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principle of the united states of america. on the very day he was inaugurated joe biden signed executive order 1395. that makes equity mandatory across the federal government in all the agencies. and yet strangely neither joe biden nor anyone else in the administration has ever defined the word. so what is "equity"? tonight we finally know what it is. equity it turns out is racism. it's as simple as that. equity is racism. and to be clear we don't mean racism in the sense that ice cream and shakespeare and math are all now supposedly racist or that dr. seuss is now considered an exalted sigh clocks in the ku klux klan. no. we mean racism in the literal sense, in the way that martin luther king defined the term which is the act of hurting some people and hurting others purely on the basis of their respective race.

bigotry, prejudice, hatred. that's what equity is. we know this thanks to lori lightfoot, the mayor of chicago. earlier today she released a two-page memorandum. she gets specific about it. on the two year inauguration of my being made mayor, in the name of equity lori lightfoot is refusing to grant interviews to white people. you can see that some of the white reporters in the city of chicago are talented and hard working but unfortunately they are "white nonetheless." so there it is. as plainly as anyone has ever said it out loud. white people are disqualified because they are white. not because of anything they have done or said or thinking.

lori lightfoot doesn't care about that. she doesn't care what they are like as individuals or people. she doesn't even care what kind of white they are. their ancestors could be from italy, luxembourg, finland or spain. they could be members of the british royal family, penniless romanian immigrants living in a box on michigan avenue. it doesn't matter to her. to her all that matters is the fact they are white because all white people are the same. they are entirely defined by the color of their skin. you can see how this makes life a little easier for lori lightfoot. she knows who to hate just by looking at them. if some day the chicago police round up the entire population of the city lori lightfoot would have no trouble pulling the right ones out of line for punishment. in case you're wondering, yes, that was a nazi reference. lightfoot is a monster. any society that allows politicians to talk like this has a very ugly future ahead. very ugly. but of course, no one said much

at all about what lori lightfoot said in her manifesto. in chicago they could no longer pure their jobs, offered only tepid complaints. >> they are only talking to black journalists. it doesn't even sound real so i reached out to the communications director, and she texted me back and said, yes. that's true. she said, no, white reporters have been in the room for the majority of the year and it's time to hear from other people. >> tucker: what? can this be real? what she heard was confusion but not outrage. yet there is nothing confusing about who lori lightfoot is. lori lightfoot is dangerous bigot. she's hurting other people because of their race. that's the crime but of course it's the one thing nobody wants

to say out loud. here's the response from the reporter of the "chicago tribune." i'm a latino reporter whose interview request was granted for today. however, i asked the mayor's offers to lift its condition on others and when they said no, we respectfully canceled. politicians don't get to choose who covers them. end quote. talk about missing the point completely. by the way, of course, politicians can choose who they talk to. all of us have that right thank god. what politicians can't do under any circumstances is attack an entire group of citizens on the basis of their skin color. again, to restate the obvious that is racism. it is immoral. it's also illegal under countless state and federal laws. we're not supposed to allow behavior like that from our government. we're all equal in the eyes of the law. we're all citizens. we've got an entire granted monument on the national mall in washington promising that we'll never behave that way again.

we'll never allow it but because we've embraced equity we're not simply allowing it. we're encouraging it. meanwhile, the city of chicago under lightfoot is crumbling. murder last year jumped to 50% president hundreds more dead. many of them young people, children, most of them black. is that social justice? no, it's not. it's no one's definition of social justice. not surprisingly lightfoot doesn't want to talk about it. there are 50 members of the city council in chicago called alder man. one of them, raymond lopez has repeated pressed lightfoot to explain what she's doing to the city. you should know lopez is not a right winger, he's a democrat. but raymond lopez cares a lot about his constituents. so in january he raised an obvious point with the mayor. maybe crime is shooting up in chicago because chicago is a sanctuary city is not enforcing federal law. how did lightfoot respond to this? she called him a racist.

