"fox news primetime" hosted by brian kilmeade. he has a morning show, too. >> brian: right. >> bret: it starts in 15 seconds because that's how much i like this show. i wanted to give you extra. >> brian: bret, i have a quote can i throw one out? >> bret: yeah. >> brian: quote from bret baier this is the voice in your head. i will really miss tossing to brian at the end of my show next week. is that true? can you back that up. >> bret: that is true. i will back it up. >> brian: thank, bret. good evening, everyone, this is "fox news primetime." >> brian: i'm brian kilmeade. word is we might be hours away from getting another national mask mandate. last week it happened in los angeles. let's see how they handled it. >> antimaskers. >> great. you guys are real scientists. hey. >> scientists, right? >> why don't you go [inaudible] >> kiss the virus and see what

happens to you. >> >> brian: i think that's called pushback. we see what happened in los angeles. people are done getting along -- going along to get along. they want the ability to make decisions for themselves, their business, their kids. i got some bad news, the left wing media and democrats aren't just going to give you your freedom back. let you keep your space. they're looking to clamp down. they're looking to lockdown. >> initially in may when the cdc came out with their guidance saying if you are vaccinated you don't need to wear a maverick. first of all they didn't take into account that the honor system was not going to work and

that unvaccinated people were taking off their masks as well. >> we should be really considering whether schools, workplaces, government agencies ought to be talking about saying hey, if you are coming here, you need to be vaccinated and if you are not, you need to show you got a negative test every single day. >> brian: have abused their right to freedom and personal responsibility. they know exactly who is to blame. i will give you an example. here is a quote from the atlantic magazine. experts list many reasons for the vaccine slump. one big reason stands out. vaccine resistance among conservatives. vehicle call andrural americans. a statement of identity and a test of little. okay. so the conservative trump supporters are the problem. but, don't worry, mika brzezinski has a solution. >> that fire hose of falsehoods has been spewing propaganda and lies for well over a year. and it's time to turn that spigot off. it's timing to deprogram the

cult leaders. >> okay. fantastic. wait a second. if you look at who is really hesitant about getting the vaccine it's a much more nuanced issue than the left wants you to believe. data shows that black and hispanic population mostly biden supporters are the ones trailing behind in vaccination rate. that's not my point at the end of the day it isn't about who you voted for or which side of the political aisle you are on. it's about freedom to make your own informed decisions about what is best for you about what is best for you your family. this is especially important now because it's seeming more and more likely that the federal government is going to take that freedom away. joining me now a man who has been actually rolling the siren on this for quite some time. he is the author of unreported truth. booklet series alex berenson. where are we headed? >> i'm afraid we are heading towards a dark place, actually. you know, i hoped a couple weeks ago, a few weeks ago that biden administration might just sort of declare victory and go home. but they are -- they do not seem

interested in doing that you know, the university of california has now told its students not just that they are going to have to be vaccinated but that it expects annual even more frequent booster shots and that those will be mandated as well. and this is for teenagers and young adults who are essentially zero risk from code. if, you know, if the vaccine advocates had any sense, they would be honest about what the data is saying which, you know, there is efficacy here but that it is certainly not with the clinical getting people 50 and over with chronic conditions and 65 and over people are not stupid and they are making their own health decisions sort of wisely with the information they have. but get the rest of those people encouraged to be vaccinated and leave the rest of us alone. as you just said, they don't seem interested in doing that. bribe brian they don't. whether it comes to kids, it's almost universally accepted. you heard jen psaki on the podium yesterday saying my kid

