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training areas to assembly points. officials have said that the thy expect the russians to move eminently in days. this feels a little different, which is why we are bringing it to you tonight. according to politico, joe biden has told fellow nato members that date could be of february 16th. >> we encourage all american citizens who remain in ukraine to depart immediately. we want to be crystal courier dell not clear on this point. any american should leave as soon as possible and in any event in the next 24-48 hours. we obviously cannot predict the future. we don't know exactly what is going to happen. but the risk is now high enough and the threat is no immediate enough that this is what prudence demands. >> tucker: a good number of the americans he referred to as

currently served in the u.s. military. fox news reported that there were more than 300 american troops in ukraine including an unspecified number of special operations forces. if a hot war doesn't indeed begin, they will be in danger of being killed. will our troops leave before the shooting starts? john kirby asked that question today. "as of this moment, they are still there." when will they get out, we asked. he wouldn't say. whatever happens between russia and ukraine, the unit states will be at the center of it. it's not hard to imagine how the next few days could go very wrong very fast. russian troops kill american troops inadvertently or not and suddenly we are at war with russia. a nuclear armed nation whose military stronger than all the wars we fought in the last 50 years combined. fighting russia is not the same.

it could quickly become a war we couldn't control. our side of that war would be overseen by the same generals who failed to beat the taliban, guerrilla fighters and sandals who don't use toilet paper. given that fact, you've got to wonder if the biden administration's current wild posturing is it worth the risk. we are open-minded on the question. if it's worth fighting russia, tell us how it is worth it. explain how joining a conflict in eastern europe would benefit the united states, not just benefit joe biden who is obviously desperate for a distraction from domestic disasters, but how would a war with russia make us stronger and more prosperous? that is a fair question. at the central question. while you are at it, tell us why if the russians are such a grave threat to europe, the europeans seem a lot less concern than we are. biting keep suggesting that

putin wants to swallow western europe. but if that's true, why in the western european scrambling to defend themselves? they could certainly afford to. germany is one of the richest countries in the world. in many ways, german people have a higher standard of living that we do. after 80 years, we are still paying for their defense. is that a good reason for that? could it be that defunding western europe from russia is the pretext for other goals? goals that remain largely hidden from the american public. it is worth asking those questions and demanding clear and logical answers to them. in fact, it's essential to do that. a lot hangs in the balance. in the current environment, it's not easy. skepticism is announced as disloyalty. that is why we need to fight putman or they will accuse you of working for putin. for a rational conversation on the subject, we are honored to be joined by rational person,

tulsi gabbard. thank you so much for coming on, congresswoman. it's hard to know what to believe always, and especially now, but let's stipulate, agree to agree, that it seems likely we could see some conflict between russia and ukraine soon. how should we view that? >> first of all, president biden could end this crisis and prevent a war with rus by doing something very simple. guaranteeing that ukraine will not become a member of nato. because if ukraine became a member of nato, that would put u.s. and nato troops right on the doorstep of russia, which, as putman has laid out, would undermine the national security interests. the reality is that it is highly, highly unlikely that ukraine will ever become a member of nato anyway. the question is, why do some president biden and nato leaders actually just say that and

guarantee it? which begs the question of why are we in this position then? if the answer to this and preventing this war from happening is very clear as day. and really, it just points to one conclusion that i can see witches, they actually want to russia to invade ukraine. why would they? because number one, it gives the biden administration a clear excuse to go and levy draconian sanctions, modern day siege against russia and the russian people. and number two, it's the months this cold war and place. the military industrial complex is one of the benefits from this. they clearly control the biden administration, warmongers on both sides of washington drumming up that tensions. if they get russia to invade ukraine, then again, it locks in this new cold war. the military-industrial complex starts to make a ton more money than they have been in fighting al qaeda or making weapons for

al qaeda. and who pays the price? the american people pay the price. the russian people play the price. it undermines our own -- it control so many of our politicians and they run to the bank. >> tucker: you are seen this. i think you got a credible view on this. i just have to ask, they have been telling us with increasing hysteria, wendy sherman, jake sullivan, and the president himself, the threat here is to western europe. vladimir putin has aims on our allies in western europe. why don't the europeans seem as afraid as our leaders are if that is true? >> i think that is a legitimate question that no one in the biden administration or the nato leadership has responded to in any way. it seems they have forgotten that they are supposed to be accountable to the american people. that the answer to the american

