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,here are a few. the federal reserve was created way back in 1913 by an act of congress and had two main. maximize employment and keep prices stable, keep inflation under control.on those are virtuous goals. but it may be a measure of the way bureaucracies work that over time, the federal reserve has actively undermined both of those objectives.. it is the classic story of the firemen turned arsonist or forbj that matter, the covid czar who helped create covid, irony of ironies, seems like we have a lot of those, lately. in the case of federal reserve, quantitative easing, the main thing it has been doing since the financial crisis of 2008. every month, federal reserve officials print more than $100 billion new dollars, in american currency, and they inject those dollars into our system via buying assets like bonds and security. this is not a normal thing to do, it is a radical thing toot , it was supposed to be temporary, in response to a crisis. in medical terms, quantitative easing is like chemotherapy.

there are times when it can save your life, but fundamentally, it is poison.nt if you keep taking it, it will kill you, pretty much everyone agrees on that. and pretty much everyone understands that ultimately, quantitative easing causes -- you don't need to be an expert. the more money you print, the less that money is worth. it is supply and demand. you buy diamonds by the carat, but dirt by the yard, over abundance decreases value. so every new dollar you print buys less. if you keep printing them you wind up devaluing your own currency. that is one thing a responsible government should never do.rn they may enrich banks and make a tiny number of big investors who give to the democratic party, but devaluing your currency screws everyone who works, and that is immoral. those are exactly the people that a legitimate government ought to be trying to help. as its core mission. and yet, they are not. all these years later,

quantitative easing continues. they are still doing it. on wall street, they joke about how it is going to go on they call it qe infinity. it's an incredibly recklessto policy and everyone knows it. very much very much puts people year, fed officials have been promising are going getting rich from it. for the better part of a year, fed officials have been promising are going to stop doing this. they have sworn they will get sober. they have vowed to begin a process called tapering. that means they will start to gradually slow the money they print. at a fed meeting in april, officials said they would start to do is very soon, they would taper, but they never did. they made the same promise throughout the summer, but again, they didn't. the binge continued. this morning, the vice chairman of the fed once again insisted tapering is almost here, we are about to do it. the conditions to begin detox he said have all but been met. and yet, as of tonight, the fedi is still partying with your currency like this is the richest country in the world and always will be. so what are the effects on ourur country?

in the short term, as with vodka, it makes everybody feel pretty good. it is 3:00 a.m., your lips are numb, and you can barely see, and yet somehow, the breakfast meeting of downtown in five hours where you have to give a detailed presentation to your boss will be no problem at all, you got this. except you do not have it at all, morning always comes and it is always worse than you think. america's quantitative easing hangover is going to be ugly. beneath the manufactured euphoria of our topline economic numbers, google is killing it, records for amazon, says cnbc. beneath all that garbage, the actual american economy is in trouble, and there are many signs of it. labor markets are tight right now because a lot of americans are simply dropped out of the labor force. 4.3 million people walked off the job last month, some were forced out by joe biden's vaccine mandates. projections for gdp growth just dropped from 6% to 1.5%. small businesses across the

country are dying. and maybe most ominous of all, inflation is here. it is not just a temporary problem caused by covid-disrupted supply chains, it is absolutely real. >> the american economy starting to sizzle once again as it emerges from the pandemic, and workers paychecks are, too, wits businesses practically begging for help. but there is a flip side to all the raises, and that is inflation. prices rising at the fastest rate since 2008. everything from washing machines, up almost 30%, to furniture, up 11%, and television sets, up 8%. >> tucker: so, it is happening throughout the economy, not just washing machines and televisions, consumer electronics, it is everything including the big things. try to buy a house. it is now more expensive to buy a home than it has ever been at any time in american history. the median existing home price last year was $310,000. it is now over $356,000, and a

lot more in the zip codes you might want to live in. part of the reason is the cost of building materials. they are clearly out of control. last october, lumber went for about $580 per 1,000 board feetn as of last week, it was 712. last august, used cars, which you might need, were selling for an average price of $21,000. this august from a year later, they were almost $28,000. same car, $7,000 more. over the same period, by the way, as you well know, the price of gas jumped a full dollar a s gallon and a lot more than thatu in some places. fed to the grocery lately? the cost of a steak is up by $2. a pound of bacon costs over $7 right now. suddenly everything costs more, egg, milk, coffee, mustard, et cetera, et cetera, these are not luxury items or a trip to saint barth's, these are things you buy every weekend you havee to buy. the question is, are your wages rising as fast as your costs? well, let's see.

