>> jesse: and we are very inspired by your president. and we aring it going to continue to send those weapons and gets them to you any way possible thank you very much. >> thank you so much. >> jesse: that's all for us tonight. tucker carlson is up next. and we will have live coverage at 8:55 of the state of the union. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson. joe biden begins his annual state of the union address. imagine if he dared to be honest. what would he say? what is the state of our union. it is fragile, very fragile. the united states is poor. it is more free phobic it is far less free than it was when president biden took over. joe biden inherited a very divided country and proceeded to

make it much angrier. history will judge joe biden for that. biden's numbers have dropped to at that point it is impossible to explain them without admitting that you are at fault. much as the white house suggests otherwise, it is pretty much everyone who lives here apart from the bitter 50 something-year-old wives. and they still of biden. everyone else has second thoughts and that includes many americans who once supported joe biden, hispanic voters, and often a lot of black men. disliking joe biden, maybe the single think that unites this country. it is a rainbow coalition of disdain. so that is what biden is up against tonight. how does he explain his failures? the answer is mostly he does not. biden is guaranteed to make sympathetic nose is about inflation and gases prices those gas prices.

he also has no answers. you cannot fix the problems that he has caused. thankfully it from his perspective and we are preparing you. this is very cynical. biden now has a more to talk about. the white house understands the invasion of ukraine is a chance to change the subject. that is what "bloomberg news" described as a political reset. forget what biden did to your country. joe biden is winston churchill now. and vladimir putin is the one who is brain-damaged. we are going to hear a lot of debt how much of it can you believe? some of it is true. biden or putin really did invade ukraine. that really is bad. pick-and-pop is invasion to destabilize europe. we could end up at war with europe and that could be a legitimate disaster for public that is what we know for certain. but beyond that in the realm of any other detail, our advice is

be very wary of what you hear. there is an awful lot of line going on comfort unprecedented amount of lying. for this war the humanitarian tragedy. that we know. the work is also a political event that various groups including in this country are leveraging feverishly in the hope of gaining more power themselves. that is real. so to gain that power, the ark manipulating you and your doing it in ways that are often hidden and highly insidious and we would say immoral. much of the information about the work that you are ingesting has been treated by the -- and by the intel agencies by the time it reaches your iphone. some of it is vague. so the question is, how do you know the difference? how do you know when you are being manipulated? in our case, we always start with retired colonel doug mcgregor. unlike so many of the tv gen z

you see, all day long, mcgregor is not -- unlike so many of the so-called reporters you see on television, he is not acting secretly as a land at the pentagon. no, doug mcgregor is an honest man. we will start with a conversation with doug mcgregor about what is going on in ukraine. thank you for joining us. first question is, where are we now? we keep hearing these reports coming into capital city. the big picture, where is the war? >> doug: the first five days, we witnessed a very slow, methodical movement. that is in ukraine. ukraine on the eastern side of this river called -- they moved slowly, cautiously. they tried to reduce casualties among the population and tried to get as many ukrainian troops and forces as possible. that is over. and the days we find ourselves

no, russian forces have now maneuvered to encircle and surround the remaining ukrainian forces and destroyed them. off for a series of massive artillery strikes, airstrikes, with russian armor slowly but surely closing the distance and annihilating what is left. this is the beginning frankly of the end of ukrainian resistance. >> tucker: sold the ugly stuff is just beginning. >> doug: yes. >> tucker: this is a question that is essential to our welfare here in united states. thinking about this, what is putin toughest goal here? what is his aim? >> doug: i think vladimir putin set out to honor his word in 2007. he said, we will not tolerate the expansion of nato into a point clearcoat you are nato, your border is touching rusher. specifically ukraine and

georgia. we see these as essentially trojan horses for nato's military power and u.s. influence subversion and so forth. he then turned to several upper opportunities -- other opportunities. most recently with president biden in the hopes that he could avoid taking action to effectively clean out eastern ukraine of any opposition forces whatsoever. and to put his forces in a position vis-à-vis nato to deter us from any further attempts to influence or change ukraine and effectively applied -- for the projection of u.s. and western power into russia. now his goal as we see at the moment is to seize the entire area of eastern ukraine. that is very clear. near kiev that he has moved and is preparing to go in and captured that city entirely. and that point, he has to decide what else she wants to do.

