up to 4:00 a.m. and you will get all the goods. >> may be a little wine and pizza, make a night of it. anyway, thank you. thank you so much for watching "fox news prime time." i'm lawrence jones. tucker carlson is sitting in his chair and he's coming up next. see y'all later. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." it's mid-august, summer is almost over, amazingly enough. kids are going to resume their education, not just in this country but around the world. in ireland as kids begin to return to school recently, authorities they're faced a choice. now the most obvious course would be to blindly accept guidance from self-described public health experts in the united states. that is what many countries have

done, sought to come up with a covid policy. and following the united states would mean among other things forcing children as young as two to wear moist paper burqas for eight hours a day in the classroom. the other option would be to follow the science and the irish chose that chorus. the irish commissioned their own research on masks and here's what they found. according to the irish health authority, masking children in the classroom is not a legitimate medical precaution. it's child-abuse. masks can "exacerbate anxiety and breathing difficulties." they impair the development of communication and language skills particularly for very young children. we know from previous research the masks can also contribute to high levels of carbon dioxide in the human body and it's especially true in children. masks often become breeding grounds for dangerous bacteria. it's possible that masks even affect facial development. in other words there are very serious downsides to forcing masks on children. the question is what the benefit

is of doing it. the irish government looked into it and decided there is no benefit. kids in ireland are not getting sick from covid, they are not transmitting covid either. in the end based on the scientific research using the disappearing art of rational decision-making the irish government refused to implement mask mandates in school. it's an interesting story, have you heard that story? maybe not. you may be telling you what's happening in ireland could raise uncomfortable questions here, such as why are we doing the opposite in the united states? why are we forcing masks on children? what data are we using to justify that decision? it turns out we don't have any data to justify it. as of today there has not been a single comprehensive study in the united states showing that children should wear masks in school or that masks would help them or anyone else in any way. what do we have then? the closest thing we have in research as an op-ed that just ran in the renowned medical junior known as

"the new york times" which you can buy from homeless people at penn station if you want to take a look. that article was written by two people from duke university in north carolina. here's the headline, we studied 1 million students, universal m" that sounds definitive. a million students? that is a major study, we are impressed. but there was one skeptical man out there, journalist and his wife who wanted to know a little bit more about it so he decided to look into the numbers and as he did, the first thing he noticed was that every single one of the 1 million students that these researchers had "studied" went to schools that already had mask mandates. those were the only kids they studied. in other words, there was no control group. therefore, by definition, there was no way for the researchers to determine whether or not mask mandates work. that's the most basic scientific role. if you tried something like that with your sixth grade science project your teacher would laugh at you and you would get a f but they did it anyway.

david's wife with this in mind reached out to the researchers. initially they agreed to talk to them, why wouldn't they? then he asked them to explain to them why they ignored schools that didn't have mask mandates, schools and big places like florida, or ireland or many places in europe. these schools, it turns out, have not seen a surge in covid cases. how was that not relevant data if you are studying mask mandates? why in the world was it not included in this study? what kind of study was this? yes how the researchers responded? they didn't, they just ignored david's wife. is that science? no. but these are the people who now control your children's lives. fake experts, fraudulent scientists, partisans in lab coats. people seeking terrified levels of control over what was until recently a free country. people who are drunk with power, people who have lost all sense of proportion and restraint. watch the school board member from oklahoma to tell you that

damascus kids in classrooms could be committing murder. >> it's insane to send five and six and seven and eight all the way through 11-year-olds who don't have a choice about vaccines to sit in a classroom where people can spread a deadly disease and not even know they are sick. it's just not okay for kids to commit murder by coming to school without a mask. >> tucker: your 4-year-old goes to school without a mask it is committing murder. where is this all going? will it stop here? it hasn't so far. take a look at what is happening on the distant fringes in the formerly reasonable australia. you are seeing footage right now of decontamination tents that have been set up in people's yards in sydney, australia. the australian military is now enforcing martial law. what is the justification for this? because nine people died of

covid the summer. nine people in the entire nation of australia. australia's chief health officer is now commanding citizens not to speak to their neighbors. speaking to other human beings is just too dangerous. >> we need to limit our movement. we need to consider whenever we leave our house that anyone with us and anyone we come into contact with could convey the virus. so whilst it is in human nature to engage in conversation with others, to be friendly, unfortunately, this is not the time to do that. so even if you run into your next-door neighbor in the shopping center, don't start up a conversation. now is the time for minimizing your interactions with others but as we go about our daily lives, we do not come into contact with anyone else that would pose a risk.

