myself. a text from paul: are they going to make air force 1 an electric plane? i think we should challenge biden to do that, you know. maybe put his money where the mouth is all right. that's it for us. tucker carlson suspect next and always remember, i'm watters and this is my world. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." you may have noticed that joe biden announced today a new front in his ongoing war against america's middle-class. biden didn't frame it that way, of course. democrats rarely say with a mean. they tell you it's about something else. in this case, biden told us it was about latimer putting. biden explained that we are going to hurt putin by making it illegal for americans to buy russian energy. this, he said, will amount to a

massive moral victory, we are going to feel great about ourselves. and at the same time it will be a crushing defeat for the russians, who of course deserve it. it's one of those rare occasions when we could see the good guys win and the bad guys lose. hooray! around washington you could almost hear the feverish applause as biden finished speaking. every constituency loved it. the media agreed that joe biden had never seemed more presidential. democratic officials seem deeply relieved. for one, they can talk about something other than covid of the southern border, they would rather be on offense and defense. republican readers, meanwhile, seems happiest of all. they barked like seals. finally a chance to sound tough and decisive without making cnn angry. thank you, joe biden! we can all be john mccain now! you rarely see unity like this in a city is divided as washington. the unity was so heavy in fact, so delightful and intoxicating, that no one remembered to ask the most basic western. why exactly are we doing this? what's the point?

is the point to bankrupt latimer put in? that might be worth doing, but this won't do it. putin already has ready markets around the world for his oil starting in china and india and turkey, so that's not going to work. maybe the point is to force russian troops to withdraw from ukraine. that would definitely be worth doing. but no, that's not the point either. joe biden will typically say absolutely anything, but even joe biden didn't claim to that sanctioning russian oil will end the war in ukraine, because it won't. so who exactly are these sanctions aimed at? think about it. if you want to identify the target of a penalty, consider who's going to suffer most from it. and in this case, the answer could not be clearer, it's middle income americans. if they are the ones who were crushed under covid restriction's, they are the ones who are about to be pummeled by more energy enforcements. if not vladimir putin who is going to get punished, it's american citizens, it's you.

it's not speculation. gas prices are already the highest they have ever been in history, and they are about to get even higher, potentially much, much higher. so the price of natural gas and electricity and food and everything else you buy that has to be transported more than 100 yards from where it was made, which is to say every single thing in your life. this is not good news for you, no matter what washington is currently claiming. you are about to get a lot poorer, that's guaranteed. you'll notice as you watch this clip that that is the one thing that somehow joe biden forgot to mention today. >> president biden: today i'm announcing the united states is targeting the main artery of russia's economy. we are banning all imports of russian oil and gas and energy. that means russian oil will no longer be accepted at u.s. ports and the american people will deal another powerful blow to putin's war machine. it is simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production. that is simply not true.

>> tucker: so lying by omission is pretty simple, you just don't mention the truth. you heard biden do that just there, but it takes something else very different, whether it's chutzpah or delusion or senility to explain biden's behavior. it takes something like that to tell a lie like you to start at the end of his statement. "it is simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back to mystic energy production." oh, but it simply is true. it's demonstrably true and everyone knows it. on his first an office biden single handily killed the keystone xl pipeline. then just days before russia invaded ukraine, weirdly, biden administration shutdown all new energy leases and permits on federal land. that happened. vladimir putin did not do that, joe biden did it. watch biden's publicist try to explain that actually preventing domestic energy production, which they have done, is very different from holding back domestic energy production. here she is. >> let me give you the facts

here, and i know that can be inconvenient but i think they are important in this moment. we have been clear that in the short term supply we must keep up with the demand. we are -- here and around the world we make the shift to clean energy future, where one of the largest producers with a strong domestic oil and gas industry. we have actually produced more oil. it is at record numbers, and we will continue to produce more oil. there are 9,000 approved drilling permits that are not being used, so the suggestion that we are not allowing companies to drill is inaccurate. the suggestion that that is what is hindering or preventing gas prices to come down is inaccurate. >> tucker: let me give you the facts here. when they say that, you know the lies are coming and indeed in this case they arrived promptly. because oil companies have not used all the permits they received, jen psaki told us, that means this is their fault, they are not trying hard enough to produce energy. they could, but they don't want

