coming up a little bit later, tucker carlson. now tucker carlson didn't want me to reveal it yet but i will. he will be joining me tomorrow along with mark levin on this very show. we will bring you the latest breaking news. we will never let you down. coming up next, tucker carlson. let's take a wide shot and see the city as we gradually zoom out. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." two days ago a group of people in santa ana, california, gathered to protest orange county's new vaccine passport program. politicians in orange county are building a digital database of residents who have been vaccinated against covid. not surprisingly, some citizens fear that information could be used going forward to violate their privacy or limit their constitutional rights. no matter where you are on

vaccine passports, those are avidly valid concerns, they are not crazy. if authorities in orange county had decided to start a database of everyone who's been infected with hiv or every woman who's had an abortion, civil libertarians and others would of course ask vigorous questions about why they were doing that and what they were going to do with the information. but with covid, there are no questions allowed, so orange county's board of supervisors just ignored tuesday's protests. one of the supervisors, democrat called katrina foley, dismissed the protesters with undisguised contempt. "they don't believe in vaccines," she snorted. and you hear that a lot. they are anti-baxter's, they don't believe in vaccines. but pause for a second and think about it. that's a pretty strange way to talk about science. science never asks us to believe in anything, just the opposite, science is a never ending attack on settled beliefs, on faith, on what we imagine we know, on what we assume. science doesn't tell us what's

true, science shows us what's true. it demands proof, not faith. so the next time you hear some smug mask-where are about the mouth readers in middle america don't "believe in the vaccines," you can be certain you are in the presence of someone who has no idea what science is. you will know you are talking to a moron. but since we are on the subject, there do appear to be millions of people out there who don't believe the covid vaccine actually works. who are these people? pollsters tend to miss them. if you ask 100 americans do you think the covid vaccine is effective, about 99 of them would say of course, yeah, it's effective. and they say that because they know what they're supposed to say. they watch "the today show," they don't want to be punished for having the wrong opinions, they don't get fired or ostracized, but let's say you've raised the same question more cleverly in a less direct way. what with the results be then? well, pollsters at the morning consult just did that and here's what they found.

americans who have been vaccinated against covid are more afraid of going outside than americans who have not been vaccinated. much more afraid. only a quarter of vaccinated adults say they would be willing to travel to a work conference or enter a gym. only 24% of them would take the bus. less than half would be willing to rent a car loan. only 34% would go to a party, just 17% of them would dare to take a cruise and so on. the numbers are amazing. these people are absolutely terrified of getting covid, yet once again they have all been vaccinated. so clearly many vaccinated americans, most of them, according to this poll, don't really believe in the covid vaccine. what does that tell us? among other things it tells us that we have long ago left the realm of science and are instead in a state of mass hysteria and mass manipulation. many americans are too scared to

think clearly. if you've had the vaccine, which you say you believe is effective, but you're too afraid to rent a car for fear of getting covid, you're not thinking clearly. if you've had the vaccine and, say, again, you believe the vaccine works and you're still wearing a mask, you are not thinking clearly and you're not thinking clearly because you're too afraid and you're afraid because you've been told for more than a year that you are required to be terrified. and the arrival of the vaccine has not combed you at all. instead, demagogues have instructed you to channel your fear into hate and turn it on anyone who disobeys their orders. the result is, vaccinated americans and mass cannot be happy or feel safe or feel any relief at all until every other person in the country joins them in getting the shot and covering their faces. that's not rational. that's not science, it's something much darker than that. what began as a public health measure has become instead an

instrument of social synchro. we saw all this on start display just last night when we interviewed senator ron johnson of wisconsin. johnson has already recovered from covid. it like tens of millions of americans, maybe over a hundred million, ron johnson has had the covid virus and survived. johnson is not opposed to vaccines. he's had many vaccines in the past. he told us last night he'd be happy to have many more in the future. he's four vaccines but in this specific case, ron johnson consulted with his physician who tested him for the antibodies to the virus in like 70 people who have already had covid and recovered, ron johnson has greater natural protection from the virus then any vaccine could give him. so there is no medical reason for him to get the covid vaccine. people should not take medicines they don't need. ron johnson has decided for these reasons against getting the shot. that is not a crazy position. in fact it's an entirely rational position even what we