vegetable oil is up 60%. so probably not. and that means you are getting poorer, whether you realize it or not. but that is what inflation does. it causes poverty.po so, because we can prove that the population of the united states is getting poorer by the day, you'd think the biden administration would i be actively concerned about this and working to make it better but they are doing the opposite, they are actively making it much worse. and here's how they are doing it, by spending. no government in the history of the world has ever spent more money than joe biden's spending right now. that is a fact. in fiscal year 2019, just the other day, the entire federal government spent $6.6 trillion, then covid had the following year and the numbers went up by 40%. federal spending in 2020 jumped to $9.1 trillion. was that too much? of course it was. what did we get for it? not enough. here is the shocking thing. under joe biden, as covid recedes, it is going up even

higher because they are no longer using covid as a pretext. through the end of thisgh augus, which is just a month and a half ago, the federal government has already spent more in 2021 then it did over the entire calendar years of 2019 and 2018. so, all of this drives inflation to scary levels. but they are not scary to everyone. if you are a massively leveraged financial institution that was a lot of money to a lot of people and that is how you're making your money, this is not necessarily bad news. if money is worth less, that means your debt service costs less. you don't fear inflation, inflation helps you. the problem is it crushes the american middle class. now, in a normal country, this would be a huge concern, but because the people who make our policies don't care about the middle class, this is a bargain well worth making. "bloomberg news" just published a piece with his headline which we are not making up, they are

needs higher, longer lasting inflation." if you can even imagine it -- does america need more emphysema, too? it is grotesque. normal people do not read "bloomberg news" and may be unaware of these attitudes exist in what they assumed was our country, and the biden administration would like to keep it that we had to keep the population from finding out what is happening. so here's treasury secretary janet yellen, who once ran the federal reserve, more responsible than every single living person for your growing poverty. here she is assuring you that $7 bacon is not actually a problem, that is not really inflation, it is something called transitory inflation. >> i don't believe that we are at risk of hyperinflation. we have had several months of high inflation that most economists, including me, believe will be transitory, as our economy gets back in full swing, after the pandemic.

>> tucker: it is just transitory. it is the price of progress. $7 bacon. yeah, but look at what you are getting in return. on things great? until a few hours ago, that was the official line in washington, along with those southwest delays that were caused by weather and our withdrawal from afghanistan was actually a huge success, what are you talking about? that is what they were telling us. and then the president of thee atlanta fed, a man called rafael bostic, admit it was very obvious to anyone who goes to the grocery store, this is inflation, real inflation, not transitory inflation and is going to be here a long time.. what he did not say is this is not an act of god, not a hurricane or earthquake or something we can't control. this is the result of decades od policy that have enriched a few and impoverished the money. when will a reckoning before that and what are the effects for you going forward? oren cass has thought a lothe about this and understands monetary a policy, we are happyo

be joined by him tonight. thanks so much for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: these spending bills, so-called infrastructure bill, numbers no one who follows federal spending has ever seen before or even imagine we would see, you almost never hearar anybody suggest these may be inflationary. spending this much money might the value the u.s. dollar. why does nobody say that? >> well, because it gives away the game. i think we have been separating this sort of fake economy from the real economy for so long, and the real economy has huge problems, and rather than address them, we just keep doing things that make the fake economy look better and better, and these kinds of spending bills you see being proposed are exactly more of the same, politicians can say "look at this, look all the money we are sending you," and hope the music does not stop playing, at least until they are gone. >> tucker: what are some interesting, the expectations for the public seem to have changed. for decades in washington, no