to. but wait a second, jen psaki! what if there's no oil or gas underneath the permitted land. in that case, energy producers would want permits for land where the energy is. turns out they don't want dry wells, they want wells that flow. but they are not getting them thanks to the green new deal lobby that completely controls the sadness ration. they can't get those permits. and that's what's happening here, and if you doubt it, ask anyone who works in the energy business. jen psaki just lied to you. they are all lying to you. you probably guessed that already, but you can't say it, because if you wonder what these policies may be doing to your country or to your family, you are selfish and disloyal. in fact you are unpatriotic because real patriotism is carrying about -- caring about ukraine first. and by the way, caring about ukraine means prolonging a bloodied war in ukraine until the entire country of ukraine has been destroyed and millions of ukrainians are refugees. we know we can do it because we

did it in iraq. we can do it in ukraine. that's patriotism. once you spell it out at all sounds kind of come look at it so we are going to handed over to to our late-night moral leader stephen colbert to explain. >> today the average gas price in america hit an all-time record high of over $4 per gallon. okay. that stings, but a clean conscience is worth a buck or two. [applause] i'm willing to pay... it's important. >> it's important. >> i'm willing to pay $4 a gallon, hell, i will pay $15 a gallon, because i drive a tesla. >> tucker: it turns out a guy who makes $60 million a year is willing to pay a little more for gas if that's the right thing to do. he's willing to make that sacrifice. because that's the kind of caring, decent man stephen colbert is. you just heard he doesn't actually use gasoline, he drives $150,000 electric car, but he will do it anyway.

he's the kind of man who will take you out to dinner and let you pay, and at the end he will let you leave a big tip because he cares about the server. sometimes as stephen colbert reminds us, life is about making tough moral choices, and that's especially true now. is it the end of this project, this protracted exercise and social reorganization achieved through covid, plus a war with russia -- if at that point, whenever it is, we know longer have a self-sufficient middle-class, if people make under 100 grand a year or more desperate and demoralized and dependent on government and they've ever been, if the only americans who remain truly free at that point are the oligarchs, well, at least we can say we helped democracy. when mark zuckerberg controls everything in america you will know it's a truly democratic system. justin trudeau understands this. he ran over members of his middle-class with horses because that's what it took to preserve democracy in canada. and that he went further, he sees their bank accounts and then he shut down a coffee shop that serve people who didn't

vote for him. that's what democracy looks like. elizabeth warren was excited when she saw this kind of democracy at work. warren knows that if we are going to preserve democracy in america, if we are going to fight russia, and elizabeth warren is going to meet fingertip control of your family's finances now and always. and by the way, don't try and hide anything from elizabeth warren, say, in cryptocurrency, because if you do, elizabeth warren will know you're working for blood and rebooting. >> as i mentioned earlier we are going after two things, trying to squeeze the russian economy and also trying to squeeze those oligarchs, right? the problem is we're doing that only through the formal banking system, and we are doing a good job on that and that is very effective, it's historic, i'm 100% behind it, but there's a hole in -- the whole is crypto. in other words, you've got to pick it, crypto, if you want to continue to trade and provide the trading platforms and so one, the wallets. you could do business in russia or you can do business in

united states but you can't do business in both. >> tucker: here's an idea: let's keep dumb people and crazed partisan demagogues away from our financial system and our power grid. they can keep a sociology department -- have fun -- but why don't you stay away from the fundamentals that keep the country running, how does that sound? that was the arrangement for decades but no longer. you must admit to total personal control by responsible lunatics like elizabeth warren or you can serve russia. as she put it, "you can't do business in both." and by the way, you better not complain about this. good americans love higher gas prices, they love suffering for a because they don't understand. cnn looked into it and that's what they found. watch. >> people we've spoken to over the last couple of weeks, they are okay paying higher prices if it means holding russia accountable for what they are doing in ukraine. but these prices are likely going to creep higher.