i don't think he wants to go any further? i think he would be very satisfied. about he would like whatever emerges from this that we call ukraine, whether it is just the western side or it encompasses some of the east and west of ukraine. to be neutral. not aligned and preferably at least to moscow. that he will accept. anything short of that his -- waste of time. >> tucker: how should that unites states respond at this point? >> tucker: i think president biden and his national security adviser have given some indication of their readiness to accept something like that. they are not going to have any choice. theater they accept it or they may put him in the position of having to do more then he would like to do which would probably not go down but with nato. no one wants russian forces on their border. so i think sullivan and biden will essentially tell zelensky if he is still the president at the click and if you still

running any semblance in the nutrient government, if he is still there, he is going to be told, accept the deal. go neutral. because there really is now choice. >> tucker: you are hearing elements in the next is congress. it is almost unanimous in the media, calling on biden admission to enforce so-called no-fly zone over ukraine. what would be the effect of that? >> doug: you would in app in what with russia. -- end up in war with russia. the sector general of nato flew to poland to stop the polls from offering. 29 -- make 29 aircraft -- control their craft. he said anything like that could lead to war and nato will not go to war. this is the interesting part. now everyone is talking about

spending lots of money on defense and lots of money for nato. very shortly people are going to be asking why. why are we doing this? because nato is not in a position to fight or challenge questions. i think mr. biden's problem is not just his narrative is going to break down very rapidly over the next few days. it becomes obvious that this is a fantasy of his part. he is going to tried to write checks that he can't cash because we can't afford a massive military -- we can't afford to put more forces forward and if we try to do it, it will be self-defeating. i think we are in a crisis not that no one has really figured out yet and that is nato itself and our position on the european continent. all of this is now at risk. >> tucker: i think a lot of people were taken by surprise by this inpatient. i was also. experts on eastern europe. the president and his team set for weeks in effect we got some

under control. we have applied enough pressure. it would be very -- to do this. that was a massive miscalculation obviously. how did they screw up? >> doug: two things. i think mr. putin has placed in the cost. in other words, he is not people. he sat down with xi in beijing. and i think he got the conditions he wanted from xi. because he knew what we would try to do to him. >> tucker: we just created a real alliance between russia and china. if there is one. >> tucker: there's a strategic partner, there's no question about it. all of the routes to europe. china want to do business with

your pop up that is why the chinese would like mr. putin to end this quickly. slowing these down because he wanted to minimize damage to property and he wanted to minimize the loss of life in the population that he was trying to bring into a new ukraine that is russia. he is essentially discarded -- >> tucker: i want to be clear on disappointment because a lot of hands on it. so many of our leaders have gotten rich from russia. joe biden's family, pelosi's family, pick one. putin would not have been able to do what he did without the support of china some would say. >> doug: i think that is absolutely true. if china had not reassured him, we would stay the course with you, i doubt seriously he would be doing this now. >> since everyone is an outrage motive i wondered why china is not included in their outbreaks. >> doug: that is an important question that deserves a great answer.

i will -- i will not go there tonight. >> tucker: doug macgregor, a man you can believe. we appreciate it. thank you. we got a fox news alert for you. there is apparently some movement in ashington. president biden is moving to the capital building for the state of the union address. at this hour, explosions and sirens continued across the capitol of kiev. the latest footage coming out of ukraine. >> reporter: good evening. we see escalation across this country today. not only here into f-uppercase-letter keep but also the second largest city where they slammed into a government administrative building on a big square killing at least six people and injuring many others. looking apocalyptic in that first -- asked first responders tried to look for survivors but it was not just in these large populations, but also more rural

areas, in the southern part of ukraine. warehouse fire at a furniture factory and the second part of that country and all of these coming together at the russian -- as the russian offensive appears to be expanding outside of military targets also hitting some residual areas. we saw in kyiv to take at that ukraine and k-uppercase-letter tv terror that was targeted. five people there, according to the local health ministers. this all really bubbling up at the same time. as ukrainian president and 15 is asking the west for more defensive weapons in the form of stinger missiles and even antiaircraft batteries to repel these sorts of attacks. the last attack came in the southern part of the country where shelving increased near from -- crimea. there was a woman. i want you to hear what she has to say.