know. in ron johnson's case it's a much more rational position than getting a vaccine, then taking medicine he doesn't need. that would be reckless and crazy, it would not be science. so this is rational and probably because it is rational and because ron johnson ask plaintiff's position so clearly and so calmly and with such reference to actual science, the forces of lunacy decided that they must destroy ron johnson before others could hear what he was saying. so here's how msnbc responded to him last night. >> this is senator ron johnson on fox news tonight. >> people ought to respect other people's freedom and liberty under ability to choose whether or not to get vaccinated. i am concerned now about trying to push on to children who, let's face it, they aren't in the position of informed consent. we do need to recognize that this is not a fully approved vaccine. >> so, doctor, i know a really smart educated substantial people who believe him to be a witting or unwitting asset of

russia, who would sound a lot like that in american society. >> tucker: an asset of russia. if you choose not to get the vaccine, even on the advice of your physician, taking medical advice from a practicing doctor, then you are working for vladimir putin, you are a trader, you are doing the bidding of a foreign power. we should point out those joe's did not come from joe scarborough or that angry at, gracefully. that was mr. brian williams himself. america's last living anchorman, the voice of reason, the man who columns you with the truth. unfortunately he too has gone insane, as have so many buried here is some guy on cnn calling for people who haven't been vaccinated to be arrested if they try to enter public buildings. >> is that my concern anymore that someone who has chosen to be unvaccinated is making a bad choice and the question too is

maybe there should be laws that allow them to be kept out of the building. >> well, you fit right on the point. how do we get to a point where we get everyone to be as safe as possible? spiel it maybe there should be laws that allow them to be kept out of the building, says the dumbo on tv. they will say anything. what's amazing is the response from joe biden's cabinet secretary. good point, good point, dumbo. we'd like to think that we will look back on all of this and we are saving the tape for this eventuality, and laugh someday but we are starting to wonder if that they will ever come. maybe the fear will never go away. maybe it's too useful. maybe anyone who asks questions will be called an agent of russia or china or syria or whatever. who knows where this is going. glenn greenwald has thought a lot about it, you can find his work on sub stack. he is, by the way, one of the living experts on the heretofore hidden nexus between the kremlin and vaccine so we're happy to have them on tonight.

thanks so much for coming on. is putin against the covid vaccine? i hadn't heard that before. >> i mean, this is illustrative, tucker, of two things in liberal culture which are between msnbc and cnn are a major part. one is it has become a completely tyrannical movement. they don't want free speech, they want everyone who disagrees with them censored off the internet or kicked off cable. they don't believe in due process, they constantly declare people guilty of crimes for which there is no evidence based solely on accusations and here they are essentially trying to force people to give up control over their bodily autonomy, once a leading value in american liberalism by claiming that they have no right to wait for themselves the cost and risk of making a vaccine. i got vaccinated after spending a lot of time reading of a thing a cut in listening to experts and made my own decision and everyone else should have that right but the other part of this is, this coercive tactic that they use that if you don't obey them and you don't agree with

them, they will just call you a russian agent. i think we need to stop and realize how demented that is. these are journalists who are doing this. you can't go around -- that's a really great accusation to make about somebody. they know there's no evidence for it. he doesn't want to get a vaccine because he has antibodies, therefore he is an agent of putin and yet it's totally acceptable for even journalists in liberal culture to hurl those accusations in order to coerce or manipulate people to do what they want. >> tucker: this is a much longer conversation and i hope someday we can sit down for an hour and talk about it and it's coming out of left field but i can't resist asking you. what is this fixation with russia? we been talking with us for five years now. i've never been to russia, i don't that much about russia. their hatred of russia seems so disproportionate to russia's actual influence in the world, i'm starting to wonder what is this about, do you have any idea? >> i mean, there's a lot of literature on the ability to use paranoia and tribal fears in

order to manipulate people. you know, when obama is to be pressured by marco rubio and mccain and the hawks in the democrat party, russia is not a scary power. they have an economy smaller than italy, they are like a regional power at best and get in the democratic party mind, vladimir putin is like darth vader, russia is an existential threat. if contaminated and infiltrated institutions, they are deliberately stoking the spear constantly among their liberal flock because doing so keeps them frightened and keeping them frightened means that they are more submissive and more malleable to control. that's really what it's about but they really do believe in it. it's not like they're faking it, they've all worked themselves into this mania over a country that has no -- is not threatening to the united states on any level. >> tucker: i know! it's like making us afraid of burgundy or something. it's so weird! i got to so see russia, they are making me want to go there.