people. and yet they have failed to answer this very, very simple question and justifying why we are continuing to send more troops to europe. why they are can send down my continuing to oxalate and push for something and making ukrains highly unlikely to ever happen. and if it did happen, it would undermine our own country's interest. >> tucker: it doesn't seem an upside. no one has been able to explain why americans should want ukraine to join nato. is there something that we are missing here? is there some benefit to the united states from having that happen? >> i've looked at this carefully, tucker, and i've yet to find any benefit that a political leader has used or could use to justify this to the american people. all you here as well, we have to defend democracy. we have to defend the democratic country of ukraine. but as you know very well, this current president shuts down --

throws them in jail, shuts down tv stations that are critical to him. i have a hard time seeing how president biden or anyone can say with an honest face, we are defending democracy. and the reason is because our own government has publicly supported these authoritarian actions by the ukrainian president and shutting down their own political opposition and it begs the question, this sounds familiar to some of the things that unfortunately we are seeing play out right here at home. >> tucker: i was just about to say that, it seems like there kind of democracy. tulsi gabbard, that is the smartest analysis i've heard. i appreciate you laying it out for us. thank you. so the standoff on the, speaking of borders, american/canadian border, continues. you are hearing a lot about how the truckers are racist. why are they telling us that? why are they hysterical about truck drivers? because they feel deeply

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the new mayor of boston seems to -- she is a more vapid version of justin trudeau. that is a bad combination. so she continues with the restriction such as requiring vaccination documents and masking little kids. people are very sick over this. but michelle will somehow had no idea. so earlier this week she's found out the truth. she hosted an instagram live event complete with comments. >> happy new year, year of the tiger.

what's my favorite thing about boston winter? i love snow. >> tucker: [laughs] she's going through looking for a positive one. she missed the one that said "you are ruining boston." didn't repeat those on the air ordained to answer them. our leaders assumed emergency authority to deal with it and they've been holding onto that authority ever sense. now they are trying to make it permanent. of course. in a moment when we are all

fretting about democracy isn't real. here you have someone who is not actually the governor pretending to be the governor. >> governor cuomo actually instituted these quarantine powers back in march of 2020 and they are temporary at the moment and they have to be extended every 90 days or every 60 days. this governor, as covid cases go down, seeks to make these powers and the executive branch with no checks and balances permanent, forever, without any legislative authority. not only is she not elected, she is not asking the elected branch of government to help out with this. she is doing this unilaterally.

i wouldn't want this governor to have these powers. i wouldn't want an elective governor. it's not just covid positive patients. what does that mean? therefore we are going to whisk you away and put you in some gulags and you have no due process after you've been in the gulags for a little while you might be able to petition the court if you get a lawyer. that is the kind of thing we are talking about. it may sound a little far-fetched, but think of where we've come in the last two years. it wasn't that long ago that we thought if you wanted to go to church you'd be allowed to go to church. new york state said you couldn't go to church and in certain.

new york state is crushing free speech and first amendment rights. and this governor in the past month went ahead and fired union medical workers and to replace them with the military, replace them with the national guard. >> tucker: the defender of the democracy, the liz cheney, for example. piped up and said hey, unelected state government pull back on your quarantine powers, you are not god. has anybody noticed this? >> i haven't heard anyone say that. i haven't even heard members of our own party here in new york state say that. this was proposed as a bill in the past and never got anywhere in the legislature. i think even in past legislatively this kind of power would be unconstitutional. basically throwing away habeas corpus. this is done in the executive branch with no checks and balances. i was on your show about 13 months ago talking about that bill, tucker. and afterwards a reporter from d

that that is an insane idea, there's no way we would have a pass that bill. but at the time, we didn't know it. they had given themselves this power. all they had to do is ask themselves, can be extended for another 90 days? can be extended for another 90 days? >> tucker: yeah, and if we are saying that anybody who has been exposed to covid qualifies for involuntary quarantine, that would be three to 45 million americans for there is into person who hasn't been exposed. thank you so much for coming on tonight. and congratulations on holding office legitimately has an elected official. >> it's a great honor. thank you. for more than a year, the biden administration repeatedly told americans that they had to take the coronavirus shop. they said that even after it became clear that people who got the shot were still getting covid. the question is why they never admitted this. we don't know the answer, we can