[non-english speech] >> trey: you can hear some frustration from people as these attacks continue to take place and here in the capital of kyiv a curfew and there are four points across that city. tucker? >> tucker: be careful. trey yingst, thank you. the president appears to be moving or about to depart for the state of that union moving to the capitol building. police have reinstalled the fence around the capital. it went up after january 6th. we have to latest report on what that city is like tonight. happened? >> reporter: capitol hill police have brought back that decades they evicted in the wake of the protest on january the sixth. federal authorities now claim that they expect a trucker can't pick to converge here in the nation's capitol. and so that is the reasoning for. once again directing the barricade. to be shortcut the return of the

barricades is an unwelcome reminder of what many critics labeled a gross overreaction to events of the capitol back in january. one that may have lasted for months. it is back again and so are national guard personnel around the country. that does not include the state of florida. ron desantis denied mr. biden's request for truth noting that last year, his guardsmen were forced lots all for a "regime spectacle." it is one way to describe what we are seeing here in the nation's capital on the state of the union night unlike any we have seen today definitely before. >> tucker: kevin clark, thanks so much. >> kevin: you bet. >> tucker: we said that the president will speak about ukraine to some great extent and of course, he will. from american airports or whatever. it is not the only thing he is going to talk about because he

has no choice but inflation is increasingly a feature of life in this country. prices are rising faster than they have been 40 years. gas prices are higher than they have been in a decade. but today, nancy pelosi is completely is -- insulated from any economic variation whatsoever. for her family gotten rich from china, told us we should not be worried because joe biden feels your pain. >> speaker pelosi: concerns about paying the bills, food, rent, children, retirement, whatever it is. at the same kind of issues that keep people up at night. and effect of opinion as to what the estate of that nation is. but there's no one more empathetic than joe biden. there's no one who cares more. we are so blessed that he is present at this time. >> tucker: nancy pelosi and joe biden have -- when was the

last time you were at the kitchen table? decades, anyone? anyone? we will -- they will say anything they feel they need to see. matt ryan will say -- that is why we are happy to have him in the studio. the hyenas in that media, people who encouraged conflict that will -- but whether it is -- blm rights or -- telling you that you should be much more concerned about what is happening in eastern europe which i will say is tragic. a lot of tragedies here one of them for a lot of americans is being a lot poorer than they expected. how does joe biden address the degradation of the american economy over the last few months? >> he can't. they are fully committed to these policies. these -- this is intentional. bad monetary policy with that

energy policy. and i think what he will try to do tonight is blame the ukrainian situation on increased energy prices when that is a live among many of the lies that i think will be told tonight. screwed oil double in price under joe biden protect natural gas increased by 75%. weeks before russia invaded. this is all due to bad energy policy. i think people try to say that his climate bill is somehow anti-inflation, which is absolutely ludicrous. that will save the american family $500 a year and the fine print in 2030. the american people deserved really now. they both get it from the biden administration. i told people, if you want to know how this is going to play out, look at germany. germany tried this 20 years ago. in 2,000. they said, we will committed to this. they spent 600 billion. and the german people are paying twice as much for electricity

now. and by the way, they are having to actually get 55% of their natural gas from russia. the biden approach is, let's increase our energy prices. there are no real solutions in any of these plans. >> tucker: you point out, that thread is driven so much in this. they have printed so much money. they are like scrooge mcduck. by definition, worthless. why doesn't anyone say that? >> ned: we have been throwing free money out of helicopters. 1.9 trillion on the covert relief plan. how did this happen? it is pretty obvious how it happened. they had no solution. i keep on going back to talk about, i'm conflicted. is this the count showed led by an imbecile? if you truly hate america, would you anything differently? >> tucker: -- not an imbecile. she is not stupid.