is wearing a of course that, they are used to it alex, maybe look at the flip side of this, she you are maybe saving them from a virus that won't hurt them. look at the stats, what else are you doing to a kid when you put that mask on for the second consecutive year? >> i mean, look, i agree. the mask thing is a problem. the vaccine issue is a much bigger issue. you know, that's an active drug that you are, you know, or, you know, a therapeutic that you are taking in your body and requiring people or requiring people to take that is a much bigger problem. the frankly the way the administration has behaved in the last month is should be frightening to anyone who believes in the constitution and the bill of rights. you know, they pushed on fox. they have pushed on me. they are trying to get me deplatformed. they are trying to get twitter to censor me. it's quite obvious. i now have, you know, the substech which you can go subscribe to hear from me directly. that's not how it should be. i should not have to worry

censored because i'm dissenting opinion neither should you or anybody else. >> brian: i got vaccinated turns out i'm not duke are. to say i checked my resume i shouldn't be giving medical advice. if something does happen i don't want to be responsible. i haven't been trained. but anthony fauci was on our channel today with neil cavuto and he, again, was asked to answer people like senator rand paul and josh rogue begin who has done do some type of gain of function research. listen to his explanation. >> it was research that was highly recommended by peer review and the purpose of the research was very, very clear. it was to try and determine what was out there in the bat population that might be ultimately risky for us. it was done in the context of trying to find out what the precise environmental bat source

was of sars cov-1 so we could prevent sars cov 2. >> brian: news alert. he didn't. was it worth the risk? he took that financing, took that -- made that decision to stop cov 2. 600,000 americans are dead. how did that go? >> look, obviously, anthony fauci did not want this virus to, you know, he did not want gain of function research that would have led to this outcome. to me, there is a bigger problem with fauci, which is we now have emails showing that early, very, very early in january and february of last year, his main concern or one of his main concerns, certainly was was this genetically engineered or modified virus. was there some kind of connection to research in china we for this. okay? this came out in giant batch of emails, you know, that were authentic, that were from the nih. guess what although fox has

talked about it and i have talked about it the "new york times" as far as can i tell has never written a story about this. once again, we have a major -- i don't want to say cover-up. but i don't understand what is defined as news anymore. it seems to me entirely ideological. the fact that fauci was more worried or as worried about where about whether or not this virus might have been created in a lab or created, modified i should say is a better word. than, you know, than anything else. it's not news to a lot of people on the left. >> brian: i will give you an example. knows more about this than probably any civilian in this country. he stopped by "the washington post." he gets a column in there. and signed by cnn. he should be leading every cnn broadcast as the premier expert. is he buried because they don't want that message. that, to me, is not great journalism to be -- to undermine to understate it just a little bit. alex berenson, thanks so much. >> great pleasure.

>> brian: all right. 8 minutes now after the hour. let's bring in pete hegseth. co-host of "fox & friends." he has 8 hours of broadcasting to do but is he going to stop by us first. pete, are you worried about where this week has gone? going after people who haven't been vaccinated, mandating it you sense a lockdown, shut down again? >> pete: yes, i am. it is amazing. i felt likes a we progressed, the clouds would part and we would be in a moment where we are moving past this i think that's what everyone assumed. we felt that way early this summer. now we are at a point where we are going backwards to go forwards. even though my body, my choice, brian. anyone who wants access to the vaccine can get it. we know who the vulnerable population -- i feel like i keep missing something. what am i missing? honestly, what am i missing? if you want to get the vaccine, you can. we know who is vulnerable. and they should get the vaccine. and we know people who get the vaccine are not at risk at dying

from covid from people who don't have it if you don't have it, you are the problem. vaccinated people are a threat and need to wear a mask. that cnn doctor you just played talking about universal mask-wearing across the country, she was the former head of planned parenthood she was all about pro-choice if you want to abort a baby. when it comes to whether or not you want to wear a of course that, based on your vaccine status or whether or not you want to get a vaccine in the first place, no choice. we must mandate it, even though everyone who wants to has the information and the access. they can make the choice, you know your own health better than any bureaucrat does. i don't get -- what are we missing? you got to help me out. i don't get it. >> brian: that's why i put you on to make sense of it. you are not only an anchor. you are a parent. you have got kids. they are going to be going back to school. the schools are going to be telling your kids to put the mask back on. right now this delta variant is allowing people to double down on their control of the population. you have got wonder why everyone is so upset if you have a