>> tucker: it's humiliating, obviously, in its cowardice and its lack of proportion but it is also scary. it's human nature to communicate with other people? no, it's a human need to communicate with other people. when the government tells you who you can speak to and where, when it tells you not to be from that your neighbor, you cross the line into totalitarianism and that is where we are headed. many parents are now realizing this. our friend clay travis just said so to his school board in franklin, tennessee. here's part of what he said. >> i feel bad for all these people walking around, engaging in cosmetic theater thinking they are making a difference against covid. they aren't. here's the truth, our kids, under 25-year-olds, one and a million chance they are going to die from covid. they are more likely to be struck from lightning. they are more likely to be struck from lightning, more likely to die from the seasonal flu. have any of you ever mandated masks for the seasonal flu?

shame on you because every kid at county schools has been under more danger from the seasonal flu than they are for covid. i would tell every parent here, don't let your kids wear masks. [cheers and applause] >> tucker: on there you have a man reading the numbers, publicly available numbers as of today, anyway, on the risk of children dying from covid and the people to whom he is speaking, blank faced, they don't want to hear the numbers, they're not interested in the science but the interesting part is what you hear from the rest of the room, the crowd, they explode. that is how frustrated they are, they have had it and they have had it because the schools to which they've entrusted their children now seem committed to hurting those children. and not just on covid. teachers demanding tribalism. demanding it as a matter of policy, telling students to

judge one another based on their skin color and then academic standards, the whole point of school in free fall across the country. we could give you 100 examples, just the latest, the state of oregon announced it is scrapping proficiency requirements for math, science and reading comprehension. why? because equity and equity means ignorance. no more learning, learning is racist. we have reached jonestown at this point, so you have to wonder how much longer parents will tolerate this. these are the children we are talking about. maybe not too much longer. this was a scene at a school board meeting in virginia yesterday. >> and marge my child had to watch a ted talk in english class, not on anything related to english but rather oppression and acknowledging privilege. any parent with a pulse and knows that this is wrong. why has public school become so mired in extremist politics and a permissive culture that seems to celebrate the latest popular

fads lake gender fluidity? >> we oppose your effort to impose critical race theory, and overtly racist doctrine that teaches our children to judge and categorize others based solely on the color of their skin. >> why are you willing to sacrifice our children on the altar of cultural revolution? is it to be popular, for money, to be on the right side of history? >> you have done nothing except train children cultural competency. what about our kids? come on! >> their job is to teach our kids math, science, biology, literature and that's it. not ideology. >> i believe just like all of you, you have all equally done a really bad job and maybe it's a good time to change something. start now. >> tucker: the saddest for the immigrant. they moved for this country you've got to think in a lot of cases because they wanted a better future for their children and their children show up at

school and the teacher puts someone one side of the room and others on the other side of the room. that is what they are doing, they are creating tribalism. they are exacerbating the worst instincts and people and doing it to little kids. is there anything darker than that? one teacher quit during yesterday's school board meeting. listen to this. >> i was told in one of my so-called equity trainings that white, christian able-bodied females currently have the power in our schools and that "this has to change." clearly, you've made your point. you know longer value me or many other teachers he is employed in this county, so since my contract outlines the power that you have over my employment, i thought it necessary to resign in front of you. school board, i quit. i quit your policies, i quit your training, and i quit being a cog in a machine that tells me to push highly politicized

agendas on our most vulnerable constituents: the children. i will find employment elsewhere. i encourage all parents and staff in this county to flood the private schools. >> tucker: someday if we make it through this, someone is going to write an amazing book about this moment and the atrocities being committed. we play a tiny fraction, the publicly available fraction of what's happening in our schools right now but there is a lot going on and it's really sad and parents are just about over it. clay travis has proven that nt is one of the parents who spoke out to the school board to their faces. he is a busy man, composed of "the clay travis and buck sexton show." he is also founder of the only website covering sports and politics that you would want to read. thanks so much for coming on. i love the clip, i know it was a much longer speech that you made and god bless you for doing it and it was entirely fact-based. the reaction from the other people in the room really struck me. what is your sense of where

parents are right now with what's happening in schools? >> first, tucker, thanks for having me. second, we are in the middle of what i think is a grassroots mobilizing parent movement to take back this country. i know a lot of people out there are frustrated because the reaction i saw demonstrated that and where we are in williamson county, i think there are countless people all over the country who feel the same way that we do, that we have to go right to the root. you've got a television show, i've got a radio show, we make good livings doing our jobs but the most important job we have is being a parent. being a mom, being a dad. i think what happened during covid's many parents became aware of what their kids were being taught. i'm a public-school kid. i went to nashville city public school, k-12, my kids, two of them are in public schools right now. i want for them to fit in in the society and make the world a better place.