one wanted to talk about raising gas prices and increasing gas tax because gas prices were the one thing people would react to and you did not want to make the public mad. now you are hearing people openly say, "yeah, it is going to be too expensive for you to drive, what are you going to do about it?"ea it almost seems like they do not care at the public things as much anymore. >> i think there is a very clear agenda in all of these spending bills from the biden i administration. i mean, why would you do this many? they already did $2 trillion at the start of the year, a trillion more in infrastructure, another 3.5 trillion they want, there is no real reason to be trying to do that all at once except they know they are not actually going to have the power to do it for that long, so the priority is really just how quickly can we rush all the stuff through, not actually asking, what would be good for the american people? what would actually help them build strong families, make sure there are good jobs available for them?? those are the things that drive prosperity in the real economy, and it's almost like we don't have time -- we don't have time

to think about that, so we will just kind of play around with imaginary dollar figures. >> tucker: at what point do you think it becomes really obvious that they mismanagedr: monetary policy, that they don't care about inflation and inflation really begins to bite people and people wake up to this? >> the dangerous thing about inflation as it builds on itself. what the expectations we have four inflation then leads to more inflation, so i think thern is a real danger if you say, "we will just kind of let it run a little bit and it won't get too bad," that's exactly when things can really start to get out of control, and i think if we were to see, you know, all of this proposed spending go through, you know, if you look at already the supply chain issues we have, the shortages out there, as you mentioned, it is really important, people think wages are going up, but they are not going up as fast as inflation. in fact, wages are going down. that is what people will notice, and that is just not sustainable. that is on the car hits the wall. >> tucker: right, and that is

when you have real political volatility. inflation makes systems teeter. i think these people are reckless, i know we agree on that. oren cass, thank you for unpacking it for us. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: last night we told you the cancellation of a huge percentage of flights by southwest airlines was not the result of weather, that is a lie. it was a reaction to joe biden's vaccine mandate.e. they are wrecking our travel industry. well, there has been a major update on the story, including a response from the white house and southwest airlines. we will bring that to you straight ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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be a brownout because the electrical grid has been so degraded by bad policies?ec those are the things, can you take a southwest airlines flight to go see your family? when those things start to become impossible, you know you've got bad government. well, over the weekend, a lot of american air travelers found out things are falling apart. southwest airlines canceled o probably half their flights this weekend. now why did that happen? well, we told you last night the truth about why it happened, we know the truth because wet have spoken to people directlyy involved in it. pilots at southwest airlines are facing a vaccine mandate.lo they will be fired right before christmas if they don't submit to medicine they don't want to take. a lot of them have already recovered from covid and do not need the vaccine, but the biden administration is forcing them anyway. so this weekend, a lot of them did not show up for work. that used to be called civil disobedience, but that is what is action happening. that happened this weekend. there is no doubt about it. the fact virtually everyone in n charge has been lying about it

tells you a lot. tells you on the one hand they do not want to own up to the results of their policies, the reckless, crazy policies, which are in effect a power grab and not public health, but it also tells you they are very worried because when ordinary people realize they have power, too, especially people with skills, who do things most people can't do like fly airplanes or run air traffic control centers, they realized by not doing m those things, they can be heard, maybe the government has less power than they think they do. so for the past 24 hours, you have seen the usual liars stand up and shout us down. "oh, no, that is not what happened! it was whether that somehow only affected southwest airlines." you heard the ceo of southwest airlines go on television and tell that lie. his name is gary kelly, he is under an awful lot of pressure, so maybe he had to lie, but he definitely lied. he went on tv today and said oh, no, it had nothing to do with biden's vaccine mandates. watch. >> seen a lot of people invest

in this idea that it somehow related to vaccine mandates. >> there is just no evidence of that. as i said and as captain murray said, our people are working very hard. they are doing a great job. i am very proud of them, and especially when we get into difficult situation like this, they are also delayed, they are also ending up in places that they didn't expect, so, no, our people are doing a phenomenal job. >> tucker: your people are doing a phenomenal job standing up for what they believe in the face of tyranny. but to say there is no evidence this week the result of a direct reaction to joe biden's vaccine mandate is a lie, and you know it's a lie if you know anything about the company you've gone, and for that list does. later in the same interview, gary kelly of southwest made it clear that biden's mandate s is the only reason he is forcing his employees to get the shot or be fired. >> the vaccine mandate obviouslt is controversial, and it is not

anything i wish for our company. this is a government mandate. it is a presidential order. and we are doing our best to comply with that. >> tucker: oh, it's a government mandate. that will be the same government that is ignoring its own laws, ignoring federal immigration law and allowing the rest of the world into our country unchecked. that is a violation of the law. the biden administration is a batting illegal behavior. so for the ceo of a company tois say "we must follow the law"av s directed by an administration that is violating the law on a mass scale, is a little much, and everyone knows it. lying, lying, lying.