problem with the vaccine? because, remember, in 2020, joy reid when this guy named donald trump was president of the united states, i want you to take a look at her tweet at that time. she said i mean will anyone, anyone at all ever fully trust the cdc government again? and who on god's green earth would trust a vaccine approved by the fda? how do we get a vaccine distributed after this place was broken? so joy reid was skeptical a year ago. but a year, in people might have some questions because they hear about swelling of the heart, or they might have underlying conditions and they don't take it they're the worst people in the world. >> pete: well, the left lost its automatic permanent virtue signaling in the mask when those mandates were lifted. they're still not lifted in some places like airports. and ultimately it became all about the vaccine. and in this particular case, the left doesn't understand the irony of the fact that the vaccine that they now worship, which is wonderful. it saved a lot of lives. i think it's great, was directly a result of operation warp speed and the efforts of the trump

administration. yet now they are happy to flip it rewrite history. anything else is misinformation. you can't post about it that's the most dangerous part of last week and this week, brian. not just the looming feeling that control is coming back, but also the misinformation on top of it to suppress. this video put on facebook probably would not be allowed because it's not completely tailored to the line of anthony fauci and any other doctor on cnn. they control the conversation. and that's how they control people. ultimately, i have kids. a bunch of little kids, as you said. there is no chance -- mark my word. there is no chance i send them to a school this next school year where they're wearing masks again. it's not happening. the teachers can have -- be vaccinated the administrators can be vaccinated. everyone is fine. my kids have never been the problem and wouldn't be the problem this year. find me one parent that wants to put a mask on their 8-year-old or 4-year-old or 10-year-old and send them to school after what we went through last year now that we have the miracle of the

vaccine. it's a sin. and parents should have that choice. optional? that's fine. you want to make it optional? i don't care. parents can do that to their own kids. you are not going to do to mine. >> brian: stats said they are not the ones at risk. jen psaki said her kids have adjusted just fine. that's fine for her kids. leave our kids out of it thanks so much. pete hegseth watch you tomorrow 6 to 10:00 in the morning and sunday 1:00 to 10:00. thanks. coming up next, one of nfl's biggest stars threatening retirement over the leaving's new covid policy essentially everyone has to get the vaccine. ukraine. why some people are accusing joe biden of committing impeachable offenses. marc thiessen on the case in just a moment. don't move. ♪ coverage customizer tool? sorry?

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♪ >> was there a quid pro quo? as i testified previously, with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting, the answer is yes. >> brian: i remember those were the good old days remember when people cared about quid pro quo with the ukrainians? not anymore i guess the biden administration cut a deal with germany allowing russia to complete its nord stream 2 pipeline which effectively crushed neighboring ukraine and, by the way as well as poland and their energy independence. why is ukraine kicking and screaming? why aren't they making more noz noise right now. joe biden may have twisted their arm. marc thiessen writes in his latest column while members ever the biden administration deal with germany working with ukrainians set a deal with this month according to axios recording. the ukrainians felt the administration was effectively linking the white house visit to ukraine's position on the nord stream 2 pipeline.

and pressuring them not to speak out. even though that's in their interest. so, does that sound like an impeachable offense to you? that's what expert from this area marc thiessen wrote about in the "the washington post" today. is he a fox news contributor. marc, this really struck you not many others as something even worse than what donald trump was accused of doing. why? >> well, so if you remember, the democrats impeached donald trump and they accused him of twisting the arm of ukrainian president slen ski and conditioning a white house now you have a situation where the biden administration is really doing a number of on ukraine because they're -- they have acquiesced to this nord stream 2 pipeline which is going to allow russia to strangle ukraine with energy export and they conditioned, painterly according to axios, they conditioned the white house