thank you so much as always, i hope we see you soon. >> good to see you, thanks. >> tucker: so finally, after more than a year, we've all known this is true for a long time, for a year, but "the new york times" is now acknowledging that actually you can't really get corona outside. turns out the cdc has been lying to you about outdoor coronavirus transmission. a month ago the cdc informed the public that "less than 10% of covid-19 transmission was occurring outdoors." the cdc used that number to continue recommending mask-wearing outside, including at concerts and sporting events, even people are fully vaccinated and that's one of the reasons that kids across the country have been forced to wear masks even when they're exercising. >> this soccer team is getting in some practice. masks and all. it's cool today but their coach

is worried about warmer weather. >> we could get a 90-degree day and, you know, the side effects of wearing a mask and having our young kids running around in that temperature is really not worth it. >> tucker: so why would you put a child in a mask outside while exercising? it's so obviously unhealthy, it is so clearly bad for the child. well, because people believe the cdc, that you should wear a mask outside. after all, 10% of covid transmission occurred outdoors, and that's a lot. but it wasn't true! now "the new york times" is reporting, finally, that it was a lie. the numbers, the number appears to be based partly on a miss classification of some covid transmission that actually took place in enclosed spaces, enclosed spaces meaning indoors. in addition, cdc officials "picked a benchmark," 10%, so high that nobody could reasonably disputed. why would they do that?

in real life, experts say the total share of corona transmission that occurs indoors is actually below 1% and could be as low as 0.1% basically none. it globally, studies have shown the same thing. the biggest study today in china showed that. we ignored it for a year. according to the times, "saying less than 10% of covert transmissions occur as a outdoors is akin to saying that sharks attacked fewer than 20,000 swimmers a year" [laughs] the actual number worldwide is about 150, so it's both true but deceiving. the question is, why didn't they correct it? professor of medics and at stanford in one of the authors of the great barrington declaration, which is great and you ought to read. doctor, thanks so much for joining us tonight. so this is something that i think you and i have discussed on the air. it is certainly widely known that the actual documented outdoor transmission of covid is

rare. the cdc has misled us intentionally or not, why? >> i think part of it is they are just way too cautious. they think that there's no harm from overestimating the risk as if they were, causing fear and the population walking outside is no harm. it's just a strange, strange kind of risk perception and it undermines the trust that people have in public health, which is in many ways and credibly unfortunate. they told us lockdowns were necessary to stop the disease from spreading. they told us that mask mandates, lifting them was neanderthal thinking. i think all of these things served to undermine trust in public health and i think it's very, very unfortunate. >> tucker: what's so interesting though is to contrast it with the way the cdc and the public health authorities have handled other epidemics, the aids epidemic, for example. many of us remember, which was horrible for there was an effective treatment. people died of it and they died

really terrible deaths. it was sad but the cdc spent a lot of time telling us all the ways that you couldn't get it. the message was calm down, it takes a lot to get this, it's not airborne, you're not going to get a from a waterfront. they really went out of their way to calm people about the threat of this fatal disease. they are doing the opposite in the case of covid. why? >> yeah, i mean i think it's really -- many of the lessons that we should have learned from the aids epidemic. for instance, we don't moralize it or stigmatize it, you provide care for patients, people with the delisi's, you compassionately treated. instead with covid wade said -- what's the first question anyone asks when you get covid? where did you get it, what did you do wrong? we've stigmatized it. we've also greeted this fear. i think part of it to try to answer your question -- i think the people that sort of role public health are actually scared of the disease outside of what actually the evidence shows. in a way they've decided that on

most any action is necessary okay as long as it reduces the risk of the spread of the disease even if it causes all kinds of other harm. and i think that fear that they have about covid outside of what the evidence actually shows about it carries on even when you're talking with the vaccine. the vaccine is not good enough, apparently, which is really strange because it is good enough. the vaccine is a fantastic thing if you want to reduce the risk of severe outcomes from covid. i think a lot of the pathology is explained by the fear of the public authorities themselves have about this. i saw the cdc director talk about not sending her son to a summer camp this summer. 16 years old with very low risk of any bad outcome happening, if a 16-year-old gets the disease, why would you not sentiment his or can't? it doesn't make any sense unless you are really truly scared.

