burning businesses is not." good point. linda from north carolina: "for masked mandate, i -- thanks, everybody. tucker is up next and always remember, i'm watters, and this is my world. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we've got news for you this evening. joe biden, the president, has announced another piece of highly promoted equity agenda. that is the government wide effort to improve the lives of african-americans. you may recall that on his first day in office more than a year ago, the new president explained that equity will require determination and creativity. this week he proved that is true. joe biden's latest idea is to pay black people to smoke more

crack. going forward, the administration will send at least $30 million in tax money to nonprofits and local governments so they can purchase "safe smoking kits and supplies." according to hhs, these kits will contain joe biden approved pipes that will allow beneficiaries of the equity agenda to smoke crack cocaine as well as crystal meth. some say it is about time. soros-aligned ngos have long complained that marginalized groups in this country don't have adequate access to illegal narcotics or the tools to use them. with this new program, joe biden will finally close the crack gap. for too long in america, quality crack pipes have been the domain of rich white men like so much else. here is the president's son, for example, smoking crack in bed at the four seasons. you will notice the beautifully designed custom crack pipe, it's cooling full nestled in the high thread count egyptian cotton sheets. 100 hunter biden smokes crack, he does it in style. but not everyone in this country is so fortunate. try to toast some rock in west baltimore sometime, you may have

to make the pipe yourself from tinfoil or a broken car antenna fear of our inner cities are pipe deserts. talk about the new jim crow. bull connor would be proud. bull connor did not think black people deserve new crack pipe sphere joe biden is going to change that. joe biden understands how essential narcotics are to be future of his party. of democratic voters stop smoking crack they might start thinking for themselves and bece candace owens or something, can have that. unfortunately, this change comes too late for one democratic party icon. 30 years ago, crack addiction was still considered embarrassing especially for elected officials. in some places it was illegal. here was the mayor of washington, d.c., fervently pursuing the equity agenda before it even had a name. back then we just call that smoking crack. >> okay, i understand. pay attention. [bleep]. >> come up here.

[bleep]. >> tucker: marion barry, ladies and gentlemen, a civil rights pioneer. he was fighting racism with that crack pipe, smoking away the vestiges of white supremacy and the colonials pay peter patriarchal norms. if only we recognized the heroism of the time. to be fair, joe biden did not honor marion barry, either. here is joe biden a year after the mayor's drug bust. >> if you have a p of crack cocaine no bigger than this quarter that i am holding in my hand, one quarter of $1, we passed a law, a law that says you are caught with that, you go to jail. for five years. you get no probation, you get nothing other than five years in

jail. judge doesn't have a choice. >> tucker: going to throw you in jail, boy. that was joe biden then. now joe biden is giving free crack pipes to black people. maybe the lesson here is growth is possible and wisdom really does come with age. you may be wondering as you watch all of this, hold on a second, is the real drug crisis in this country that crack heads don't have enough crack pipes? i seem to remember reading somewhere that more than 100,000 americans died last year from opioid ods. what are we doing about that? well, good question. the answer is nothing. we are not doing anything about that. those 100,000 americans were not from officially marginalized groups, their death had nothing to do with the equity agenda. in fact, their deaths may have helped the equity agenda by changing the demographics of the country in a way that benefits the democratic party. so as far as the biden administration is concerned, it is not a bad trend. sure come a lot of people died from opioid and joe biden's first year, in fact a total body count was the equivalent of

significant american cities, the entire population. every man, woman, and child in south bend or roanoke, virginia. on the other hand, these are exactly the kind of people of the hate anyway. with equity in mind, the white house plans to continue allowing as much fentanyl and as possible to come into this country through mexico. here is fox news bilbo jenning reporting. >> drugs continue to spill across the border. in fiscal year 2021, 11,201 pounds of fentanyl sees nationwide, enough to kill more than 2 billion people. the seizures are significantly up from seizures in fiscal years 2020 and 2019. the largest fentanyl bust in 2021 came in august near san diego, where cbp recovered 127 pounds of the deadly opioid which was being smuggled in a trailer driven by a mexican national. it had a street value of