but it has to be a fact-based reality and right now, it isn't and i'm excited about how many parents are now rising up. over 1,000 people showed up at that school board meeting outside of nashville took about the decisions being made by the board. >> tucker: i think that is the only way. you've been engaged in this as other people have over the last year, trying to reason with the people in charge of the schools, from the biden administration, the teachers union school boards to the teachers and say this is poison. you cannot create tootsies in america, and they just won't listen. i don't think there is another option than for parents to just say "no more." because that is the option, tucker. i encourage everyone out there. i'm saying this is a mom-led revolution because if you look at the crowds, moms have had a lot put on them for the last 18 months. they had to bear the brunt of child care, when we had 15 days to stop the spread and they are just fed up with it and they are leading the charge and that is what i encourage everybody to

do. speak out, go to the grassroots, confront your school board members, demand the use fact-based analysis and we will win. i'm telling you, we are going to win, i see it. it's going to grow and spread and become bigger than it already is. the anti-mass, anti-crt very well may be the next tea party. that is the first helpful thing i have seen in a while. thank you for coming on tonight. speak i think you very much. >> tucker: this is not just something you're worried about, this is the thing you are worried about. they are going to hurt my children permanently. they are going to distort my children permanently. what's crazy is that in a system that is supposed to be representative, virtually no one addressing sell holding office is addressing this as if it matters and no one running for office is addressin. he spoken out against racism in

schools, here is part of he said. >> you've heard critical race theory. all it does is teach kids to identify in racial terms. you are good or bad depending on what you look like. at this point, it is straight up antiwhite racism. i don't think we are allowed to say that but let's call it what it is. it is toxic and doesn't belong in our schools. >> tucker: someone told the truth in public, that's not allowed. blake masters, go away. but he won't go away, he joined us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. there's something about telling the truth in the truest possible language that awakens people to what is actually happening but it infuriates the emergence of lies. tell us what the response to your obvious observation is. >> i think the left went completely just up in arms about it. at this point, a republican politician or candidate is

allowed to say critical race theory is bad and some of the braver ones are even allowed to say it's racist. but if you actually go and unpack that a little bit more and say this is straight up antiwhite racism, the hit piece just flowed in. they can't handle that even though it is what everybody knows to be true. >> tucker: they say it out loud in the most explicit possible -- let me pause and say something, many times we thought we could run a list of headlines on the screen that run in the popular media but they are too upsetting, i personally can't even bear to read it, it is so anti-american and wrong. anyway, just pause there. you're absolutely right about what is happening, there is kind of no debate about it but give us the examples, if you would. >> just last night i went to a school board meeting and there was a small but very vocal group of people that were demanding the school district teach kids that the united states is fundamentally racist, fundamentally and irredeemably evil because it was created by

racist white men. it is like, that is such garbage. how could you possibly have a good country if you teach our young people that? and just today there was a report that came out that said dozens of school districts in this country are teaching about, they are signing a book to elementary school kids called "not my idea" in the book is about whiteness and the character in the book of the devil and the devil portrays whiteness and whiteness is portrayed as stealing lands from people of color and stealing souls. i mean, this is the most toxic stuff imaginable and the people who come up with this garbage, they have a racial pecking order in mind. it is so obvious i think it is bad for white kids, i think it is bad for all kids. it's not good for black kids or latino kids or asian kids to learn to fundamentally mistrust white people. this stuff is so toxic and we just have to get it out of our

system. >> tucker: i don't know how a country stands together if its leaders encourage tribalism. it's not even about this or that racial group. they are encouraged to wall off going to their corners and hate each other. how do you remain a country? >> you don't and maybe that is part of the plan. i don't know, last night when i was at the school board meeting supporting parents who were imploring schools to keep crt out of the school. my opponents here in arizona was in d.c. voting to spend federal dollars on crt. >> tucker: well, we notice. blake masters, i appreciate your coming on tonight, thank you very much. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: from his very first day in office, it's been a very busy seven months. joe biden decided to crush our energy independent oil and gas sector. the only really thriving sector of the american economy. you will notice that gas prices

hit record levels but now the administration has a solution and it is good news for the lunatic theocracy that hates this country. it is a store that is almost hard to believe but we will tell that. also the book came out yesterday. many bookstores are selling it at a discount. you can order it right now on tuckercarlsoncapsoff.com tuckercarlson capsoff.com. we'll be right back.