>> being an immigrant or refugee is not a crime. alderman nap olitanio is not the same a using xenophobic rhetoric and de monizing. >> i sense a game here, you've been asked this a number of times, when asked about simple questions like governance, why are you doing this, what are the consequences she whips around

and makes it a racial issue, and dodges the question. am i imagining this pattern? >>, no you're not hallucinating, tucker. the race card has been pulled out more times than i care to remember to try and deflect from her deficiencies of being mayor as the city of chicago and as you played in the clip she herself said that nobody should use race or xenophone i can tropes as a public official yet she's doing that to create a controversy to stir up racial fears in the city targeting the media, that's now the enemy of what's wrong with the social ills in our city. >> tucker: i mean, it goes without saying, this is such a familiar game but if it had been any other group, any group, i mean, is it ever acceptable for an elected official who is supposed to represent all people who are equally in the eyes of the law, to say, i am hurting people, preventing them from doing their jobs because of their skin color. why the hell isn't anyone saying

anything about this? >> the hard part was when this first came out yesterday many of us thought it was a joke. it was like a bad onion headline. the mayor is only going to talk to people of color. white people need not apply. and whatever her point was, in trying to highlight the need for diversity in media, it may be honorable but it got totally lost in her messaging and the way she was handling this showing a clear disconnect between thought and action, and that's been the highlight of her two years and i think it's very telling that if she's discussing two years in office, the ability to think and act has eluded her this entire time as is evident by the controversy that she herself created yesterday. >> tucker: so how is chicago doing under lori lightfoot? the question of competence might be the most important question. is chicago improving? >> no, i think, tucker, you know, to put it quite bluntly, she's very incompetent and it shows. she has failed this city for the

last two years. granted, she's had to deal with a pandemic but we've all been in this together, trying to work together and she's failed at every turn to bring people in and to unite people. her abrasive style has been seen not only with the media, not only with members of the city council or even her own departments but now she's trying to put communities and people of the city against each other, with these kind of discussions and these kinds of tweets, and more importantly, she's spent an entire day trying to defend, articulate and define what she meant yesterday. meanwhile, just on my way to the studio, i've had two shootings in my ward alone in the last hour. shootings continue in every neighborhood on michigan avenue. yesterday, someone was shot. another carjacking. none of that is part of the discussion, except for the racist whiteness of chicago media. >> tucker: you talk to her a lot. you're one of 50 alderman. she's the mayor.

you're on the city council. did she seem aware of the fact that for most people of all colors, threat of getting shot may be the defining fact of their lives. does she seem worried about that working to fix it? >> sadly, i think the disconnect between what her reality is guarded at her home versus what the reality is in the other 77 neighborhoods in the city of chicago is not one and the same and recently, we saw with her emails being leaked that she clearly is not aware of what's going on in the communities and whenever people try to pierce her reality with the truth, she questions their motives. she questions what the angle is. she questions why she's being told these things that she's never heard before and it comes off in the way she does her policy because nothing she produces or suggests has any impact in improving the quality of life that we have in our city. >> tucker: i have noticed. the clip that we played where she whips around on you and

another alderman and says that you're racist and you're scapegoating immigrants. you have a lot of immigrants, don't you? >> i have a lot of white people from europe. polish and lithuanians. but you can't have people coming to this country who do not love this country and are only here making more problems. >> tucker: you can't have people coming to this country who don't love this country, i'm putting that on my frig. thank you very much. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: it's sad for people who love the city of chicago, and all americans should. it's a thoroughly american city and a great place in a lot of ways to see the city's decline. we've talked about the murder rate and the hundreds of people killed for no reason. we've talked about the physical filth. that's a reality there, too. chicago is infested with rats. one chicago animal shelter,

treehouse humane society is releasing feral cats to get the rats under control. >> for six years in a row, chicago has been named the rattiest city in america. as an alternative, they offer the cats at work program featuring feral cats who prefer to be socially distant. >> they will not thrive in a home environment. >> to higher a cat crew for a home or business the cost ranges from $600 to $800. >> so the shelter is for a fee placing two to three cats outside of businesses and residences that call for help with rats. seems kind of inspired. does it work? we wanted to talk to someone who knows the answer. this man is a rat wrangler. he says dogs would be more effective. we want to talk more about it to put a finer point on that. before you get into your

preference dogs over cats, describe for us the rat problem in chicago tonight. >> well, i don't know much about it because i'm out on the west coast. i only know that i get a lot of phone calls and emails on a continual basis inviting me to come out. >> tucker: right. i mean, that's kind of the point. you're a thousand miles away and the city of chicago is reaching -- that's how desperate they are, overwhelmed they are by the norway rat problem. tell us, when you hear of people releasing feral cats to keep rats under control, you chuckle silently to yourself, don't you, the ignorance? >> just a little bit. feral cats are well known for the problems they cause to native species and they are not known for catching rats. >> tucker: by the way, anybody deeply familiar with feral cats would know that. what would you recommend? >> i like to promote the use of dogs. i'm well known for my work out here in california and oregon. the use of terriers as well as dealing with the management