>> tucker: turns out americans are delighted to be poor and helpless. they love it. because poverty means holding russia accountable. not putin's poverty. that's not going to happen. your property. how exactly does your property hold putin accountable? cnn didn't ask that question, but the polling company did ask, they ask this question. "if a wider war breaks out in europe, should the u.s. monetary be involved"? pretty subquestion. the answer was not simple though. the answer varied by income. this may not surprise you. the people who actually fight our wars, the people making under 30 grand a year, were overwhelmingly opposed to this war. only 37% of them supported military action. and then it changed going up. the richer, more cut off from physical reality people got the more ardently they supported war with russia and it turns out that's the subset you see. those of the people on television, the people with fake jobs and inherited money, they are totally for it and they are for it because they are going to

pay no costs but they still seem virtuous about promoting it. and then it will tune into stephen colbert at night with a clean heart. as for the americans who will the actual fighting and on the suffering here at home, they don't count. because in a democracy you can safely ignore the middle-class and so our leaders are doing that. watch. >> the truth is we should be thinking about the fact that what americans go to the -- fill up their cars, that they should think about sticking it to putin when they put that gas handle and the gas in your gas tank, it's going to cost a little more and part of it will be because of russia and just stick it to putin. >> here in america we got to be ready for the fact that will drive up oil prices, that will drive up gas prices. and if we are student dominic early standing with ukraine we have to be prepared to absorb that. >> ban all russian imports into the united states in terms of oil and gas, 4% of our oil supply comes from russia.

we can easily make that up, so what we haven't done yet is go after oil and gas sector in russia. that's the achilles' heel to putin's war machine. >> tucker: they don't care about you at all. they have complete contempt for you and your interests. they don't even bother to apologize to you for what they're about to do to you and your family, which will change your life. we are not overstating it. who are they? the first two menus on the montage were democrats, and then lindsey graham, we will let you decide what he is, other than utterly loathsome, obviously. we have to tell you that virtually every elected republican in washington, d.c., is fully on board with this, which is another way of saying they are totally committed to screwing their own suppose it constituency, which would be america's shrinking, desperate middle-class. those are the people who vote republican and this is what they get in return. no apology. shafted. it's hard to remember a betrayal at this scale, and yes, we have

been here before, by the way. we've been in conflict with russia for a long time. the united states traded with the russians through the height of the cold war. when the soviet union and the united states had nuclear weapons pointed at each other and we were worried one might go off. we traded with joseph stalin in the middle of his terror at the very moment he was murdering 4 million, yes, ukrainians. that happened. and then we armed stalin, we armed the soviet army as he was killing ukrainians in "the new york times" endorsed all of it. but now, because putin invaded ukraine, effectively encouraged by the biden administration to do that, which is true, because that happened, we are going to send billions of dollars to the saudi theocracy and then to the iranians and nicolas maduro in venezuela, and at the same time where going to embrace green energy which means giving government of china complete control over our power grid here in america. that's our plan. are you confused by? don't me. it's a moral victory. let us know when you get tired

of winning. joins us tonight. john, thanks so much for coming on. so my questions. the first is are not an economist like you, i don't see how this crushes vladimir putin. no one is even pretending it will because the withdrawal of troops from ukraine. i'll be open-minded. it won't. so what is the purpose here? do you know? >> as you well know it's not lost on you that war is always everywhere. we had this humanitarian disaster occurring over there for the russian people and the ukrainian people and the elites won't suffer it in russia. in united states we have a biden administration staffed by individuals who will never suffer the pain of the pump, who will never suffer higher grocery prices, who are actively getting in the way of the ability of the american people to trade with others overseas, to import certain goods and services and so basically we have a scenario whereby government expands its power always and everywhere at the expense of the american

people and certainly during wars. wars are the oxygen for the state and its growth. >> tucker: that is so true. wars are engines of change, so if you have designs on changing a country's structure, its economic and social structure, a war is the perfect engine to leverage to get that done. am i making this up in my mind or is that the lesson of history? >> no. the lesson of history is very clear, that the war is the engine of the states growth for expanding its power to do things, to do things that it couldn't do in otherwise-troubled times. in this case we have a president who wants to change the subject about his policies, about his presidency so far, so here's the opportunity to take massive control over where american companies trade, where individuals trade. we can talk about big business, small business, but it employs a lot of people and so ask yourself the question, suddenly so many businesses are pulling out their activities in russia. does that hurt or help the typical american worker? i submit to you that hurts the