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the team of tomorrow. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: for decades they told us it was essentially necessary to become energy independent because we don't want to rely on the middle east because they hate us and we have to fight all these wars to preserve our access to energy. we did become energy independent, we produce enough energy for the entire country. in fact, the most robust sector of our entire economy so joe biden naturally decided to crush it from day one in office. he told us he had to do that because of climate change and aoc and all that. it was not long ago that joe biden called for a fossil fuel executives to be jailed. >> we set those sort of guide rails down now. between the years 2021 and 2030, it's a reversible, the path we've set ourselves on and one is doing away with any subsidies for fossil fuels, number one.

number two, holding them liable for what they have done particularly in those cases where you are underserved neighborhoods and, you know the deal, okay. and by the way, when they don't come up with them in jail. i'm not joking about this. [applause] >> i'm not joking. >> tucker: okay, so energy and the energy grid is both incredibly complex and essential so let's put a guy with a functional iq of 75 in charge of pointing it out. that is what we've done and gas prices are out of control and people don't like that. nobody likes out-of-control gas prices because you need to gas. we don't have solar cars yet. now joe biden has changed his view. climate change isn't that big a deal, carbon emissions aren't a huge problem and they are coming from china or the middle east but that doesn't mean he's going to end his campaign against our own energy industry. they are still in trouble, facing prison time. instead joe biden called a middle eastern theocracy's

members to pump more oil so gas prices here will go down. what do we make of this? with "the "washington examiner,"" she joins us now. i don't think i have seen a more perverse and revealing policy than this one. explain what is going on here, if you would. >> actually, it is sort of befuddling what is going on. as you pointed out, the energy industry in the united states has been one of the most robust sectors in our economy, leading right before the pandemic, produce more oil than any other country in the world and we were self-sufficient in that area and not only was that a job creator, and not only just directly within the energy industry but also the downstream industries that support it, and the communities that then thrive on it and the school districts that benefit for it.

it also was very important in national security, which is why i thought it was curious today, this national security had was telling, essentially begging the opec countries to produce more oil, and oil has been -- i mean, the energy industry, joe biden has put his foot on the next since day one and there is no exaggeration in that statement, from his executive orders on the keystone pipeline to halting and/or pausing production on federal lands with fracking in new mexico and also oil production in louisiana, he has impacted lives, american lives profoundly right there. >> tucker: we've got to get energy independence, so we do, now we have to be more depended on the countries that hate us in the middle east. pretty dark moment, i appreciate you coming on in summing that up

for us. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: no matter what product they are selling, every corporation sounds the same. they are supporting blm, china brings gender theory. how did that happen and can you have a democracy in an environment like that? been in the business world for a long time and conceded quite grandly in that world, but he has left his job in biotech to fight what he calls the world's industrial complex. he tell us why he has done that next.

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>> tucker: for decades we stupidly imagined when they took the civil liberties away would

be the government doing it but turns out no, it is apple, nike, delta air lines. people can determine what you say and have access to turn out to be corporations. how did that happen exactly? he founded a very successful biotech firm years ago and then he left because he was so concerned about what was happening in the business world. he wants to tell the rest of us about it. we just talk to him on an episode of "tucker carlson today." he is a part of our conversation. ♪ ♪ >> when i thing about the health of a democracy, and a democracy but especially american democracy, it is really simple. it is the percentage of people who are willing to say what they actually believe in public and right now we are doing abysmally on that metric, and when i reflect on it personally as a human being, i wasn't free to say what i actually believed as ceo. that is why i had separate my

voice from my company but now i am a citizen and i'm not going to mince words about what i think we need to do about the cultural epidemic that we are facing as a people, so what you have is a bunch of people in my generation, a bunch of wealth millennials get together with a bunch of big banks. together they birthed welcome capitalism and then put occupy wall street up for adoption and that is really when wokeness med capitalism. it became a friend theory and the academy, it became supercharged with the potency of capitalism -- >> tucker: talk about an axis of evil. there can be the ugliest alliance in history, i can't think of something more destructive than what you designed. >> it is an arranged marriage but not of love. it's more like mutual because each side has secret contempt for the other, and each marriage were each side has secret disdain for the other isn't working but it is working because they're getting something in the trade. >> tucker: can we skip to the