visit swlen ski on his silence about this. zelensky denied trump pressured him but ukrainians saying that the biden administration is pressuring them and what biden is doing is far worse than anything donald trump did to the ukrainians because it really represents an existential threat to the -- to ukraine and poland and other countries in eastern europe. >> brian: at home think about this. there is a pipeline that goes through the ukraine western europe. you want to shut off ukraine's oil and gas, you would shut off germany's and other nation's oil and gas. he didn't do it. now, they go past ukraine and you can decide to deal with germany and other western nations directly. so now ukraine is in the wilderness pledged money from the biden administration to green energy. wow, that's a big break for them, isn't it? >> oh, yeah. a huge break. absolutely. and, look, here's the thing. you are exactly right. right now what germany is doing

is they are doing putin's bidding by building this pipeline through the baltic sea that bypasses ukraine, bypasses poland and all the countries of eastern europe. going to do two things one make western europe more dependent on russia for gas and, two, it allows putin to say to the ukrainians which he did as soon as biden announced he was going to allow the pipeline they said you better behave if you want energy. so they can black male them. here's the thing. donald trump stopped this pipeline cold. he imposed sanctions in 2019 on all the companies that were doing -- that were involved in this pipeline and as a result construction stop stopped. it was 90% completed and they halted construction. do you know when they started construction again? as soon as joe biden took office. he promised, he promised he was going to keep up the trump policy to fight this pipeline but he capitulated, he lifted sanctions on a putin crony who is a former east german intelligence officer who is running the project. you can't make this up. eastern german intelligence officer running pipeline project and letting it go through and

thought ukrainians are being told you want to come to the white house? you want military aid? you want all these things you? better be quiet. so. >> brian: he lets them do the pipeline. he also went back to the missile agreement that they had in place that donald trump pulled out because russia kept cheating on it to state-of-the-art agreement and then he held back $100 million aid to ukraine. and antony blinken his own secretary of state said stop the nord stream 2 project. democrat senator cardin and kaine said don't do this nord stream 2 prompt. it was joe biden single-handedly who reportedly wanted this. do you know why? >> i don't except that he says -- rationale one it's already 90% completed we couldn't stop it anyway. last time i checked you can't put gas through 90% completed pipeline it has to be 100 percent completed. number two too damaging to our relations with germany.

germany is doing putin's bidding and we can't pressure them to stop doing that here is the other thing, brian, military aid to ukraine. another reason for the impeachment of donald trump they said that he cut military aid to ukraine. and biden said that was irresponse sin. that's a country under russian pressure. guess what? biden just suspended $100 million in lethal military aid to ukraine. so his policies are gift to vladimir putin. >> brian: marc, do you know it's not good you have to write down "the washington post" that no other republican lawmaker would put two and two together. thanks so much for writing it and expanding on it i will talk to you again soon. >> thanks for having me on. >> brian: vaccine hysteria hitting the sports world. tonight, it's costing one nfl coast his job while a top player threatens retirement if he is forced to get vaccinated and this story the cleanders cleveland indians get a new name, does anybody like it? the one and only joe theismann next. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> risen to the roar of the crowd as the indians take the field. yes, sir. they love this club here in cleveland. >> brian: well, they may not be the city's team anymore the days of the taking the field is numbered. it's official. announced this morning they will change the name to the guardians effective at the end of the 2021 season. the decision ends 100 years of indians history. bob feller, manny ramirez by the board so to speak. follows a similar move made by last year's washington one time redskins and now the washington football club formerly the redskins who changed their name following a public outcry they will get another official name soon. what is the right call on these politically correct times? are these teams abandoning their