typical american worker. >> tucker: will sure. this is the same rhetoric we heard after george floyd died, another sad event that was real. the invasion of ukraine is real, it's very sad but they told us we are doing this to help black people. i don't notice baltimore getting better or detroit getting better at all. i noticed the people who forced the change getting more powerful and richer. why is that not the same thing that's going on now? are we really helping ukrainians? seriously. >> of course we are not helping the ukrainians. what about this helps the ukrainian people? we are hearing about we are going to cut off russian exports to the united states in terms of gasoline. as you pointed out, the gasoline market and the oil market is a global market. the very notion that we can starve the russians by saying you can't sell here, the gas is going to flow, the oil is going to flow somewhere, and so it is pure symbolism that makes it apparent that biden is doing something when in fact all he's doing is expanding his footprint, his control of the american economy. when has that ever worked in history that you give the state more power over the massive

miracle and complication that is economic activity? it's never worked, and it won't work this time. >> tucker: i think that's really smart. we are going to hurt the other guy. no, they are going to hurt you and republicans are going along with it. someday we will rea their names because they deserve to be punished for their betrayal. great to see you tonight, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: the biden administration's solution to rising gas prices is you should be stephen colbert, why don't you have a $150,000 electric car? what's wrong with you? that's pete buttigieg's solution. here he is. >> clean transportation can bring significant cost savings for the american people as well. last month we announced the $5 billion investment to build up a nationwide electric vehicle charging networks of people from rural to suburban to urban communities can all benefit from the gas savings with driving ev. >> tucker: imagine being someone who makes under 100 grand a year and having to watch that character sneer at you on television, patronage, someone

who's never done anything in his life, no discernible skills of any kind, telling you you've got to change your life and it will be better, learn to code. kc hundreds and has watched that menopause for long time, radio host in south bend. thanks so much for joining us tonight. why don't you stop whining and buy a tesla? >> well, yeah. they don't even want you to buy a tesla because the tax credit doesn't even go to tesla, it only goes to uaw, and electric vehicles really suck in the snow. it's very cold here in michiana, the south bend region, and if you are a farmer, shouldn't he know that, tucker? is from a farming state. you kind of live far away from civilization and electric vehicles make that a problem, don't think you make >> tucker: so yet -- i mean, most farms are enormous, they are owned by big companies and are complete mechanized is an understatement, so all those farm vehicles are going to be powered by... by what?

by batteries? what is the food come from? >> and the farmers have a lot of debt. they pay a lot of money for their equipment. they don't need to be going out there and buying even more extensive things that don't work in the snow and don't work in the sticks and don't work very well in the mud so that way they can get to the store where they can pay more for food and more for their basic daily supplies and necessities that pete buttigieg doesn't have to worry about because he gets a lot of money into cushy government job. >> tucker: of so mckenzie was that i want to be her financial advisor and which attracts record and if they. you can't be my financial advisor. you can be my friend but you can't be my financial advisor. this pete buttigieg have any achievement that you're aware of the qualifies him to change our energy grid for all time? >> there's nothing in pete buttigieg's resume that says he's successful at anything other than running away from problems. that's what hazel was done and that's what he's done is transportation secretary that's what we warned everybody would happen and that's exactly what

his record as transportation secretary has been. it's good to know that the brief people in los angeles like stephen colbert who are super rich it's great to know they can afford $150,000 electric car but if you're struggling to buy four and $5 a gallon gas, you can't buy that expensive electric car. >> tucker: they don't care but the population. if you treated your kids the way they treat americans, your kids would be in rehab. appreciate you coming on tonight. >> is the political class versus all of us. >> tucker: that is clearly what's going on. thank you. a fox news alert for you. new video into fox news just a few moments ago, it shows big explosions in the sky over ukraine. hard to know exactly what's happening, so the best ways to check in with our team on the ground. chris tomlinson and benjamin hall, we will go first to bend home, what you see? >> yeah. across the past day we've seen an increasing shelling around where we are in kyiv, the sense that they really are moving towards the capital city now,

some people saying it could happen, and assault, far sooner than people had previously thought. they were waiting for that tonight, and as you said, big explosions across the country from the north to the east to the south. humanitarian aid struggles to get to the places it's needed and people struggle to get out. take a look at this one explosion that we just -- that has just come online now. >> meanwhile, shortly before him and it's an in convoy managed to get about 3500 people, 21 civilians were killed in a single attack on the city, rescuers desperate we trying to find survivors there were in the rubble of a collapsed building. in similar scenes as 27 civilians were killed. russia has also had a number of critical infrastructure targets today, pipelines, cell phone towers, and this oil depot in