it does short of ocean sort of thing that way. in the end and i think people -- i'm upset watching the images out of ukraine. they are horrible, watching civilians suffered. that is horrible no matter what that war. you got to think over time, maybe next week, people will say, yeah, that is so sad. i'm not sure we can fix it. what about our country? when does that start to reemerge? >> ned: that is why donald trump won in the first plate. does place. he said, we should focus on the american people. i think the establishment has decided, we don't care. the american people are not a priority for the ruling class, whether it is trade, immigration, foreign policy. >> tucker: so when he says, a hot war with russia, what you're telling me, it is, i don't care about this country at all. >> ned: and when i say that

the ruling class, it is both republicans and democrats. >> tucker: i, not degree space a great more. >> ned: prioritizing the american people. and now they are -- and until the american first -- get back into the common sense approach, energy, immigration, i think you will see more of these trends. >> tucker: it would not take anything medical at all. >> ned: you will see a rise in common sense. i think the american people have had enough. if you see 23% with independents. the american people are waking up and going text we don't think you have that solutions. that is what america first is. >> tucker: moderate, reasonable, pro-human. it is not hard. it is not hard. i appreciate it. thank you. tonight, the president is expected to count his nomination of brown jackson to the supreme court.

that is not how he found her on the piece is -- every american wants to believe that supreme court nominees are the most qualified. that is embedded in our dna. we want that. but biden did not even start there. he said, i'm going to pick it someone based on appearance. how should we feel about that. judging charlie is a legal scholar. he joins us. thanks so much for coming on. i don't think -- logical in the slightest or i don't even know what your politics are. is this the way that a president ought to picked up single most important appointee of his presidency? >> no, not the way he did it. you know, this is -- it is really striking how unnecessary this was, how unprecedented was and how unfair was to nominees. you know? he could have said like past presidents have said that he

would like an african-american or kick a woman on the court. but he expressly said he would consider no one else except people that fit that threshold criteria. and many in the press have misrepresented history on this. he said previous presidents did that. that is not true. reagan, trump, bush, that they cite, all the shortlists that are diverse. he stated their intention to find people to diversified the court. but they did not do this threshold exclusion. and what is ironic about it is that you could not do this type of threshold exclusion if you were a school or a business, a supreme court declared that unconstitutional or unlawful. but no, that reason it is unfair to judge jackson has been a accomplished journalist stellar reputation. she did not deserve this. and i think she would have been

on the shortlist. without the type of threshold criteria. >> tucker: i think everything is it is not only reasonable but consistent with the american ethic. in every way. you said that in a column and i believe you were and i should just point out what is obvious to viewers or not. you were attacked for at this? >> jonathan: well, i have gotten a lot of criticism. you know, i'm just commenting about this nomination. i because she is a trial court judge for example, her many opinions are very useful in judging her judicial philosophy. trial judges, the court of appeals, the vast majority of those columns are so difficult -- i'm sorry, of those opinions are the difficult things you get on the trial court. they result in similar issues related to cases. and that left that many of just

work resurface insane couple how dare you. she has a lot of experience. something that i readily accepted. the fact is that we don't know a lot about her judicial philosophy. there are only a few of these opinions where she delves deeply into these issues. she'd the client to answer the question when her whether she followed the type of living constitutional approach. of many of the left. and she said that reason she would do that is it would not be appropriate because she has to follow the methodology of the supreme court. it was odd. you know? you can follow the president of the supreme court. you can pass nominees -- including justice, discussed it at length. we will see how this unfolds in the confirmation process and how much we can learn about her view of judicial interpretation. >> tucker: you got to -- look,

i don't know her. i want to think that best because she will likely be on the supreme court. if a president -- the president said, i'm looking for a white guy between 50 and 60 for the supreme court, donovan turley, what you feel -- what you accept that job or what you feel too patronized? >> jonathan: i think that is part of the problem here because she did not deserve this. she earned a right to be on the short list. she has a very accomplished declan. many think that world of her and this was done in a primary debate when biden was told by cleburne that he wanted him to make this. he walked out and made it. he did not say, i intend to look for an african-american woman. he instead said, i'm only going to consider an applicant american woman. that is -- african-american

woman. that is when many of us, went, that is different. >> tucker: jonathan turley, thank you for your analysis. i appreciate it. we think joe biden is about to emerge from the dork and drive to the capitol to give the state of that union. he will declare a new war on terror. he already has get this one directed against the american citizen. he will not mention matthew the 37-year-old man from pennsylvania who walked inside the u.s. capitol building. police ushered him in. he did not break anything. he did not damage any property. he did not her anyone. he should not have been there. but you judge. that crime, joe biden's doj -- counted for more than a year. finally committed suicide think you can read his obituary online if you feel like crying because it is that is at billy kelly knows his family.

she joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. this is one of the saddest stories i have read and a long time. it seems like this guy was ushered in by cops, it should not have been there. he did not do anything else, did he? >> julie: he got caught up into this crowd in the capitol. there were capitol police officers right there in the doj. he did not have a weapon. he did not -- he did not vandalized any property for that over the past 13 months, he has been tormented not just by this justice department by the dc district court and of course, the news media. national and local news media. 's family said that he died of a broken heart. he was betrayed by the country that he loved, treated unfairly and -- into justice system which he was. your point that he finally pleaded guilty to obstructing of

official proceeding. three trespassing charges, two of which are based on a lie about kamala harris. he thought he would spend may be a few months in prison. this doj and wanted to throw the book at him and have him spent years in prison for spending about 20 minutes in that u.s. capitol committing note violent crime, doing nothing wrong except being a trunk supporter. >> tucker: and now he is dead. in that republicans -- they meet occasionally to get there. one member burst into tears talking about the sadness of watching people die in ukraine. i'm not mocking him. i'm wondering how many republican members have shed tears over this main's unnecessary death. >> julie: i have only heard from two republican congress people asking me about what happened to matthew perna. his family is absolutely devastated. this did not have to happen.

this is a broader problem. this is destroying thousands of lives. matthew perna was driven to edge when he said he could be in prison. college graduate, it had a job, loving son, patriotic american. was a bernie sanders supporter before trump. ultimately, now these people have blood on their hands. >> tucker: does liz cheney care? we could ask her. we are grateful that you can. julie kelly, thank you. >> julie: thanks, tucker. clement fox news other. the head of the state of the union that reason military just outside kyiv. fox's bill will help us understand this. >> reporter: good to see you.

two stories i want to share with you, tucker. the status of the russian military. what are they taking? everything in red here. along that western order with russia here. they have taken that area. they have held this area. the same with crimea here. they have moved into the southern region and they have held these territories. they have not taken any major cities, but there's a battle in the southwest town. we are watching that. that is one story, tucker. the other one you mentioned, what is happening. this runs for i were. and it has not been running anywhere for the last few days. it has been stationary. and number of reasons we could point to. nobody really knows. let me show you what you are looking at here.

here's the capital here. this is about 20 miles direct flight there. into that city. everything you see north of there, tucker, this yellow lined this regent jigs and jags its way. that is 40 miles, okay? you got it? okay. do you want to pop in there? and listen? >> obviously joe biden is getting into presidential limousine. headed from the white house to the capitol. we are going back to bill hemmer. >> bill: on the hill, tucker. i want to finish this little thing here. this could be a big deal. this is where the entire works goes one way or the other. we don't know why this convoy is stalled. are the out of stock splits are they regrouping? work for the order to stop right here. we don't know. we know at that moment that that convoy would move on the capital

city of kyiv they will see devastation. we will see. two days, we have been waiting for this. and tucker, we do not know. >> tucker: no hamber, thanks so much for that. always appreciate the clarity. what is unknown, where this is going. we know the war in ukraine is a tragedy. it could be a historic disaster. our leaders don't seem too write about that. calling for a hot war with russia. seemed reckless? yes. it is insane. don't worry. kamala harris has been dispatched by the white house to keep things perfectly under control and she is an area expert but here she is on a radio show, explaining what is happening in that part happening in that part of the world. listen. >> break it down in layman terms what is going on and how this could affect the people of the united states. >> vice president harris: so

ukraine is a country in europe. it exists next to another country called russia. russia is a bigger country. russia is a powerful country. russia decided to invade eight smaller country called ukraine. so basically, that is wrong. >> tucker: katlin ahead does more in eastern , in the hat -- war in eastern europe. a former member of congress. and we are honored to have her. thanks so much for coming on. if you have been saying almost alone among people we have talked to the fore literally years that a conflict could become nuclear. are you satisfied that the people charged with preventing that disaster are capable of preventing that? >> not at all. i think this clip that we just heard is evident of that in a normal circumstance. that would be pretty funny to hear if the consequences were not so real.