well, governor of texas, greg abbott, just banned vaccinb mandates in his state. southwest is headquartered in texas. and yet, southwest and now american airlines and ibm have announced they will defy meg abbott's ban. oh, they are more afraid of joe biden then they are of greg abbott.t. over the white house, by the way, joe biden's top flag is doing what she does every day, lying, lying, lying. here are more lies about what is happening at southwest. >> i know there was a little hubbub over the course of the lastom few days about southwest airlines. we now know that some of those claims were absolutely false, and actually the issue was clearly unrelated to vaccine mandates. >> tucker: oh, you live. they are not completely unrelated to vaccine mandates. talk to the people who called in sick, they were a direct result of the vaccine mandate. you did this, joe biden white house, you are wrecking our interstate travel system. over christmas, you are going to make it impossible for people to travel. you did that. at some point, it is going to be very obvious to the whole country. so, of course, southwest is not the only institution that has been burdened with theseof mandates, so has the l.a. county sheriff's department. the sheriff in l.a. county, alex

villanueva, says he will not enforce the mandate, he is a democrat, we tell you. he joins us tonight to tell you why. sheriff, thank you for coming on. i will throw it to you. why are you taking this very public step to defy this order? >> well, it's very simple. i know my employees very well, and i cannot afford to lose 5-10% of my employees overnight, who will react to someone trying to impose something -- and remember, i believe in the vaccine, i believe in the science, but if someone else who is an employee does not believe in that, who am i to impose on them my belief system? and they are going to vote with their feet. i have people near retirement to principally just walk away, no harm, no foul, other people can claim workers comp injuries, call in sick, and all of a i have people near retirement to principally just walk away, no harm, no foul, other people can claim workers comp injuries, call in sick, and all of a i have people near retirement to principally just walk away, nono harm, no foul, other people can claim workers comp injuries, call in sick, and all of a i a have people near retiremento principally just walk away, no

harm, no foul, other people can harm, no foul, other people can claim workers comp injuries, >> did you tell them if i forced 10% of my workforce to quit, they will die. >> this is the same county that sitting on a $2 billion surplus while they are defunding only one department. law enforcement. and we have a 54% of surgeon homicides. nation's homeless in our county and more are coming. and they have no plan for that except the only thing they can seem to agree on, let's keep defunding law enforcement and see how it works out. that is just woke privilege speaking, really, because the people who are going to be harmed by this other people expecting someone to show up when there is a 911 call and there is no one there. to either answer the call, go to the call, investigate the crime,

and actually hold people in jail when we are being defunded. heck, they want to close the nation's largest jail with no alternatives and just have everybody i guess walk away. >> tucker: i hope you run for office. i think a lot of people would vote for you no matter what party you are representing, because we are so desperate for people to speak as you just did. sheriff, thank you so much for coming on tonight. i appreciate it. >> you got it, tucker. >> tucker: so, a pretty interesting story in washington the other day, a pentagon official quit because he says the united states is not winning the global tech war with china, and he would know. he joins us next to explain. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ing your stomach. new vazalore is the first liquid-filled aspirin capsule clinically shown to cause fewer ulcers than plain aspirin. vazalore is designed to help protect... releasing aspirin after it leaves your stomach... where it is absorbed to give you the benefits