the region which led to a huge blaze. putin's attempt to control infrastructure gives them another weapon in his arsenal in the same way he'd seems to control the nuclear stations, it gives them the power to shut off the gas and electricity as he wishes. it is freezing cold in ukraine at the moment, the ability to turn off the heat in the dead of winter is a real weapon that he can use, and it's fear he will. tucker. >> tucker: benjamin hall. we will be getting more live reports from ukraine as warranted later this hour. solve all the people we've seen way and on ukraine, maybe none has put the american position more specifically or expressed it more wisely than a man called bryce mitchell. we played a portion of his comments on this show yesterday. he's a cattle farmer from arkansas, also a fairy -- ufc fighter. last week he was asked what you think about ukraine. here's part of what he said. >> i'm not going nowhere to fight none of these wars for politicians. i'm staying at home and when the war comes to arkansas i will dig my boots on the ground and i

will die for everything i love, and i will not retreat. if this country is invaded and everybody is saying well, we've got to evacuate, we got to leave, i will not. i will dig my boots in the arkansas soil and fight for the people that i love, the land that i love and the way of life that i love but i'm not going overseas to fight. i don't know what's going on. >> tucker: a lot of people you see on tv would leave instantly if we were invaded, there's been polling that shows it pretty clearly. you should pay attention to people who wouldn't leave, who would fight for their country and for the people, the ones they love. bryce mitchell is obvious me in that category. he won his fight on saturday, promised to give half the purse to charities in arkansas to help children's with medical conditions. we are honored to have him join us tonight. thanks for coming on, for what you said. i haven't seen anybody express it other than you did, why did you say that? >> well, thank you so much for having me, brother, and i said that because that's the first thing that i thought when he

asked me had i was trying to give him the best answer that i could, that's just my genuine thoughts on the subject. >> tucker: how do you get to be so honest when everyone else is afraid to say with a think and you just kind of say it? >> well, i don't have to be worried about being fired from my job for saying what i want to say. there's a lot of people out there that do agree with me but they can't say things that i get to say even though they think them. they'll get fired from their job if they come out and say it. dana white is pretty good with how he lets us talk and say what we want. >> tucker: that is absolutely right and a fair thing to say. now, people who say what you have said are often denounced as unpatriotic or traitors to their country. does that confuse you? the first thing you said is i will fight and die for arkansas. >> that would be the greatest honor i could ever have, brother, so i'm far from not being a patriot. that would be the greatest thing i could do, died defending this land. i'm not afraid to do that, i'm

just not wanting to go waste my life fighting for some of these battles that i don't even believe in. you know, i believe our leaders, a lot of these eliteses are guilty of treason, what they've done is just treasonous. you know, and i'm sure you know what i'm talking about a little bit. >> tucker: it's funny that they are accusing you of treason. why do you think almost everyone in the media -- and i mean all most everybody -- in both political parties and of course the white house are all on the same page, that you need to get behind this war with russia? why is it so important to them? do you have any sense? >> i don't exactly know what their agenda is with the whole war on russia, but i do know that all that money that's going to the biden family through hunter biden, he doesn't have the merit for that position he's got over there. they've used our tax dollars to bribe him a job. if me or you did what

nancy pelosi did and got millions in stocks, we go to prison for insider trading but she does it and she's filthy rich, so their families are getting very greatly compensated while they are taxing us to death, inflation is higher than ever, the closed on all of our pipelines and wonder why the price of oil has gone through the roof. these people are trying to destroy our country because they are profiting off the downfall of our country and if you all don't see what's going on, you are blinded. every day are inflation gets worse, our debt gets worse, our actual currency is controlled by a small group of the federal reserve that ain't federal and eight a reserve. so it's insidious in nature, it's made to control -- we have a lot of problems and it's going to take a lot of things to fix it. >> tucker: it's amazing. it's amazing what you're saying, all of which is, in my view, true. for our viewers who aren't familiar with you because they

were still struck by that lip that we played last night and part of the tonight -- we got another clip, this is your training at your ranch in arkansas, we are going to play it. ♪ ♪ >> i'm training here all the time when nobody is looking. i've got a log out there that i curl and then i lifted over my head and then i run in a circle and, you know, philip the wheelbarrow with dirt and push it around. number one reason i won't go to a big jim is the secrecy. your plans need to be dark as night. >> tucker: so that's where you live. i mean, think it's fair to say you're pretty rooted in the ground of this country. >> this country is made up of small businesses and people like myself who are anything from rich, you know, but that work

