney that tells you everything about what they think of america. that straight ahead. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: well, for generations, the walt disney company was the most famous entertainment country in america. in fact, it represented america to thehe world. it was in some sense synonymous with american culture. disney, of course, produced all

kinds of films during the second world war, encouraging the united states to defeat fascism. so, when you hear disney, you think of something that is very american, very wholesome, eit something that your kids would watch.en it's changed. disney has started producing propaganda films not for the u.s. government, for the chinese communist party. not surprisingly, it's senior leadership has denounced its own historical cartoons as racist. >> one of the things in the course of that work was to conduct focus groups with our black colleagues, and we got some really tough but incredibly valuable feedback, including the following statement, which i will never forget, when i read it in the research results, "i'm not comfortable with disney commercializing racist content.h so, there are titles in our library that include frankly racist characterizations, and we are not talking exclusively about titles -- there are titles that include that like "fantasia" or "dumbo," "aladdin." >> tucker: it is almost worth saving that tape, so here you

have someone who is clearly not very smart, rolling her eyes. and because she does some kind of in-house focus group with like 11 people, your kids don't get to watch the movies that you grew up watching because some unhappy person whose name we will never know decided they were racist! that was jenny cohen, by the way, on the screen. she is the executive vice president at disney for something called corporate social responsibility. now we are learning that that is just the tip of the iceberg. disney ishe training its employs that the united states, the country that produced disney, is in fact evil. chris rufo is a journalist who has obtained a trove of internal documents from disney, all part of a program the company calls reimagine tomorrow. in one part of the training, which is called allyship for race consciousness -- can you even imagine -- disney claims that "the united states has a long history of systemic racism and transphobia."

by the way, transphobia is a word that did not exist, like, 20 minutes ago, what you mean a long history of it? no one had even heard of that until some unhappy sociology professor made it up and imposed it on the rest of us. but the totally ahistorical training goes on to tell white employees to "work through feelings of guilt, shame, and defensiveness to understand what is beneath them and what needs to be healed." right, targeting employees on theirtrn race. disney specifically tells employees to "challenge color-blind ideologies and rhetoric," such as, and we are quoting, "all lives matter." you can't say all lives matter, so which lives matter? why don't you tell us, disney? a separate training, disney demands its employees reject the concept of "equality." so crazy, m hard to believe it s real. it is real, though. chris rufo broke the story and joins us tonight to confirm that. so, you can't say "all lives matter."

i'm sorry to get caught up on this one turn of phrase, but it is just so revealing. is there an indication of which lives matter and which lives don't matter, according to the walt disney company? >> yeah, there is, and what disney is saying is we should reject the idea of equality, that people should be treated equally, regardless of their skin color, and they saytsn they need to pursue a policy of equity where people achieve equal outcomes, and this, again, is the tip of the iceberg. disney created and sponsored a 21 day racial equity challenge and told employees to complete a white privilege checklist, and even passed around a worksheet saying that white employees should defund the police, participate in reparations, and even decolonize their bookshelves, whatever that means. >> tucker: so, disney is encouraging book burning, telling us that equality is wrong, that they are not all equal, and met some of our lives matter more than other lives.

that is so dark. i wonder where they think that is going, exactly. all lives don't matter, we arey not equal? what is the end points for this any indication? >> well, i mean, the great irony of this is the people in charge of disney are some of the richest and most powerful and privileged white males in the history of humanity, and they are pushing this divisive, critical race theory-based ideology has corporate dogma, and the only end of this is division, self-hatred, and i think it should be very clear that disney makes its money on middle americans who go to their parks and buy their content, and those people should know that this corporation, it hates you, it hates your culture, and it hates the color of your skin, and i think americans should reject this kind of politics and reject the companies that are pushing it. >> tucker: well, i could not agree with that more. and just to be -- i want to nail this down completely, you are certain that these documents are

real? >> yeah, that's correct. i have confirmed to them with multiple sources around the company. i've done screen sharing, done internal verification. these are genuine documents and videos. the video doesn't lie. this is the new ideology of the walt disney corporation, and it's really sad, because it used tosn be a great american compan. now it's telling us that america is a fundamentally racist country, founded on discrimination. they couldn't be more wrong. i hope they write the ship, but i'm not optimistic. >> tucker: and they are lying because we are all equal, actually, all created by god, all equal, and all vibes do matter, that is just true. chris rufo, i appreciate you t coming out tonight. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: well, stacey abrams. candidly, one of our favorites. notou just the real governor of georgia, you've heard that a lot, and we believe it. she is also, you may not have known this, and accomplished romance novelist. who has written under the nom de plume, selena montgomery.