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he quit because it is useless, china has already won the tech war and american government systems are "kindergarten level" in comparison to china's. we thought that was interesting, do not have a lot of background of the story but thought it would be worth hearing about it. nicolas, thank you so much for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: if you summarize for nonexperts watching, including me, what you meant when you said that already won. >> i didn't exactly say they already won, what i meant to say, effectively, as it is, if we don't change the way we plan on attacking this issue of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, we have no chance of winning in the next 15-20 years from now. that is effectively what i meant to say, until we wake up right now before it is too late for our kids and grandkids to compete, 15-20 years from now against china. >> tucker: to what extent are the chinese monitoring u.s. government activities in this country? >> so, obviously, that is part

of normal intelligence of china, and of course russia, as well. that is evident in things they do through different things including applications like tiktok, right, tiktok is effectively a weapon that is used by china to collect intelligence, particularly our own citizens in the united states. >> tucker: yeah, they know a lot about 13-year-olds. i hate to be the guy in charge of watching it all. have to ask the obvious question, why not stand help the pentagon win this fight? >> so, i'm joined about three years ago, and i like to off course thank the men and women that are serving our greatan nation, and quite honestly, it was the greatest honor of my life to have the chance to serve them. i think we demonstrated that we were able to achieve great outcomes in a very short amount of time. at the same time, i was hearing the pentagon leaders say the right things, but no action, noo

walking the walk, and quite honestly, we are running out of time, so it was important for me to point out, all these issues when it comes to the lack of adoption of agility and being able to move at a pace of relevance and looking at the tremendous waste of taxpayer money, whether driven by bureaucracy or egos, and the lack of collaboration with the commercial side in the u.s., where companies refuse to collaborate with the dod, effectively ensuring we just get behind, when you compare that with the chinese communist party that is effectively able to take their commercial companies and mandate them to collaborate together, so they can move faster, they can have access to more data, and be morete successful. >> tucker: sounds right, based on what we are watching all around us. i appreciate you coming on tonight. thank you, nicolas. so, the department of justice, rather than protecting you, is

now planning to investigate you if you dare to criticize your school board. meanwhile, a new report, this is a genuinely shocking story, suggests one of the biggest and most left-wing school boards in this country covered up sexual assault on a female student. that is the allegation. we will bring you more in just a moment. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> tucker: tyranny is the name of a system that exists to protect and enrich the middle class while punishing everybody else, the kind of system it might welcome unvaccinated illegal aliens and then fire american airline pilots who don't want the shot. that might be an act of tyranny. well, consider this story. according to a new reporting in "the daily wire," a ninth grade girl was sexually assaulted at a high school in virginia in may. a boy allegedly wearing a skirt apparently which is of the girls bathroom and sexually assaulted this girl.ng

the boy was arrested and the accounts are horrifying. this month, the boy was arrested again for allegedly assaulting a different girl at a different school. at a school board meeting in june, the superintendent of loudoun county schools, a man called scott ziegler, said the school had no record of this assault. watch. >> do we have assaults in our bathrooms and locker rooms regularly? i would hope not, but i would like clarification. >> to my knowledge, we don't have any records of assaultsot occurring in our restrooms. >> tucker: scott smith is the father of the girl who was allegedly assaulted in the bathroom at the school. he came to a school board meeting to explain what happened to his daughter and demand accountability, but before he could finish talking, he was tackled and arrested. here is our local fox nation who reported it at the time. [chanting "shame on you"] >> a loudoun county school board

meeting devolved into chaos on tuesday after the board and in public comment where nearly 250 people signed up. deputies even tackled one man who was later arrested for disorderly behavior. another man got a ticket for trespassing. >> tucker: oh, disorderly behavior. he was talking at a public hearing, so they beat him. you should know the same moment all of this was happening, the men who wanted to report the sexual assault of his daughter and a bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt, at that same moment, the same school district was pushing a policy for students identifying as "transgender" that would allow students to use any bathroom they want. >> on the agenda for the contentious meeting, a proposed policy that has been just as controversial, policy 8040, which would require transgender and gender nonconforming students to be called by th him on ton cha >> tucker: oh, disorderly behavior he was talking at a public hearing, so they beat hi>> tuckd you should know the same moment all of this was happening, the men who wanted to report the sexual assault of his daughter and a bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt, at that same moment, the same school district was pushing a policy for students identifying as "transgender" that would allow students to use any bathroom they want. >> on the agenda for the contentious meeting, a proposed policy that has been just as controversial, policy 8040, which would require transgendery and gender nonconforming students to be called by their preferred pronouns. it would also align with state law allowing both students to use restrooms and be on sports teams at that align with their gender identity.