$13 million. >> tucker: you don't hear much about fentanyl used in the national use, so to give you a sense of how quickly it is growing, the dea national drug assessment did not even mention fentanyl, not a single time in 2013. customs and border protection seized just 2 pounds of fentanyl over the entire year. fast-forward to last year. customs and border patrol sees more than 11,000 pounds of fentanyl. that means the amount of fentanyl flowing into the u.s. has increased by 560000% in less than a decade. what is joe biden doing about this? he is encouraging more fentanyl use, of course. yesterday, the justice department announced in may allow government sanctioned safe spaces to open around the country for people to inject opioids. this too is part of the equity agenda. intravenous drug users are by definition a historically marginalized group. susan rice is thinking hard about how to keep them addicted, it is fairness. 4:00 in the afternoon and you want to shoot up fentanyl, can't

find a syringe, if you are rich and white it is an easy fix, just call one of your housekeepers from intercom in the pool house and sent her to cvs. you have servants to help. but when you are a junkie of color living on the sidewalk in san francisco? how are you going to shoot up when you feel like it? you need joe biden's help. done, help is on the way. but what does that help look like in practice? michael shellenberger is one of the very few who has bothered to find out. shellenberger recently spoke to a man living on the street in san francisco and ask the obvious question: how do you pay for your drug addiction? watch. >> where are you from? >> alabama. >> monastery? >> seven years. >> drug of choice? >> heroin. >> 5% still use heroin. you've got to do something to counteract the downers. >> what does it cost per day? >> between $40.80. >> what percentage of people on the street would you say are from san francisco originally?

>> san francisco originally, may be ten, probably more like six or seven. >> percent? how much does it cost to meet your habit? >> $60 a day. >> price gone down or come up? >> it's been like a race to the bottom in terms of pricing were a gram -- even as little as two years ago, would have been $200, now it is down to 15 -- >> how do you make your money? >> petty crime, boosting and getting into locked cars. >> how do you boost? >> you go in a store, put stuff in your bag, and get out. >> tucker: learned a number of things from watching that clip, things you never hear anybody say. first, the drug crisis is a crisis. it destroys people's lives. your fellow americans lives. it is one of the worst things ever to happen in this country and it is being completely ignored by the people running the country. the second thing we learned is it is happening because drugs are cheaper than ever. in fact, fentanyl may be the only product that joe biden has

made cheaper since becoming president. a gallon of gasoline and a pound of beef are much more expensive. fentanyl is cheaper. and then you learn that homelessness is caused by drug addiction and so is street crime. so you're wondering why our cities are falling apart, it is pretty simple: drugs. drugs are the problem. so what has joe biden decided to bring us more of? drugs. it makes you wonder. candace owens is the host of candace. we are always delighted to have her on our show when she joins us now. candace, thank you so much for coming on. i guess they can tell you they love you but if they are encouraging you to smoke more crack, maybe they are lying. >> well, i think it is pretty obvious the biden administration loves black america and loves america and cares about the health and well-being. all you have to do it to be healthy and joe biden's america stay at home, lock your doors, avoid sunlight, mascara children, when you step outside, only to get vaccines and may be doing smash and grab crime and on your way back home, grab a government-sponsored crack pipe.

i don't know why people think joe biden doesn't care about the lives of the average americans in black america, it is so clear he is running things that he actually cares. how easy it is to get drugs, because we all know what is going on and they say it is not, they are actually mocking us for saying we are being dramatic in discussing how horrible the lives have gotten for the average americans, especially those living in inner cities. as you touched on, a couple weeks ago. and jen psaki saying oh, it is not happening, this is a fox news conspiracy theory, and even telling you we don't care about your health, they are conspiracy theorists, we are going to fact-check them and deplatform them. the thing here is joe biden is not the mastermind of this plan. joe biden is not even a mind in this plan. he has no idea what is going on, someone points a direction and he goes, right? you have to take a look at who is sponsoring this and of course it is george soros, ngos that are saying this is what we need. this is something that needs to be said. any time you look at what is happening in the black