history. let's ask washington redskins quarterback author of this book "how to be a champion every day" it's excellent. joe theismann. welcome. joe, i thought you would be perfect. you were proud of the history of the redskins thought washington football club. did the cleveland indians make the right move today. >> brian, i think it's the sign of the time. socially, i really believe this is what we are dealing with. you see names being changed. you are never going to get rid of the history. we won three world champions as the washington redskins. cleveland has had success as a franchise as the cleveland indians. those are things i hope and pray will remain. but, i say this to those young people that are going to be a part of those franchises going forward. it's your turn to create a new legacy. it's your turn to create something under a new name. and, like i said, it's a sign of the times that we're living. in it's the pressures that people are under, whether it's economic pressure. whether it's outcries. whatever it might be. it's just something that is here

and to cry over spilled milk wouldn't do any good. i think you have to accept and it move forward with it. >> brian: gotcha. >> there is a lot of history in cleveland. there was a lot of history with the washington franchise going back 87 years. but now it's time to, i think, have to open our eyes and say okay, now we are moving to another era, another time and another place for young players. >> brian: so, here's the question. they are talking now about the kansas city chiefs. i didn't think the word chief was an insult. i thought it showed leadership. braves is the way you fight. a lot of people thought. the native american community is not on the same page in this. do you expect this to be next? >> well, i would assume that there is going to be conversations about it, exactly what happens. i mean, let's take the florida state seminoles as an example. they basically, the seminoles have basically said don't touch our football team. don't touch florida state. we're not changing the name. so, that's a group that has stood up and said it's not going to happen. i don't know what's going to happen in kansas city. i'm not sure what's going to

happen in atlanta. atlanta has basically said we will get rid of the chop but we want to keep the name. so, i just don't know what pressure is going to come to bear in the future to ask these franchises to make the changes that they will be asked to make if they are. >> brian: we will see if fighting irish. some fighting that and you can relate to that as notre dame grad and super star there nfl, league you know quite well. they decided today they told all 32 clubs that the covid outbreaks among unvaccinated players could result in forfeiture of the game. they are no longer going to bend if teams turn out with too many players who are on the ir because of getting covid-19. is this the right move? did the league have to make this proclamation? >> well, i think the league has to make some type of a proclamation, brian, but, who are you penalizing if you forfeit games you? are penalizing the players that have been vaccinated. so, what sense does that make?

that if there is a forfeiture, both those that have not been vaccinated and those that have been vaccinated, now will be punished in accordance the same way. it just doesn't seem fair. to me, there is only one possible solution to this situation. and that is if you are not vaccinated, then you have to treat it like it was in 2020. you are not going to be in the facility. you are not going to be on the football team. we will get through this at some point in time and, yes, i realize there is the delta variants and all the other things that we are talking about. but, at some point in time. this will be in our rear view mirror. deandre hopkins for example- >> brian: let me read the tweet. quote never thought i would say this but being in a position to hurt my team because i don't want to partake in the vaccine is making me question my future in the nfl. he went on to say he deleted that tweet. he went on to say he thinks he could play nine more years. do you understand where he is coming from? some people are reluctant to do

it? >> yes. i understand people are reluctant to get vaccinated. i have friend of mine that have basically said they don't want to get the vaccination. you know, the vaccination does not have fda approval. the vaccination, the three that we have talked about, basically, have just been approved for emergency use. now, are we in an emergency situation in this country? i think that's the question. but, from a player's perspective, i still believe in the freedoms of this country to be able to choose what you want to put in your body. and i think it's, you know, i respect the individuals that are making that decision. but, if you are going to be a league and protect the players in the league, you can't have guys that have already gone and gotten vaccinated to lose a paycheck because of a forfeiture. the only real solution would be if you are not vaccinated, you can't be facility, you can't be at practice and then you find players that are. and then you move forward. i mean, it's the only fair way to do it and not penalize those

that have been vaccinated. >> brian: joe theismann we asked you to talk about sports and vaccine and pandemic. you made the adjustment. you are still great at calling an audible. thank you so much. >> brian, thank you. great catching up with you. >> brian: you got it deandre hopkins replied out to follow up a tweet from jaylen ramsey he got a message from his gerald's brother in the military. he goes the vaccine and now has heart problems. that is the story in some people the way they take it meanwhile, we move ahead. up next, how can we reward a country that just poisoned the world and give them the next olympic games is anybody going to boycott that? some say we should and, will cain's plane has just landed. will he make it to midtown on time to go on the clock? we'll find out. ♪ ♪ we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage.