if the consequences were not so serious. and vice president harris and president biden have said she plays a key role in decision-making in this white house. we have heard biden and now jill biden both referred to her as president. any time. and further pointing to the reality of how unqualified she and other in the administration are in this critical, where the world needs strong leadership, the world is facing this prospect of potential nuclear war and nuclear disaster. we are so far beyond the possibility of a new cold war. we are hard and fast in a new cold war with russia. and as you mentioned, there are many people on capitol hill and others who are pushing for us to turn that into a hard work which would propel us frequently towards that prospect of nuclear work between the two world nuclear powers. >> tucker: what is missing is

any real input from the citizens. soldier and the legislature. just described if you would, what is democracy exactly? we are supposed to be defending it. is occurring here. do we have. democratic process for going to war? "fox news primetime" think that right there is the heart of hypocrisy in everything that we are seeing here. you have the biden/clinton foreign policy leading this whole thing saying, we have to go and do this to promote or defend democracy abroad and yet it is their policies right here in-home that is undermining our. it is undermining our own freedom of speech and leaving the american people wondering, what is this all four? how does this serve the interest of our freedom of our national security and safety here at home? not once have i heard. and biden his administration address that cork an essential question of what are we trying to accomplish? and how does it serve the best interest of the united states of america and our people because

we are that once were going to pay the price, whether that be economically or that be through the x essential threat of nuclear war that we are freezing right now. >> tucker: if i'm a citizen and a taxpayer and an interested party, i wanted to party, i want to be able to read as wide a variety of sources of what is happening as i possibly can, not just ones that have a stamp of approval. but i can't. why is no one fighting back against that? >> representative gabbard: this is the problem. this administration, government, they have designated themselves as the sole authority who can safe, this is the information we big tech google, this is the information we want you to see and hear because this is what we deem as true and all this other information is what we deem as false and we will make sure you don't get access. we will make sure that you don't hear it. if you dare to challenge what we are putting forward to you put to you put the biden

administration and the department of homeland security both stick their -- sick their anti-domestic terrorism unit on you. you dared to challenge their authority and question the narrative and policies they've put forward and you will see more examples like we are already seeing of people like parents who care about their kids going to school boards and protesting being targeted as domestic terrorists. >> they've called you a traitor to your country while you are serving in the u.s. congress and the military. >> representative gabbard: to going to classified hearings. dealing with issues of great importance to our national security. why? for challenging their policy. >> tucker: to close this out, what advice would you give to our viewers who have sincere questions about where we are going when they are denounced as traitors to their country,. >> representative gabbard: to keep asking questions and keep exercising your right to free speech. if we do not take a stand and speak up now for each other and our country and our security, we

are at risk of losing it for forever. >> tucker: i find that really moving. thank you for saying that. tulsi gabbard. nancy pelosi has adopted a mask mandate and congress. fox's matt finn has that story for us. >> reporter: the health director and others hours ago that the county is expected to drop its indoor mask mandate and we have been required to show proof of vaccine and wear masks to the axis most bars and gyms. boston announced hours ago it will lift its indoor mask rule on saturday citing improving covid numbers. other major cities and states are also eating vaccine and mask mandates. you at -- new york city is masking its vaccine passports. statewide in new york, tomorrow will be the first day students can go to school without masks in nearly two years. california, oregon and washington announced their school mask mandates are also

eating soon. individual school districts and counties may still require masks. just a head coach president biden's state of the union address, that u.s. capital's position that masks will be optional. citing cdc guidance admitted 90% drop in covid cases nationwide. tucker? >> tucker: fox's matt finn with a rare good news story. thank you. joe biden will take multiple victory laps tonight. but the rest of us are wondering, how do we prevent these mask mandates and lockdowns? show your papers! from ever happening again in this, a free country? our next guest ward for a year and a half about the societal harms of regulations like this. here's dr. date -- dr. jay bhattacharya. >> they have been actually deadly.