community, look at who is sponsoring it, the name george soros keeps coming up. i think it is clear that in america today, the most racist and effective man at being racist in america is a george soros, bar none. he is the district attorney, has them under lock and key, telling them to release criminals in black communities, has black lives matter burning down his money behind black lives matter and those riots. politicians on his arms telling them to defund the police, getting them behind his initiative. who is this hollering at the end of the day? black america. but nobody has the courage to call this out. the biden administration as his puppets, they do what they are told, why this person is this much power to go after inner cities and the communities and black americans are suffering and nothing is being done, no one is calling this out. >> tucker: it is so transparently hateful. i mean, you are a mother. if you had a child who was struggling with drug abuse -- and a lot of americans face this, it is really sad and tough -- would you give the kid needles and a crack pipe and say look, if they are going to do it, do it safely in your

bedroom? he would have to hate your kid -- >> absolutely not. absolutely, of course you hate your kid, and that is what it really comes down to. you are seeing the system over and over and over again. they like the fact black americans are at the bottom of society and black americans are uninformed and they have drug dealers and you have these people that are basically government dependents for the rest of their lives and unfortunately now we are talking about now these crises, it is extending amongst the racist, it is not even just black america anymore, the person you just showed as a white american. they are drug addicts dependent on the government and the government is happy to give them whatever they want so long as they stay at the bottom of society, needing government, and that is what this administration is all about. removing power from individual and transferring it to the government. >> tucker: right. if you can't think clearly, and it is not just drug addiction, it is drug use. if your head is modeled, you are not independent, you are not really free. free people can think clearly, and anybody who wants you to think less clearly is trying to enslave you, obviously. [laughs]

it's very simple. i appreciate you coming on, always. candace owens, thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: so, it looks like corona is kind of winding down at this point, but not everybody has gotten the memo. a new study just out recommends putting panty hose on your face. not to rob a liquor store, though that works, too, but to protect yourself from corona. that's next. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ >> tucker: so there is a famous scene in the novel "animal farm" by george orwell where the pigs take over and all of a sudden the principal is painted on the side of the barn and new ones get painted over them and ever and esther pretend nothing has changed. something like that is happening at cnn. jeff zucker got canned the other day for reasons we don't fully understand even now but there are new people running the place and all of a sudden, the views of cnn's in-house doctor, the lady who once ran planned parenthood, has changed. here she is on monday saying it is time to end covid restrictions. >> there was and is a time and place for pandemic restrictions, but when they were put in, it was always with the

understanding they would be removed as soon as we can, and in this case, circumstances have changed, case counts are declining. also, the science has changed. >> tucker: the planned parenthood lady is super creepy. imagine taking medical advice from her. anyway, she is telling us the science has changed. effective immediately, according to cnn's doctor, no longer makes sense to force children to wear masks. >> if our icus and hospitals in that particular region are not overwhelmed, if they are not overcapacity, we can set a number, for example 75% or 80% full, then we should be able to relax all restrictions and i actually believe that we should be starting to -- with the first restriction removed, should actually be the restriction on children. there actually is a harm that we should be discussing of children continuing to mask. >> tucker: [laughs] wait, what? it's not good for kids to wear masks and schools? that is kind of weird. all of a sudden, at the very same time, not suggesting coordination or anything just noticing a trend, at exactly the

moment cnn line on current changes, so does the democratic party's. suggesting may be natural immunity a thing. maybe tens of millions of us who have been infected with corona and recovered may have antibodies remaining, and then come at the very same moment democratic governors in new jersey, connecticut, delaware, the most extreme on the question of corona, have announced an end to mask mandates. what the hell is going on? nobody told the white house, by the way. the white house is not budged on masks. something is happening. we don't know so we asked brit hume to weigh in, fox news senior political analyst and a very wise man, he joins us now. brit, when they all change the party line and one day, something is up. >> yeah, it's not the science that has changed, it's the politics, and the political winds are killing them so strongly that i think the democratic politicians can see

that what has happened, they want out from under these mask mandates. parents are up in arms about them and understandably so. coupled with this whole issue has been that the science that backs up masks for everybody has never been very strong. only a couple of studies, and they were basically inconclusive at best. >> tucker: yes. >> but there really is no science at all of any legitimacy that says that it is a good idea and necessary for children, who are the least vulnerable population in the country, to wear masks. and yet it has gone on all this time. there was a refusal to recognize the harms being done to children. we kept hearing planned assurances that kids are adaptable and adjustable and everything is going to be fine, and now of course, people are saying it is not working out that way, that there are serious problems, so the mask mandates are now on the way out. >> tucker: you sort of wonder, though, you've had an entire generation of american children who are emotionally stunted, having trouble reading or even