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: you may know stacey abrams as the one true governor of georgia, never elected, but still spiritually in charge, but she is more than that. stacey abrams is one of the mosc talented and sauciest romance novelists of a generation, but like so many great artists, she can be underappreciated, and that is why our senior editorial producer from the great toman f, spent $7 to track down a copy of one of her steamier novels. most of the novel is a mystery, to be honest, could not follow the plot line. not because the writing was bad, oh, no, no, no. this is amanda gorman level stuff. really it is because our eyes were drawn reflexively to the more salacious elements of the novel.st how hot? our senior producer volunteered to perform a dramatic reading of the most titillating moments in

stacey abrams' novel and he is still recovering from that. the recording session began innocently enough. ♪ ♪ >> heat like an inferno blazed in his veins. temptation like a song clouded his mind. it demanded that he slide his arms around her, that he trailed his hand along her spine to sink into the silk and curls at her nape. >> tucker: heat like an inferno. temptation like a song. now we know what you are thinking, grammarians, hitting the similes a bit hard? at first we thought so, but like a half empty train at penn station in the middle of the work week, we thought we could pull away, oh, but we were wrong. had to continue. ♪e ♪ >> their tongues tangled,

danced, and she reveled in the movement. she splayed eager palms against his chest and tormented the flesh she found there. away, she gripped his waist to pull him closer, until she stood cradled between his hard thighs. >> tucker: she tormented his flesh with her palms. we were tormented as we read it. as we read it more, we noticed our thighs were also getting harder, much harder. but stacey abrams wasn't done with us yet. had not encountered any of her dialogue yet, it was all exposition. and then it hit us: a full line of her characters actually speaking to one another, not just grunting, but speaking in language. it sent us over the top. listen. ♪ ♪ >> hunger raged inside her, demanding to be stated.

wicked thumbs teased her too sensitive flesh and stole her breath. but it would mean nothing if he didn't understand. "you're all i've ever wanted." >> tucker: [laughs] wicked thumbs. will we ever, going forward, ever be able to call stacey abrams anything but "wicked thumbs?"ed we will see. probably not.ab the book is called "hidden sins," and frankly, we feel we have just sinned in public. you can have that feeling too for the low, low price of just $7. [laughs] get it. but go easy on your thighs. you will wear them out. ♪ ♪ an eminent physician, internist, and cardiologist, had an amazing conversation with him on "tucker carlson today" that covered a lot of ground, mostly

about the coronavirus and how to respond to it. one part of the discussion stuck out that we want to share with you tonight. it turns out there is no treatment protocol for physicians trying to treat patients with coronavirus. what? it's true. here is part of our conversation. >> i am a doctor. i treat patients one by one, and i can tell you, and i testify to this, i have treated all my ehigh-risk patients, i think it would be immoral, unethical, and from a civil perspective, illegal not to do that, so that question is best posed to all the doctors and medical centers and groups that have not been treating covid-19. weve are a year into this. where is the mayo clinic protocol?ti where is the harvard protocol? where is johns hopkins? >> tucker: there isn't one? >> do they have covid treatments? >> tucker: i don't know! >> had to help people avoid hospitalization, and death or just sat back and receive the cases as they come in? i'm telling you, something is

out that the entire world has been on defense. maybe it is all driven out of fear, but we are not treating something that it is a treatable problem early. we are making it so much harder -- >> tucker: people have died as a result of that, obviously. >> i testified in the u.s. senate, november 19th, i thought 50% of the deaths could haveve been avoided because there was a learning curve with how we put this together. remember, there are no large trials of multi-drug therapies, none are even forthcoming, andes our naysayers have said, listen, you don't have enough evidence. course i don't have enough evidence, that is five years away.py the guidelines say there's not enough evidence to treat patients. do they let them die? of coursee not. i have no agenda, but i am deeply concerned something has gone off the rails in the world. it involves science, it involves the medical literature, it involves the regulatory response, it involves populations kept in fear and in isolation and despair.