hard every day and have goals, and that's what this whole thing is attacking, it's attacking the small business. the ma and pa shops, they are paying the consequences, all this covid stuff, it's killed small businesses, what they're doing. they're giving bailouts to the big businesses, and arkansas, they can shut down businesses for three or four months, however long it was. they wouldn't let us open up our gyms and this and that we are tired of this politics that's going on. it's evil is what's going on. evil has took over this nation and we ain't afraid of it and we are ready to fight. >> tucker: i think you're exactly right in your assessment. tell me about since that clip of you saying that at the press conference has spread so widely, 20 people have sent it to me, what are your friends and neighbors in arkansas say to you, they agree with you? >> i've had people coming up the woodwork and just supporting me and then they've been telling me

also, you know, you need to load your guns up, because always going to come out there and try and take you out for what you're saying, and that's how worried people are about the state of their country. my friends think that my life is -- could be at risk because i'm coming out here and speaking truth. i have people saying load your guns up, be ready. [laughs] and that's just -- i'm just telling you, that's what people are telling me right now. they are worried about my health because i'm coming out and speaking the truth. that's the type of suppression and oppression that we are living in, brother. people are worried about it. >> tucker: you hate to think that's true but i know where they're coming from. there's a lot of malice out there. i think you speak for many people and am really glad you are brave enough to say that. bryce mitchell, thank you for joining us. >> think it so much for having become a brother, god bless you! i love it. >> tucker: god bless you, thank you. so masks are over unless you're a little kid because the teachers union control the mayors in cities across america, so children still have to be masked despite the fact it's really hurting them.

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>> tucker: so we can now finally admit in public without being penalized or fired what many of us have known for years, cloth masks are useless against covid, so people are not wearing them really accept the super neurotic, and we feel sad for them, but in washington, d.c., children are still required to wear masks indoors all day at school. it's terrible for them, we know that for a fact but they have to do it because the teachers union, which is that a stick, demands it. contract with the city of washington demands masks and schools in the city signed it, so washington, d.c.,'s mayor has been sued over this, thank heaven and in response to that lawsuit the schools chancellor released a statement -- by the way, did not even mention parents, but said and said he

will "engage our union partners on next steps." margo is fighting back against this on behalf of children. she is a mother in washington. she's with the masked choice for d.c. kids movement and we are grateful to have her join us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. so it sounds like this is a very straightforward because. it's not that any was arguing this is helping the children stay safe from corona. it's only because the teachers union, for whatever perverse reason, is demanding it, or am i missing something? >> no, you're exactly right and in case you viewers don't know, the last two places in the united states that are still requiring indoor masking in schools are hawaii and the district of columbia. and as a parent, we kept wondering why the mayor is digging her heels in and ignoring the advice of the cdc, the nih, all of these bipartisan governors and as of a few hours ago, her own health department,

and we came to the conclusion that she has struck a deal with the teachers unions, and as a parent, that's incredibly frustrating. i have two young children and i really do not want teachers unions interfering in their education. unfortunately, tucker, that's what's going on. >> tucker: so the mayor of washington, d.c., doesn't have children. you do in the public schools -- i've had kids in public schools. she's not interested in your view at all? she only cares about the unionized thugs who fund her campaign? is it that simple? i hate to think that. >> i hate to think that too, tucker, and we love living in d.c., but there is this level of bureaucracy. this is government overreach with my kindergartner, and so i'm just saying that the kids take their masks off. i mean, do your union dealings wherever else you need to do it, but don't mess with our kids education and we need to unmask these kids, tucker. their friends in virginia and maryland have their masks off,

our cousins in new york have taken their masks off. this is a bipartisan issue, so we've got to get the masks off these kids. >> tucker: it is, and if you want to go overpay your teachers, fine. there a lot of things you can put up with but masks hurt kids, we know that. they affirmatively hurt children, have you told the mayor that? >> yes. i mean, we have told her, with called, we've emailed, we've organized, and we are going to keep doing that, and we are saying, you know, masks impaired children's cognitive learning, their socialization. i have a daughter who has a speech impediment and a speech therapist has said until we lose that mask, you know, we are not going to make any progress, so we are angry we are not going to give this up and we are not going to be intimidated by teachers union. we are parents and i think governor young considered best, we want choice for our kids and we are willing to stand up for that. >> tucker: is beautiful to hear you say that, your bravery is inspiring, you are fighting for your children's lives,