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swimming goggles in the closet and requesting to the winter games in beijing. florida congressman michael waltz doesn't think we should be going at all. he says we should boycott the games and make it clear. congressman, why not show? >> well, first, brian, i want to be clear that we have been asking the ioc to move the games out of beijing for a couple of years. they have had plenty of time to do. so now that we are just months away, i don't see how we fly the american flag in beijing after they are literally conducting genocide as we speak, millions of muslim uyghurs in concentration camps, modern day slavery is going on. not to mention the millions around the world that are dead because of covid, people being snatched out of their homes in the middle of the night with hong kong. how can -- how can our corporations sit here and talk about social justice and turn a blind eye and sponsor these games. we need to make a stand and

should not be going. demand that ioc move the game. >> brian: have other nations expressed the same sentiment? >> yeah. actually got nearly a unanimous vote in the canadian parliament. a unof in australians. senior leaders have spoken up. british senior leaders. and, importantly, 200 human rights groups from tibetan to christians, to the muslim uyghurs and around the world arebegging us and take a stand d not reward beijing with these games. from a national security standpoint, we just had an expert before our committee that pointed out russia invaded crimea just months after being emboldened by the games in sochi. and he feared that tijuana could be next after the 22 games. >> brian: michael waltz, thanks so much. we hear your cry and people's focus right now on the olympic games in tokyo. this is going to be front and center shortly. michael waltz, thank you.

meanwhile, as we prepare to end our military mission in afghanistan, you got a troubling report from our intelligence community. it shows that experts believe that the afghan government could collapse in about six months. current c a director william burns soundings the alarm telling npr the taliban are making significant strides. probably the strongest military position they have been in since 2001. as you can see here, take a look at this map. their grip on afghanistan is growing. you see the colors. that's where the taliban controls but they don't have the major centers of operation. they don't have kandahar. they don't have kabul. let's bring in general david petraeus probably the nation's premier expert on this. he led our mission in afghanistan for a while. and he, of course, was cia director. general, are you worried that the taliban will be controlled soon? >> i don't know about soon, brian, but i'm very worried about the trends right now, the trajectory that this is all heading. the taliban has the momentum.

in fact, our chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley quite forthrightly noted that the other day. they have the strategic momentum. it was heartening, i must say, to see that we did use some air power outside of kandahar, second largest city and second most important city in afghanistan to kabul. but i think that we need to work with the afghan government to develop a plan to help them stabilize the security situation which has, indeed, deteriorated very significantly since the announcement of the up tent to withdraw. and you will recall on your show previously, i mentioned that my fear was that we would come to regret this decision and it appears that that regret could come sooner now rather than later. and this is, again, very concerning. >> brian: you also point out that it's in our best interest with china russia, iran, as well as pakistan in that area for us to have a presence for our national security. beyond afghanistan's welfare.

>> well, again, let's remember why we went to afghanistan in the first place and frankly, why we stayed. there were lots of other accomplishments but at the end of the day, what we did was we went because the taliban refused to expel al-qaeda from the sanctuary it enjoyed under their rule of the bulk of afghanistan. the sanctuary in which the 9/11 attacks were planned and where the initial training of the attackers was conducted. we did eliminate that sanctuary. we had to eliminate the taliban regime to do it. and we have stayed first and foremost to ensure that al-qaeda could not reestablish that sanctuary, something they have tied do repeatedly. and now, also, their conservatorship about the slack state which has an affiliate affiliate throughout in the pakistan region. mission overlooked. that is afghanistan has also been a very important platform if you will for the conduct.