>> tucker: okay, so you've -- this is upsetting. but it's also fascinating, i think. you have alluded a couple of times to something being up, i think is the phrase that you used. can you put a slightly finer point on that? do you believe that ngos, nonprofits that have a lot of sway, it seems like i'm in the public health arena, are exercising influence over covid policy and the direction you are describing? is it that? it is some international regulatory body? is it w.h.o.? what is this, do you think? >> that is really going to be the goal of investigative reporters to figure this out. there must be stakeholders, or there must be some fundamental drivers for groupthink -- thisgo is a group think. it is in the minds of people. >> tucker: is anyone profiting from it? >> i have no idea. i'm just focusing on the sick patient right in front of me, tucker.

i can't tell you. but i have seen things in the last year that i can't explain as a doctor. why are other doctors not helping with a simple illness to help these patients avoid sng hospitalization and death? why are they not doing this? >> tucker: so the question the doctor asked and that we spoke about for an hour is that why isn't the medical establishment making a greater effort to treat people who have covid until they get to the hospital, where some of them die? all the emphasis is on getting the vaccine, but not on the treatment. as we said, there is still no treatment protocol produced by male or harvard medical school. why is that? the conversation was fascinating. it is on "tucker carlson today" on fox nation. highly recommended. well, the "dailymail," one of the last trusted news sources in the world, has uncovered some amazing text messages between hunter biden and his secretary, who has direct ties to china. we will tell you what that means next.

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>> tucker: frank luntz is a pollster in washington, d.c., who advises the republican party. his real job is working for google and promoting oxycontin in the middle of an opioid epidemic. whatever you think of frank luntz, he is great to live with, share a toothbrush with. we know that because kevin mccarthy does it. how much does he pay for that? there are rules in the house about accepting gifts at under market prices. we learned that kevin mccarthy paid $1500 a month to live inus frank luntz's apartment. that sounds fine until you learn the apartment is 7,000 square feet and it is a penthouse. mccarthy's spokesman defended that, saying that that is fairnt market rate because mccarthye is renting only 1 of 12 bedrooms in the apartment, and it is only 400 square feet. so i guess that means that he doesn't use the kitchen or the living room, just the 400 square-foot bathroom.

it gives the term friend and family discount a whole new tmeeting. wish you had a friend like frank luntz. well, we have learned a lot more about what hunter biden has been up to. new messages between hunter biden and his chinese-american assistant have just been published in "the new york post," and essential news outlet. have you noticed?en

in an email from 2018, the secretary suggest hunter biden c take as much money from that failed venture, writing in part, "i'm a bit hesitated to say this to you because i don't want you topy misunderstood me as a messd up bad girl, here is my untwo cents. whatever money, please take as much as possible." the secretary also message in 2019, "if there's anyone who deserves to be scrutinized for doing business with chinese, it would be donald trump." it is not clear from thehe "dailymail"'s report is whether biden responded to any of these emails. the secretary complained that he did not. tucker? >> tucker: amazing story. matt finn, thank you so much. in that story in the "dailymail," there is also the claim that that chinese woman

sent oppo to hunter biden for the campaign. the journalist who broke that story joins us monday with more details. a new episode of "tucker carlson today" came out this afternoon.pi on monday, dave portnoy joined us on sat. have a great weekend with the ones you love. sean hannity takes over now. ♪ ♪ >> jason: welcome to the special edition of "hannity," biden's declaration of dependence. i'm jason chaffetz in tonight for sean. over the hour, we will discuss how biden's radical big government policies are bfundamentally transforming our country, and not for the better. as dagen mcdowell put it, biden's recent joint address to congress was a declaration of dependence. not just because of what biden said during his remarks, but also what he didn't say. despite speaking for over an