>> tucker: i think people with obvious mental illness are in charge of our making wallace. it is certainly ironic, that saab is buried appreciate your coming on tonight and for that clear and calm expo nation, thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: so we told you last night about inflation and we predicted that the consumer price index numbers that were coming up today. higher than anyone, literally anyone could protect the staff expected. and that's a big deal. that's been a massive consequence for the u.s. economy in a lot of different ways. one of the world effectiveness experts on inflation and its effects joins us after the break to assess what we are looking at. ♪ ♪

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'flushå ♪ ♪ >> tucker: the price of gasoline is shooting up across the country, now parts of the eastern seaboard are experiencing major gas shortages and disrupted gas shortages. trace gallagher is on this story for us. hey. >> let's begin with skyrocketing gas prices. i will give you a sampling of averages across the country but we just took this picture outside the front door where gas is up to 4.89 a gallon. that's very common here in los angeles and san francisco and when the summer blend kicks in later this month, prices will go up another 15%, so now to the averages. california is at $4.11 a gallon. good luck finding that. in illinois is $3.23, that's the highest since 2014. virginia, 2.87 a gallon and north carolina at 2.85. but now look at this. in north carolina, 70% of gas

stations are out of fuel altogether. in virginia, it's more than 50% of stations and in georgia and south carolina it's almost 50%. nine other states are also experiencing outages and one gas is low, tempers are high. at a north caroline gas station, woman tried to cut the line and ran into another car. then witnesses say she spit on the other driver, that man got out, spit back in the fight was on. but today president biden said he's got a handle. watch. >> president biden: i think you're going to hear some good news in the next 24 hours and i think we will be getting that under control. >> but even with the pipeline up and running, governors like brian kemp of georgia realize it'll take several days to get fuel flowing, no remedy in the meantime. finally we should not the u.s. consumer product safety commission today sent out a tweet reminding people not to fill plastic bags with gasoline. common sense, i know, but people

are actually doing it, tucker. >> tucker: just saw a video of a lady doing that. trace gallagher, great to see you. >> you too. >> tucker: gas shortages. the 1970s her back. new data from the bureau of labor statistics shows that inflation is actually rising much faster than virtually any economist in the country predicted. overall we learned today the year-over-year gain in this consumer price index is up 4.2%, that's the fastest jump in 13 years since the 2008 meltdown. the rise in what's called the core consumer price index that excludes food and energy, is the highest in 40 years. 1981. peter schiff is an economist and the ceo of euro pacific capital and he joins us to expand what this means. peter, thanks so much for coming on. what does this mean and should we be concerned about it? >> you should be concerned and as i sat on the program last time, this is a tax. it is the inflation tax and if

you look at how much the cost of living went up measured by the cpi, in the first four months of this year, it's 2%, so if you triple that to annualize it, we have consumer prices rising at 6% annually, but if you look at the monthly numbers, every month it accelerates, so if you extrapolate the trend of the first four months of this year for the entire year you're going to get a 20% increase in consumer prices in 2021. >> tucker: so, i mean, because our financial system is a global system, other countries, china most notably, buy u.s. treasuries with an expectation of return. if the value of the u.s. dollar starts falling as the number suggested is, why would any country invest in u.s. bonds, in government bonds? doesn't this threaten to cause, you know, a shake-up? >> well, they won't. yeah, they are going to be selling u.s. treasuries. anybody that can connect these