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>> tucker: you may not remember this, but not too long ago, he ran for president. not of the school board, but of the united states. he was dreaming big. at a debate and september 2019, he made a promise to the people of this country. he promised that when he was elected he would clean out your gun closet, because you don't need all that. those are the two rifles you mentioned. he didn't mention anything about other guns or knives. it was just a r's and ak's. >> yes, we are going to take your ar-15, your ak-47. you are not going to be allowed to use them to hurt fellow americans anymore. >> tucker: that tape still exists. three years later, beto o'rourke is still looking for a job. he doesn't work a ton. now he wants to be governor of

texas. and in texas, people like ar-15s and ak-47s. so on tuesday, beto o'rourke was asked again, are you going to take people's guns away? and here's what he said. >> i'm not interested in taking anything from everyone but what i want to make sure that we do is defend the second amendment. >> tucker: [laughs] actually, i misspoke. what i meant when i said i'm going to seize your guns without compensation was, i'm going to defend the second amendment. okay. so if you like your kalashnikov, you can keep your collection a at.super bowl sunday is coming . young athletes and everyone around the country will be watching. we just spoke to a coach called max stevens who we think is particularly impressive. he's a head football coach at cleveland heights high school in the state of ohio. he's focused on football, but he is much more focused on the

lives of his players. and he means it. we thought for that reason we would want to hear it. here's part of the conversation. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: so you are a football coach, the head coach. a spigot that's correct. >> tucker: presumably your goal is to win, what you care what grades they get or are you they treat girls? >> in order to do big things in life you've got to do the small things right. when i interviewed for the job, the one thing i told the committee that was interviewing me was that if the idea is for me to win a state champ egypt, i'm not the guy. but if you want to change lives, that is what i can do. >> tucker: you said that in the interview? >> absolutely. i said that to the committee. i had that interview with the head principal and i interviewed with the superintendent and the human resources director of the cleveland heights school district. and that is something that i still emphasize to this very day. those kids still excel.

i like to believe that a big part of that is because of the expectations we put on our kids. we don't allow them to come to us with excuses. and i think unfortunately in society today we give young people too many excuses. we just keep that expectation on them every day. an example is, when i was raising my sons every single day, the questions they got to for me was, how was school, how did you do will not test, do you have a quiz coming up, when is your next game. things like that, just basic questions he would think all parents ask. well, with the kids that i coach, to be quite honest, most of them got home and they don't get that. they get that from myself, they get that for my coaching staff. that is one of the reasons why so many kids have been successful coming out of our football program. i think at our first six years we've had 75 kids on various

football scholarships. >> tucker: amazing. how many of the boys do you coach have their dad at home? >> a lot of them don't have very involved fathers to be quite honest. and it is not that myself or our coaching staff try to become the father. we tried to become good and decent man. when i interviewed my coaching staff, i didn't ask them what they know about exes and all is and for both games. i could care less about that. but what i do ask the coaches, are you able to coach these kids, love these kids as if they are your own son? and if you can't do that, then you can't coach on my staff. >> are they confused by the question? >> it surprising to some people. to be quite honest, just with the philosophy with the ultimate goal is not to win a state championship. the ultimate goal was to change lives. to some people with that.

but in my mind, we can't lose. there is no way we can lose to cleveland heights if you embrace that philosophy. because of a young man goes through four years of high school and then goes on to college and gets a college degree, how can that be a failure? i just had a couple young men, actually to that just graduated from ohio state. one will probably have an opportunity to play in the nfl paired the other one has an opportunity to get a very good job. how can you fail? >> we interview a lot of people who explain how screwed up the country is. max stevens is living proof that it's a great country. that whole interview is on fox nation. we recommend you check it out. hillary clinton is back all of the setting. she speaking to the near democratic party convention next week. why is she doing that? it's not -- there could be a reason and we support that reason and we support that reason.

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>> tucker: we are going to end our friday night show with some good news. something for you to savor. here it is, hillary clinton said to speak at a near democratic party convention next week. according to one source, her appearance is good because it will galvanize the party and keep her relevant. wow. wait till you see her at almost 80. an added layer. we like to say this on the record with total sincerity, please, hillary clinton, run. we've covered it so many times before. but because that would be hilarious. we will be monitoring that speech next week. don't miss it. for the meantime, have the best weekend. new episode of "tucker carlson

today," featuring max stevens. and of course more than anything, we hope you have a restful weekend away from the chaos and lunacy but the ones you love. we will be back at 8:00 p.m. on monday night. guess who's next? you know the answer. sean hannity. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to "hannity." disturbing news from europe. u.s. defense officials now believe that a russian invasion of ukraine is imminent, or in the words of joe biden, a minor incorrigible happen. anyway, it looks like maybe next week this could happen. the biden administration is now telling americans to evacuate immediately, but they are all so