literally and we are glad you chose to do it here. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> tucker: so we are getting a lot of hysterical coverage over a new bill in florida that bands gay people in the state. oh, no, it bands instruction in sex for elementary and preschoolers, they are telling you advanced the word gay. but that's a lie. we have details next. pack at your pace. store your things until you're ready. then we deliver to your new home - across town or across the country. pods, your personal moving and storage team.

♪ ♪ >> tucker: you hate to say this is happening, but it is, physicians all over the country are violating the most elemental medical ethics by prescribing puberty blockers and hormone treatments to minors. long-term effects totally unknown. these are life altering procedures that are given to children below the age of consent. it's totally immoral, it should be illegal. in many cases, kids are pressured into these procedures by the people in charge, and that means teachers and administrators and school therapists and nurses and then doctors. so in response to this, the florida scented has just passed an education bill to stop it. the bill tries to stop schools from discussing gender identity

in kindergarten through third grade classes and maybe teach the kids to read before you tell them to go trans. if that were not reasonable? who could be against that? democrats in florida are against it and they are represent and what the bill does. they are pretending it bands anyone from using the word "gay" in school. that may be why several florida democrats just scroll down a hallway yelling the word because everything is theater. here it is. >> gay! >> gay, gay, gay! ♪♪ gay, gay ♪♪ >> tucker: oh god. so everyone in the media is pushing the narrative. the bill is homophobic, it has nothing to do with gay for less. you shouldn't be talking to kindergartners about gender identity, especially if you are not their parents, that's creepy, you should be arrested for that in fact. you talk to another person's kid about sex in kindergarten? you should be beaten up, please! yesterday the governor of florida ron desantis humiliated a reporter who tried to lie about this bill.

watch the exchange. >> want to ask about the recommendations. >> [indiscernible]. >> does it say that in the bill? does it say that in the bill? >> masking a -- >> i'm asking you to tell me what's in the bill because you are pushing false narratives -- it doesn't matter what critics say. >> it says it bands classroom instruction [indiscernible]. >> for who? for gates pre-k through 3. five euros, six euros, 7-year-old, and the idea that you wouldn't be honest about that and tell people what it actually says is why people don't trust people like you because you pedal false narratives. >> tucker: they just never stop lying, do they? finally someone stands up to them. matt walsh is the host of the mat will show. he be a good governor. in the meantime we are happy to have him on our show. so, matt walsh, is there a single person in america who thinks some creepy teacher ought to be allowed to talk to your kindergartner about genitals and

gender identity? like what? that is so wrong, was for that? >> nobody. that's why they have to lie about it. i like the fact that democrats are at the point where they're at the point walk into the hall screaming the word gay, because that's all they have to offer. it's a totally empty party with nothing to offer the world and they have to lie and we know that -- look, we're used to false narratives from democrats and the media, but what they are doing with this bill is even amid the torrential downpour of nine since we get from these people it manages to stand out because we know about it is -- look, the left have no integrity, they are liars. they are also good at branding so they taken this bill and branded it the don't say gay bill were not only does the bill not do that, the bill doesn't even mention the word gay anywhere in it. all it says, as the governor points out, is very specifically that you cannot -- there cannot be classroom instruction by a teacher about gender identity or

sexual orientation for kids up to grade 3. so i think you actually could criticize the bill. i criticize it only because it shouldn't stop it 3. there shouldn't be that kind of instruction by teachers at any grade. there's never a time when a teacher needs to -- when a teacher needs to sit down with kids and tell them that hey, you know, you're a boy, but you might actually be a girl. that's never appropriate. it's especially not appropriate for young kids. but they can't -- the democrats, they cannot defend what's actually happening in schools, so they have to lie about it. if their only option. >> tucker: the kids can even read. i mean, reading scores, math scores, are on their way down in every state over time. like real testing, standardized testing, not the line, not the grades, but the tests. if nobody seems to care that no one is being educated anymore? >> right, they can't read, they don't have the basic competence. they also obviously then are not able to engage with these