>> tucker: a reporter at "the daily wire" broke the story, and we're happy to have him on tonight to explain. thanks so much for coming on. essentially, did we characterize the story correctly? is that what you think happened? >> yes, this story is one of the most disturbing i've ever worked on, raises the possibility the loudoun county public school covered up the rape of a 14-year-old girl at the hands of a boy wearing a skirt, and as a result, a second girl was raped last week and to prevent this from coming out, they arrested the father of the victim, tried to put him in jail, and he is domesticace of terrorism, listed individually by the national school board so association. he did not come to that meeting because he was a bigot. a lot people thought they knew that guy, trotted out his picture, his embarrassing picture with his belly hanging out and bloodied face, they

thought they knew him, they knew nothing about him. this was a caring father involved in something very personal that happened to his daughter, and if they would have shut up and listen to him for 30 seconds, instead, they demeaned him from arrested him come and try to put him in jail.. >> tucker: working-class white guy, he deserved it. i wonder, though, if they would have cared if they had listened to him. i mean, if these allegations are true and the school board covered up the rape of a child in a bathroom, then maybe they would not have cared, had they heard from her father. >> yeah, i think that is right. after he was arrested at that school board meeting, the elected prosecutor of loudoun county, a soros-funded, far left -- it ran a campaign about ending mass incarceration and not charging people for minor crimes, she personally charge this guy for misdemeanor disorderly conduct. the da showed up and personally asked for jail time for disorderly conduct.

this is a woman very close with the school board, you know, and after that, they gave him a no trespassing letter just a few days before the august 11th meeting, where they finalized this transgender policy. it is hard to imagine they would have been able to pass that policy if this guy would have showed up and told his story, but none of the things liberals say they believe in, believe all women, objecting to police kneeling on a man who is screaming "i can't breathe,"wo which is whatng he is saying, ending mass incarceration, none of that applies when you block their agenda they are trying to enact on our children. >> tucker: right, so she iss not against mass incarceration, not a suspension of law, just using the force of law against disfavored groups, that is what this really is and we should just say it out loud, that is exactly what it is. this is an amazing story. thank you, luke rosiak, for reporting on that. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: of course. mark zuckerberg is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to interfere in our election. just today, florida governor ron desantis -- tech billionaires are influencing

florida's elections.ec >> we banned zucker-bucks -- zuckerberg spent millions of dollars to these nonprofits to "help with election administration," but what they would do is they would require certain things to be done, like mass bail balloting, and they would focus on partisan voter turnout, basically, and an election should be administered by offices, not private tech moguls. >> tucker: exactly. we knew that zuckerberg spent to close a half billion dollars on the last election, but we didn't have many details on what that money went to. mollie hemingway did the leg work on that and has written a new book called "rigged: how the media, big tech, and the democrats seized our elections." she joins us tonight to explain exactly what mark zuckerberg did in 2020. congrats on the book and thanks for coming on. tell us what mark zuckerberg did. >> in my new book, "rigged," i

tell how mark zuckerberg, one of the world's most wealthy men, funded the takeover of government election offices that are in charge of voter registrations, voting, and vote counting.gi he spends nearly half a billion dollars giving it to two left-wing groups that gave them money to governmental election offices, predominantly and democrat cities and key swing states, and with those funds, they targeted democrat voter outreach, designing ballots, translating ballots, and staffing the operations that handled ballot harvesting, the curing of ballots, and the counting of ballots. and to be clear, this is not campaign spending, this was a concierge-level get out the vote operation on behalf of joe biden and other democrats in key democrat areas in swing states. this is something that had never

happened before, and this was done inside the election administration, not outside, where billionaires normallyns spend their money. >> tucker: how are billionaires allowed to run our elections, as if they do not have enough power over our society? >> what is so amazing, as governor desantis noted, they had to make it a legal this year. it was not illegal when it was done because nobody ever imagined that tech oligarchs could control democracies by embedding left-wing activists into the election system. even in states where people pay a lot of attention to this, like wisconsin, they did not even t know really what was going on, and because they claimed these were nonpartisan, they do not realize until it was too late that democrat counties were getting the vast outside proportion of the vote and that it really made a difference in the final vote totals. >> tucker: i wish the campaign that was running against biden this have said more aboutut at the time. this seems like a massive scandal to me. >> it is a massive scandal, but it actually took a while to realize just how targeted this was.