side where they hate each other? >> there is a bargain between them where this marriage turns into a threesome which is where the communist party of china gets in on the act. basically what is going on in this arranged marriage, they say this is actually an opportunity and the opportunity is this, if we can get these companies to criticize the united states in the united states but to stay silent about our actual human rights abuses here in china we can do the things we've never done with our nuclear arsenal and that is undermined the moral standing of the united states on the global stage. they got in on this act, is a chinese word for wokeness, which refers to what white people and they laugh at it. but it's not just a joke, then using it as a geopolitical tool to say nike and disney and the nba and marriott, you want to criticize the united states? have edits. you criticize china we are going to build a great chinese wall but we will roll out the

red carpet to you and if you are airbnb we will roll out the red carpet only if you give us the consumer data you gather from your users who love it when you post a black square on instagram. it's a little-known secret that wall street journalists reported on last year but that is the game they played -- >> tucker: god, you are upsetting me. i know all this, i don't think i've ever heard it is clearly explained as you just did. >> i spent a year and have thinking about it for the book so i should be able to tell you a little something about it, but it is maddening -- they are playing us like a chinese mandolin and it is working because they have turned these corporations into trojan horses that undermine the united states from within because they are now the new international arbiters of moral justice. so china can go to the u.n. and if they are pressed about the uighur human rights crisis by the e.u. as they were last year, the first thing that comes out of xi jinping's mouth, actually

black lives matter, but now you don't have to take it from xi jinping, you can take it from nike, you can take it from the nba, disney, the neutral arbiters of moral -- you can actually make a better box but they criticize the united states. but for china, they get something out of the trade, back to the mutual prostitution -- they never criticize justice over here. that creates a false equivalency between chinese nihilism and american idealism and chinese nihilism wins every time to thank you lebron james, disney, and be a peer that is the world we live in. that is what i call the birth of this woke industrial complex. it is a new leviathan, a new monster that is far more powerful than what thomas hobbes might have envisioned 400 years ago and it is the biggest threat to individual liberty today. it is not big government alone.

think of the big government to the threat to individual liberty. it was in 1980, night, i cannot today. it is a hybrid of big government and big business, governments in china comingled with big business creating an actual threat to liberty and prosperity and it's really hard to know what to do about it when we have spent the last 40 years defending the castle of capitalism from the front door without recognizing that castle was invaded from the back door from woke activists in the chinese communist party and the defining challenge for us as americans today is how do we actually sterilize that castle without burning the whole thing down? >> tucker: man, is that guy smart, and very clear and great beauty can watch the full interview on "tucker carlson today." in this sunday at 10:00 p.m. on the fox news channel we will be hosting a special called "woke inc." which you should watch. you may have noticed that humor

has been banned in the united states and that is bad news for the people who do it for a living. andrew cuomo was a hero not that long ago on late-night television, hosts were calling themselves cuomo-sexuals but not anymore. we can't resist, we will show you the tape next. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: and we told you a few minutes ago that the most robust sector of our economy, the energy sector, has been withering thanks to the biden administration, but that is not the only part of our economy that is in trouble. for generations, america produced the most and the best comedians in the world. this was the funniest country on earth because it was a free country. comedy requires above all independence and honesty. you can to be reading talking points from anybody. you have to be telling the truth about them, that is the whole point. and the second you start sucking

up, you only humiliate yourself. lately on television they've been sucking up to people in power for years now. they haven't resigned their jobs because they pay well but they do continue to humiliate themselves. if you've turned in at any point over the last year, you saw things like this. speak of the cuomo brothers, you and chris, tide is the most desirable men in new york. as an older brother, can you abide by a tie? do you want to do anything right now to push yourself over the top in terms of desirable nets? a smoldering stare, anything? >> i have a friend come i won't say her name, she wants to know what phase of dating are you currently in? zero? >> i am phase zero on dating. there is no duration on phase zero. there is no automatic time but to go to phase one, you could stay in phase zero for months.