concepts. as i pointed out many times, when you tell a young boy that well, he could really be a girl, the young child doesn't even really know what a girl is or what a boy is. if he doesn't grasp these basic concepts, but that's also why -- look, there's a reason why the democrats are treating this bill like if the apocalypse. all we are telling them is you can't groom young children and to them it's armageddon and that's because they know they have to indoctrinate the kids into this madness very, very young. they have to get to them very, very young because if you wait until people are little bit older, they are going to know that it's insane, and so that's their entire worldview, it kind of hinges on being able to get to the kids really young. and they will hopefully stop that from happening in florida. >> tucker: you can't commit sexual abuse against my kindergarten. that's what this is, there should be real consequences like for real i think. matt walsh, great to see you, thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: fox news alert, more new video into fox from ukraine. lucas tomlinson is live in that

country we are happy to have them join us now. lucas, what do you? >> tucker, the city is about the same size as dallas, san antonio, and san diego and imagine those cities coming under attack by russian forces, that's what's going on in ukraine bust of his second largest city with massive evacuations, here's how one woman described the violence. >> russia dropped here bombs and you can see that the whole area is totally destroyed. houses are without windows. the place is completely ruined. >> ukrainian officials say two dozen civilians were killed, we spoke to one of them earlier who evacuated the city. she used the on a coffee shop, she was educated in tulsa, oklahoma, at oral roberts universe it, she is now driving with her mother, her house destroyed by a russian missile a few days ago. a russian fighter jet she says crashed and destroyed the power grid so they made the decision to pull up everything. they are driving tomorrow, sleeping in a church tonight, they don't know what their final

destination is. more tragedy from ukraine, tucker. >> tucker: lucas tomlinson for us tonight from ukraine. late tonight there was no pressure to establish a so-called no-fly zone over ukraine and a group of so-called foreign policy experts are backing there. that would mean a hot war with russia. who are these foreign policy experts? and how many republicans are falling into this trap? it is a trap, it's the most obvious trap ever late for any political party ever, it's a deep betrayal of this nation and many are falling for it. we've got details after the break. ♪ ♪

>> tucker: there are growing calls to make to implement a no-fly zone over ukraine, which of course would be the result in a hot war with russia. matt finn has that story for us. >> group of 27 people calling them selves foreign policy experts have now signed an open letter urging present by to impose a no-fly zone over ukraine and make clear to russia that the alliance does not want confrontation. these individuals include high-level pentagon's data from officials and a former top nato military commando. they wrote in part that they "urge the bite in the administration together with nato allies to impose a no-fly zone over ukraine starting withn for the see mentoring corridors. nato secretary general ruled out a no-fly zone last week. the letter said that despite the truly heroic efforts by ukrainian soldiers in the average citizen to resist russia putin's military is point for

further attacks on major cities. the letter also wrote that russian president vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine was premeditated and unprovoked and unjustified and has created the greatest crisis on the european continent since the end of world war ii. we will keep you updated on how this all plays out, tucker. >> tucker: matt finn, thanks so much. >> sure. >> tucker: we should tell you one of those 4 to so-called foreign policy experts is a frothy partisan who may know less about the rest of the world than the average person pictured in a phone book, so if she is a foreign policy expert, we are in deeper trouble than we realize. as noted, the airwaves are thick with propaganda, all of it designed to get you to back something that's not good for you or the world, so we are trying our very hardest to find reasonable, knowledgeable people to explain what's happening in ukraine, we are really, really trying hard to do that because we are, to mount it we will be joined by former congressman tulsi gabbard who will react to these calls for a no-fly zone and what that would mean for you

and for our nation. in the meantime, let's hope more republican leaders don't fall for what is obviously terrible for this country and their own voters. on that note, have a great evening with the ones you love, but still the greatest source of joy. we will turn it over to sean hannity for the 9:00 p.m., seven seconds early. >> sean: i will take it. thank you. welcome to "hannity." we begin tonight with a fox news alert. you the american people, you are now paying more for a gallon of gasoline than ever before in the history of this country and it looks like it's only going to get worse. joe biden's bold strategy to, let's see, beg foreign dictators and murderers and thugs to pump more oil, that's not working out particularly well. according to an explosive report in "the wall street journal," saudi arabia and the uae, they won't even take his phone calls. that doesn't get any more humiliating than that. they are furious that joe h