the cdc found one in four young adults have seriously considered suicide which is an astronomically high number. it is mind bug alee the mind-boggling the cost. we should take the money we are spending to address covid and protect the vulnerable. >> tucker: to say something like that in 2020 as a physician, bravery. we are honored to be joined by dr. bhattacharya. thanks so much for coming on. i can't imagine the abuse that you took after you said that and that was not the only time you said that. you said it repeatedly. do you feel vindicated the lifting of these restrictions? >> dr. bhattacharya: it is sort of bittersweet. we have had a million deaths. and we have also had the harms of the lockdown and society has

been driven apart by these mask mandate, by all these restrictions this fearmongering. and i think it is a sad testament to how poorly it has performed in addressing eight pandemic like this. >> tucker: you know, i have to, in your answer, you begin by setting the death numbers and those seem to be under covered the whole point of this was to reduce the harms of the virus. if you get numbers that high, more in the second year of the pandemic and the first year, maybe that is just the most obvious evidence it does not work were has not work. >> dr. bhattacharya: yeah. i think the problem is we have had this scientific group with people like tony fauci and the head of the nih, they use the same playbook to create this illusion of consensus around their preferred policy. they did this with lock down calling me a french

epidemiologist marginalizing argument -- they did this with the words of the virus. it is a very strange way to go about trying to find all of the knowledge we can address a very serious problem, a pandemic, instead of trying to seek out outside voices and try to get good scientific discussion so you can find the best outcome, best way to deal with it. instead, they marginalize people on the outside and traded a doctorate response that has utterly failed. >> tucker: final question, has anyone apologized to you? it turns out you were right all along and braves to see it at a time. has anyone said, i'm really sorry about what i said to you? >> dr. bhattacharya: i have not had too many apologies. i have had folks reach out to thank me for speaking up and i think it is my job. i did not have a choice. i have been in epidemiology for

decades. if i do not speak up now, what is department of my career? >> tucker: i'm grateful that you did and you are willing to do publicly. great to see you. >> dr. bhattacharya: great to see you. >> tucker: today is the texas republican primary the gubernatorial race. polls have closed in most of the stayed. immigration is one of the top issues into this primary race. but several republicans are to unseat the city governor of texas, greg abbott. we don't. joe biden to save a lot about that. one of the most profound crimes ever committed by an american president. we are going to talk to rendered divine, who has been covering this part thanks for coming on. what -- if you were to poll people, what are the biggest problems, immigration is always at the top of the list.

what is biden going to say? >> miranda: hi, tucker. i would be surprised if he says anything, it is a black mark against his record. he is going to be talking a lot about ukraine's border. he won't be talking about america's border and we know that democratic politicians love having a war -- wall around their capitol went joe biden is giving his state of the union address but don't want to have a walt from stopping illegal migrants from invading the country. trying to break and illegally is an invasion in any one's language. and that is on joe biden. he has stated -- ceded control of the southern border to the cartels. people in the world and he has set off humanitarian crisis, with the poor people who have had to put themselves in the hands of and their children in the hands of these cartels.

and as well as the drug crisis. they are pouring over the southern border in record quantities. that is due to the unholy alliance of the cartels in china. it is the most racist thing that killed young americans. and so where is joe biden's fabled empathy now? >> tucker: such a good question. such a bitter question. when you phrase it with that kind of clarity, it makes your blood pressure oil. miranda devine, thank you so much. >> miranda: thanks, tucker. >> tucker: exactly the moment we need more information, not last. last line. not more. big tech has aligned with intel agencies to curate everything you learned about the war being fought in your name in ukraine and censor anyone who disagrees with them. senator mark warner has called

to sensor pro russia social media posts. and meanwhile the television network russia today is being censored all over the world. we found -- it might be interesting to know what the other side is saying. it might be good to have more information, not less. they have been -- happy to have him join us tonight. thanks so much for coming on the censorship seems very open without apology and it seems more at once but didn't maybe i have our it. >> glenn: definitely without any president. i mean, you probably recalled the days after 9/11 belmar was part because he said that he does not think 9/11 hijackers should be regarded as cowards. it takes courage to fly a plane into a building. there was a lot of sense even when we were attacked and that

immediate aftermath, maybe it is not a good idea for people to just be fired because it will create that atmosphere where no one can speak. it is worse. one of the things that has gotten overlooked is how closely aligned there are -- they are. they have huge contract with the pentagon, the cia, all kinds of other services and so often their censorship is purely aligned with u.s. foreign policy that i think is quite odious. >> tucker: there used to be -- you grew up in the united states as i did. we are roughly the same age. there was a sense that we are americans. we can read whatever we want. they banned books at libraries. what about that idea that as an american citizen, you have a right to read whatever of the hell you want? , 19 for the record, i am significantly younger than you. but i mean, i wondered that because you look one of the