problems that's creating the rats. >> tucker: terriers, as they were called in great britain so long ago, ratters, ratting dogs, how many rats can a well-trained ratting dog, a terrier, take out in the course of an evening, would you say, just ballpark? >> i often take my dogs out for three or four hours to farm locations and i've caught well in excess of several hundred in that type period with three or four adult dogs. >> several hundred. that's remarkable. >> no, sir. just in case they are poisoned. training them to drop it is one of the first command they learn. >> like the bird dog, you don't eat the quail, you drop it at the foot of their master. i'm sorry. >> i just go around and collect them after they are dead. >> what do you do with them? >> we give them to falconers and

we compost them. >> tucker: you use all of it. what do your dogs think of it? how proud are they after killing 200 rats in a night? >> i would answer that question by saying the reason i have chose then as my fun activity is because i'm embracing the true nature of the dogs. it's my belief this is truly in the nature of the animal and because i like terriers, i have to give them an activity. >> tucker: i love that. i love dogs, too, and i agree with you completely. thanks so much for coming on tonight. it's great to talk to you. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: chicago, great city it is, has a lot of problems. and not just about rats. we traveled to the city for a deeper look into the crisis. we got many hours, hundreds of hours, of never before seen surveillance footage from the city. some of it is too shocking to air. you can see what we did assemble, though, on our new show, tucker carlson original here on fox nation.

here's a clip. >> of the handful of looters who did face prosecution most were granted pretrial release. [indistinguishable voices] very demoralizing for our residents to be called 911 when you see crime happening only to see the same kimball -- criminal be arrested and released within 24 hours. >> tucker: that's the documentary series on fox nation and there is more. >> we spoke to christie ali the other day at greatest length. the interview came out this afternoon. >> if you can't be happy, if you can't -- it starts making you crazy and i felt the glimpse of what real insanity was, not what, you know, me being crazy or playing around, i wasn't playing anymore. i couldn't control feeling kind

of insane. >> tucker: christie ali turns out to be a really interesting smart person and very fun to talk to. apparently former president trump was watching and put out a statement about it. about 20 minutes ago. we'll show you an extended preview of our conversation just ahead. and the cdc director is out today with a stunning admission about where the coronavirus came from. in the end the truth emerges. we'll tell you what she said next. we'll tell you what she said next. our retirement plan with voya, keeps us moving forward. hey, kevin! hey, guys! they have customized solutions to help our family's special needs... giving us confidence in our future... ...and in kevin's. voya. well planned. well invested. well protected.

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>> tucker: the director of the cdc just made a remarkable admission about where the coronavirus likely came from. fox's trace gallagher has that story for us tonight. >> this back and forth between louisiana senator and -- it's enlightening because it it its a sit shift. last week dr. tony fauci said there needs to be a thorough investigation into whether covid-19 originated from a lab in wuhan. last year fauci knocked down that lab theory and today dr. walensky was asked her thoughts on the origin of the virus. watch. >> what are the possibilities?

>> certainly the possibility that most coronaviruses that we know of are of origin that have infected the population, sars, generally come from an animal origin. >> are there any other possibilities? >> lab-based origin is one possibility. >> that answer is key because just a few months ago media maligned that theory as baseless and political mostly because trump, pompeo and robert redfield all said the evidence was compelling and should be investigated. even the director general of the world health organization went against his own team and said china needs to provide answers, and breaking today, republicans in the house intel committee say there is significant circumstantial evidence that the virus came from a lab in wuhan including that in the fall of 2019, several lab workers got sick with covid-like symptoms.