very smart, there are actually people who researched in texas, they say it gave joe biden a net of 200,000 votes.t now, that did not mean it made the difference in texas, but that figure would make the difference in wisconsin, georgia, pennsylvania, and arizona.er >> tucker: virtually every swing state. i have to be honest, i did not get it either until until your book came out to. >> a lot of details in there. >> tucker: exactly.bo mollie hemingway, thank you so much. so, joe biden's presidency is not going well, unless the goal is to wreck our institutions. now, we are learningon that bidn could be directly implicated in an fbi probe into his son. pretty amazing. that is straight ahead. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: we don't tell you a lot about poll members because they are unreliable and really just a snapshot but holy smoke, joe biden's poll numbers are bad, border policies, inflation, the debacle in afghanistan and if that is not enough, the daily mail saying that he could be implicated in anha fbi

investigation, senior political analyst at fox news and for good reason. thank you so much for coming on. not an age question, a wisdom question. at this moment, according -- >> it is an age question. >> tucker: the daily mail says that biden may have funded some of hunter's extracurricular activities and they shared bank accounts. if that is true that sounds like a big deal. is it? >> it would be a big deal if it is shown that hunter's business activities, some which were very questionable, were down to do his father's financial -- because clearly hunter biden f crossed ethical lines in the activities he engages in and there was always this conflict of interest of him serving, doing business in ukraine when i his father is responsible fors policy related to ukraine.

that has been on the books for a long time, we've all known that. if it were to come out that joe biden himself or his campaign profited from that it would move the matter up quite a notch and add one more thing to the reasons why joe biden's popularity rating has been plummeting as you point out. >> tucker: i hate to say this but given the behavior of the attorney general likening parents to domestic terrorists, can we be certain the department of justice will conduct a free and fair investigation? >> no. in a word, no. the one thing this merrick garland has turned out to be for all his reputation as being a man who deserved a a set on the supreme court, he appears to be weak as water when itio comes to upholding independence and the department of justice and keeping them out of politically motivated investigations. this had the fbi looking into parents' motivations, something no sensible attorney general

would ever allow himself to be involved in or gave the green' light to and yet he did it so i don't think we can depend on that at all. it might depend on investigative journalism or investigative journalism of democrats ever take control of both houses of congress. >> tucker: may be "the new york post" will report on the contents of its -- oh, wait. this story which first learned about in october of last year, a year ago was squelchedis completely by the media tightens. titans. i wonder if we can be certain we will get the details this year. >> i would think off "the new york post" comes forward you will get another story about hunter biden. i dressed in hope at least that the mainstream media outlets

behaved so disgracefully last year when "the new york post" broke the other story, to pick up the story. i would not expect, however, that they would sic their investigative teams on them from day-to-day. it's a lot better than nothing which is what we got last year. the politically corrupt news organizations. >> tucker: they would have to pull a lot of guys off of the qanon army beat to do that.ke you think they can? >> [laughs] i think they be hesitant. it's a sad state of affairs but i think there is enough noise about this that the whole country would be able to hear it, and a about it.it the border situation, which was ignored for many months by mainstream media outlets finally broke through. these things can't be suppressed forever, at least one hopes not. >> tucker: in 20 seconds, what effects does this have on the midterms which are a year from now? >> the disapproval of joe biden hurts this party and the midterms and the president buster's approval ratings and standing with the public, it's always a major factor in the midterms, especially a president's first midterm after he takes office in which the president's party historically does badly.

the outlook in the house is very poor and it might spill over to the senate as well although the map favors democrats but a big wave election would sweep the democrats out in both -- in myp view. w >> tucker: well deserved. thanks for that analysis, great to see you. we are out of time. a brand-new episode of "tucker carlson today" tomorrow. we will see you tomorrow as well. sean hannity takes over now. >> sean: as always, tucker, welcome to "hannity." tonight, bozo beto o'rourke is back and not doing very well. he seems very angry. a lot of cuss words, we will play the tape but we have serious news to begin the night. >> announcer: americans held hostage behind enemy lines: day 59. >> sean: 359, american allies, green card holders completely, utterly abandoned by your president joe biden behind enemy lines.