first articles i ever wrote after i got into journalism was when the british historian was clinically convicted in austria for 2 things about the holocaust that were -- and i wrote an article about how all americans recoil because we have not -- have embedded the view that government should not be dictating what we can and can't say. 15 years later, there's almost -- there's very little of that ethos. certainly not as a consensus become so grateful for the first amendment because without it, i'm certain we would have all kinds of laws being enacted impairment the state not just a -- but to criminalize them as well. >> tucker: you would be imprisoned. we would be bringing you, you know, extra underarm deodorant. but it seems like they are getting around it by just employing their agents in the tech monopolies to crush free speech. >> glenn: one of the things

that i think has been very under notice is that of the past 18 months with the democrats got with their control in both houses in congress, have repeatedly summoned tech executives to congress and especially said to them, if you don't start censoring, you will suffer legal and regulatory reprisals. supreme court ruling that state that of course the first amendment stands -- bans the government from directly censoring to get bans the government from coercing private actors to sensor on their behalf. that is exactly what has been happening and is still happening with this war. >> tucker: horrifying. you have been one of the voices. i appreciate it. joe biden's state of the union address begins in just a few minutes. to bring us altogether to give us a sense of what has happened over the past 13 months, we close out with victor davis hanson of the hoover

institution. thanks so much for coming on. how would you sum up the estate of our union? >> victor: i think it has been one of the most catastrophic years. every single issue is not only proven to be ineffective or disastrous but the polls show that, whether it is the border or afghanistan or inflation or energy or critical race theory. key is in a dilemma because these are starting to have not only affects of systematic existential crisis here at home but they have national security consequences. you look at ukraine, he is in a dilemma. how could he tell that ukrainians that you have to have secure borders and defend them when he has no concern about our own borders or how can he tell that ukrainians we are here to help you. we are going to lober these petrol dollars that go into -- vladimir putin when he helped cancel the job on the east

mediterranean pipeline that would have brought natural gas to europe or he could -- i guess heath voluntarily destroyed 3 million barrels of u.s. production. how can you safe u.s. military deters russia. it always has. but we are suffering from the afghan disaster, the accumulation and the woke military and its fixations on white race. how can you organize the world that is very risky boycott and necessary boycott of russia when we are printing to entry -- $3 trillion a day and he wants to print more and we are in debt. in a perfect real world that he would do something like i guess the german chancellor or the swedes and he would have a maricopa and see -- mea culpa and say, we got to defend our borders. i don't think he can do that.

i think it will be incrementalism. it will be strategic petroleum reserve. the boogeyman. he will blame people. he is not going to address what has to be done because he is a hostage of the far left base. when the europeans showed more courage than he does, we are in real trouble. >> tucker: shouldn't he include an apology tonight to the country? >> victor: i would. i would say, i made a terrible error. you can't hit your home tonight. and i cut federal leases. i canceled keystone. i was wrong. i'm sorry about the u.s. military. the main directive is to keep you safe. not white rage and not climate change and we will never have another afghanistan and i'm

sorry i'm printing money because we are not in a financial position to put the screws on russia by denying them the energy markets and i'm really, really sorry that i left the border open because that eroded the credibility that i have on borders and the need for every country to have secure borders. we are destroying those i would apologize to this effect but we knew he was on the border in november and we see this column sitting there 42 miles long. if you really want to deter him, why didn't you send thousands of -- in november and december and january? why is everyone now saying we got to do it? it is because we lack leadership. as i said earlier to take measures to stop putting. it is much better to be quiet and carry a big stick then to be loud and obnoxious with a -- we are going to get more of the

blame game and everything is good and incrementalism and it is tragic. it really is because these domestic disasters now have policy ramifications overseas for every existence and future. we got to correct it. >> tucker: victor davis hanson, thank you for that. joe biden's state of the union address right now. ♪ ♪ >> we are minutes away from president biden's first state of the union address. it is always a big moment here in washington. the president deals with major challenges from the war in ukraine to inflation and crime at home. good evening. i am read. >> the president is in the capitol building. he is ready to deliver the big speak -- speech that he hopes can be a reset for an administration that has faced challenges. over the course of the last