dots is going to be selling u.s. treasuries and the problem is, there's a lot of u.s. treasuries to be sold. and they talk a lot about the shortage of goods. the real problem is the surplus of money. whenever you print a lot of money, it's always a good shortage because the federal reserve can print all the money they want. but they don't print products to buy with the money so we have all this money being printed, we are not producing a lot, people are sitting at home cashing unemployment checks, this is a tax, it's an inflation tax, a biden tax, whatever you want to call it but when joe biden says don't worry, only people that make over $400,000 a year are going to have to pay higher taxes to fund all these programs, he's lying because every american is going to pay the inflation tax and it's going to hit the middle class and the poor the hardest. >> tucker: so i don't understand, you just described it in the clearest possible way. when you print a ton of money, the value of that money falls. it's more money chasing fewer

goods, fewer people working to make those goods, of course are going to wind up where we are today with massive disruption of labor market and spiking inflation. white don't any of the genie and geniuses making this policy anticipate this? >> even the so-called geniuses at the federal reserve, they keep telling us not to worry because according to them it's all transitory, but these are the same guys that told us not to worry about the subprime mortgage market. remember early on they said don't worry about subprime, it's contained. now they are saying don't worry about inflation, it's transitory. inflation is as transitory now as the subprime market was contained in this inflation crisis is not only going to be worse than the financial crisis, it's going to be worse than the pandemic because the government's curious what's going to kill the economy, not the disease itself. >> tucker: that's right. nicely put. this is worth worrying about a thing. if you print too much money, it's worth less.

that's a law of nature. i appreciate you coming on sunday, i hope you will come back. >> i will, my pleasure. >> tucker: thank you. many of you are writing and about new documentary series. we can tell you that a brand-new episode comes out tomorrow morning and this is a great one. it is an in-depth and totally honest look at the most reviled consumer product in america, also the most popular rifle in america. it's called the ar-15, the weapon of war they are always barking about. what is it exactly? we spoke to a lot of people, including hip-hop 45, the most famous and probably the most knowledgeable gun blogger on youtube at his ranch. texas rangers protecting their cattle with a rifle and much more. it's really interesting it is easy to watch. all the episode of the series, tomorrow this new one comes up, foxnation.com is the address, you will see the instructions there. so our education system was

designed to bring us together as a country, to create a common culture. now it's overriding mission is to teach our children to hate their country. we wanted to speak to someone on the front lines of of this and so we spoke to a professor about what your kids are actually learning once they get to college. an amazing conversation. we have an excerpt from that conversation next. ♪ ♪

'flushå >> tucker: a closer look at curriculum, the more clear it becomes that teaching children to hate the country they grew up in, to hate the united states, is not a feature of the american education system. increasingly, it's the whole point of the system. that's the guiding principle, hate your country. we wanted to talk to someone who's involved in education directly so we had a long conversation, over an hour, with nicholas, a political science professor. he's thought a lot about what's

happening and why. it was a fascinating conversation, the latest episode of tucker carlson today on fox nation. here's part of it. ♪ ♪ >> everyone focused on this critical race theory that's being pushed, this started 20 years ago. this whole devaluing of america and that's probably the biggest problem because with the citizenship exam and the reston constitution exercise, it got me curious as to what students are learning and you'll find that they are not really learning about our government, they are not learning what the constitution, the roles and responsible it is of the institutions. it's taking more of a globalist approach and when they do focus on the united states, they are focusing on the negative aspects, the past sins as opposed to the totality of the american experience and that's not education. and it's a big problem because what they're doing is they say civics when they're trying to basically masquerade that they are teaching civics but what they're really teaching his activism in support of the education system is to build out

the national identity, the american identity and have everyone assimilate into this idea of american culture. well, that's gone. we are not really teaching that anymore. we actually kind of teach the opposite with this global point of view that we have to do what's in the world's best interest as opposed to america's best interest so we are not really as connected as we used to be and we are destroying the whole idea of e pluribus unum, from many, one. and the second problem is what's a good citizen? what is your role and responsibility as an american citizen. you ask any student that today, they will say to go and vote. that's the easy one. but they won't really tell you. and so the education system was built on the idea of what makes a good citizen. faith, family, community, reaching the maximum of potential, contribute into collective, but through the idea of personal responsibility, taking care of the place that you live, the place that you