regional oabout that which was conducted in my final few months as the commander in afghanistan when usama bin laden was brought it justice by a raid conducted by our special operations forces launched from afghanistan into abottabad, pakistan and recovered to afghanistan. so, that platform is also very, very important. there are plans to do all of this so-called over the horizon but our bases outside afghanistan are a very long way from afghanistan. they are in the gulf states. and for a drone to fly that whole distance could take seven or eight hours just to go to afghanistan and, of course, the same amount of time going back. so the drone time will be dramatically reduced and, of course, to put aircraft overhead you will have to have a real fleet of tankers to help them do that as well. >> brian: a lot of people watching right now enough, 20 years and time to move on. president trump say that one

thing about president trump when lindsey graham would talk to him when general keane pick up the phone he would be open to hearing the other side of the issue. do you get the sense that the former chairman of foreign relations senator joe biden could be open as he sea the tea leaves ha what could be happening on report card could he be open to his decision and not leaving august 30th? >> i think it's important you mentioned the previous administration it was agreed in that administration in the agreement with the taliban, which is one that i felt was quite significantly flawed and essentially gave the taliban what they wanted, which was their detain years out of prison. by the way, hundreds of them have been recaptured already and that we would withdraw our forces. and not getting a great deal, frankly, in return. this administration in a very difficult position and certainly i understand as well the desire to end endless wars. this is not ending the endless

war, it's ending our involvement in it. the war will continue and indeed it's going to get much worse. it already is worse. we are going to see ultimately, i fear, a very considerable civil war between ethnic sectarian tribal elements. we will see the return of al-qaeda. we will see millions of refugees flowing into other countries, particularly pakistan, and we will see ultimately the return of a medieval theocratic ultra conservative islamist regime the taliban controlling a good bit of the country. that's certainly not in our interest at the end of the day. >> brian: it does matter. foreign policy magazine writes these women are already being sold and forced to marry and sold into sex slavery. general petraeus, your insight is invaluable. thank you so much. hopefully somebody is listening. >> thanks, brian. let me also add that it is very, very important that we meet our moral obligation to the battlefield interpreters who served two years on the ground with our soldiers to qualify for

a special immigrant visa and we have to be absolutely certain that we get them out of the country and take care of them whether it's to for the lee, virginia or to a third country and thanks. >> brian: got it general david petraeus, thanks. people listening i'm sure. it looks like he has made it will cain is in the house, wearing jeans, looking cool halfway dressed. >> brian: very tough at jfk. he made it will cain goes on the clock unless he refuses. limu, you're an animal! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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>> he gets guff. moving ahead. a weight loss program stirring up controversy after being accused of fat shaming with a times square billboard with the question filling fat and lazy admitting some people put on weight during the pandemic. your thoughts? >> that's a broad open question. when you don't work out and you eat poorly, you get fat. sometimes when you get fat, it's because you have been lazy. you might get a personal trainer to help you not be fat and lazy. i think that adds up. >> when did we get to the point where we can't call things what they are? a lot of people put on weight. and will smith said i have not done anything during the pandemic and used it as motivation to get in shape. >> now we for a body positivity where every type of body is to

be celebrated. there is no such thing as fat and lazy. >> and pete a great body. >> he it's terrible and has that body. >> imagine this. you are stuck quarantineing in a hotel room. you run out of cigarettes. you can't leave the room. a mom in australia sent up the drone. it was the perfect crime until the drone caught the attention of the police who busted her. i admire this it, but how addicted are you to nicotine to do this? >> everybody has their vices. you said fat and lazy. now going after people who smoke. you will have no friends. i like how you said police. >> [laughing]. >> why is it breaking guarantee

for a robot to deliver me a pack of smokes? this person should not be prosecuted. they should get a medal. >> thanks for almost getting dressed for the segment. tucker carlson is next. cue the kettle drums. >> ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to a special inside issue edition of "tucker carlson tonight." i am mark stein. tucker will drop by later. tony podesta whose brother was the hillary clinton campaign chair who got hacked because his