bottom line, tucker, the wuhan lab theory is gaining steam and gaining supporters. >> tucker: amazing but not surprising. chris gallagher, thank you so much. for more than a year they lied about it. they attacked us for saying it. we also know cuomo lied about the deaths in new york. the media didn't cover that story. instead they accused governor ron desantis, who they worried could run for president, of manipulating his state's coronavirus data and they had evidence to prove it. various news outlets say the supposed whistleblower who previously worked at the florida department of health, a woman called rebekah jones. jones claims she was instructed to delete data on covid deaths. and over at cnn andrew cuomo's brother treated rebekah jones like a living oracle. >> i want to bring in former

data scientist for the florida department of health who co-founded the covid monitor. why do we keep closing down schools when the rate is so much lower than it is in the rest of the communities, for example, new york city, they just hit the 3% mark but the schools are only .17. why shut down our schools? you say i have my facts wrong? >> part of the reason of shutting down a school is to prevent the case rate from getting higher. if you allow the case rate to become high, then you've acted too late. >> tucker: she's a data scientist, says cuomo's brother. over at msnbc, rebekah jones is more like a religious figure. >> rebekah jones, the light is shining on you. don't be scared because the whole country now is watching you and your family and what they do to you. >> so anyone who pushed back on any of this, well, of course, they were sexist for questioning rebekah jones. >> yes, unfortunately, i've

personally experienced a lot of prejudice for the last several months, trying to get rid of the stigma of mental health actually used the term "she's got issues," referring to me, so there is an absolutely coordinated effort to dismiss women in any instance that they seek to make them seem irrational or overly emotional. >> tucker: it was an effort to dismiss women. one long magazine piece takes her seriously. doesn't dismiss her at all but says she's a total fraud. she did not have the authority to delete records of covid deaths in the florida system. also points out that she changed her story about what happened multiple times. charles cook is a senior writer at national review. he's the one who wrote this

piece which you should read because it's amazing. thanks so much for coming on. >> unfortunately, in the space of a tv segment, we don't have time for you to unfurl this amazing story but just give us some of the highlights on who rebekah jones is. >> the key thing here is the central claim is false. this is not a political question. it's not a question of republicans and democrats. it's not a question of whether you like ron desantis or florida or you think he got it right. as you said, rebekah jones made a clear claim. an objective claim. a claim that can be falsified and that's that she was told by dr. robeson, an epidemiologist, to fudge the numbers, edit the raw data. if that were true that would be an enormous scandal but it's not. first, it didn't happen. there is no evidence that it happened but suppose for the sake of argument it had. rebekah jones was not in a position to do what she said she

was asked to do. she didn't have the permission. she's not an epidemiologist. she's not a scientist. she's not a politician. she was a dashboard manager. her job was to manage the public facing dashboard with the numbers on it. she got copies of the data in excel format. she could not write the merlin database which is what florida uses. she could not have done that. the story is false. >> tucker: she also had an amazing back story that has to be read and enjoyed. again, i hope our viewers will read it because it made my afternoon one day but what's amazing is you verified this. you put a lot of work into this piece but you would think that andrew cuomo's brother could have called over there and said, did this lady have the ability to do what she says? nobody did that as far as i can tell. >> that's another key point. the documents that are used and they are all referenced throughout the piece, they are all linked in the online version of the piece, are public

information. all of them. the criminal records, the public information, the labor file is public information, these have all been in the public domain for months. maybe longer. anyone could have looked them up and read them. and when you read them what you find is that this is something who was indulged by the florida department, not targeted, indulged, when she was hired they knew she had pretrial intervention program in louisiana, that had wiped away four misdemeanors including assaulting a police officer. they knew she had a deferred prosecution in florida. and after her behavior got worse within the department, she kept her around. she took her off the dashboard but they reallocated her. they didn't fire her. it was only when things got untenable that the department fired her, and as a thanks for that she started lying about them in public and she illegally accessed the computer information and downloaded the personal information of 19,000 state employees.

so yes, this is somebody who has a history. >> tucker: she's an ambitious young lady. has she been signed yet to a contract? >> i don't know. she has two trials coming up. both in the state of florida. so we'll have to see how those go first. >> tucker: all right. we'll wait to see her again. mr. cook, thank you. >> thank you. >> christie ali has been around hollywood for 40 years. left a lot of friends recently because of her political views but she has not stopped talking. she has a lot to say. our interview with christie ali was really interesting. kind of inspiring. part of it is straight ahead. i.