work and that's being thrown out now. the idea of good citizenry and in the last one is cortical thinking. the ability to think critically is freedom. you just look at the founding fathers and take james madison. he said rethinking is essential to liberty. knowledge is essential to liberty and without it, you're going to lose liberty and get here we are today where we are creating a system of let's just give the answer the teacher wants to hear, let's just obey and comply rather than actually explore topics, rather than have discussions and conversations and giving students the ability to learn how to organize ideas, learn how to come up with assistant arguments. if you come into my classroom and you're coming in with a left point of view, i'm going to hit you with a right-wing point of view. if you come in with the right one point of view, i'm going to challenge it from the left because it's not my role to indoctrinate my students on the issues. it's to get them to think about the issues.

it's to get them to come to their own conclusions. they are plenty capable when they have the information to do just that. >> tucker: if there were more professors like nicholas you'd be pleased to send your children to college. he had a lot to say about how intentional this effort is to tell your kids to hate their own country. it was a really kind of shocking conversation. it's no episode of tucker carlson today. it's on fox nation. home prices are way up i'm away up, and land prices all over the country, timberland, farm land. our leaders don't seem aware of this. some politicians in new york were just asked to guess the median home price in the city they hope to represent. their answers are amazing and hilarious and we have them straight ahead. ♪ ♪ hey, guys! they have customized solutions to help our family's special needs... giving us confidence in our future...

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a couple of days ago "the new york times" asked the candidates running for mayor of new york city what the median home price is in brooklyn. [laughs] hears some of the guesses. shaun donovan should no, he's a former city housing commissioner, he was literally barack obama secretary of housing and urban development in charge of houses in! "somewhere in the 80000-$90,000 range." that's just $900,000 off. the median home price in brooklyn it, almost million dollars. but he wasn't the only one who was that wrong, though it's the funniest. ray maguire used to be an executive of the citigroup. he guessed it was $100,000 and that is the median price if it were 1980. things have changed in 40 years. affordable housing is a massive problem for most people. u.s. home prices are up over 10% from last year in part because foreigners are dumping their cashier in real estate, big companies are also buying up a

lot of houses. you may not have known that. we've seen the steepest gains in almost a decade and a half. the responses from the candidates who want to be mayor of new york tell us why number of our leaders seem bothered to fix this problem. they are not even aware it exists. so, so many people are lying at such high-volume about the 2020 election, it's hard to know exactly what happened. mollie hemingway is a senior editor at "the federalist," she's fearless and she's actually a journalist. she is on the very few people who's taken a time to look into what happened in november of 2020 honestly. you can read which he found in her new book. it's called "rigged, how the media and the big tech seized our election." she joins us with some details into which he found. thanks so much for coming on. what should we know about the 2020 election? >> yeah, it's great to be here with you, tucker. it's funny because people have been recently saying that if you question anything about a presidential election, that should be criminal and if it

were, much of the democratic party would be incarcerated because they haven't actually accepted a presidential election going back to the posture be 80s but then we have a situation in recent months where republicans are proms without it 2020 election -- my research and reporting indicates they are absolutely right to be concerned. we have learned there was a coordinated effort to change the way we vote in the middle of the game, change the rules for voting in the middle of the game and a lot of the ways that was done was actually through the covid crisis. the response to the covid crisis enabled people to justify making dramatic revolutionary changes in the way we vote in the way we vote is important. historically people identify who they are so that you can make sure they are legitimate voters and then they vote in secret. a lot of the changes that we made took away some of those bedrock protections more expanded them or made it almost impossible to detect fraud after the fact. in some cases indiscriminate sending out of ballots, removal

of waste to check and determine if the ballot is actually cast properly. it you know valid harvesting and other issues was just completely revolutionized the game. people were right to be concerned. they were screaming about it last year and that was for good reason. they understood that it was a radical revolution in how things were done. >> tucker: anyone who opposes voter i.d. laws at the polls is a betting fraud, period. so the entire democratic party is against voter i.d. laws at the ballot box, and so they are for fraud. do you think there was widespread fraud in the last election? >> i think what's important -- it's important to think about what happened in general. you want free and fair and transparent and accurate elections. in order to have free and fair and transparent elections, you also need to have a media that is behaving responsive. you need to not have a society that engages in censorship. units and not have rules of