i think new york city will be fully reopened before i give out, before i give out -- >> tucker: so awful to watch, the fake, overeager laughter. the stupid lines, the endless sucking up and the saddest part is some of these guys, the people you just saw use to be legitimately talented. they were funny. but they give it up in order to read the script. sad as hell to watch. last night, the new version of the script told them you better change your opinions on andrew cuomo. no more sucking up. so, dutifully, they did. >> it was a big day in new york has andrew cuomo announced that he is resigning as governor. during his remarks he said it was best that he step aside and then every woman in the room took two steps aside. [laughter] after his announcement, cuomo said he is stepping down in 14 days. i'm sorry, is this really a two

week notice type of situation? beautiful day in new york city, 85 degrees, 75% humidity, and this afternoon, andrew cuomo resigned. [applause] don't let the door hit you on the butt on the way out, but if it does, that door should also resign. [laughter] >> tucker: do you think he comes home and his wife says "good job, you're really funny!" no self-respect at all. mark steyn has self-respect and clarity and honesty and above all, perspective on the world so he is hilarious by definition. he joins us now to assess what happened to everybody else. mark steyn, great to see you. how sad did that make you watching that questioning some of those guys were legitimately talented at one point. >> at one point but have got to say after those last clips you played of colbert and fallon, say what you like but that cuomo-sexual conversion therapy

really works fast. they turned it around, they were full on cuomo-sexuals and now they are doing crack attack material, what was that line that his writers write for him? cuomo said he was going to step aside and then all the women took two steps aside. it's amazing to me they have like, 37 writers on the writing staff and they met for hours and they tested those lines and that's the best they can come up with? you had to see the problem from fallon and colbert 'his point of view. they can't do anything genuinely funny about the guy being a bloodsoaked butcher, they can't do any comedy on that, they can't do any comedy about how pitiful it is that they are all going on about how sexually they have the hots for him and the cuomo-sexual coffee mugs where he is bare chested and they have

fallen for an obvious racket because the last three governors of new york, all democrats, have now all resigned in one sexual scandal after another. you could do some jokes about how spitzer needed a room at the mayflower in washington, d.c., and that is like, 1,000 bucks a night, and then david patterson made do with the days inn on 94th street in manhattan and that is only $130 a night and this guy saves you the hotel bill altogether because he juste office, but they can't do anything. even with the 37 man writing team. and i feel most sorry for my dear commonwealth cousin, trevor noah from south africa who i once saw at the london palladium, and he was marginally less unfunny, and what's interesting is that 10 minutes after landing at jfk to get his big job on the comedy channel,

this guy who's got all kinds of interesting perspectives, south africa via london and all the rest of it, he is suddenly as interesting boring as all the rest of them. it's the death of comedy. it's no laughing matter. >> tucker: it's totally soviet. they weren't very funny, either. mark steyn, great to see you tonight. thank you so much. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: remember you heard about liberals getting all paranoid that the russians were spying on us? you thought it was a pose, they really believe it. one prominent american democrat believed the russians were spying, we have that tape. the book "the long slide" has come out, you can buy it anywhere you can buy books or buy directly from tucker carlson tuckercarlson capsoff.com. we'll be right back.

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>> tucker: one of the questions whenever asked last fall -- maybe we should -- how

many laptops can hunter biden has? it turns out at least one more than we thought he did. fox's matt finn is here with that story. hey, matt. >> tucker, new explicit images and videos have surfaced of hunter biden reportedly engaging in acts with a prostitute. he tells about a third lap top of his that went missing and has graphic videos on it. the daily mail report that the images and video are pulled from the same hunter biden laptop found at the delaware computer store two years ago. in a video from that hard drive, hunter biden allegedly tells a prostitute he went on an 18-day bender in las vegas in 2018, paying up to $10,000 a night for a penthouse. at one point he says he ended up with a group of men, including a drug dealer, and a woman he describes as a "russian brunette." biden says he blacked out in the hot tub by himself. the group thought he might be dead, but he came to. after that night he realized his

laptop was stolen and was worried the group he was with in vegas might blackmail him for compromising sex videos. >> they have videos of me doing this. [bleep]. >> [inaudible] speak of the daily mail reports his story about the raising the possibility, could have been targeted as part of a foreign intelligence operation. hunter biden wrote about the gritty details of his drug and alcohol addiction. today he's married and claims to

be sober. tucker? >> tucker: matt finn, thanks for that. you can watch our interview, amazing interview, on foxnation.com. and we hope that you will, it's worth it. now, ladies and gentlemen, sean hannity takes over. >> sean: i will pick up right there. welcome to "hannity." we are tracking multiple genomic stories including some of the footage you just saw, hunter biden's laptop from hell, it shows the president's son expressing blackmail concerns while in bed with a female companion. we have the entire three and a half minute video that we will play in full. he is part of it