communicating with other people, it has really hurt them a lot. democrats did that. kind of no question about it. can they really run away from it? >> i don't see how. the problem of course is what happened, what the democrats did is they decided that the only experts and the only expert advice that matters was that coming from the epidemiologists. the epidemiologists basically have one job: to fight the disease. but the side effects, the collateral damage, that is not their responsibility. epidemiologists aren't responsible for the u.s. economy, children's education, children's mental health, not responsible for cancer screenings that got missed because people could not go out and all the rest of it. mistake that was made was making them the only advice that was really listen to for a long time, and there is a pull out now about whether to move on or not. majorities, huge majorities of independents and republicans, adding up to something like 70% of the population, thinks we

should appeared only a minority of democrats. they have been alarmists all along. >> tucker: people to drive alone in their cars with windows up in a mask on -- how are they going to respond when they don't have to wear the mask anymore? >> my guess is, in time, they will take them off, but you know, if i had money invested in a mask company, i wouldn't sell the stock yet. >> tucker: [laughs] >> i think they're going to be with us a while, at least on some people. >> tucker: that's totally right. brit hume, thank you so much. so, how effective are the cloth masks that joe biden is forcing children to where? according to studies from cambridge university, they are not very useful by themselves, but women's panty hose on top of face masks, now we are getting somewhere. this -- [laughs] i love these stories. d.c. radio host, one of the most popular in that city.

joins us now. safely protected from coronavirus to assess the effectiveness of of panty hose. it's either an ugly pair or -- >> my wife would not let me use the panty hose so i improvised. you know, you can't be too safe, tucker. it's really rough out there. one second, let me take this other one off. all right, i'm i'm ready to go. >> tucker: you are -- >> so crazy they are asking us to wear panty hose over our heads just to see how far they can take the humiliation in the waning hours of the pandemic. they figure okay, let's see what we can get away with. at this point if you put panty hose over your head at this stage of the pandemic, that is a sucker alert. not only do you have to triple mask, you have to put a dunce cap on, it is a way to see whether or not you are a complete moron, and this is

definitely a test you have to pass. >> tucker: there may be a connection to the equity agenda here. anyone who grew up in the ' 70s and '80s are members that panty hose over the face was the favorite uniform of liquor store robbers. so you wonder if an administration that has been promoting violent crime may sort of feel like it is part of the equity agenda to get the rest of us to dress like we are committing armed robbery. >> yeah, that's right, exactly. there's a lot of states, it is illegal to wear a mask in public -- >> tucker: yes. >> because it usually coincides with crime, but now we have completely normalized it had actually during the course of the pandemic how many crimes did you see where people didn't need to go out and find some sort of innovative mask, they just wore the surgical mask that was suggested to them by dr. fauci. by the way, i have one other theory on this. may be the panty hose thing as a way to justify it dr. fauci's panty hose collection. his wife walked in and saw him

rifling through the panty hose and said "what are you doing in the panty hose?" it he looked up and he said "it makes a good mass." >> tucker: see, i would knock down that suggestion as, you know, out-of-bounds, except i have determined a lot of our public policy is actually a fetish in disguise because there is no other explanation. you live and an report from washington, that is a city with a lot of people who drive along with masks on. we just asked brit hume this question. how do you think those people will respond when masking suddenly becomes, as it inevitably will, nonmandatory. >> with neurotic panic, i think. because they have been so conditioned to freak out about every element of this. how many surveys do you need to see where you find out that republicans by and large have kind of an accurate sense of risks associated with covid where democrats overstate the risk by like 10000% and that is because of our leaders. they have misled so many people and boy, you hear these

conversations about misinformation and disinformation. nobody has propagated more of that than the united states government and the obedient media outlets who extend that message of the people, so as a result what you are going to have is kind of like the elders of the democratic party who are beginning to shift right now to try and liberate people from zirconium policies in a midterm year and meanwhile, the middle managers like the guys who aren't really -- sort of the henchmen of the party, they are going to freak out about this, the type of people who study this. stage of the pandemic you have to put panty hose on your head because they have not been read up on how the changes are coming in just in time for the election. >> tucker: there's going to be a lot of hysterical and careless -- the last japanese show soldier coming in when ther ended. great to see you tonight. thank you. >> nice to see you, tucker. >> tucker: so it has been pretty clear for more than a year now that the events of january 6th have been harnessed by the democratic party to give the new administration stunning new police and surveillance power.