voting that make it impossible to detect fraud. this is why people care so much about how the rules are set going in and so we saw this throughout the campaign, they would send out ballots in some states or people were getting six or more ballots sent to their house. they are also being told that this is an existential threat whether they can get rid of donald trump or not in creating permission structures for doing things quite radical. it's a very complex approach, but it's absolutely important. >> tucker: it is important. i can't wait to read your book, and i will. mollie hemingway, thanks so much for having the bravery to ask the obvious questions, appreciate it. >> thanks. >> tucker: michelle obama is everywhere in the news. she is weighing in on a lot of topics but there's one subject that she will not talk about under any circumstances, we noticed. we will tell you what it isn't just a moment. ♪ ♪

'flushå >> tucker: who are the most oppressed people in the world? christians in the middle east? child in sudan? yeah, they are oppressed but the world's most depressed person is right in this country. it's michelle obama. how did oppressed as obama? she so oppressed she told us recently she's agreed to give her -- get her driver's license renewed. she scared of the whole foods. >> many of us still live in fear as we go to the grocery store or worry about walking her dogs or allowing our children to get a license. i, like so many parents, black kids, the innocent act of getting a license puts fear in our hearts. >> tucker: yeah, she's afraid to get a license. michelle obama cares deeply about racism. it's kind of the focus of her life. sort of weird, given that, that she doesn't seem worried at all or even aware of the rise in targeted attacks against

asian-americans. and there have been a lot of them. just this week an 80-year-old asian man was brutally beaten in a state of california on tape, the suspects have been arrested. the thing is they are probably not what's a premises. one of them was only 11 years old. you never hear michelle obama mention attacks like this. why is that? it seems like the one thing she won't talk about it. author of "chinese girl in the ghetto," she joins us tonight. so all of us are seeing this. if you're concerned about racism and i know the biden administration announced today that the single greatest threat we face is what's up remedy. single greatest threat. why doesn't michelle obama ever mention what the rest of us are watching? >> well, it's not just michelle obama, it's the biden administration, it's most of our political leaders. even though far too many of these horrific attacks against asian-americans happening practically every other day now, far too many of those attacks are perpetrated by black

perpetrators, our leaders simply are afraid to utter the word "black." at what we need in this country is an uncomfortable but honest national conversation about the prevalence of black crimes in general and black on asian violence in particular. now, what we actually could benefit a lot from is black role models like president obama, like black leaders in black churches across the country. we need leaders to come out and denounce black on asian violence unequivocally and, you know, i was a big fan of president obama when he bluntly talked about fatherless black households back into thousand eight. that took courage and that took honesty and leadership and i do hope that he will display the same kind of courage and

leadership on this particular issue, especially given that president obama grew up in asia in indonesia and what we need is that we need leaders like that to call in the black community to engage in some serious soul-searching to actually go out and tell his community that these attacks are heinous, they are despicable, they are disgusting and that it's not okay. we need that honest conversation. there is great friendship between blacks and asians in this country so at this point we are calling on our friends in the black community to please help, to please display some leadership on this issue, because what is going on is simply not acceptable and there are far too few leaders who are willing to even utter the word black when describing these crimes that we see on video far too often. >> tucker: that seems reasonable and honest and measured to me and i appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: before we go tonight want to tell you it is a brand-new episode of

tucker carlson originals, or document or a series. we wouldn't keep pushing it if we didn't think it was good. we do and this is on the computer products -- consumer products everyone hates and many know nothing about the air 15. it's on foxnation.com. we will be back tomorrow but in the meantime, sean hannity takes over, the 9:00 p.m. hour. >> sean: what a big warm welcome and introduction. i can't blow it from here. good night, folks, can't get any better. thank you, tucker. welcome to "hannity." it's not a cost on the east coast, six a clock on the west coast. joe biden i'm sure once again fast asleep. we are past his bedtime. he had his warm milky from his sippy cup, said night-night to everybody. now he's probably resting comfortably, totally oblivious, unbothered by what a real multitude of serious crisis that are now unfolding in this country and abroad. clearlyot