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. >> tucker: we don't talk to a lot of actors on this show. most of them hate us and would never come on but even though who would come on aren't that interesting when you talk to

them. when they aren't reading a script they don't have a lot to say. sad but true, christie ali is not like that. when she has no script in front of her she has a lot to say, more than we can even imagine. we had an amazing conversation, that went on for more than an hour today. here's part of it. >> four years ago i was on a set, and i spoke up, i didn't know it was going to be some big deal. oh, my god, i voted for trump. if anyone hears me say that, i will never work again especially for this group. there was a little bit of ignorance. >> tucker: did you take it seriously when they said that? >> that they would be fired. i knew they would be. when they first said it, i thought, right. who cares. then in the last four years i've seen like, right, who cares, because people negotiation you're so brave. i go, no, i think i'm stupid

because honestly it is a real situation. it is a real, and it is a real blackball situation and it's so strange to me because artists are free thinkers for the most part. >> tucker: yes. >> and they all think differently and my whole career, when i -- everybody was different. they had different political views, that's what made everyone interesting. so this whole thing is just psycho to me. >> tucker: it wasn't that way. people were liberal or gave to the democratic party but there was a freedom of thought and expression for an artist to create. >> right. like on cheers, there was only like one of the cast members that was going to vote republican and i remember us all going, you know, but it was like, who cares. >> tucker: did you try and kick them off the show? >> no, we didn't try to get hip fired but there weren't any of those kinds of things. in most of my career, guys in rehab, guys are not kicked off,

women tend to get kicked off shows more if they are doing drugs and -- men get like 12 chances. and that's the only thing i can say about show business was, women may get one chance if they are lucky and men get 12 or 15. >> tucker: but that's such an interesting point that it's endlessly tolerant of certain people's deviation from the norm. their eccentrics -- >> you could be sleeping with hookers but as long as apparently, you didn't vote for trump, you know, i feel like i'm in the twilight zone a bit, and, with the whole concept of it because, you know, an example is on twitter. i had many celebs that followed me and i think now like threefold me. >> tucker: they took you off the list, unfold you.

>> i'm the same person. i voted for obama twice and you like me when i voted for obama and now you're this and it's made me have to rethink weirdly my whole friendships. i just started watching certain things in the world. like i wanted simple things, i'm not, you know, a rocket scientist. i was like, i want people to have jobs. i want people to have, you know -- i like gas to cost less money. i like people to have good schools and just really common sense kind of things. >> tucker: yes. >> so when i was listening to trump say what he was going to do, i thought, well, you're saying you're going to do what i think we should do. he's not like mr. drug -- you know what i mean. he's not mr. pharmaceutical, and i have my own views on what's going on in our country.

and how many artists we've lost to fentanyl and other drugs, it's sitting right in front of our faces so i felt like, i would like to give this guy a chance. >> tucker: so his firmness on drugs, drugs kill people, they are obviously hurting the country, he said that out loud. >> head said, why is everybody doing drugs now? why is everybody on pharmaceuticals? >> tucker: it's such a great question. >> why? why are we all suddenly mentally ill. we aren't, and it's not that i don't agree -- he may say this or not, i don't know, i don't want to put words in his mouth but it not like depression doesn't exist. it's not like postpartum doesn't exist. it's not like anxiety doesn't exist. it's what do you do about it? >> tucker: that's right. >> so in my universe, what do you do about it? and my -- i said something on twitter the other day. let's stop drugging everybody.

are you a doctor? do -- i really want to -- i do have to be an fing doctor to not want to take a million pharmaceuticals, or how about if i'm depressed, find out why. do i have to have a disease? >> tucker: find out why? >> yes, if i'm anxious, why? it's like when i did coke, i was anxious all the time. dah! i was drugging myself to death. >> tucker: as are many. apparently former president trump watched the entire hour. we think it's worth it. i hope you do. it's as simple as going to foxnation.com. we learned this week on sunday that ufo's have entered airspace restricted by the u.s. military every day for years. so this is a big story here. we're going to speak to the man who made all of this information possible. really, person who has driven

transparency on ufo's more than any other person. he ran the ufo unit. joins us next. other person. lou joins us next.