we have details tonight on how the capitol police are spying on members of congress. one member of congress says the capitol police broke into his office and took pictures. he joins us next. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: the capitol hill police exist for a single reason, to protect the capitol, heart of our democracy, elected members of congress. but since january 6th, the capitol hill police force has been subverted by nancy pelosi who oversees it and joe biden, the new president, to become a kind of secret police

force that acts on behalf of the democratic party. think we are overstating that? we are not. members of the capitol hill police have been surveilling elected members of congress, their staff, and visitors to their offices. republican congressman of texas said the capitol hill police officers entered his congressional office last year without his knowledge and then photographed confidential materials within the office. if you have not worked on capitol hill or around it, it is hard to overstate how completely out-of-bounds that is. in any other administration under any other speaker, that would be considered a complete outrage. now it is just par for the course. plainclothes capitol police officer from the department's "intelligence division" subsequently question one of the congressman's aides about what was on a whiteboard within his office. on twitter, the congressman wrote "oh why is the capitol police leadership maliciously investigating me in an attempt to destroy me and my character."

congressman joins us now. congressman, thanks so much for coming on. it is hard to overstate how shocking this story is. these are the people who are paid to protect you and they are spying on you, an elected member of congress, speaking of an attack on our democracy. tell us why you think this happened, why were they in your office? >> well, first of all, thank you for having me come and i think it is very clear, you know, leader mccarthy selected me to be one of the five to be on the select committee, looking into january 6, and i have been a very vocal critic of january 6th, specifically the capitol police, the leadership of the capitol police, the intelligent section, have been very vocal about it. all of the intelligence was there, it was glaring to them and in their face that we knew the capital was the target for january 6th. we knew that there were maps that were scattered throughout the whole city about the tunnels

on january 6th, so all the intelligence was there. they knew the extremist groups were going to be there, and they did nothing with it. so i've exposed this and i have been very vocal about it, i have been vocal even on your program a few months back about the death of ashli babbitt and questioning why lieutenant byrd's investigation did not go to a grand jury. this really does not surprise me, quite honestly. i am being targeted right now, and i believe that nancy pelosi is weaponizing the u.s. capitol police to investigate me to try to silence me, intimidate me, and quite honestly, to destroy me. >> tucker: this is totally third world and crazy, and it is hard to believe it is happening in the capital city. by the way, i should note, their claim that they were trying to protect you, but of course they never told you about it. there was a threat, they should of course alert you, you are a member of congress. how can you have nancy pelosi's secret police force in your office and no one shuts them

down. >> the claim is they discovered one of my office doors wide open on a saturday afternoon. the officer entered my office and said, you know, to check to see if anyone was there that shouldn't be there and saw suspicious writings on my whiteboard, where is where i dropped my legislative proposals. a couple days later, i have these secret agents, secret agents from the capitol police knocking on my office door, questioning my staff, one of my staffers, as to the language on that board. why was there body written on your board? interrogating the staffer, questions related to a handknit handwritten map of a building for members of congress with an x on it. absolutely silly, absolutely ludicrous. why were the capitol police inside my office, investigating me. and i was under a criminal. the chief of police is downplaying this but i'm telling you, they are coming after

anyone who has a dissenting point of view. anyone that doesn't agree with them. it happened to me. sarah, i believe the nsa, happen to you, looking at your emails, text messages. obama used the fbi to go after donald trump, russia collusion, and we know how that turned out, so they are weaponizing these federal law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies. >> tucker: this is making my heart beat faster. this is the redline, you can't tolerate in a free society. you cannot use law enforcement agencies to block your political enemies. it's what they do in africa, we cannot allow that here. i hope you get every one of these cretins fired. i needed. >> the office of inspector general was in my office last week. he has agreed to do a study and an investigation, independent investigation, and i feel good about that. we're going to get to the bottom of it. >> tucker: i hope you will. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you. god bless.