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there are records of objects in the sky that we don't know exactly what they are. >> tucker: he's waited a while to tell us but that was former president barack obama conceding that the ufo thing seems to be you can't explain what they are. that's the consensus all of a sudden. "60 minutes" did a long piece on it sunday night, this is after decades of mocking anybody who suggested maybe there is something to this. the consensus has changed and more than any other person, lou is responsible for that. more than any other person he's the reason why we're having this conversation. he spent two decades in military intelligence before being named director of the pentagon's aerospace threat identification program and ever since he's been pushing for transparency on this issue. we're honored to have him on.

thanks so much for coming. so we're getting -- >> my pleasure. >> this much anticipated report june. the law requires the pentagon to fess up and say what they know. what are we going to learn, do you think, next month? >> well, what we should learn is exactly that. what the u.s. government knows about this topic and has known for a while. it's a threat assessment that's supposed to be conducted at the unclassified level and then provided to congress, which is a report that's expected to be comprehensive. certainly that's a report that congress deserves. unfortunately what we might get is something that's much more watered down, and i think from my perspective that's probably the most concerning part of this. the last thing we need is more obfiscation. >> number one, why all the lying at this point.

>> yes. first of all, all the lying, probably because there are certain elements in the pentagon that have backed themselves into a corner. they have spent such a long time and an amount of energy trying to block the truth from the american people and they have backed themselves into a corner and they don't know how to get out of it. the more we shine a spotlight on this topic the more people will realize there is something there. with the announcement of the new i.g. inspector general evaluation into this topic and more importantly, the last three years of pentagon -- hopefully the elements of resistance in the pentagon will realize that that type of resistance at this point is rather futile. >> tucker: you worked for the government for decades. when pilots had seen these unidentified flying objects every day for two years in

restricted airspace, obvious response, didn't that raise alarms, wouldn't that scare the hell out of the pentagon that their airspace was being violated? yes. you're absolutely right. >> tucker: what's the posture here? >> yes, yes? >> i saw the reports and there were times where would you like at a monthly report and there were 25 or 26 incidents occurring in a 30-daytime period and the question is, you know, what the hell is wrong with you? how can you not realize that this is an issue? let's take away for a moment the source of what this possibly could be and let's just pretend it's either russian or chinese. either way it's not a good scenario. someone with some sort of technology that we don't have is incurring into controlled u.s. airspace on a regular and routine basis and no one wants to do a darn thing about it. >> tucker: so one of the reasons we're having -- you're the reason why we're having this conversation. you more than anybody really pushed hard to bring this stuff

to the public, to bring it to light. if this report that we get next month is watered down, redacted to the point of pointlessness do you think that whistleblowers internally will continue to leak the truth to the public? >> tucker, i do. and also, let me just say for the record i appreciate the compliment towards me as being part of this, but i also have to give a lot of credit to folks like you and people in the media that were brave enough three years ago to cover this topic when nobody else in your industry wanted to cover it and it turns out you were right. so first of all, thank you for doing what you do, and secondly, yes, i do i think there are more and more people who will come out. we saw alex detrick and dave this weekend coming out for the record, and these people have a lot to lose. alex is still in the united states military. there is a lot at risk here. by the way, for every one of those brave americans that are coming out and having this

conversation, there are dozens more in the shadows waiting to tell the story. >> tucker: we keep hearing whispers that there is physical evidence of the existence of these objects. do you believe that's true, that would tell us what they are? >> i believe it's true. we should be looking at this and i think we should be more transparent with the american people and the last thing we need to do is lie to the american people. i tell you one thing, tucker, from my perspective that type of position where you continue to lie to the american people and obfuscate is why people like me decide to run for congress. the last thing dod wants right now is someone like me in congress. but that's what happens when you're not honest and open and fair with people. you get what you pay for. >> tucker: amen. i agree with that completely. is there debris, you believe, from any of these vehicles, whatever they are? >> tucker, you know, the united states government is in

possession of exotic material and i'll leave it at that. more analysis needs to be done. there is enough uniqueness about it where it demands additional analysis and additional expertise and thankfully there are pockets in the u.s. government that are willing to have the conversation and conduct the analysis. i'm not going to say right now what those elements are because i'm worried frankly for the same type of reprisal that i'm facing currently, but there are pockets of people that are willing to do the right thing and fortunately these individuals are patriotic and willing to do the job. >> amen. >> tucker: it's all so crazy and amazing. thank you so much. we'll see you again. elizondo. >> as always, my pleasure. thank you. >> tucker: the show continues, we'll be right back. we'll be ri.

>> tucker: and here's sean! >> sean: what an introduction. thanks, tucker. welcome to "hannity." it's have a special message. you don't want former president barack obama straight ahead, after a hundred days in office one overarching them is sippy cup joe's administration and that theme is complete weak renes. weakness abroad, weakness at home, a weak commander in chief who believes that full-scale