>> tucker: god bless. here is why this is a big deal. congress is 1 of 3 independent branches in the federal government. that means under our constitution -- which by the way still exist -- congress does not report to the other two branches. congress has specific legal protections to ensure they are independent. congress is a group of legislators that you elect directly. again, that is the heart of the democracy. so by law, the department of justice run by the president cannot issue a search warrant to rummage through a representative's office or mail. period. that is what separation of powers means. you don't have to go to law school to understand that. but the biden administration is flagrantly ignoring this and no one is doing anything about it. they are doing it because they see the constitution as an obstacle. you heard the president say the other night, no amendment is absolute. really? thanks for the lecture on the constitution, mr. genius. here is the latest example, and it is pretty shocking, just like the last one we told you about. today, republican congressman louie gohmert of texas revealed that two letters that were sent

to his office instead were opened by the justice department. you can see the letters on your screen right now. we know they went to the doj because they have doj stamps on them. they are intercepting his mail? yes. here is gomer's statement. "even if it were a mistake to deliver congress is mailed to the doj, the doj has an obligation to immediately notify congress and forward the mail without opening it. it is greatly concerning since congressional mail is constitutionally protected under the speech and debate clause of the constitution. it could be routed, intentionally or not, through the highly partisan doj. this is felonious behavior." it certainly is. by the way, these agencies mess with all kinds of unelected americans. the rest of us, there is nothing we can do about it. but you hope if they mess with elected officials, members of congress, they would be severely punished, and we fervently hope they will be. we reached out to the doj, justice department for comment, but they're not going to comment because don't have to. so, bitcoin is a massive threat

here of all crypto a massive threat to the hegemony of the federal government. they can't tell you what to do if they don't control the currency. that's true. so the biden administration is preparing to crack down on bitcoin. they say it's threatening america's national security. we've got details on their plans ahead. ♪ ♪ (vo) what makes my heart beat? having everything i want in the place i love. jamaica. heartbeat of the world. let's go!

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♪ ♪ >> tucker: so, the trucker convoy in canada is pretty cool. people getting together to promote human rights, who is against that? but there is something about working-class people gathering in large groups that scares the hell out of the over class. in canada, they are genuinely afraid, and their fear is making them crazy. crazy? here is our favorite headline may be ever. it comes from some kind of canadian news outlet come in here is the headline: "the alt-right has weaponized the word freedom to undermine democracy." [laughs] so anyone who uses it uses the

word freedom is obviously a racist. keep telling yourself that. well, joe biden, you may recall, spent a lot of time as vice president and meddling the internal affairs of ukraine, ukraine and set of any of the other 195 countries. the ukrainians were paying joe biden's family a million dollars a year. as president, biden has presented ukrainian interests. biden has talked about the scary things he will do a vladimir putin dares to offend the territorial sovereignty of biden's close friend of the ukrainians. but one thing joe biden will not do, he has assured us repeatedly, is send american troops to ukraine. polls show americans do not want that at all and biden claims he has heard the message. watch. >> this would be the largest, and if you were to move in, the largest invasion since world war ii. it would change the world.

>> thank you, guys. lets go. thank you, guys. you guys, let's go. thank you. >> there is not going to be any american forces moving into ukraine. >> tucker: there are not going to be any american forces moving into ukraine. that is what joe biden told us that it is reassuring to hear that. but wait, it's not true. it is yet another lie from the mannequin, in case you are still bothering to keep track of them all. fox news has learned their already more than 300 american troops in, yes, ukraine. joe biden is calling the military advisors, just like we did back in vietnam. just last week, we were told there are only 150 american troops in ukraine. was far as we know, the force has more than doubled in recent days, and that is assuming the new number is real, and why would we assume that because people lie about everything. the truth is we have no idea how many american troops are in ukraine right now. only that the total is a lot more than they said it was that

again, they lie all the time. here is the question: there are american troops in ukraine, what is going to happen to these troops if and when the russians invaded? the pentagon says there are no plans to pull these troops out, so that means that very soon, american soldiers could be fighting russian soldiers, which sounds to our civilian ears very much like the definition of war with russia. are you ready for war with russia? has anyone asked for your consent or even your opinion on war with russia? no. that's democracy. biden style. so, the administration reportedly plans to unveil an executive order that would detail "economic, regulatory, and national security challenge posed by cryptocurrencies." this comes after hillary clinton declared cryptocurrencies undermine the u.s. dollar, not the recklessness of our leaders, that has nothing to do with the fall in value of the dollar, but bitcoin is the real problem. actually, bitcoin is a reaction

to the reckless behavior, of course. but the question is, would cracking down on bitcoin create an opening for the broad adoption of the chinese communist party's digital currency? ryan sulcus is the founder of -- he thinks that is possible. he joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on, a very interesting topic and i wish we had more time. boil it down for us, what do you think this is really about? >> thanks, tucker. first we have to talk about what crypto is actually is, because it is confusing for a lot of people, it is a new technology. bitcoin is a payment system. you can send money to anyone anywhere around the globe. it is as easy as sending an email. bitcoin themselves are a fixed supply, kind of like fictional gold, one of the reasons they perform so well over the course of the last ten years, really. what we have learned more recently is that all of these technologies can under pan under applications, as well, decentralized finance of alternative, cryptocurrency can

help with censorship. the fastest growing sector of tech. not good for big government, big banks, and this technology provides a check on all three. the ccp actually banned this tech and unfortunately, they rolled out a centralized version of their own. our policymakers are starting to trend in the direction of the ccp, which we are obviously trying to prevent at the industry level, but it could be pretty dicey the next few months. >> tucker: so, cryptocurrency -- what a nice description that was, thank you. cryptocurrency essentially poses an existential threat to the davos class, is there anything they can really do about it in real life? >> well, let's talk about the biden administration's financial regulators. they talk a lot about protecting americans from crypto. the reality is this is about control because if you look at

the state of the crypto economy right now, there was more crypto transactions processed last year than visa processed. the crypto economy and the private sector and all of the innovation seen the last couple of years just doing fine. and instead, this treasury department in particular wants to take a page out of the ccp's playbook and instead create a top-down surveillance system and federal reserve point, versus working with industry to create a regulatory framework that makes sense. essentially we are going squander a lead and delegate authority to the same people that build healthcare.gov a few years ago. they are not the only financial regulators on the wrong side of this. the sec chair has been trying to "protect" and vectors from what is the highest performing asset class may be in the history but certainly the last ten years. i'm just thankful my 90-year-old grandfather was able to buy bitcoin in 2014 before he could be protected from a 50 times return on his capital and a 20%

decline in the dollar thanks to inflation. >> tucker: [laughs] so nicely put. the people who build healthcare.gov. just super quick, into sentences, since this is all based on the blockchain which i think is impregnable to their efforts, they can't really do anything, can they? or can they? >> well, they can certainly make life difficult, and this is actually what the new organization i found that the digital freedom alliance, work with policymakers that are thoughtful and support pro-crypto candidates because this is meant to be a swing voter issue. quite a bit of single-issue voters, myself included among that cohort, so i encourage people to check out procrypto.org if they want to learn more information get involved. >> tucker: and under the age of 35, it's a huge issue, i would say, because they have no wealth, they have been denied what previous generations had, so you can see why they care.

ryan, thank you -- >> nonpartisan issue, tucker. >> tucker: oh, i agree with that completely. thank you very much for coming on. we will be right back. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: so robert malone is a doctor, scientist, i recently sat down with an interview with joe rogan and criticized something called -- that blew up the internet. they were accused of spreading misinformation and broken later apologized without. we sit down for a long conversation with dr. malone today for upcoming episode of "tucker carlson today." here's what he said of the fallout of his appearance on rogan's podcast. ♪ ♪ >> now they have alienated blue-collar center people and unaligned people, which is really what rogan represents, particularly younger ones, okay? but joe spent the knee. he thought he could concede and

they would leave him alone and he basically apologized, and that is not how this game is played, it is full on media war and you do not, you don't get a break by saying i'm sorry. >> tucker: he is right. our full interview with dr. robert malone a available on fox nation tomorrow. hope you watch at. we are out of time. sean hannity right now. >> sean: tucker, what is great about him and this is what is funny to me about the left reaction to him, without his medical brilliance and his creation of the mrna technology, there would not be a pfizer vaccine or a moderna vaccine, and the people who are most critical love the vaccines. kind of bizarre. >> tucker: that guy gave money to joe biden last year so it is not like he is a product of the vervet right wing. >> sean: his technology lead to those vaccines and yet he is st